Limbaugh suggests CO2 can't be bad for the environment because "we exhale CO2"

Some of us put out WAY more hot air than others.

More evidence that right wing radio causes brain damage. This is like saying that we need water to live therefore it is impossible to drown.

Limbaugh is full of hot CO2. I just came in from lunch and heard Rush ranting about a supposed memo from the White House that supposedly said that CO2 wasn't dangerous. He's full of it.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/blog/09/05/12/ClearingtheAir/

Media reports today are suggesting that OMB has found fault with EPA’s proposed finding that emissions of greenhouse gases from motor vehicles contribute to air pollution that endangers public health and welfare. Any reports suggesting that OMB was opposed to the finding are unfounded.

The quotations circulating in the press are from a document in which OMB simply collated and collected disparate comments from various agencies during the inter-agency review process of the proposed finding. These collected comments were not necessarily internally consistent, since they came from multiple sources, and they do not necessarily represent the views of either OMB or the Administration. In other words, we simply receive comments from various agencies and pass them along to EPA for consideration, regardless of the substantive merit of those comments. In general, passing along these types of comments to an agency proposing a finding often helps to improve the quality of the notice.

Perhaps more importantly, OMB concluded review of the preliminary finding several weeks ago, which then allowed EPA to move forward with the proposed finding. As I wrote on this blog on April 17, the "proposed finding is carefully rooted in both law and science." I also noted: "By itself, the EPA’s proposed finding imposes no regulation. (Indeed, by itself, it requires nothing at all.) If and when the endangerment finding is made final, the EPA will turn to the question whether and how to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new automobiles."

The bottom line is that OMB would have not concluded review, which allows the finding to move forward, if we had concerns about whether EPA’s finding was consistent with either the law or the underlying science. The press reports to the contrary are simply false.

Wow, that's deep.

Well, trees need CO2...

the best argument I heard was...
If C02 isn't as bad for you as most are saying, then they should try breathing into a paper bag for 5 - 10 min.

Let me know how toxic your system is after that?

Water is good for you to drink, let's watch him drink 20 gallons of water in an hour and see what happens.

Waitaminnit. Didn't some other Troglodyte float this talking point about a week ago? I'm disappointed; Rush didn't get to lead the way down Bullsh*t Boulevard this time.

This reminds me of that recording Rush used to play a lot on his show. It was Charlton Heston reading an essay by Michael Crichton which said that the Earth had been here for billions of years, and that man could never destroy it. Okay, fair enough.

I don't know of any environmentalist who claims that we are going to destroy the earth. We may, however, make it uninhabitable for ourselves. That is well within our capabilities.

I disagree with Rush on this one.

Far too many liberal arts majors commenting intelligently on subjects they scorned in school.

Pity that these schleps are in charge of policy now.