Even so, it exposes his ignorance about greenhouse gases. Trees neither increase nor decrease the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, because the same CO2 is being constantly recycled by photosynthesis and decomposition; there is no net increase in atmospheric CO2. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere only increase when previously sequestered CO2 from fossil fuels is reintroduced to the atmosphere through combustion.
Rohrabacher is the poster boy for weapons grade stupid.
Well, retarded as his reasoning is he’s not completely off something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a fact. Trees act as “oxygen generators” because they take CO[sub]2[/sub] from the atmosphere, release the oxygen back and fixate the C in the form of more tree. And this process results in more oxygen out than CO[sub]2[/sub] is output by the tree’s respiration.
When the tree dies & rots or burns however, all that carbon is released back. In the long run, unattended trees are merely temporary carbon fixators. Unless you turn them into furniture ! In which case they get treated not to rot away, and arbitrarily extend this temporary fixation. So if we want to reduce greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, a solution would be to sic IKEA on the rainforest, then plant new trees there.
It’s not a quick solution, mind. But it would work [sub]although you’d probably output more greenhouse gas from fossil fuels in chainsawing, transporting, and furnituring up all those trees than you’d fixate by planting a new rainforest. Damn, it was so elegant ![/sub]
One of the best descriptions I recall of the manner in which George W. Bush spoke about most topics was that he typically discussed them as if he had himself just had everything explained to him a few moments before.
I would extend that generally to the GOP at large. I think they struggle with their own comprehension of topics and issues, and end up generating very simplistic and often obviously erroneous discussion of issues.
I’ve also certainly called their written material bereft of substance in the past. However, I don’t remember thinking that anything of theirs actually resembled a children’s book before. Check out the House GOPs plan for jobs creation; huge font and giant pictures pad the thing out to a full 10 pages!
Isn’t he the one that pulled out of the emissions reduction pacta few weeks ago? He’s just doing his part to flip the bird to all the poor, mostly brown people out there.
I found it more hysterical that the helicopter landed 100 yards from the field and he got in a car and drove there. Reminds me of an episode of Candid Camera where this guy loads about 75 lbs. of luggage into a cab and then gives the driver the address of the house behind the one he’s already at.
And according to Jon Stewart’s story, held both the car and the copter while he watched 5 innings, got back in the car, drove back to the copter and flew away.
You know, i’m generally willing to get on board with bashing the Republicans, but the substance of that article isn’t even close to saying that Republicans want a “billion-dollar tax on American inventors.”
I think the USPTO is pretty fucked up in a lot of ways, and needs a major overhaul, and i also think that the Obama administration’s proposal to let the Office keep its fees in order to expedite applications is probably a good idea. But if Congress has diverted $1 billion of those fees over the past 20 years, it’s not exactly fair to blame it only on Republicans. Also, it’s hard even to evaluate the wisdom of such fund diversion without knowing what the $1 billion was used for.