On Wednesday, Earth Day, members of the U.S. House were discussing climate change. Lunatic fringe Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, from Minnesota's 6th, said that atmospheric carbon couldn't possibly be bad for us, since it comes from "nature".

Carbon dioxide, Mister Speaker, is a natural byproduct of nature. Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on planet Earth can’t even exist without carbon dioxide. So necessary is it to human life, to animal life, to plant life, to the oceans, to the vegetation that’s on the Earth, to the, to the fowl that — that flies in the air, we need to have carbon dioxide as part of the fundamental lifecycle of Earth.

Thankfully, our own Congressman Earl Blumenauer was available to state the obvious. Along the way, he took "the gentlelady from Minnesota" to task for "making things up on the floor of the House." Check it out:

There's more over at Think Progress, including a transcript.