Posted on 05/18/2018 6:50:03 AM PDT by Ennis85
A Republican lawmaker on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee said Thursday that rocks from the White Cliffs of Dover and the California coastline, as well as silt from rivers tumbling into the ocean, are contributing to high sea levels globally.
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) made the comment during a hearing on technology and the changing climate, which largely turned into a Q&A on the basics of climate research.
Climate scientist Philip Duffy testified before the panel, addressing lawmakers’ questions about climate change, according to E&E News. "The rate of global sea-level rise has accelerated and is now four times faster than it was 100 years ago," Duffy told the panel.
Brooks said that erosion played a factor in that.
"Every time you have that soil or rock or whatever it is that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise, because now you have less space in those oceans, because the bottom is moving up," Brooks said at the hearing.
"I'm pretty sure that on human time scales, those are minuscule effects,” responded Duffy, president of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts and a former senior adviser to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, responded.
The committee, led by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), in recent years subpoenaed climate scientists in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for documents related to climate research, accusing the agency of pushing a “political study” that concluded there has not been a 15-year pause in global warming.
NOAA scientists determined Thursday that April was the 400th consecutive month with higher-than-average temperatures, a result of global warming.
“To solve climate change challenges, we first need to acknowledge the uncertainties that exist," Smith said in his opening remarks. "Then we can have confidence that innovations and technology will enable
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News flash. Seas not rising. Even going into the same body of water for the past 45 years. Super high tide line has remained the same. Fake News.
The representative is our version of Maxine Waters or Nancy Pelosi.
I didn’t see anything in the article about blaming Trump or Bush for soil erosion. Wait for it..........
rwood
The stupidity leaves me speechless.
MEA CULPA .... My childhood habit of throwing stones into the ocean contributed to the scary rise in ocean levels. ;-)
Wait for it..........
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Trump’s fault!
Move over Hank Johnson (Guam tipping over) there’s a new kid in town.
Wait just a minute. It may be the case that if the tipping island has a big mountain, it would displace more water upside down than rightside up. So, Hank has a good point to make here.
As long as Guam doesn’t tip over, I’m okay with this.
Hank Johnson: Guam might tip over.
Mo Brooks: Hold muh beer.
It’s not rocks is all the rivers draining into the ocean
Gee, I hope a lot of sunbathing sea lions don’t all jump in the water at once. It could wipe out a coast line somewhere...
Oh yeah?! What’s gonna happen with all that lava flowing into the pacific in Hawaii? I’m drowning here.
It's the rain.
Not to mention all of those swimmers peeing in the ocean. And the fish poop. Don’t discount the fish poop.
Archimedes would approve.
If anything would cause global warming it would be the constant hot air emitted from Washington like volcanic gasses.
No stupider than the global warming cultists ...
Brooks said "soil or rock".
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