The most disturbing part of this video is watching his moronic audience of trained seals clapping and laughing in agreement

No, Bill, the “experiment” you’re thinking of would involve closing yourself in your garage for an hour with a bouquet of daisies; let us know how that works out, if you survive

Bill Maher: “Doug Burgum, he’s the interior secretary. Listen to this… He said, CO2, carbon, was never a pollutant. He said when we breathe, we emit CO2.”
⁰“Okay, Doug, you know what? Let’s try this little experiment. Um, tonight when you get home, go in the garage, close the… pic.twitter.com/DyG8wK4hR7

— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) February 14, 2026

John Hinderaker, PowerLine

Check out this riff by Bill Maher. It is so stupid that at first I thought it must be an AI-generated fake. But apparently not:

Amazing. Apparently Maher skipped that part of junior high school. Don’t they teach kids about photosynthesis anymore? And doesn’t he have writers? Does no one on his staff know the difference between CO and CO2?

It is dangerous to have voters who are so ignorant, and worse yet when people who know nothing are taken seriously as thinkers.

Doug Burgum, by the way, is an exceptionally bright guy–unlike Bill Maher–and an expert on energy.