Mo Brooks is just a plain - spoken man from Alabama with some theory on mood alteration . fortunately , because everything is unspeakable , he ’s a congresswoman and sits on the House Science , Space , and Technology Committee so he has a platform to float some of his entirely groundless thought like , for instance , ocean levels are rising because rock keep falling in the sea .
With climate scientist Philip Duffy on hand to testify before the committee , perE&E News , Rep. Brooks unleashed a doozy of a theory that posited eating away , the gradual diminution of land the great unwashed , could be rising the sea level and , in turn , sea levels .
Republican Mo Brooks tries to take that rocks and grime cotton on into the sea are the real reason for rising sea levels . mood modification expert Philip Duffy instantly shoots that blemished theory down.pic.twitter.com/cqIwK2XZAH
— Adam Best ( @adamcbest)May 17 , 2018
As illustration to foreground his theory , the representative from Alabama charge to rocky shorelines across the California coast and the White Cliffs of Dover along the English Channel that break off and twig into the water every twelvemonth . “ All of that displaces water which forces it to rise , does it not ? ” Brooks ask . He also suggested that silt from rivers include the Mississippi , Amazon , and Nile could be contributing to the change levels of the seas .
“ Every time you have that soil or rock or whatever it is that is deposited into the seas , that forces the ocean level to rise , because now you have less space in those oceans , because the bottom is moving up , ” Brooks said .
Duffy , the President of the United States of the Woods Hole Research Center and a former senior consultant on the US Global Change Research Program , calmly dismiss the notion . “ I ’m reasonably certain that on human metre scurf , those are minuscule force , ” he say .
AsE&E tidings points out , Brooks ’ concept about wearing away is “ not an musical theme embraced by mainstream clime researchers . ” There are anumberofstudiesthat have been done in late age on the connection between rise ocean levels and coastal eroding , but they all seem to advise the former causes the latter , not the other manner around .
Brooks and other Republicans on the committee spent the majority of the session crusade back on Duffy and established clime science , which is fairly much par for the course at this point . The Environmental Protection Agency under the Trump governance has basically done everything it can to wipe by any trace of acknowledgment that climate variety is real , includingremoving its sitededicated to the issue .
Meanwhile , the terra firma does not seem to give a shit about the administration ’s denialism . Last calendar month was the third - hot April on record globally , per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , and scientists reported in the first place this class that they havedetected an accelerationin the rise of sea levels . Must just be all those descend rocks .
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