Asking U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner to Act on Climate Change

Here’s a petition to ask (U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives, right-wing climate science denier) John Boehner to: “Act on Climate Change!” I often sign things like this, but this one’s a bit like asking Hitler to support the Anti-Defamation League; it’s not going to happen.

As I wrote back in 2010:

John Boehner, soon-to-be Speaker of the House, told a crowd recently: “The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, when they do what they do, we’ve got more carbon dioxide.”

I get that there are people who don’t know the difference between carbon dioxide and methane, or what a carcinogen is, and I’m completely fine with that; ignorance in the general population, the result of a failing school system, “is what it is.” But when stuff like this comes out of the mouth of one of the most powerful lawmakers on Earth, I’m not at all OK with that. We need to do a better job in electing people who have a basic command of the core issues that affect our survival.