Congressman John Shimkus’s (R-Ill) wishes to point out that Global Warming is all pointless hype because the bible says that the world will not end in flood and that man cannot destroy the Earth. His apparent conclusion is that we can pollute the planet all we like and not worry. God is like some benevolent mother who doesn’t expect us to clean up after ourselves and his happy to pick up behind us as we trash the house we live in.

In part 2, Shimkus teams up with scientist for hire Christopher Monckton (who previously advocated for handling the AIDS problem by quarantining all AIDS victims for life, so you know he’s playing with a deck of 51) to assert that we are a carbon starved planet. His rationale is that carbon dioxide is plant food so by reducing carbon emissions we’re actually starving plants. Curiously, Monckton cites estimated carbon dioxide levels from the Cambrian and Triassic periods as evidence of why the planet is okay with more carbon dioxide. This was 200 million years ago, about 199.99 million years before Shimkus believes the world was created. And he’s okay with this evidence? Shouldn’t he be citing CO2 levels from the Garden of Eden?

The fact that these goobers are on YouTube is fine as entertainment. The reality that they actually presented this nonsense last week before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment should be embarrassing to everyone. Your tax dollars paid for this. And we wonder why Congress can’t seem to accomplish anything useful.