Santorum Denies Global Warming: "The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant ...."

[Better Believe It]

Santorum Denies Global Warming
March 15, 2012

Even for a party that wears its anti-science label almost with pride, the GOP has recently been outdoing itself on global warming.

"The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is," presidential contender Rick Santorum said at the Gulf Coast Energy Summit in Biloxi, Mississippi, on March 12.

And to prove that this wasn’t just off-the-cuff rhetorical excess, Santorum penned an op-ed for the conservative website Red State. He portrayed a belief in science as part of a deficient, anti-Christian, anti-American mindset.

“Of all the GOP candidates, I am the only one who has not bowed, and will never bow, to this liberal orthodoxy,” Santorum wrote in a March 10 column. “I did not pander when global warming seemed cool to the press and to Hollywood. We know that climate changes over time, that the Earth warms and cools over time. … The apostles of this pseudo-religion believe that America and its people are the source of the Earth’s temperature. I do not.”

Read the full article at:

http://www.progressive.org/santorum-denies-global-warming

[Turbineguy]

1. The Pentagon hopefully has a plan

to lose the launch codes if that idiot gets into the White House.

[Uncle Joe]

2. They will just tell him to look for

them in the produce section.

[LisaL]

3. He must have missed a lecture on photosynthesis in his middle school biology class.

The mind is boggled.

[Fawke Em]

8. Apparently, he missed reading "The Lorax," as well.

Of course, that's a Librul Commie plot, too, if you believe current GOP dogma.

[LisaL]

11. Science-creation of evil democrats!

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. "liberal orthodoxy"? STFU you fucking moron!

[LisaL]

5. Apparently science is a liberal orthodoxy, or didn't you know?

Liberals, they are the ones coming up with this science crap! God fearing republicans must know that the Earth is flat!

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. hehehe

[hootinholler]

15. I've been known to tell people that I'm an Orthodox Athiest

I get the best reactions from blank stares to belly laughs.

[laruemtt]

7. he's a college grad? really? n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. Hard to believe isn't it?

[Speck Tater]

9. If he were merely stupid that would be one thing, but this goes way beyond stupid! nt

[Better Believe It]

13. The Venus jalapeños are really hot!

[hootinholler]

14. Has he never seen

Little Shop of Horrors?



We need to abandon science based explanations and go for dramatic ones. If we let CO2 rise much more, you're gonna need a tougher mower to deal with the plants in your yard before they eat you.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Ok fess up

When is the biochemistry service? And wearing jeans and no lab coat is ok?

[ladywnch]

17. all right Rick, here's your chance to prove your opinion.......Step into this booth filled

with CO2 and breath deep for 5 minutes........while we watch..........and show us how healthful it really is.

maybe you'll make CO2 the offical gas of America!

[HughBeaumont]

18. Rick Santorum. Michele Bachman. Both Juris Doctors.

Unbelievable, Ricky.

This is seventh grade biology and you just failed it, dumbshit.

[11 Bravo]

19. The difference between telling it to a plant and telling it to Sphinctorum is ...

that the plant has at least a small chance of understanding.