GOP Rep. Joe Barton Says CO2 is Harmless Because “It’s in Coca-Cola”
May 21, 2009 · Print This Article
How low can the GOP go? The battered party is struggling with an identity crisis as millions of its members jump ship, and its scattered cast of current ‘leaders’ is making things even worse. The remarks that came out of Texas Rep. Joe Barton’s mouth on Tuesday morning illustrate the sort of dumbfounding stupidity – or perhaps willful refusal to accept the facts – that has come to define the Republican party.
Rep. Barton, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, claims that we shouldn’t be concerned at all about carbon emissions. After all, CO2 is in our Coca-Cola!
“It’s odorless, colorless, tasteless, doesn’t cause cancer, doesn’t cause asthma… there’s nobody that’s ever been admitted to a hospital because of CO2 poisoning.” Stunning logic there, Congressman!
The Economist said it best:
Please don’t get me wrong, it’s not simply that Mr Barton is a climate-change sceptic. There are plenty of those and some make decent arguments against moving ahead with measures to control emissions. The problem with Mr Barton is that he is wholly uninterested in the science and statistics of the global warming debate. He is about as curious as a dead cat, as is his colleague in the Senate, James Inhofe.
Link [The Huffington Post] + [The Economist]
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Are all Republicans this dumb, or just the ones from Texas?
I know I know, that is absurd. Shame on me. It felt good to say it, though – and I would love to be proved wrong!
Wow. I thought it was dumb when Joe Barton said that we should just “get shade” in response to global warming, but this is even worse.
It’s like when Joe Boehner said “The idea that CO2 is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical.”
I really don’t think all Republicans have to be anti-science, and i don’t dislike them for being conservative. But what can we say when the leaders who speak for the party invent their own science?