Trump scientist insists that 'carbon dioxide is good for you'

[Soph0571]

Our planet could reach levels of carbon dioxide high enough in the next decade to lock in dangerous planetary warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius, but a Trump physicist is trying to discredit the science behind climate disruption.

William Happer, the Trump administration’s champion for carbon dioxide, reached out to a prominent conservative think tank, the Heartland Institute, for help. Happer claims that carbon dioxide is good for humans.
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Happer, who serves on the National Security Council, has said that carbon dioxide is being demonized “just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler.”

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-scientist-insists-that-carbon-dioxide-is-good-for-you/|

What can you do with that? Good grief..

[Thav]

1. That scientist should put up or shut up

Get that scientist a mask and a tank of carbon dioxide and let them breathe that for the rest of their life.

We'll see exactly how good it is for you.

[democratisphere]

2. Interesting.

drumpf also has tried to convince US he is good for America. Carbon dioxide is good for you if you're a plant. Humans don't conduct photosynthesis, so we are screwed.

[gordianot]

3. He needs to be administered a dose of CO2 daily.

Maybe a hyperbolic chamber filled with CO2 one good dose would be sufficient.

[LastDemocratInSC]

7. Or just a Piggly-Wiggly plastic bag over his head for 5 minutes.

[RKP5637]

4. It becomes so outlandish it's hard to respond with much more than WTF! It kills brain cells to

listen to some of these damn ignorant fools.

[Goodheart]

5. CO2 is being demonized like Jews under Hitler? OMG.

The stupidity in this Administration is not only deep but also wide.

[gratuitous]

8. And they were all up in arms last week about concentration camps

Gee, do I detect the faintest whiff of hypocrisy?

[peggysue2]

6. Yes, carbon dioxide is good for us is the same way . . .

good governance means killing people. And if the killing people question is done by the Head of State it's not really killing it's a justified execution.

These are the finer points drawn in Trumplandia where words mean nothing and the rule of law is 'quaint.' So, of course, making an analogy to genocide--the poor, poor carbon dioxide molecules--makes perfect sense.

Think we have to realize that 40% of the population has truly, really, absolutely lost it.

[WePurrsevere]

9. This guy's a physicist with zero actual training on

Climate science but he found a niche manipulating info and sucking up to climate change denying RW loons.

If it's so good for you, Happer, prove the following wrong by wearing a mask and breathing only carbon dioxide for 6 months. From HERE...

At low concentrations, gaseous carbon dioxide appears to have little toxicological effect. At higher concentrations it leads to an increased respiratory rate, tachycardia, cardiac arrhythmias and impaired consciousness. Concentrations >10% may cause convulsions, coma and death.

It's only in LOW concentrations that it's okay. High concentrations, they kind Earth is facing, could very well KILL people.

[Ford_Prefect]

10. Member in good standing of the Flat Earth Society and Heartland Institute.

[GaYellowDawg]

11. Wow. Just wow.

I don't see how anyone could say something that fundamentally stupid.

[Claritie Pixie]

12. Anyone who believes that is beyond reach.

It's basic science learned in grade school. We can't breath carbon dioxide.

[Cicada]

13. Heartland Institute denied smoking caused cancer

Paid by tobacco firms they previously argued there was no proof smoking caused cancer. Just like their current work denying there is proof co2 causes warming. Unbelievably vile.