Ruh roh. So, who is the next rising star going to be?
(Gratuitous unrelated swipe ahead: It sure won’t be Michele Bachmann, who recently displayed her street background: “Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man!” )
If Joe the Plumber isn’t available (though he assures us he will be), maybe they could get this guy:
CO2 Famine: Exxon-Paid Scientist Says Earth Is Short On Greenhouse Gases (VIDEO)
The Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee had an unusual guest recently: a man who says we are in a carbon dioxide famine. Treehugger’s John Laumer spotted the video, which is actually really much more interesting to watch than a lot of scientist-on-politician action. Part of it is just his manner – lazily slumped over a chair, smirkingly saying that our planet used to have four times as much CO2, and that things were “prosperous” then.
Of course, as Laumer points out…
*Somehow it always comes back to this:
"Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat who heads the committee, said after Happer's testimony that he is affiliated with an institute that received hundreds of thousands of dollars from ExxonMobil over the past decade."*
With that in mind, check out this video. Especially interesting is when Boxer points out that “a lot has changed” in 80 million years, which is actually a rebuttal of something Dr. Happer has said.
I haven’t watched the video yet. It’s too early for me to hyperventilate with laughter. To go in front of Congress and say such things, the balls on that man must be bigger than Sully’s! Give that man a Republican leadership role, now!
And could Reid be replaced by Boxer now, please?
I’d prefer Schumer, but neither will happen.