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05-19-2018, 05:50 AM
Congressman thinks the seas are rising because of rocks. He's wrong.
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And this week, a Republican congressman presented quite a doozy of an explanation.
GOP Representative Mo Brooks, who represents Alabama's 5th district, was questioning Philip Duffy (https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/republican-lawmaker-rocks-tumbling-ocean-causing-sea-level-rise), president of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts during a House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing this week when he wondered if observed changes in sea levels was somehow caused by rocks and eroding soil and not human-caused climate change.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/05/18/mo-brooks-sea-level-climate-change/)
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And this week, a Republican congressman presented quite a doozy of an explanation.
GOP Representative Mo Brooks, who represents Alabama's 5th district, was questioning Philip Duffy (https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/republican-lawmaker-rocks-tumbling-ocean-causing-sea-level-rise), president of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts during a House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing this week when he wondered if observed changes in sea levels was somehow caused by rocks and eroding soil and not human-caused climate change.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/05/18/mo-brooks-sea-level-climate-change/)
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