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.

The ignorance of the so called experts is absolutely overwhelming.

OMG what a incompetence. And those people are making decisions? We are moving to "Idiocracy".

Can these people please resign immediately?

Rep. Doug LaMalfa exposed that Ship of Fools.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

If that isn't an eye opener then what is?? 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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

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?

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

❤ TRUTH is POWER ❤

The man did his homework, good job Rep.

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

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

Thank you

And by an extraordinary coincidence, 0.04% also happens to be the collective IQ of this panel.

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

True perspective on CO2 and the electric vehicle myths.

...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...

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

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

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

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.

Democrats and common sense don't mix.

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

No need to go electric, you can go amish.

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

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

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

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.

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

Frightening to see how ignorant these officials are.

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.

After following the climate change narrative for decades, and knowing human history, I am far more concerned for the freedom and rights of my children and grandchildren being taken from them in the name of climate change, than the actual effects of climate change.

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.

Wow, that seems so unlikely, but this is the world we are in. Asking that question in a social situation is a good way to kill any further social contact with that person. I've done it few times and it's "deer in the headlights" time. One guy went right to "oh, you are a denier". I've never been able to ask my next question - what does ECS mean and what is the value? Trick question, of course, I wouldn't expect any reasonable answer as there isn't one really.

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!

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?

Not knowing that is ridiculous

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%.

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.

That these people have a strong opinion about a subject which they obviously know nothing about is astonishing.

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.

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.

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.

How much does it matter if the % of CO2 in the atmosphere is a big or small number?... How much arsenic are you going to take? Even though the quantity is very small, that does not mean it is not lethal. I understand the man's disagreement, but it makes no sense that his argument is based on the fact that the % of CO2 in the atmosphere is small.

Fascinating

Why idiots like those allowed to make rules for the rest of the people? Why the people allowing this to happen?

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.

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.

Absolutely shocking!!!! How can these people be so ignorant?????😢😢😢

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.

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!

His point about how plant life starts dying at 0.02% CO² is the really critical number here, at that tipping point , the biosphere is unable to replenish carbon dioxide and plant life starts towards a death-spiral taking us with it because those plants are what produces the oxygen we breathe... 😒

This is why I still believe in American Democracy!

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…

The fact that we are only .02% away from reaching a point where there won't be enough CO2 for plants is perhaps the most alarming part of this. If anything, it sounds like we need more CO2 in order to make sure we keep a buffer to keep plants alive.

When I was a young lad learning my trade as a chemical engineer the back of my steam tables had the CO2 levels as 300ppm. Now, as a retired engineer, I'm told the levels have reached 400ppm and, if true, this is not good.

At last, the challenges begin.

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.

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.

The empty seats of our tax Paid politicians always make me ask. WHAT?

The only good thing about less reliance on oil is denying some Countries revenue.

Saying these people are qualified to make laws, is like saying a McDonald's employee is qualified to build a nuclear reactor.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Absolute madness

Amazing that Climate Experts can't answer this simple question.

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

Doug is a breath of fresh air for California. A sane person in an otherwise insane state.

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

They were laughing at him thinking he was asking a dumb question… lil did they know he knew what he was asking?

My cousin has a bumper sticker that says "Climate Change - The Religion of the Stupid".

Remember folks, the carbon they want to reduce is us.

Great question!

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.

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?

What could possibly go wrong....!

The Panel need to have a chat with Patrick Moore he is full of relevant information...

The climate crazies have become more annoying than vegans at a BBQ. The sky isn’t falling and even if it was there is nothing you could do about it anyway.

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

Finally someone who knows facts that have been around for decades.

This speaks volumes for exposing the scientifically derelict minds of politicians

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.

That’s mind boggling! These leaders had no idea how much CO2 was in our atmosphere. I’m 67 and I’ve known that since high school.