Raese (R-WV) Blames Volcanos For Global Warming

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/27/raese-volano-warming/

Raese Blames Volcanos For Global Warming


Millionaire businessman John Raese, running as the GOP Senate nominee to fill Robert Byrd’s West Virginia seat, wants to take the state back to the 19th century. Not only does he want to return capitalism to the era before child labor laws, Social Security, and civil rights laws, he also promotes a pre-industrial vision of science. In an interview with Real Clear Politics, Raese said he has “zero” trust that “human activity is contributing to climate change”:

The oceans that surround the world produce 185 billion tons of CO2 per annum. Man per annum only produces six billion tons, so what could possibly be the concern? One volcano puts out more toxic gases-one volcano-than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this “climate change,” and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells.

Although Raese is well-versed in conspiracy-theory talking points, they’re as nonsensical as his desire to abolish the Departments of Energy and Education. Human activity puts about 29 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, well over 100 times as much as all the volcanoes in the world. The oceans actually vent about 332 billion tons of CO2 per year, but also absorb that much. Human emissions have disrupted the balance of the carbon cycle, leading to rising concentrations of greenhouse pollution in the atmosphere. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen by 40 percent, and global temperatures are on an inexorable rise, overwhelming any natural cycles.

Far from protecting West Virginia’s coal industry, Raese’s desire to abolish the Department of Energy, kill the Recovery Act, and deny global warming would end federal policy to support advanced coal technology, the only hope for this 19th-century fuel in the 21st century.

[hayu_lol]

1. Naw, it ain't the volcanoes...

its all the damn stills and fast cars to escape the feds in WV.

[davidinalameda]

5. really?

stereotype much?

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. I get it. Vocanos are hot therefore.........

They really do play to the lowest common denominator. If they know anything it's just how stupid their supporters are.

[Cleobulus]

3. He's a fucking dumbass, the amount of sulfur and other chemicals volcanoes spew have an overall....

cooling affect on the atmosphere, they either increase water vapor or particulates in the atmosphere, and hence increase reflectivity, or they change the mix to lose more heat than it can gain.

[FSogol]

4. He's channeling Reagan. Reagan once said that most air pollution came from trees.

"Approximately 80 percent of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources." - Ronald (Idiot) Reagan

[pinboy3niner]

6. Those killer trees have scared the hell out of me ever since he said it!

:scared:

:rofl:

[KamaAina]

7. Stay on-message, John!

Booby Jindal has assured us that we have no need to monitor teh evul volcanoes. :sarcasm:

[Forkboy]

8. Reminds me of one the few funny things Dennis Miller said once, about Pat Buchanan.

"Buchanan is so homophobic that he blames global warming on the Aids Quilt."

[Winterblues]

9. He needs a job as a scientist, not Congress

He obviously knows more than 99.9% of all Scientists in the world.. Must hurt to be that smart..

[hatrack]

10. Yes, and since volcanoes emit massive clouds of toxic gases every hour of every day . . .

Oh, wait.

Sorry!

Never mind!

[Blue_Tires]

11. another industrial corporate assclown that doesn't believe in science

Not that I'd expect anything different...

Part of me wonders if he is really this ignorant, or just has blinders on because his revenue stream is threatened...

[Scurrilous]

12. LOL

:thumbsup:

[madrchsod]

13. volcanoes have cooled the earth.....