Alan Grayson may be my spirit animal.
That's stupid.
Suppose the republican had said "CO2 is great. If Alan wants to limit CO2 emissions he should try putting a plant in a room without CO2 and see what happens next."
Would you have said "great point! Really opened my mind!" No, you would have said "god what an idiot, he is missing the point entirely." So why is it a great point when Grayson did it? It's not a great point, it's weak tea trolling based around semantics. And it distracts from the real issue which is that the rise in temperatures associated with CO2 and methane emissions create hardship. Distracting from that for schoolyard taunts isn't clever.
Theoretical rise associated with CO2 and methane emissions. Climate change politics should not be gussied up as science, and both sides are just as bad as the other. The absurd idea of a positive feedback system (as the CO2 control knob hypothesis proposes and climate modelers assume to be true) maintaining a livable environment over gigayears is painful, just saying. Don't listen to a politician about science.
Politicians don't build hover platforms, scientists do, well, engineers design them using principles fleshed out by scientists, and they are generally built by robots or little chinese kids with tiny little fingers that can work the little bitty screwdrivers and sautering irons.
So, listen to little chinese kids and robots about science, not politicians.
Reminds me of the guy who drank Reactor Coolant on the floor of the Senate to prove that nuclear reactors on ships were safe.
Reactor coolant is just water??? wait... did this actually happen...??
I think that reactor coolant is just water too.
Unless he drank water that had been used to cool a reactor? In which case, the dude has balls of steel, that will unfortunately be dropping off his body as he succumbs to radiation sickness.
Reactor coolant is, assuming he didn't drink molten sodium (vote for the guy who drinks molten salts over the others, that guy can obviously withstand anything, and is probably a robot), then yes it is
literally water, the radioactive parts of the cooling system are the control rods. The idea that you'd die from drinking reactor water is like a bastard cousin of homeopathy, functionally.
So, fuck homopaths, vote for our new molten salt drinking robot overlords, made out of 100% pure science by little chinese kids!