The ignorance of those who would presume to regulate our lives is staggering.

My physics textbook from 1970 states CO2 is 0.04%. Now more than 50 years later the answer still is.....0.04%. (Edit: Now it is a year later and I have been inundated with replies (several hundreds). Some are polite and some are nasty and arrogant. I worked in a qualitative/quantitative/thermal analysis laboratory for 34 years at a large university. Please do not insist that atmospheric CO2 is never reported as a percent. That is incorrect. I had a state of the art Gas Chromatograph, and reports were always generated as percentages in scientific notation which makes sense because you cannot report "contents" in different units when the normalized total is 100%. Lastly, the original comment was a simple factoid which for some odd reason offends many people. I am 71, and if I said that "55 years ago I saw something unusual or interesting", why would you countermand it? It was a very simple statement that (at the time) I had no reason to disbelieve or believe; my life has not revolved around this textbook. My basic point is: why is everyone quibbling over 40 to 45 ppm of CO2? Please accept that IMO it is not harmful. If you have a different opinion that is fine with me. IMO, stating that CO2 has risen by a third in the last century means nothing to me. Stating it has risen by 45 PPM in the last 60 years is at least objective. Please refrain from posting comments that are not objective. Thank you.

How embarrassing and disgraceful it is that people who are in charge literally know nothing about the things they are forcing onto the general public, despicable.

If this committee worked for me, they'd be gone the very next minute. You're all fired! Done, get out. Next.

Remarkable how ignorant these people are that push these green initiatives. I’m glad they got exposed.

It’s a total humiliation that those panelists can’t answer such a simple question while wanting to impose $multi-billion laws. Frankly they should all resign.

All he really needed to ask was "Who finances your research" that will tell you everything about what that panel are up to. Embarrassing they didn't know the answer to his first question

I am so glad that KZfaq provides context notes for this. Man I would just be lost if they didn’t tell me how to think.

If the people on the panel have any authority then America is stuffed.

How unfortunate that non-technical people are making technical decisions with no idea about what they are doing.

Can these people please resign immediately?

Sad thing we lives in times where people who makes sense with truth are not listened to

This is crazy! How on earth is this level of ignorance acceptable from people who claims to know how we should live!?

We can't have these people make decisions for us anymore.

Nice work by LaMalfa, I've been impressed with him and happy he represents my district.

Politicians are the only people who can get away with being this absurdly incompetent at their jobs.

This is a perfect example of the government jumping into an industry and "just doing something" to make it appear that they are more capable than industry, regardless of the "little" details.

...this is outrageous... none of them ever took time to check the validity of the concepts they are pushing?!! These people can be "used" by any lobbyist to do their bidding...

Thank you

They want to set the rules, and claim to be the experts, but they don't understand the basics of the topic. What else is new?

For me growing up in The Netherlands in the 80s California was always synonymous for The American Dream but now it’s definitely The American Disaster.

glad they thought it was funny ... gives us all a lot of confidence

That's right, some in Ca know and care, good on ya Brother!

Rep. Doug LaMalfa exposed that Ship of Fools.

I learned the proportions of Nitrogen, Oxygen, and CO2 in 7th grade earth science. Not sure what’s worse….the fact that no one on the panel knows this, or the fact that these panelists have never been curious enough to find out. Or the fact that obviously these panelists have never had anyone ask this question to them before. Sad on all sides.

❤ TRUTH is POWER ❤

Thank you LaMalfa for always standing up for the people of Northern California.

All you have to do if you are wondering why America is falling hard...watch videos like these.

The ignorance of those who are causing so much damage to the economy, society and life on the planet is astounding!

Its bad that folk don't know the basic facts. It's also bad to suggest that, because its a small percentage, it doesn't need to cause concern.

Knowledge is more accessible than ever, yet we seem to know less and less as time goes by...

The ignorance of the so called experts is absolutely overwhelming.

As an ex maths teacher (only for 10 years) I`m aware of the maths concepts that many pupils learned by rote for exams and never really understood. Percentages was one of them. Consequently the fact that CO2 at 0.04% is only 1 part in 2,500 of the earths atmosphere is completely missed.

Thank you Mr. LaMalfa! We need more people like you!

C02 is heavily than air. I'd like to see them explain to the world how it all gets up there in the first olace when its heavier than air?

When they said 5%, I actually felt upset. It upset me to think that they could even think that. Fun fact: a concentration of 0.5% C02 is the US occupational safety limit for an 8 hour period. 1.5% is known to cause light symptoms in some people, at 3% more severe symptoms can present, and at 7% - 10%, there’s a significant chance of a human falling unconscious and suffocating to death. 5% wasn’t just a bad answer, it’s an answer that shows such a fundamental lack of knowledge on one of the core elements of what their panel is meant to assess, that it’s impossible for me to feel comfortable with these people dealing with anything emissions related.

My high school level of chemistry allowed me two decades later to guess “less than .1 percent”. It’s baffling that people who make their living out of it not only don’t know the actual number but actually missed it by a factor of 100-200 times…

Not knowing that is ridiculous

Fascinating

If you rephrase "Ban CO2" as "Ban plant food", you see how ridiculous this whole agenda is.

A classic example of politicians introducing laws for things they totally don’t understand

This is a cheap shot. I work in a chemistry lab unrelated to weather and report numbers in PPM. ( parts per million or milligrams per kilogram. ( then there are volume/ volume units too. ) 1 % is 10000 PPM. When you ask people who use the numbers they often forget to think 1% is 10,000 0.1% is 1000. 0.04 % is 400 PPM. 400 PPM CO2 is higher than it has been in many thousands of year. It is not surprising that under pressure someone who has been reading the in PPM has an awkward moment. On the left I am frustrated by people saying things like we need a state committee right away to plan for sea level rise of I think it was a few Centimeters in the next 20 years. On the right articles like this to make the problem seem small. In my life CO2 has got up from under 300 to over 400 PPM..Not a trivial amount. Exactly what the consequences will be I have not studied enough to form strong opinion other than it has got a measurable bit warmer. Policy makers should avoid cheap shots like this to embarrass their opponents. It just clouds the discussion.

What could possibly go wrong....!

When I was a child ( a long time ago) we were told that in under 50 years we would run out of oil and coal and then given all of the scary things that this would create. We were given lists of animals that would be extinct in 20 years, including tigers and elephants. We were told that sea levels would rise and London would be flooded, we were told we were heading for a new ice age and would all freeze to death, we were told that the ozone layer would be depleted within 100 years and we would all fry to death. You would think that they would have at least got one nearly right - unfortunatley due to simple entropy there are some animals that will die off, there will be various changes in climate and the natural world but killing off human beings through poverty and famine to try and stop it is clearly not the answer.

It's like watching five year olds fix the world's biggest problems.

*Totally stupid question! For example, the proportion of CFCs in the atmosphere is only 0.0000x%. * Even these minimal quantities (1 CFC molecule per x million others) destroy the ozone layer. Since 1960, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has risen by almost 40% and temperatures in Europe by over 1.5 degrees.

True perspective on CO2 and the electric vehicle myths.

The ignorance of policy makers is unbelieveable. If they don't even know that, how can they even begin to understand all the other absurd, hopeless and corrupt proposals thrown at them?

The man did his homework, good job Rep.

CO2 is life. Climate stuff by people who don’t know, shouldn’t be in charge.

No need to go electric, you can go amish.

Rep. LaMalfa, you're one of the few remaining hopes in government we have left in CA. Thank you.

So I used to be a commercial diver. Gas mixtures, pressures, and how your body reacts to different breathing mediums under different pressures was nailed into our heads. We were taught the atmosphere contains roughly 21% oxygen and roughly 75% nitrogen. That leaves 4-5% left for "other gasses." And these people think CO2 makes up 5-8% of our atmosphere. Incredible.

These people are akin to me ( a carpenter ) barging into a surgery and proceeding to demolish the work done on the patient by the resident surgeons. THEY HAVEN’T A CLUE YET ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE THE EXPERTS ON THE SUBJECT.

Just because the quantities are small it doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous. How would he feel if I added 0.04% of his body weight of arsenic into his diet. The scientists worked out decades ago what this tiny amount of CO2 is doing to global temperatures, we just need the politicians to take action.

Common sense spoken aloud is always such a breath of fresh air. Look at how calm and collected he is, in contrast to the stunned people being questioned.

There is a rock on the shore in Plymouth that marks the level of the highest tide and every time the tide is at its highest point it's never covered this rock completely. The reason I mention it is because it has a date carved on it. The date is 1620... So much for rising sea levels and global warming sinking 20% of the islands of the Pacific!

The smartest people in the room "Experts" So sick of the establishment!! #DefundDC

At last, the challenges begin.

"We have put together, i think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics." - Brandon

What’s even more concerning is they don’t know, but want to overhaul an entire industry. 🙄

From .03 to below .02 and plant life starts dying off, then it's obvious what a drastic change from .03 to .04 can do to the world around us, by your logic

I'm a Science teacher with 40 yrs experience. The composition of gases in our atmosphere is a standard piece of info taught to 13 yr old school students. Many years ago Carl Sagan stated many times of his concern that, despite all of us are living in societies largely measured and driven by advances in Technology and Science, there is barely a politician in any government anywhere who has a background in Science. Just brood on that conflict for a minute.

Im in southern oregon and have the paperwork to deliver water to the forest fire fighters, but we cant get the paperwork to deliver to northern california because our truck is not new enough and may put off too much pollution. They dont know if it does, but at that age, they believe it will. Now im pretty sure fires will put out smoke longer and kill more wildlife if theres no water to fight them.

I used to live in San Francisco and I'd ask that question to every vapid Climate Alarmist I met. Not once did they know the answer is 0.03-0.04%.

Unfortunately the greenies I know think similar and don't know the extra pollution involved in making EV vehicles and importing goods rather then trucking in from other states.

This was Circus Maximus, with the worst clowns ever!

I cannot fathom - apart from plain malice - why we are governed by people who are doing everything they can to destroy life.

Science lesson: If carbon dioxide is currently roughly estimated at 400 PPM. Then it would be .04% of the troposheric content. CO2 only holds about 40% of the infrared radiation striking the Earth's surface. Even that eventually makes it out of our atmosphere back into space. It's like a blanket that self regulates, or like a thermostat that maintains a comfortable surface temperature. There are a lot of misnomers about the greenhouse effect. If the greenhouse effect could so easily run away and heat the surface of the Earth to an unlivable Venus like temperature, then it would have occurred many times in the past, and none of us would be here. Earth has experienced what are referred to as greenhouse periods in geologic history. The P.E.T.M. 56 million years ago, for example. But it was the orbital variances and the axial tilt of Earth that were responsible. Not carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide levels only rise when the co2 molecule is excited by heat. Heat on the surface is caused by infrared radiation exciting molecules, which is friction, which causes heat. Another misnomer is that methane is the most potent of all greenhouse gases. Technically, It is. But methane can not exist for too long in the presence of oxygen because it oxidizes into water and carbon dioxide, Ending it's role in the carbon cycle. Anthropogenic warming theory leaves out water's role as the most prevalent greenhouse gas. Al Gore made that statement very early on in this conspiracy theory. It's in his "fictional movie." Water vapor is the only reason why any of us are alive today. Water vapor contains a specific amount of carbon dioxide from winter to summer, from greenhouse period to glacial period. Water absorbs carbon dioxide when it is cold, and it emits carbon dioxide when it is warm. It rises and falls with the amount of infrared radiation that is striking the earth's surface. Take the money out of the climate change conspiracy theory, and nobody will be talking about it anymore.

According to Park Maitland’s website, the school is run by Spring Education Group. Spring Education Group itself is owned by a Chinese-based investment group, Primavera Capital Group.

It is, approx, 0.04%. A ten second check on google gives the answer. Two hundred years ago it was around 0.02%. So the CO2 level is rising.

This should be shown to the world. They're advocating for someone they don't even understand.

We need to have protest like the unions do and run out these criminal criminal woke politicians!!!

The woman claims "... we know that transportation causes 49% of CO2..." which is also completely wrong. According to the EPA , "greenhouse gas emissions from transportation account for about 27% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions". It is embarrassing how ignorant those so-called "experts" are.

California used to have beautiful hi-ways that had drought tolerant oleanders in the center guards. The plants helped break headlight glare & CO2 conversion. We had trees & orchards & farms. Now we have bad roads, cement & dry dirt that contributes to higher temperatures.

Truth like this hurts when we here it

Putting this in perspective: Imagine asking the executive team at Ford how many cylinders there are in a V8 and they don't know.

Whenever someone pretends to not hear a clearly worded question, you know they’re in trouble.

Green does NOT refer to the environment, but rather the vast amount of money that is harvested by governments under the guise of having to save the planet.

I already knew politicians were stupid that's of no consequence to me. Neither is the percent. The question is, what's the consequence of such a percent and what is the cause and can anything be done about it? None of that was a part of this video. It's just rhetoric.

Germany has done the same thing- their diesel fleet was already the cleanest in Europe (possibly the world), but additional regulations forced the removal of vehicles that were already the cleanest in Europe to be replaced with new “greener” vehicles. Worse yet, those vehicles that were replaced were rendered inoperable so they could not be exported to other countries with old, less efficient fleets of diesel cars/trucks. No BS, I personally witnessed it.

Democrats and common sense don't mix.

0.05% of Blood Alcohol levels is likely to cause coma and respiratory failure, but it's ok to drink that crate of whisky, because it was expensive and farmer Doug tells you so.

"Maybe you'll bring generators." 😂😂😂

This is EXACTLY correct, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is pathetically small, plants are right on the edge of suffocation. If we put more CO2 in the atmosphere plant life would explode with vibrancy & then when the trees began to multiply the global temperature would become milder. They do NOT want more life on Earth, they want LESS.

The fraction of politicians that are actually highly educated and experienced in what they talk about is seemingly about the same as 0.04%.

This speaks volumes for exposing the scientifically derelict minds of politicians

The question is a red herring and the actual percentage of CO2 is kind of irrelevant for our purposes. A lot of people find this out and think that since it's "only 0.04%" it's nothing to worry about. Notice that he also says that "it's gone up from .03 over the last couple decades". THAT is the statement that should be riling people up in the comments! That is a 33.33% increase "over the last couple decades". That is the only relevant fact here, and the politicians being questioned are right to want to reduce it, even if they don't know the current level.

In addition to what he taught them, the human contribution to that is 1/100th (which is. 0004%!). This whole thing is MADNESS. People with their hearts in the right place, but whose ignorance on basic aspects of this is so badly exploited. Absolute MADNESS.

You know back when I was a kid, they used to teach us in school. To just plant some trees to offset the CO2 in the atmosphere. Plants and plants some grass... Why do we got to spend all this money to offset CO2?

no words…

My heart goes out to all those farmers. It's EVIL, what's being done to them! I pray we can help them sooner than later.

Doug LaMalfa is my Congressman. 20 years ago, I was asked by my city to be part of a team to go to the bay area to lean about the turf they planned to use in their sports complex. In less than one hour, I learned more than the entire city council from my home. They were voting to spend over one million dollars. It sadden me to think not one of them spent even an hour researching before voting to give away that kind of money.

The Fallacy of Small Numbers: just because a number is small does not necessarily mean that what it refers to has no impact. Impact and size are two different issues. Aside from that, I am shocked that these guys have no idea how much CO2 is in the atmosphere. It means they don't know the science on which their actions are supposedly based.

Always the same! Those in power know best.....One wonders why we have 'experts in their field of knowledge' when politicians make policies they know little about.

Doug LaMalfa -- living proof of the power of critical thinking, a rarity in today's world.

Frightening to see how ignorant these officials are.

.04 percent (or 4 parts out of 1000) Remembered it from my college days nice to see thirty years haven't changed it much

A very good debate at this moment and time to show what all the fuss is all about.

It's all about doing stuff that appears good on the surface with no concern for unintended consequences.