The actor recently returned to the nations capital for a much more urgent matter: global warming.

It has somehow become this partisan football, which is really frustrating, he told host Ricky Camilleri.

And the Republican Party is the only conservative party in the world who does not accept the science.

ALL CROPS: BRADLEY WHITFORD - climate change

So the question is then, what do you do?

Do you go into a room and say, Youre an idiot, what youre doing is outrageous?

Are you going to get anything done?

Years of Living Dangerouslyairs Wednesdays at 10 p.m.

ET on National Geographic.