'Smokey’ Joe Barton: Regulating CO2 Could ‘Close Down The New York And Boston Marathons’

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Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), known as “Smokey Joe” for his efforts on behalf of big polluters, is one of Congress’s most aggressive deniers of man-made climate change. For instance, in March, he said that the climate is changing “for natural variation reasons” and that to deal with it, humans should just “get shade.”

In a new interview with Newsmax, Barton continued his nonsensical approach to the issue, claiming that the Obama administration’s efforts to regulate carbon dioxide would potentially “close down the New York and Boston marathons“:

Barton says the average healthy adult exhales between four-tenths of a ton and seven-tenths of a ton of CO2 a year.

“So if you put 20,000 marathoners into a confined area, you could consider that a single source of pollution, and you could regulate it,” Barton says. “The key would be whether the EPA said that 20,000 people running the same route was one source or not.”

http://thinkprogress.org/

Teh stupid gets hotter. What a moran!

[w8liftinglady]

1. I'm so proud...he's MY congressman.(not)

[Laelth]

5. One of the best things about my move away from Fort Worth ...

... was losing Joe Barton as my representative.

:dem:

-Laelth

[hobbit709]

2. There's something about TX repukes

Evidently they got an extra helping of stoopid when it was being handed out.

[tanyev]

3. Everything's bigger here in Texas!

[gratuitous]

6. Is a lobotomy a prerequisite

Or does the party spring for one once they're elected?

[shadowknows69]

4. That's a new level of Teh stupid.