Two of my 11+8 kids gifted me your seminal book, “How to test negative for stupid…and why Washington never will”, for Father’s Day.

Calif dumps trillions of gallons of fresh to protect a tiny Delta Smelt. But this marine biologist proves it BS holding this 2 foot delta smelt caught above the state’s Banks pumps.
I read it cover to cover and love your common sense and Truth seeking throughout, Senator. You are spot on, sir and as a dad of 11 kids and their 8 spouses, 24 grandkids, your wisdom is sooo needed today.
What fascinates me remains how mama Gump we are about CO2, global warming and truth motivation re: environmental science. No one seemed to catch your glaring error while you caught numerous errors of commission, omission and deceit throughout your career. But, your second edition can add this bit in. You’ll find it on pgs 148-149, after Elvis’ lakeside bait stand and just before your excellent grilling of Dr. Pfaucinstein, affectionately call the Fauch, who’s scientific deceit cost the world billions and arguably, millions of unnecessary deaths.
Senator, the secret is to simplify and use words at 10th grade level or lower. Carbon dioxide, in the earth’s atmosphere, numbers only one CO2 molecule out of approximately 2500 total air molecules. Mathematically, 1/2500. Doesn’t seem that large?! Well your .4% the staff came up with is like saying a 10 mph breeze is no different than a 100mph category 1 or 2 hurricane.
Nitrogen, oxygen and argon are the big three, but without trace carbon dioxide, humanity ceases to exist on this 3rd rock from the sun. No Hollywood, no bulky swimmer wilLIAm Thomas bulging in a girl’s speedos, certainly no 250th. All of us, without this both critical and TRACE gas, would have no photosynthesis and no food to energize our well designed bodies, BOTH male and female.
This demonization of CO2 really needs to stop, IF we ever are to become smart scientists again; after all, we believe a few organs shaved off and we have boys2girls and girls2boys.Or better that men can become pregnant (only happened once in the UK when a fertilized embryo was surgically implanted in a man on the nutrient side of his stomach)
You lead in well with debunking “carbon neutral” asking Prez Biden’s energy DepSec Turk the unanticipated:
“How much will that actually lower global temperatures” Great question, Senator!
You wrote “He said he didn’t know“…great answer since no one really knows and i will bet Obama’s first honest dollar, $50 trillion would be just a start. What in the heavens is “carbon neutral?” anyways!! Carbon is the fourth most plentiful element in the universe and on earth:
Truth is, carbon is #2 element in the human body, comprising 18% of our mass and the backbone of all organic molecules like fats, proteins, carbs and that minor one deoxyribonucleic acid sometimes called DNA. It is a lover not an arson dumpster fire!

I created this faux Pulitzer Prize for David Daleiden’s Explanatory Reporting ignored by the Godless national media for his videos of planned parenthoodlums negotiating baby parts pricing over lunch. Sick bastards!
Actually, Carbon IS a VIP in our world, yet before “porque woman?” Jumanji Jackson Brown made the top 9, the Supreme Court called CO2 “pollution” in the 2007 Massachusetts V EPA: Finding that “manmade pollution—the release of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, methane, and other trace gases into the atmosphere—may be producing a long-term and substantial increase in the average temperature on Earth,” §1102 (1), 101 Stat. 1408.
Cute how they made a salad out of two natural gases and manufactured CFCs and jumped to the conclusion that 1) hotter temps are bad for the earth (farmers LOVE more arable land) and 2) their is a man made, androgenic causation that will melt the earth and its inhabitants.
What fools we have been, especially since carbon dioxide molecules are misapplied as “heat sinks” to disburse retained heat to the rest of the atmosphere. The Left doesn’t want the Truth, whether natural or divine, and will fight this reality: prove CO2 and man are inconsequential to earth’s destruction and this assumption debunked, means the whole house of greedy grant guzzlers and left loony but tenured Academiatics falls flat like a pancake.
Senator Kennedy, we both would agree your namesake (at least 2/3rds) JFK was a good that came out of Massa2chitts but not this pseudoscientific ruling. It occurred one day too late, April 2nd 2007, to be considered a sick April Fools joke how it bundled and BSed its way into the record. Speaking of record, whether called cow flatulence or natural gas, methane is …drum roll, low polluting Natural Gas, the greatest socalled ‘fossil fuel’. And what is wrong anyways with calling an energy source “fossil”. Look at sleepy Joe and the Mitch!
Do you see the lengths, thanks to corrupt, mental midget politicians and academics, countries are going to to waste billion$$ and do nothing in the name of Greta’s Law?
Do the AI thing about CO2 quantities and you get: “CO2 parts per million (ppm) is a measurement that indicates the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with current levels exceeding 421 ppm, the highest in at least 3 million years. This increase is primarily due to human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels”
This last sentence is simply lefty political pandering to push no more dinosaur juice refined into our automobiles. The line is tossed in like the House’s penchant to tag bills with BS riders,hoping no one will investigate. NOT this time.
You were too gentle (page 149) with Gus Schumacher, a Democrat (Democratic is a style of governance, Democrat is a party today so far left you don’t need a right turn signal). You wrote:
“Gus, a Democrat witness at a Budget Committee hearing who confidently told me that CO2 was “a HUGE PART OF OUR ATMOSPHERE”. Really! Mama said it: “stupid is as stupid does”. Loved your book title by the way. But, I must part company, just for the moment, in your book’s math challenged line:
Senator, your wrote: “It’s actually 0.4%, as I pointed out…” Sorry Senator!

Senator: the major atmospheric gases with CO2 coming in a distant fourth. Though our immense atmosphere has 3.3 trillion tons of CO2, the other gases total 2500 times that amount. CO2 is ONE (1) molecule in 2500 OTHER atmospheric molecules. (CO2 NOW .0421%)
Yes, it is a tiny amount, but NOPE! More like 0.04%. Full orders of magnitude less, good Senator! Accurate as calling a 100mph hurricane a 10 mph breeze
Math used to be a public school class in California, before transmutilation and F grade pronouns became mandatory; AND we gave $1/3 of a trillion to Calif Dept of Indoctrination to share with their fave left leaning teeches and NGOs. The results are abysmal but good enough apparently for “government work”. Senator you are MUCH better than this. AND your able staff
421 PPM is quoted above, though 3 million years ago I was not measuring trace gases; nor were you, Senator…sad part is those weak minded atheistic evolutionists desperately need billions of years to protect their primordial soup to trans into CroMagnon science fiction. Never happened, interspecies macro evolve. Although genetic mutation and selection does occur with every new birth. However, the idea that a man can become a woman by a breast reduction, better called transmutilation, is as foolish as believing a teen should demand his or her own pronouns. A teacher in the UK still in prison for refusing to do stupid and call a he a they or a she a them. Honestly, this is why homeschooling (all parents homeschool at birth) after age 3 is a great choice and lifestyle. Dewey’s as dead as his model for the 21st century.
Maybe, Comrade Mayor Dammandi could explain. Your number, Senator, translates for the math challenged into 4 ‘marbles’ per 1000 or 1/250 This should qualify CO2 as a trace gas but it is even LESS in the real world. Your staff just missed it or the Texas Int’l calculator they used was broken that day.
421 (some say 440ppm) is 421 marbles per MILLION or close to ONE CO2 molecule per 2500 (Argon, Nitrogen, Oxygen etc) air molecules.

Natural gas/methane is our friend. Clean burning, versatile except at Columbia, Harvard and the California Air Resource Board loons lounge
And what does the left do with this demonized molecule essential to human existence? They use CO2 as the patsy, as the reason to grant billion$ to the grant grabbers, university labs, NGOs, etc., who are steered to their preconceived NIH and Academy of Sciences idea that man MAKES enough carbon dioxide to melt our strategically placed earth. This would just be silly if it wasn’t so dangerous and expensive. Every dollar diverted from legitimate scientific research is another dollar wasted…time to fight to END this outrageous steering of scientific advancement away from the truth. East Anglia Emails come to mind, for example. Meanwhile, super low polluting Natural Gas is the victim of the tree hugging paper or plastic crowd who can’t make up their mind.
Androgenic global warming WAS the cry, decades ago…now people kneel to climate change, as if it is revolutionary. Think about it, Senator. The left and the ignorant bastardized the scientific method to garner and guzzle more government, meaning taxpayer dollars…any one even questioning the validity of the Gus lunacy was banned, demoted, ostracized and sent home grant less and peer shamed. But the contrarian facts are irrefutable.
Dr Valentina Zharpova, NOAA and NASA have issued proclamation that the Grand Solar Minimum, during this overlay of two solar cycles exhibiting scarce sunspots (simply LESS not more heat is coming from the sun) is prodding us into a real, not imagined planet wide global cooling cycle.
Why is this correction necessary? Think of the gentle tarantula in your home state. If you come onto one looking dead but alive and paralyzed, it is probably due to a comrade tarantula hawk attack. NOT a bird but a species of wasp that injects an anesthetic into the fierce looking tarantula, They are some of the largest parasitoid wasps, using their sting to paralyze their prey before dragging it into a brood nest as living food; a single egg is laid on the prey, hatching to a larva, which then eats the still-living host. Frankly, it sounds a lot like Comrade NYC Mayor Dammandi and his three Democrat Socialist muses,nicknamed Karl, Stalina and Lenin, injecting a paralyzing rehash of communism past into the body politic and eating us to death from the inside. Where is Rudy when you need a good NYC mayor of law and order.
Senator, you have an excellent and capable staff. Tell me I am full of California homeless refuse, and I will leave this alone. But, let me help: here’s a script for the next time some biased brain challenged leftist wonker says, in a hearing, that the “earth is melting BECAUSE of CO2, the man made kind using Gus Schumacher as the floor model.
Do we both wonder is Gus related to Lex Luthor’s femme fatale Mrs Schumacher? At least, she had looks to go with her apparent lower intelligence; can’t say that about the Lemmings lead by Gus.
I’d be happy to dust off my science fair model, five beakers of marbles simulating the atmospheric concentrations of the major gases suitable demo for kindergarten and up, and fly to Norleans or DC when you tackle global warming, androgenic climate change or the song “When a man becomes a woman”. OK the Yankovic version.
Script for a future hearing~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Senator JK “Gus, it is good to see you again; how much carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere now, sir?”
Gus Schumacher: “Senator Kennedy, CO2 is still a huge part of our atmosphere!”
SenJK: “TY Gus. Per chance, does “Huge” have a numerical partner this time? Between say 1 and googleplex? So we can compare”
Gus: “Not sure. Last time, I was coached to say huge; but I think it is at least 20% because the world is burning up. Heck, it was in the 90s the other day. Haven’t you ever heard of Greta?”
SenJK “You mean Greta the Great? And yes, we scientifically call this time of year ‘Summer’; you can take your sweater off Gus. Anyways, sir, your party believes you are a climate change expert. I have consulted many and it seems the air around us has only a tiny amount of carbon dioxide in comparison to the other atmospheric gases, and even less, the results of anti-Karl Marx production methods and means. That is why it is called a “trace” gas!”
Gus: “So, my 20% expert guess is a little off then, in your opinion?”
SenJK: “A bit. In reality, only one molecule of Carbon Dioxide floats around the atmosphere next to 2500 other air molecules. The actual measurement is 421 PPM, up from 400 PPM a few years ago. Some say 440ppm but still teeny. Getting out my slide rule, that is about .00421 % of the earth’s atmosphere. Does that make sense to you?”
Gus: “there is no way it is that small amount. We are spending billion$ to counteract the coming apocryphal end of earth. Why would we spend so much if the threat is not existential!”
SenJK: Because the con is on, and on big. You and your comrades like the word ‘existential’. Well, the last time we talked, I actually gave you a much higher count of CO2 by a factor of a hundred. Believe it or not, Gus, I admit when I am wrong. You remember?”
Gus: “I do, I have a photographic memory. You said 0.4 % which is insane. Are you suggesting we smart progressive left Democrats cook the books so more NGOs get money to study stupid and not do real science?”
SenJK Your words are your own. I’ll hold off on that thought. Does your keen mind also remember I told you that the atmosphere contains about 3.364 TRILLION tons of CO2? How can there be so much and yet still be a trace gas?
Also, did you know, in the sanity-challenged state of California, environmental prostiticians, like the omnipotent unelected Calif Air Resource Board, actually charge private sector companies for air they don’t own, penalize others for breathing it but allow poisonous carbon credit swapping; they could teach a lesson or two to Corrupt Inc. Somali Day Care and Al Gore’s snake oil biz don’t hold a candle to this scam: people and companies agreeing to pay for free air NOT pumped from coin operated gas station tire refillers.
How, with a straight face, can a diesel particulate hating Mary Nichols of CARB call CO2 poisonous pollution and yet ALLOW for a bribe err fee to share it with others. CO2 is NOT poison; try sharing Zyklon B and see what happens. That’s the stuff that saved the NAZIs Uboat loads of Marks when aerosolized at Oswicim, Poland, often called Auschwitz. 6 million Jews experienced that joyful surprise 80 years ago. After their hair and gold teeth were extracted (Gus, you’ve seen Monuments Men?), their bodies were incinerated. I know, sounds a lot like that planned parenthood hired baby disposal company Veolias truck hauling out red bucket medical waste and white bucket dead prebirth babies Wednesday morns at 7am. Veolia incinerates kids no longer signing up for PreK or 1st grade. Some guy in Orange, CA claims this is real. Sorry Gus! You’d think governments would stick to taxing real things not the air we breathe. Not in Gov Jen Seibel and her adulterous Gavin state of depression and corruption.”
Senator, there are NO greenhouse panels lining the upper strato or troposphere, just gibberish from left loons of distinction. But the impotent news media is clueless, focused more on being talking heads instead of truth tellers.
Senator you always will come across as scientifically savvy but not pushy, humble but smart. God bless your work. But, correcting the record is an opening for changing the billions wasted on pseudscience, diverted from our pocketbooks, honest research or both.
One minor request. We Reps need to call them as they were founded. They are Democrats certainly NOT Democratic and the new party of 1984, the Democratic Socialists of America are euthanizing the old Dem guard. THEY are a separate third party, playing the tarantula hawk card.
Point is, as the good Senator pointed out, the party of the KKK, Jim Crow, 3/5ths, anti desegregation was not Lincoln’s but David Duke and FDR’s founded in 1854
But out of fairness, I have written the $1776 check to do my reparative part to help any slave who walked off a Southern plantation in the last 160 years; just need first and last name. No in-ground grandmothers who now vote Democrat count. A living breathing slave with hands worn out from picked cotton balls only qualify. Thank you, Senator for your wisdom.
Greta’s Law: “No truth is necessary to become a climate queen; just a microphone and phonies who follow the fool.” Look at me!
If you invite me, Senator, I will bring enough $2 for my decades old challenge: “how many CO2 molecules in this air sample i took from your office; I counted 2500 molecules. The closest to the correct answer wins the $2 bill, the only fed currency with an important picture on the reverse. And they guess Senator rarely correct or even close, experiencing the “aha!”
Happy 250th, my good Senator. Maybe you can unseat that Maryland resident with a Burbank 1 bdrm condo, Eve’s Adam Schiff. Certainly upstage him.
Comments welcome!
Len Beckman Dad of 11, with their 8 spouses and 24 grandkids; one is named John. 40 years homeschooling, not settling for sour milk theories but always seeking the truth.