'What Percentage Of The Atmosphere Is Made Up Of Carbon Dioxide?': McCormick Grills CA Air Official

At a House Science Committee hearing on California's CARB train emissions reductions rule on Thursday, Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) grilled Alan Abbs, Legislative Officer of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, about climate.
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[@iteliano]

AWESOME to see representatives call out these people with truth.

[@lelanddennison290]

And Jesus sat in the sand and scratched the sand with HIS finger and said "let those without sin cast the first stone"! And then HE said " GO ON YOUR WAY AND SIN NO MORE! YEH WASHINGTON? Get a freaking grip😂

[@reensure]

Dude back there at 3:15. "This gonna be good."

[@sharoncooper3042]

About time the Right side of Government stood up for Americans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸💕

[@BauregardSenior87]

The religion of climate change is starting to fail!

[@SilkySlim951]

What truth? Dude misrepresented percentages as "facts" but was absolutely wrong about everything except the percentages. If you think any increase to carbon levels in our atmosphere is "negligible" you probably also think that cellphone towers created covid😂

[@748tech]

Dr McCormick is 100% correct. need more like him

[@nonec5246]

You have a science degree? You have done the research or have been directly working for a research group?

[@stacyanderson3001]

@@nonec5246 Man made climate change is a hoax. CO2 Trapping heat in the atmosphere is an impossibility. There is no significant radiation for carbon dioxide to absorb, because it only absorbs long wave radiation PERIOD!

[@rotaryenginepete]

​@@nonec5246😂 everyone knows what happens to honest researchers. They lose government funding.

[@748tech]

@@nonec5246 both. and your background is what?

[@OldUncleDan]

​@@nonec5246 lol your feelings are hurt bro look at you crying 😂

[@troyreif8674]

As a Californian I say thank you Rep McCormick for speaking the truth

[@NimbleBard48]

He may be speaking the truth, but he doesn't understand the science. You would know this as soon as he started with "How much CO2 is in the atmosphere". He thinks, that because there's only 0,042% CO2 in the atmosphere, its impact on global warming is miniscule. In reality oxygen and nitrogen (which are over 99% of the atmosphere) do not contribute to the warming effect because these gases do not retain heat. Only that small amount of less than 1% affects the climate - to be more precise, CO2 is 94% of that small amount. The politician should have started with 94% and not 0,042%...

[@neverdemagain6043]

I live here too. It's mind boggling how many people here are brainwashed into the climate change narrative.

[@NimbleBard48]

@@neverdemagain6043 Brainwashed how? The politicians clearly doesn't understand the topic... He is brainwashing himself with his lack of knowledge.

[@evamccray6500]

@@NimbleBard48 The real take away here is the person being asked these questions doesn't have a clue about those questions.

[@NimbleBard48]

@@evamccray6500 If I was asked in duch a way I would not know what to say either because I would be dumbfounded by the other persons will to push through with their own narrative.

[@lisaparker1607]

Bravo! Finally someone stands up to these climate bullues.

[@jprej5836]

FINALLY!! Someone is actually talking scientific FACTS👍❤️

[@Xanthemew]

With a degree from Flat Earth University, the kind of scientists we need: telling people what they want to hear, instead of the truth

[@user-wm3bf7pi3u]

Carbon is the building blocks of all life on earth... what's the next thing to ban, WATER???

[@averagevideogamer0420]

​@@Xanthemew If you're comment is directed towards the idiots spending billions to trillions of dollars on proven negligible action on "climate control" then you are correct.

[@winston1788]

​@@Xanthemew And these career apparatchiks will have you believing that their bailiwick is scientific truth.

[@dockjm]

There is NO SUCH THING as manmade climate change!! Earth 4,600,000,000 yrs old 5 major ice ages lasting 100,000 yrs each minimum. As many furnace hot periods. As usual.. a Big Govt/Big Business gravy train.

[@danielbates9674]

California has already destroyed their own state, leave the rest of the country alone.

[@honestamerican368]

​@ralphferley2602the people of California voted them in so it still stands.

[@WilliamMorrison1]

California funds welfare queen red states? My definition of success typically includes positive revenue but go off i guess 🤷

[@Kainis80]

@ralphferley2602 whom are aided and abetted by their voting public which consists of NPC's who eagerly vote for who they are told to, and everyone else who lack the spines needed to correct the mistakes of the NPC's.

[@_yonas]

CA would be the third largest economy in the world if it was its own country, and it is financing all those pathetic red states which come last in every metric imaginable.

[@putucoq3]

@ralphferley2602 non playable characters 🤣🤣

[@JoeBlowUK]

You got KZbin's blue strip under the video, which appears when uncomfortable truth is being spoken.

[@philliplanza7845]

What happens in California should stay in California, period.

[@karenclark266]

including all of their voters.

[@Jedi007c6]

Hallelujah!

[@user-jq2rf4nf3o]

@@karenclark266 votes? It's who counts the votes Califoenication is rigged = No mater who votes we all lose, fraud 1,000%

[@RabbiSteve1]

Well, I am a conservative who wishes I could leave. Unfortunately, can’t. But I get what you are saying. We are still hoping to fight and win some battles here this year, though maybe not enough yet. Maybe with God’s help, eventually.

[@frankschultz4170]

What happens in California should stay several hundred miles out in the Pacific.

[@BrianRayner-cz8rh]

Don't want cali making any rules or laws for all of america

[@Slitheringpeanut]

They have been for almost a century, along with NY. That's why the Democrats took them over all those years ago.

[@bfin]

I say with CA's current intelligence level, they need to return to preschool and try again. And no paying for grades....Civics and Americanism vs Communism as required subjects

[@davidmolina5023]

Good idea

[@quidproquo3933]

they make em all tho . Gl.

[@windrider65]

Commieforina would turn back into California if the major Cities would break off and sink to the bottom of the ocean with everyone that votes blue.

[@briandoherty0909]

Why aren't the California Reps wearing their masks???

[@user-fl6ko9do5y]

hahahhahhaha. true

[@latinsizer]

At my job they told us if you get sick and you don't want to spread it then you better buy your own mask. I still remember when they wouldn't let us clocked in if we weren't wearing one.

[@flyingdutchman6504]

'what is permitted of Jupiter is not permitted of a bull' who is Jupiter?

[@Exxeron-ob3tv]

@@flyingdutchman6504 Otherwise known as Zeus, chief amongst the Greek/Roman gods of old.

[@erikliljenwall8185]

And let’s not forget the “battery powered” does not mean “zero emission.” It just means the emissions occur at power plants, instead of at the vehicle’s exhaust pipe.

[@KylaraKuhn]

I too think that the lefties are much too prominent on this. You have to have the right arguments though and a powerplant is much easier to keep clean than all the exhaust pipes from vehicles. It is all concentrated on a few big spots instead of millions of spots. You can regulate those single spots a lot easier and therefore keep the emission a lot lower.

[@schadenfreude8116]

"Let's talk about science as science and not as a religion . . . "

[@DjediVibrations]

Dr. Rich McCormick is amazing we need more like him in Congress

[@fullyawakened]

please explain why anything this man said made the slightest impression on you rather than tripping every red flag of critical thinking

[@samuelfink4799]

@@fullyawakenedPoint to the doll and show us where the mean man’s facts hurt you.

[@burnstileinstallation9563]

​@@fullyawakened would you spend a substantial portion of your own personal wealth on a health program for yourself that at best will improve your health. 00005%? That's the takeaway of his point... why would we do it with these carbon emissions scams?

[@l.d.t.6327]

@@burnstileinstallation9563 The concentration of CO2 went from 0.032 to 0.0412 in 60 years. That's 33% increase. The last 10 million years, this fluctuated between 0.02 and 0.04. Last time it was this high is 20 million years ago. So it is going completely through the roof in the lifetime of 1-2 human generations.

[@keithammleter3824]

McCormick is amazingly idiotic.

[@johnnydavenport4742]

Its not about the atmosphere Its about stopping transportation of food and supplies.

[@honkeytonklin2198]

Eeyup! Coming for energy too

[@terrildonaldson532]

Facts! They want to FORCE the rural holdouts to move into these large cities with their “15 minute” planning. What they are are actually large scale internment caps. So that they can keep everyone under control.

[@dks13827]

no people.......no cars

[@user-ec3rm9wr1n]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@martinroncetti4134]

We are the carbon that is to be reduced…

[@Hilltopperpete]

The first 3 questions tell you all you need to know. If this is your job and you cannot confidently answer multiple questions about basic fundamental attributes of the things you claim, you are not actually doing your job.

[@fiverjp]

Treason is what this is.

[@chrispark9343]

Why is this treason? Care to explain?

[@KarinMuron-fp2oy]

Mc Cormick. On a roll. Good for him. Right on.

[@ifeelbetterabouthis.louis3]

I like this guy he's spot on

[@AdamErwin-uk7uj]

Remember he's the one who went after Fauci a couple weeks ago. He was also a Navy medical officer and a Marine Corps combat pilot.....and a competitor on American Gladiators back in the early 90s

[@mrfuriouser]

Forbes- you don't do it often, but you did it today. Kudos for posting this one. Keep it up.

[@jaesea323]

Look at KZbin lying with their little note under this video. What a bunch of scumbags

[@johnrudd9550]

I’ve already expressed to KZbin what I think about them, th3 truth hurts doesn’t it….they’ve threatened to ban me for my comments, they act like petulant children..ban me bring it on, just proves my point!

[@JAHISRAEL]

@@johnrudd9550 I sent them a message myself and when they ask for a screenshot they only show the users comments and not their comment so I made my own screenshot and made a URL for it.......they ask for your email address but I didn't add that since they already know my account here.

[@tonyknauer1518]

Its assuring to see people like McCormick in congress.

[@steveclark8962]

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 I hope we get someone in office to shutdown this BS green new deal.

[@binarycode9893]

TRUMP is the only Guy to stop the madness in the US

[@eniselmenic5056]

do you tell the kids in your family that you don't care if they live?

[@susanauger3758]

Green. Ha more like the black new deal

[@bethhiggins1907]

@@eniselmenic5056 No the government has been doing that kind of fear mongering since the 70"s

[@punkhop23]

Please get an education. Human caused climate change is objective fact whether you believe it or not. It's highschool chemistry which you obviously failed.

[@AdamErwin-uk7uj]

Get 'em Doc McCormick! Thank you, sir!

[@johnrodriguezjr3491]

The federal government should dismiss all California environmental regulations!

[@IROCK-fs3fq]

Why is it so hard to have intelligent government officials like this man?

[@johnnyfreak6806]

I live in Chinada, (canada), officials and crime minister are corrupt, lying theives

[@thesum3312]

They are removed. Most never get far enough to become an official

[@sandler800]

Because we're a democracy. And we get what we deserve.

[@elifranco1567]

There are a few good men and women speaking out and showing the people how corrupt things are. God bless them all and keep them safe.

[@mywhorled]

​@@sandler800please stop saying that. We are not a democracy. Never have been. This is a constitutional republic. The word democracy doesn't appear in the constitution, declaration of independence, or bill of rights.

[@novacorponline]

Its always remarkable when a person who is NOT an expert is able to look up and get the facts on hand for these meetings, meanwhile the supposed "expert" in the field can't state basic facts about their field when asked to.

[@BearPawSwipe]

They are not sending their best.

[@cvn6555]

Oh, they are generally well aware of the facts. They refuse to answer honestly lest they throw their gravy train off of the tracks.

[@mustangracer5124]

Not an expert, a puppet, a Fredo if you will

[@bfin]

Fact is...they hem and haw around the subject so I think everytime an "Expert" refuses to answer in anything other than 'talking points of left' they should be help in contempt, or for perjury, especially when with a quick Google search facts can be located.

[@RobinDale50]

Bu-bu-but you MUST listen to the experts! It is REQUIRED! They know, you don't! They are the experts!

[@ericlawrence9060]

ask them the most basic questions and they show how they know literally NOTHING.

[@Quasar0406]

ask a very specific question that you have on a sheet of paper infeont of you and act surprised when someone doesn't have encyclopedic knowledge memorized. someone's pulling the wool over our eyes and you don't know who.

[@ericlawrence9060]

@@Quasar0406 No he asked him 5th grader questions. If that guy did not know this level of less than basic info, that person is dubiously highly underqualified for the position he holds. Stunning ignorance and another case of a person who will fail utterly in their job and fail us all. We keep promoting based on everything but merit. It is not ending soon, knowledge is seen as a mark of the devil.

[@vertyisprobablydead]

@@Quasar0406 They were basic questions anyone advocating for this crap WOULD KNOW if it weren't a hoax and they actually cared.

[@finfrog3237]

@@Quasar0406 Stop, you've only fooled yourselves. How many inches has the ocean risen in the past 50 years? You should know, because you draw up the regulations that supposedly stop such things from progressing. If you don't know, then it obviously isn't an important part of your legislation.

[@colineastwood1357]

For a guy in charge of things which seem VERY IMPORTANT to certain very vocal folks, who have us on a downward slide to the Stone Age this CA Air Official fellow is a disgrace.

[@MrSteak]

It's NEVER about "the science" or "facts"... It's all about government gaining more control & money. That's it.

[@debbielwilliamson8546]

This is a global agenda.

[@Guitarman7133]

I KNEW THAT WHEN I WAS 20 IN 1979. MUSHROOMS IN A FIELD ON A SUNNY OCTOBER DAY WITH AN AMPLE-BREASTED YOUNG WOMAN. IT ALL JUST CAME TO ME THAT DAY.

[@williambeatty5779]

The Founders knew that people in government inevitably seek more power and money for themselves.

[@MrSteak]

@@Guitarman7133 I bet it all came that day.

[@MrSteak]

@@williambeatty5779 100%

[@benfrank6520]

every time they say "ill have to get back with you on that" you know they have nothing to back up their claims

[@Grizzly_Adams.]

They do it to avoid getting the charge of lying under oath.

[@meltdown6165]

No, he just does not have the speeching time to point out all the wrong assertions McCormick spewed out at high speed. Please explain to me, how is an increase from 280 ppm to 424 ppm an "11% increase"?

[@finfrog3237]

@@meltdown6165 Nah, as an "expert" the guy could just say: "x amount of inches." He can't say that, because it hasn't risen.

[@meltdown6165]

@@finfrog3237 He could say "New York is sinking 1.6 mm per year", how would that help with all the lies thrown around. Do people still care about facts or are we in a post-thruth reality where everybody does what their social media feed tells them to do?

[@susugam3004]

he was asked a ridiculously specific question, lmao. fuck this government, but that really isn't the gotcha you think it is. no one can pull 50 years ago data out of their ass at the drop of a hat

[@indojake100]

Disgusting how every person sitting behind the speaker, every time, looks disinterested, bothered to even be there - shows how decked our government is. If my employees and coworkers at the company I work acted like that they would suffer consequences

[@sidepass]

The clown show behind the Dr was distracting.

[@SamtheBravesFan]

Don't lie; you'd be just as disinterested

[@RevolutionistThinker]

How could a death cult possibly save anything?

[@charleslloyd4253]

Reducing carbon will reduce plant growth which will reduce oxygen in our atmosphere.

[@thehazelnutspread]

..... which will reduce animals that eat the plants and which will reduce the population.........end result.

[@chriss7393]

And less plants means less co2 absorption

[@charleslloyd4253]

@@chriss7393 With the co2 involved in manufacturing, transporting and installing the wind mills. Along with the increased co2 from the missing trees. It will take 20 years to equal the amount of co2 saved from fossil fuel electricity production. The average lifespan of a windmill is ten years.

[@davzer3773]

@@charleslloyd4253wind generators last approximately 27 yrs but can last 35 with meticulous servicing. In the uk it costs on average £4.5 million per megawatt, some of the most expensive electricity ever created…..those of us in the uk are paying on average £1500 or $1900 per year for electricity. It’s sheer madness

[@maryjohnston4296]

Truth- scientific facts- plants/trees inhale CO2, exhale oxygen-

[@michaeldunwoody3629]

CA is a JOKE!!

[@deborah6298]

America is a joke right now 😢

[@michaeldunwoody3629]

@deborah6298 I am afraid you are right. It's sad, and it's time to get these idiots out of OUR government. Nov is a BIG deal.

[@ifeelbetterabouthis.louis3]

Yep

[@originalkingalpha5116]

The only way to salvage what's left of this country is to be sure that Obama is not voted in for another 4 years.🇺🇲

[@originalkingalpha5116]

@@deborah6298 ...and Obama is running the show.

[@johnrodriguezjr3491]

Can you repeat the question is to delay their answers!

[@krunchyapples]

This whole carbon reduction thing is an obsession bordering on cultism

[@jeanninewood4111]

I truly don't understand why these people don't come prepared for these questions.

[@willcruz943]

They can answer the questions but they won’t since there is no consequences of not answering them and second, they know that if they are found lying and in the process, sabotaged and destroyed people’s jobs, the economy , etc, they won’t be punished because they are protected.

[@SpenzOT]

Because, besides the lack of accountability for these politicians, when your entire premise fails to pass a reality check, there is no amount of preparation you can do to justify a position that cannot be justified. Better to play the fool and keep your mouth shut than to speak and remove all doubt.

[@willcruz943]

@@SpenzOT That argument does not work if everyone knows that there are dire consequences not only for lying in front of Congress but also for destabilizing and destroying the foundations of the American economy and people’s livelihoods. One should not be permitted to play the fool or say they will look into it or don’t know.

[@sofieweb]

Media doesn't question these marxists.

[@georgekirby3361]

Because they know it doesn’t matter. It’s all for show.

[@damvid21]

McCormick absolutely dragged Fauci, and now he is dragging climate change craziness. Love this guy!

[@JohnBrown-yv5pi]

So 99% of all experts in the field are wrong even though they have to defy the monied interests to be so? Think about the scale of conspiracy you would have to accept to come to this conclusion.

[@andrewclark3236]

You may like to have a look at these short videos: Is there actually any evidence for climate change? kzbin.infopLVdV9jWfSo Why are we so sure about CO2? kzbin.infojkz8d4ryg_o Are humans really behind all that extra CO2? kzbin.infoJ6zfWP4D1IMD Did the Earth's climate change before humans came around? kzbin.infos5bm2GMulho

[@maxkite4170]

What a star this chap is!!

[@margaretburnham5683]

Hugs to McCormick from Arizona USA 💕😁

[@Mom0660]

I love when the experts are clueless!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 last time I checked one state CAN NOT mandate for the ENTIRE COUNTRY!

[@sheilapearson9251]

Absolutely Brilliant 😂😂😂❤

[@bearprower]

With 17states set to blindly follow CA they seem to and lets not count states that see CA do something and say hey lets do that too

[@-dirk-65]

Experts are always clueless. Ask a Sergeant if you need to know.

[@MyClarissa21]

I think what they are trying to say ( and I may be wrong off course) is that California is asking for electric trains ( adapt or die) . The fact that the train company runs through several states disrupt putting it simply the running of their trains . This is a self funded company ( not tax funded company ) a lot of American companies and farmers are going to face bankruptcy. This is self inflicted bankruptcy on the US and the government is not going to pick up the pieces ( whichever government we may have because there is no plan for infrastructure) while China is growing with the fastest trains in the world we are not helping farmers facing extreme draught and water banns in Ohio) trains are our only hope and solution , also better underground piping between states . We have a large country . We should be United in moments of crisis and we are facing a massive crisis . Infrastructure is the key of a strong country . This is not a laugh issue

[@Mom0660]

Oh wait it gets better,,,,,,, The richest 10% accounted for half (50%) of emissions. It would take approximately 1,500 years for someone in the bottom 99% to produce as much carbon as the richest billionaires do in a year. Every year, the emissions of the richest 1% cancel out the carbon savings coming from nearly one million wind turbines.

[@erinhealy5805]

He knows nothing . Why is he not hiding his head in shame

[@danieldwyer5139]

Cause his side is in charge

[@sniperactive1965]

Because he is a devotee of the religion of the greenies, or at least a representative for them. The left has no shame, and I mean that literally. They don't believe in guilt except as a weapon against others.

[@bfin]

@@danieldwyer5139 unfortunately you are correct

[@peterfitzpatrick7032]

To suffer shame, you need to have a conscience... 😏

[@richardcrocker8048]

On the payroll ….. propaganda employee

[@Grizzly_Adams.]

No state should be able to be a dictatorship over other states

[@hholton7245]

Surely transporting goods by trains is an efficient and environmentally friendly option? Net Zero is not about CO2 it's about controlling people.

[@daviru02]

They dont want discussion. They want submission

[@davenetdog]

Get rid of the pseudo-science complainers and there is NO problem.

[@krakulandia]

Exactly!

[@micahellyons3893]

Worldwide con job.

[@juno1597]

Care to explain how it is a con job?

[@Ihatetrudeau]

@@juno1597are you serious????

[@pje6882]

@@juno1597 The fact you're asking show how gullible you are

[@The901meister]

As always just follow the money.

[@juno1597]

@@pje6882 I'm just asking a simple question, how is it a con job?

[@lincolnyaco5626]

-WAIT- Is CA making woke law based on politics rather than science and reason? Imagine my surprise!

[@ellencutter5661]

Look at all the wind mills in California that aren’t working and can’t get men to work on them .

[@steveanimatrix3887]

He's absolutely right. Every single planet in our solar system is experiencing "climate change," and some more radical than others. It's coming from the sun and it's 6000 year cycle, which next to no one talks about. Everything is "human caused." How does the climate on mars, neptune, pluto, saturn, etc, change at the exact same time the climate on earth is changing without ANY human activity whatsoever on those planets?

[@phaedrus000]

6,000 year cycle? Yeah there's a reason no one talks about that. It's not a thing. The solar cycle is about 11 years, not 6,000

[@steveanimatrix3887]

@@phaedrus000 There's more than one kind of cycle. Duh. You're just talking solar maximum/minimum. There are more on longer time spans, just like earth. Do some research.

[@phaedrus000]

@@steveanimatrix3887 Still doesn't disprove the greenhouse effect.

[@Andy_M986]

But but, the Flat Earthers believe the Sun is Inside their make believe Dome.

[@fakecrusader]

I've said this for years - you can just FEEL that the sun is hotter if you've lived here long enough.

[@bem121]

grade school science say plants need CO2 to make oxygen

[@jeff7.629]

You are correct.

[@EditEvidence]

...and people emit CO2. ...ahhh. now I get it

[@jupin1960]

Yes in fact the entire world is at about 3.5% CO2. At 1.5% all life dies. At 11% it becomes a problem because of excessive plant life.

[@Corey_Otis]

Grade school science also says Boys and girls are biologically different, yet these same "experts" would staunchly disagree.

[@Sarah-im3lp]

LOL! But that's irrelevant!

[@jakepetterson1050]

Existential threat they claim. They know no details of this threat. Are people waking up yet?

[@Scarletohellno]

“My Biden administration neo Marxist talking point notes can’t answer that Mr chairman”

[@brittr1358]

@Scarletohellno They're such basic information about the climate too. Makes me wonder what the heck the man would have rambled about if he didn't cut him off. I guess we should thank him for saving us from something that would have dropped the IQ of everyone who heard it

[@diegojines-us9pc]

trump is STILL made they got rid of asbestos,

[@Scarletohellno]

@@brittr1358LOL... well said.. I’m not a Republican but the neo Marxist side of the democrat aisle is frightening where they’re taking this nation. Thx.

[@eniselmenic5056]

your boy was basically arguing that there is only .005 cancers in cigarettes, therefore cigarettes are safe. His argument is that because something is small it is insignificant and his logic is deadly in lots of cases. what happens if you drink a gallon of water 99.9% and mercury 0.1%

[@diegojines-us9pc]

@@eniselmenic5056 well if you knew all the chemicals used to grow tobacco, and then to process it into cigarettes you would know how many things causes cancer, they aren't allowed to use the chemicals to grow pot, which is legal now, what does that tell you, and it produces CO2,

[@dalepowell6815]

Exhaust mufflers on cows for CA is the next ''CAlogical'' endevour.

[@winston1788]

Cattle-ytic converters. Cowfart Cortez' ears just perked up. 😮

[@ruthnovena40]

@@winston1788 Diapers on COWS and pigs,

[@mattbatt8757]

Actually. Bill Gates recently admitted he's developing something.He won't say what to stop cows from admitting methane, and if it doesn't work.We're going to move to artificial meat.Whatever that is because he won't say what it is.

[@JohnSmith-ux3tt]

Cows will be banned. You vill eat ze bugz.

[@cwr8618]

@@winston1788 hahaha....btw who's cowfart cortez?

[@Frank-xx8ps]

They should haves bill gates in a hearing. Seriously. Because as of now he’s dodging accountability the most

[@tfields3929]

Bravo!! That man brought the receipts, and more.

[@Justsayinguc]

The worlds greatest country can not fix homelessness in that country but it thinks by paying more taxes it can change the climate 😂. While India chi na exe... no regulations. Just another way to choke the life out of it.

[@diegojines-us9pc]

seems all we do. people have to somethings for themselves. there is alot of free housing out there, but some people wont take care of the free stuff and get kicked out. lets put it like this. look at the immigrants. their homeless rates are lower than white street lizards.

[@5353Jumper]

To be fair - pay more taxes to stop changing the climate.

[@diegojines-us9pc]

@@5353Jumper well its been decades since a river has caught on fire.

[@samorprong]

I saw it this morning and sounds a little bit the same as your reaction: We cannot forecast the weather for 3 or more days but we are convinced that we know that the temperature will rise in about 100 years!!!

[@1966Birger]

​@@samorprong you are comparing weather forecast with climate estimations. Two very different science areas. And I am really sorry for you in the US if you only get 3 day forecasts. We get 10 days forecasts and experimental 21 day forecasts. The research into seasonal weather forecasts is also now giving us some predictions, but with larger uncertainty and way less granularity.

[@davidglobalflier4497]

Well said Sir.👍

[@tonyinarizona4350]

Yes! Science as science not as a religion!

[@Mike-j7o]

Schooled the fools !

[@JosephNohbuhdy-fx1xr]

💯 McCormick is Spot On ⚓

[@stevengonzalez7729]

. 04% of the atmosphere is CO2 and the plants love it❤

[@nalcon1]

Exactly! C02 is a life giving gas!

[@ionutalbu6670]

The plants actually love around 0.1 - 0.18. that's why greenhouse growers pump CO2 to that level. At the moment, 0.04 is very low and if it drops lower, to around 0.02, photosynthesis stops and we're all fucked. So while the climate crazies say they're saving the planet they do the exact opposite by suffocating it, that's how stupidly ignorant they are.

[@l.d.t.6327]

It's a pity there aren't too many forests left that could capture the CO2 though. They are cut, burned and converted to agriculture. Permafrost is melting, releasing tons of methane and agricultural soil, after conversion from grassland and forest, is a CO2 source by breakdown of organic material.

[@barryfoster453]

@@l.d.t.6327 Forests don't actually matter. You've fallen for the 'lungs of the planet' nonsense. Trees 'breathe' as much CO2 in as out. If every tree in the world was cut down today, it wouldn't actually do anything! It is plants which absorb the CO2 and hold on to it to grow. Trees expel CO2 at night. Permafrost isn't 'melting' either! And the release of CH4 is insignificant to the world's budget...and CO2 only has an effect between 14 & 16 micrometres, so it is saturated. You've been had. It's going to dawn on you at some point in the future. There is a little warming, but it's not from CO2.

[@DEWorDEWnot]

CO2 currently makes up just 0.04% of the atmosphere, and if it drops to half of that, all plant life-and thus all animal and human life-will perish. That is the real goal of the globalists. We need more CO2, plant life would thrive, and so would we.

[@kevinkenney5228]

I thought California was soooo broke it has to raise taxes so high, residents are leaving Cal. to escape.

[@chrisruef3201]

Some of us are still waiting for their fellow Californians to reclaim our state back from these Tyrants. These are Newsome, Harris, and Pelosi People.

[@kathywest4868]

I love that they don't know anything they are fighting for or against.

[@EricvZ1967]

'We are self-funded'. That's why it's almost impossible to live in California. That's why lots of peope are fleeing California.

[@diegojines-us9pc]

i tell you they are leaving. for 60 years rich people like the Clampetts have moved in, squeezing the little guy out, dont you watch TV?

[@EricvZ1967]

@@diegojines-us9pc , I'm from Holland.. So no, I don't watch US-tv.

[@diegojines-us9pc]

@@EricvZ1967 and what makes you able to comment on a place 5000 miles away? and i take it, that you live in CA, if its so bad, why did you pick to move 500o miles?

[@xitaris5981]

​@@diegojines-us9pc 🙄 oh shut up. Like you haven't commented on things on the other side of the world before.

[@vividly94]

More like they heavily tax the state like a socialist state, and then the big-wigs pocket half of them and then expand the means of more profit by doing the exact same thing across country. XD Create a secular, rich community while everyone in the outskirts suffers. Super smart. Then businesses close, and the corporatocracy runs rampant by creating a state-side monopoly in which they can price-fix the economy because they are the only ones selling that product, for more profit.

[@terrybarber3835]

Why is the false claims reinstated by KZbin

[@lawrence40100]

Which false claims?

[@vertyisprobablydead]

Every time there's a video remotely about climate change youtube puts that up. Just like they did with COVID. Almost like dems are full of shit. And paranoid of anyone finding out.

[@jupeterczech1340]

Way to go, Rich McCormick is spot-on. First sane commentary on real Earth geological status!!! 👍😬🇬🇧❤️

[@Geminias]

It annoys me to no end when "professionals" don't know things off hand that you'd think a person who holds a regulatory position would know.

[@keyser456]

They declared the "science settled" and the "debate over" before anything remotely resembling science or debate took place. It was back then I realized this wasn't about science, not actual science.

[@reaality3860]

CO2 volume is now around 0.04% of Earth's total atmosphere. Not 40%, or 4%, but 4 parts out of 100 of 1%. That's equal to four pennies out of the first dollar of 100 total dollars. Compared to the last 500 million years, our planet is now in a CO2 drought. The rise in CO2 is not the direct cause of global warming, but it is causing global greening.

[@Aldridge2Ben]

Most of the CO2 is being sucked up by Ocean based life like plankton. A lot more life in a larger habitat. Now we've found the real threat to whales.

[@diegojines-us9pc]

but compared to the last 500Million years. how many years have people lived? high CO2 was great for giant lizards, but not us.

[@KidHorn7001]

It doesn't take much greenhouse gas to warm the atmosphere and a warming atmosphere causes an increase in water vapor and methane, which are also greenhouse gasses. So it can snowball into a much bigger problem. It hasn't happened yet and might not ever, but we shouldn't completely ignore it. If we can lower greenhouse gas emissions with little effort. we should.

[@WalterEKurtz-kp2jf]

​@@diegojines-us9pc lol no

[@diegojines-us9pc]

no? no what???

[@kevinoneill41]

I've been saying this since I deleted the disastrously failed emissions controls from my 6.4 diesel and replaced it with clean proper combustion and maintenance of air and engine components

[@Cijjbnjjif]

How many times does congress need to have the same talk over negligible numbers that the advocates can’t answer?

[@jamiebaldwin7367]

My husband is a Indigious Native,his grandfathers in his late 90s and they been telling people for years to plant more trees.

[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

We've planted to many trees, even in places that don't need them. There are more acres of forests in the US today than back when Europeans first came here. The paper and lumber industry plants pine trees as a crop to be harvested just like beans and corn. Currently they plant more than they cut down as they buy more property. So that grandfather is ill-informed as well.

[@davzer3773]

@@bite-sizedshorts9635that maybe correct except that pine trees are poor sequesters of carbon, we need to be planting deciduous forests such as oak and ash etc to absorb more carbon

[@phaedrus000]

No amount of tree planting is going to avert disaster if we don't stop putting so much CO2 in the atmosphere

[@PhyllisLane-xj5uf]

​@@bite-sizedshorts9635 Yeah and those fast growing, easily diseased, and short lived loblolly pines are crap

[@thomgizziz]

@@davzer3773 That makes zero sense. Pine grows quickly and is going to use up much more carbon dioxide to grow. Those trees may hold more carbon per a tree but take forever to grow.

[@clydesuckfinger8068]

Many years ago, I was involved in a test of catalytic converters, OE vs aftermarket high flow. The exhaust was cleaner with the high flow, but because it didn’t have a CARB exemption (that cost, at that time, 125,000.00 for each model car), it was considered illegal. CARB doesn’t care one bit about the air, it’s about making money.

[@jimmyjacuzzi5424]

Playing on the fears of people who don't know the difference between carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.

[@kristahunter1588]

It's less than 1970 because we took care of that. When we did the new automobiles, why don't you stop flying your private jets around to pick up your pizza and McDonald's down the street? And then maybe we won't pollute the environment so bad. Did you know that airplanes actually pollute the environment more than cars do? It's tone private jet plane driving in one direction. Causes more pollution than that. One car does in an entire year. It's true, this is not even an argument. This is pathetic and ridiculous and I can't even believe that we're even discussing. This tells me how dumb people are that are in charge. It's really scary. It's like putting a 3-year-old in charge of a forklift.

[@robertmacintosh8265]

Just stop delivering and shipping to California.

[@DoyleHargraves]

We need to stop individual states from passing regulations that effect the other 49 states

[@ZombieGyrl2384]

The two guys behind him with faces showing "yea got em b*tch" LOL

[@maxfulmer3193]

I love when a congressman knows his business. Shows he does his homework.

[@this_isntmyname]

Neptune's temp at the south pole went up 20* C in 2022. Damn those hipsters and their SUVs!

[@Guitarman7133]

I HOPE YOU DON'T ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE PLANETS AND GALAXIES AND SOLAR SYSTEMS.

[@taylorwestmore4664]

​@Guitarman7133 Oh my gosh a SPACE denier in the wild! I love you guys. I wish I had someone like you to look through my telescope and tell me what you think I'm looking at when I watch the Moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn😂

[@ImpetuouslyInsane]

The two guys behind the congressman kept looking at each other. Those guys knew this guy was getting slammed. 😂

[@brettbretterson6062]

I love how the UN gets to put a little banner on this video explaining "climate change". I guess we know who is pushing this religion...

[@vertyisprobablydead]

The UN has no power over youtube. It's commie California youtube.

[@dragonflydroneservices1021]

Gratitude

[@thomasgrable1746]

The California Air Resource Management Board decided to mandate that all gasoline sold in the state needed 11% MTBE, despite having conducted no testing. Shortly afterward, it was discovered that MTBE would affect hoses and gaskets in engines, so gas stations had to put warning signs up stating that they would not be responsible if your vehicle broke down or caught fire after using that fuel. Then they discovered that MTBE was leaking through the storage tanks and contaminating the ground water and was a carcinogen. Lawrence Livermore Labs did testing on the reformulated gasoline, and found that the California grade fuel produced 8% less energy per gallon than the previous unleaded fuel, so people had to burn 9% more fuel to drive the same distance, so whatever imagined reduction in pollution per gallon was more than offset by needing to use more gallons of fuel. This is what California does to its own state, and they want to do it to the rest of the US.

[@skycanecorsa100percentpure5]

strange how they shut up when come across someone who no's what there talking about

[@TrishaL-sl4nc]

More of this common sense in Congress. Get the government out of regulating our lives. My father was an atmospheric gases expert and was talking about this 25 years ago. Certainly wonder if the climate change agenda isn't driven by greed.

[@waltermccabe8101]

Follow the money 💰

[@randallsimmons391]

All freight companies should refuse to ship to California, Western Washington, and Western Oregon.

[@happenstance7530]

Yep, those company reps should have both looked over at the cali air rep, who didn't know facts he should be required to know to be qualified for his position, and said if you push this through we won't be able to afford your tax so we will be forced to stop delivering to your state. End of discussion.

[@CapeFearSurvival]

That could kill a shit ton of people

[@happenstance7530]

@@CapeFearSurvival Yes it would. But that carbon tax will kill millions more and the poorest in the world will be the first and most effected. That's why the threat alone should act as a deterrent to curb this stupidity. If carried out then they would be forced to find an all electric freight service to hire, you know like EV big riggs or something else equally inefficient.

[@dannygreen7473]

Good luck. 95% of commerce in America enters through California, Oregon, and Washington ports.

[@randallsimmons391]

@@dannygreen7473 Except for Philadelphia, Maryland, Charleston, Tampa, Jacksonville, Savannah, Wilmington, Mobile, Houston, Newport News...

[@irvingskyzanitzy3081]

explain to me how abbs is legislative officer of bay area air quality knowing as little as he knows about air quality?

[@cutlets2118]

Another stellar Biden appointee not based on ability and knowledge but more about cronies or d.e.i

[@johnbeard7404]

Excellent. Thank You.

[@occupyscience-9479]

brutal exhibition of ignorance on science by both. The committee must examine the educational system.

[@viasevenvai]

Turn in your guns. Why?? Jupiter is suffering climate change.

[@JohnBrown-vn2qw]

jupiters is heating up because of wht supremacy

[@elizabethfilby930]

🎯

[@Rick2012C]

Awesome ❤

[@TowlerAdventures]

Just stop going to California. End that line. let them figure out their problem.

[@Here_4_comments]

I was born and raised in California, and I can honestly say there is no worse place to get your politics or ideology from. That whole state was a paradise and they completely destroyed it with their woke moronic ideas. The amount of bad decisions that had to be made to turn that state into the crime ridden disaster that it is are staggering.

[@cutlets2118]

You can thank the Newsomes,the Browns, and the Pelosis who have been in control of this state for decades.

[@mathias2868]

The correct answer is 0,04% if it goes under 0,03% plants will start dying. Optimal for plants and trees is 0,1%

[@kawashima-yoshiko]

Source?

[@mathias2868]

@@kawashima-yoshiko Education. Btw you can't post links on youtube. But you can google and find out👍🏻

[@cornishplumber5051]

Took me 1 min to Google that ))

[@this_isntmyname]

Congratulations, you memed yourself​@@kawashima-yoshiko

[@Neil-yh8uu]

​@@kawashima-yoshikofletcher Dyson Professor The more co2 the better for plant life That sorce enough Infact it's closer to 0.0002 for plants to die if plants die we die Have you cer noticed how green it is on motorway/freeway side banks We've been lied to by 98%of climate scientists ......why .....so they get paid They cant predict the weather nevermind the climate For sure now have started to take different type of temperature readings which makes the temperature higher than it really is But Dyson Fletcher is the one

[@susanbrown2578]

They are messing with the weather!

[@axel8406]

Remember that self funded is all tax payer funded. Ultimately you are the carbon they want to get rid of

[@Willrocs]

Carbon dioxide is not the problem. Carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide , methane are the ones we need to worry about

[@richjacobs9736]

Isn't it wonderful when you Believe in science and the facts of science😊

[@scottbright595]

According to your point on this but not all supposed facts are actually fact. 1 in 3 research papers are withdrawn with 10000 withdrawn in 2023

[@richjacobs9736]

@@scottbright595 I know that and those are called theories !! But thank you for pointing that out

[@brettbretterson6062]

The point of science is that you don't have to "believe" you have proof.

[@scottbright595]

@@brettbretterson6062 so you have proof of the big bang, that james webb images are real, That the great pyramid was built in a specific year. I can name many others that you can not have proof of and there is nothing that says that our scientist cant lie about the proof