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William Happer, the Trump administrations 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
(946 posts)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
(17,235 posts)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
(15,237 posts)Maybe a hyperbolic chamber filled with CO2 one good dose would be sufficient.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,647 posts)RKP5637
(67,107 posts)listen to some of these damn ignorant fools.
Goodheart
(5,321 posts)The stupidity in this Administration is not only deep but also wide.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Gee, do I detect the faintest whiff of hypocrisy?
peggysue2
(10,828 posts)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
(24,259 posts)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
(7,895 posts)GaYellowDawg
(4,446 posts)I don't see how anyone could say something that fundamentally stupid.
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)It's basic science learned in grade school. We can't breath carbon dioxide.
Cicada
(4,533 posts)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.