Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks loses to science in a landslide (Archibald/al.com)

[eppur_se_muova]

Updated May 18; Posted May 18
By John Archibald
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What really doesn't make sense, though, is Huntsville. Huntsville is one of the most science-smart places in America, but it keeps electing this guy to Congress despite all the bilge he pumps out. If JD Power gave an award for the nation's biggest puzzler, that one would win.

Brooks - in case you've been under a falling pile of rocks and missed it -- said in a House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing Thursday that ocean levels are rising across the globe because of rocks tumbling into the sea.
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It would have been comical if it had come from a middle school science fair, but it didn't. It came from a guy on a committee making decisions for the most powerful country on earth about the future of the planet.

Brooks made his comments while questioning climate scientist Philip Duffy, who had pointed out that seas across the world are rising four times faster than they did a century ago. Instead of dealing with the ways to protect the future, to consider the possibility climate scientists know what they are talking about, he just threw rocks.

"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," he said.
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more: https://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/05/alabama_congressman_mo_brooks.html




As someone who grew up in H'ville, I've never been able to understand how "Rocket City, USA" could ever elect an incompetent clown like Brooks. If he worked for one of our local engineering firms, he'd be getting people killed every day.

[greenman3610]

1. some of the worst climate deniers are engineers

über deniers Roy Spencer and John Christie are based in Huntsville..
suspect it's a fundy xtian thing

[House of Roberts]

2. I could easily explain why he's District Five Rep in a book-length post.

But the short version is Parker Griffith.

Underwater seismic activity easily would cause more water displacement than falling rocks, sheesh!

I was born here in Huntsville, and graduated from Grissom High, Class of '74. When were you here, if you don't mind telling?

[eppur_se_muova]

3. From early 60's (infancy) to '74, then moved back to the area a few years ago.

I never made it to Grissom before we moved, but that would have been my high school (class of '77) if we hadn't.