Dumbass Rethug thinks TREES are causing global climate change...

[tex-wyo-dem]

Dipshit needs to just sit down and shut up and let the adults handle this...

Do trees cause global warming?

Looking for a solution to global warming? Maybe start clear-cutting many of the world's forests, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher says.

The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs oversight subcommittee made it clear during a Wednesday hearing that he doesn't believe in man-made global warming.

But if it were true — and most of the world's scientists agree it is — Rohrabacher said he's hit on an answer by tackling the 80 to 90 percent of heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions "generated by nature itself": Namely, yank down old trees and get rid of the rotting wood in rainforests.

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Jay Gulledge, a senior scientist at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, said Rohrabacher is correct that 80 to 90 percent of gross greenhouse gas emissions do come from nature, with humans producing the rest. But it's that small percentage that is changing the Earth's climate — not to mention that trees help absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in huge quantities.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55731.html#ixzz1NTH2mo69

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I thought Reagan was dead.

"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." -- Ronald Reagan, 1981

[FSogol]

2. Maybe he's channeling Reagan? Reagan claimed that 80% of air pollution was caused by trees.

:shrug:

Stupid repubs.

[hobbit709]

3. If stupid was excruciatingly painful, there'd be less of it.

[tex-wyo-dem]

8. +++

:spray:

[KansDem]

4. This guy's an asshole...

He's a surfer and once pondered how climate change would affect the waves and surf...

DU

[arbusto_baboso]

12. He's also a devout Catholic who once used campaign funds to build a shrine to the Virgin Mary in his

back yard.

[Curmudgeoness]

5. Seriously? Back to freshman Biology for this one.

But I doubt he could pass the class.

[FSogol]

9. Maybe we should demand to see his long-form high school diploma?

I doubt he has one. :shrug:

[tex-wyo-dem]

6. So, by Rohrabacher's "reasoning" (and I use that term very loosely)...

Global climate change would already not be an issue since humans have already eliminated hundreds-of-millions of acres of the world's forests over the last century for farming, timber, industry etc etc. In fact, this is one major contributor to climate change...in destroying huge amounts of forests, we have effectively eliminated a major part of the Earth's carbon sinking ability.

[Jim__]

7. Because, of course, trees don't produce any useful gases.

At least, none that Rohrabacher's aware of.

[Javaman]

10. Ah yes, channeling james watt. nt

[arbusto_baboso]

11. Dana Rohrabacher has long been the dumbest person on Capitol Hill.

He's a huge embarassment to California.

[EC]

13. Right...Dana

I've been wondering lately if even the clear cutting for charcoal in Africa could have caused the increase of velocity in the tornadoes, since it's been found that the winds have increased velocity over Africa from that. That is one of the factors believed to the increased strength of hurricanes, why not the tornadoes?



Looks like he believed Reagan when he said that the trees were causing pollution.

[Shagbark Hickory]

14. Sickening.

[pschoeb]

15. It's a good long term solution for global warming

As it utterly guarantees all humanity will be dead, very quickly, thus longterm, no more global warming.

[Curmudgeoness]

16. I like your thinking---easy solutions to complex problems. nt

[pschoeb]

19. It also solves most other conservative policy issues

There will be zero abortions once all humanity is dead
government will be at it's smallest once all humanity is dead
There will be zero gay folks once all humanity is dead
There will be zero taxes when all humanity is dead

I call this "silent majority" solutions, because in classical Greek parlance, the silent majority were the dead, who always outnumbered the living.

So it seems the best conservative solution is to just get rid of humanity

[DirkGently]

17. Sounds like Crichton's eco-bashing claptrap in State of Fear: "Old-growth forests suck." Jesus.

[Skidmore]

18. Gee, their last theory was cow farts caused it all.