Boehner Ridicules Idea That CO2 Is "A Carcinogen That Is Harmful To Our Environment"

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Ask 15 Republicans about climate change, and you’ll get 20 different answers.

In March, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele told a national conservative radio program that the Earth is “cooling,” not warming. Last week, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said global warming iss real and hurting her state, acknowledging that “many believe” an international effort to reduce greenhouse gases is necessary. And on Sunday, Republican leader John Boehner dismissed as “almost comical” the idea that carbon dioxide is “a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment,” arguing that it must be safe because humans “exhale” it and cows deposit it.

An EPA spokesman called Boehner’s comments “erroneous,” noting that whether a gas is a carcinogen doesn’t have anything to do with whether it causes global warming.

The GOP’s scattershot messaging on climate change threatens to distract from the party’s primary attack on the Democrats’ global warming plan: that the cap-and-trade system will dramatically raise prices on business and consumers. “The debate should be starting right now, and it should be all about taxes coming from climate change,” said one former Republican Senate aide.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090422/pl_politico/21536

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1. Simple: Put those guys in a room full of CO2 and see what happens.

Best way to make their point, IMO.

[phantom power]

2. Republicans. Producing more straw-man arguments per pound than any other land animal.

[napoleon_in_rags]

4. That's exactly what it is. I think we should start producing them en masse

just for their consumption. I was watching O'Reilly with a coworker who likes him, and it blew me away. He was providing rebuttals to a liberal mexican, who said that America was holding Mexico back and preventing it from having a middle class. But the problem was that the liberal mexican didn't exist, except in O'Reilly's mind. So his points were "good", if there were indeed such a liberal mexican, he would have won the argument. But nobody made those points, O'Reilly made them himself in response to nothing.

[Birthmark]

3. The difference between a horse and a Republican:

A horse turns straw into shit. A Republican turns shit into straw.

The circle of life.

[XemaSab]

5. Carcinogen, carbon...

After a few scotches, it all sounds alike. :shrug: