Hannity defies "the phony science of global warming," declares "we breathe carbon dioxide... there's nothing wrong with the automobile"
May 20, 2009 2:20 pm ET
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Oh goody! Let's lock him in an airtight garage with a car running and see how long he lasts.
Hannity inhales nitrous oxide and exhales bile.
The PROBLEM is not a breathing hazard that is caused by carbon dioxide. It is the greenhouse gas phenomenon where they trap heat into the atmosphere! Stop clouding us with phonier science!
I continuously find it hard to believe that ANYONE can take this guy seriously.
Newsflash, Sean: we're poisoning God's gifts. We're dumping chemicals, heavy metals and God only knows what else into them. We've also managed to create a giant floating patch of plastic garbage twice the size of Texas in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
Why aren't you crusading to save God's gifts, Sean?
Hannity is nothing but an overpaid promoter for the oil, coal and military industrial complex. He doesn't mind contributing to the destruction of the future world as long as he gets paid now.
This irrelevant fact that we exhale carbon dioxide is suddenly blurting from the mouth of virtually every Republican Congressmen and pundit that can find a microphone.
The point is, I suspected that Karl Rove was still writing their material, but their talking points lately have been so silly and juvenile that it doesn't really sound like Rove; he always seemed smarter than that.
1. Who doesn't drive or ride in a car powered most of the time by a carbon based fuel? That would include electricity by the way.
2. Who doesn't heat their home or their parents home with carbon based fuels?
3. Who doesn't use a computer made with carbon based material?
4. Who doesn't use a cell phone other than one made entirely of wood?
5. Who doesn't want to spend $1000's of dollars each year to fight global warming? It won't be free.
Unless all you can step up to all these questions you are all oil addicted hypocrites.
We couldn't make it happen and if we did everything right according to the pushers (just like drugs) it wouldn't affect the temperature in any measurable way. Nothing would change. Even the IPCC says that. Well they say bad things will happen but temperatures will be put back about 6 months assuming the temperature would start rising again which it won't.
I have offered wagers to James Hansen and others a total of $15,000 aginst their claims of ridiculous climate outcomes. They said the probabilities were up to 90% of their predictions coming true. They wouldn't bite. I am talking direct challenges. Cowards or liars. You chose. I am torn between these two choices. You folks are just sheep following your lib heros or you wouldn't be on Media Matters. I know you are incapable of reasoned argument. "Oh yeah" is a great response here.
The atmosphere is naturally made up of carbon dioxide but only .03%. Like someone else posted already, it is not the breathing of carbon dioxide that is a problem, its how it acts like a blanket around the Earth, trapping the heat inside the atmosphere. This leads to increased storm ferocity and uncharacteristic climate patterns, such as drought, fire, hurricanes and so on. Once it is in the atmosphere it becomes too diluted to cause any harm from breathing. Hypothetically, if we locked him in a garage with a car running (as fun as that may sound) he would die from carbon monoxide poisoning first, not carbon dioxide.