Arizona 4th Congressional District Republican Representative Paul Gosar
At a Capitol Hill press conference Wednesday opposing the Green New Deal, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) was asked by a young person what he is doing to address climate change. He responded:
“Unfortunately you haven’t been taught about photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is where plants take carbon dioxide to produce oxygen. That’s a problem in today’s world. We haven’t taught kids exactly what’s going on in America and in science.”
Reality check: Per Axios science editor Andrew Freedman: The issue isn’t photosynthesis. We’re putting more carbon dioxide into the air each year than plants, trees and oceans can suck out. That is what’s causing rising global temperatures. CO2 levels are the highest they’ve been in at least 800,000 years, and the driving reason is human activity.
For the record: In a statement to Axios, Gosar said: “At the press conference I also stated, ‘As the son of a geologist, our climate has always changed, and if you don’t doubt me, dig up some fossils. It will tell you an awful lot […]
What is it with these Trumpian conservatives? They always and I mean always declare with absolute certainty that they know what they know about life facts be damned.
This is the same ass who’s entire family campaigned against him in the last election per Wikipedia: “In September 2018, six of Gosar’s nine siblings spoke out against their brother and endorsed his Democratic opponent, David Brill, in a series of television campaign ads which drew national and international coverage.[19][20] In the first ad, sisters Grace and Jennifer, both identified as health care providers, told viewers that their brother did not care about people in rural Arizona. In another ad, called “A family defends its honor,” brother David Gosar, a lawyer, declared, “We’ve got to stand up for our good name, this is not who we are.” Paul Gosar took to Twitter to respond to the ads, describing his siblings as “disgruntled Hillary supporters” who “put political ideology before family”.[20]
Gosar defeated Brill in the November 2018 general election, taking 68.2% of the vote. ” Of course Arizonians knew what they wanted in their rep.