Congressman says trees are bad for the planet

[bloomington-lib]

One representative in Washington says we need to start cutting down trees to help combat global warming.

If you want to reread that line, go ahead — but it’s true. During a congressional hearing this week, U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), said he doesn’t believe in global warming and that he believes cutting trees down could be the solution — if in fact global warming does exist.

Speaking to the top American climate diplomat, Todd Stern, Rohrabacher asked, "Is there some thought being given to subsidizing the clearing of rainforests in order for some countries to eliminate that production of greenhouse gases?" Rohrabacher went on, asking, “Would people be supportive of cutting down older trees in order to plant younger trees as a means to prevent this disaster from happening?"

A somewhat baffled Stern said after the hearing that, “I didn't want to be commenting on stuff I'm not an expert on." Stern added, "If he wants to talk about the effect of rotting wood or whatever, we're happy to have someone come up who knows about it. I don't."

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/politics/blogs/congressman-says-trees-are-bad-for-the-planet

[marmar]

1. ............

[MichiganVote]

2. Slack-jawed, and I don't mean me.

[dynasaw]

4. You mean this Neanderthal?

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.)

[MichiganVote]

5. Looks like he should go back to selling Fuller Brush products

[roguevalley]

12. he looks like a classic case of evolution going backwards.

congrats whoever state this fucker is from. You have officially got a politician dumber than Sarah Palin.

[mwb970]

15. Amazing. He looks exactly like what he is!

I'm always leery of people whose eyes are very different from each other, like this clown's. It suggests some sort of imbalance inside their heads and seems to correlate with bad behavior. I have the same problem with Wisconsin's emetic governor Scott Walker:



That left eye is way higher than the other and kind of off kilter. It looks like it belongs with some other face. And talk about "bad behavior"!

Fun activity: take a hand mirror and put it perpendicular to the screen running vertically down the middle of the faces in these photos. In each case, the two-left-sides face and the two-right-sides face look like two completely different people! This can't be a good sign.

[dynasaw]

16. Actually quite a Lot of Research on "Facial Asymmetry"

and character. Usually related to development, genes, resistance to infection etc.

[mwb970]

18. Indeed.

I didn't want to go into huge detail, but I have read quite a bit on this subject.

[saras]

21. Alfred E. Neumann

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Just when you think they can't possibly get any dumber...

They open their damn foolish mouths and make it so.

I hate the deliberately ignorant.

[monmouth]

6. The sad thing is...I don't think it was deliberate.. He is innately ignorant...n/t

[northoftheborder]

7. Yes, ignorant and proud of it.

[Golden Raisin]

8. And yet found enough

citizens (apparently even more ignorant/stupid than he) to vote him into office.

[pscot]

9. Everyone knows that your parking lot

is so much cooler and pleasanter than your woodland glade.

[texshelters]

10. We need a literacy test

for Congress membership.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

11. "Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do."

-- Ronald Reagan, 1981

Same crap that has been coming from the repubs for decades.

[eppur_se_muova]

20. "Um, you know ... mold, leaf rot ..."

Wish I could find a clip of that toon!

[Scottybeamer70]

13. Perhaps we could plant him.......

at least it would raise the IQ of the planet.

[mwb970]

14. Your headline doesn't mention party, but somehow I just knew it would be a republican.

I'm psychic!

[The Wizard]

17. Reagan said

trees were the source of air pollution, and he was elected president. Now he's worshiped in some circles. You've seen one redwood you've seen them all.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/reagan/redwoods.asp

[somone]

19. Rohrabacher should start cutting down all vegetation around his house

What an idiot