Can we use the word "flatulence" pretty please...

Boehner is just another individual that is destroying our country. Until we rid ourselves of these people, we will spiral down into oblivion. Patriots unite. There needs to be a cleansing.

That the leader of one of the two main parties would say something so stupid and boehnerheaded is "tragical".

Does this mean that Boehner wouldn't mind if we started putting botulinum toxin and cyanide on his breakfast cereal? Neither compound is a carcinogen and both are biological in origin.

What about anthrax? Is he the sort of pansy that wouldn't do a line of anthrax spores? I mean, the stuff doesn't cause cancer at all.

Oh, or is he opening the door to begin strictly regulating known cancer causing agents like fly ash slurry?

Or maybe Boehner is just a hypocritical, opportunistic douche bag willing to spew illogical and scientifically fictitious talking points to protect the agenda of his corporate campaign contributors? Hmm, that sounds more like it...

Ummm....

He's right... We EXHALE CO2... because it's POISON!!! We get rid of it!!!

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and, although there may be a little CO2 in "Cow Farts"... the vast majority of it is METHANE .... (which is an even more effective green house gas)

Looks to me like a typical deliberate Republican attempt to inject yet another lie or two into the discourse. Either "EPA can only regulate carcinogens, therefore they didn't have the right to regulate CO2" or "har har har, those stoopid libruls think CO2 is a carcinogen" or both, depending on what the focus groups say. Before we know it, the MSM will add "balance" by putting "critics say CO2 is not carcinogenic and the EPA has therefore exceeded its legal authority" to every story about the EPA's actions.

Do you think we could get Boehner to advocate the banning of Dihydrogen Monoxide? It's known to be lethal to humans in quantities as little as twenty milliliters and has been historically used in various methods of torture.

I think the EPA should investigate the toxic emissions that come out of Boner's mouth.

If these GOP jackasses can't permit themselves to be educated in the science that underlies the whole climate change discussion, they need to excuse themselves from the discussion. They don't need a PhD level of understanding, mind you. How about just a high school freshman level?

These clowns are too ignorant to even be embarrassed by their ignorance.

Does this mean I can't eat beans anymore?

Just a technical note: CO2 may technically be a poison, but not a particularly scary one unless experienced in very high concentrations such as where it is used in industrial processes, which is why OSHA and other workplace regulators address it. The most common risk of CO2 is suffocation, because it is heavier than air and in a small, confined space it will push all the available oxygen out or to the top of the space. Its affect would be about the same as filling the space with water, except the occupant would notice the water before suffocating. People who get trapped underwater, in an avalanche or inside a refrigerator die not from CO2 poisoning, but because their body converts the existing oxygen into CO2 until there is not enough oxygen left to sustain life.
Compare to CO, which is a pretty effective poison, because it bonds to the red blood cells and prevents them from transporting oxygen from the lungs to the brain and the rest of the body. CO is produced by incomplete burning of organic material. It's the main reason people die in fires, and one of the reasons second-hand cigarette smoke is regulated, especially in confined areas.

Want to bet we'll be hearing Republicans making more denials that it's a carcinogen? It sounds less like a slip than a talking point. My guess is they'll run around claiming it isn't a carcinogen, and when global warming realists confirm that, they'll say, "See! They admit it! What else have they been wrong about?"