Politician wants to alter the moon’s orbit to fight Climate Change
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? A US congressman wants to know if we can change the orbit of the Moon to ‘fight climate change’….
In a recent webcam Congressional hearing, Texas Representative Louie Gohmert asked an associate deputy chief of the Forest Service if her agency could alter the moon’s orbit to address climate change.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, suggested at a congressional hearing that climate change could be combatted by altering the orbit of the moon and asked a U.S. Forest Service official whether there was any way the agency could do it.
Gohmert made the comments Tuesday during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on four bills as he was questioning Jennifer Eberlien, an associate deputy chief of the Forest Service.
“I understand, from what’s been testified to the Forest Service and the BLM, you want very much to work on the issue of climate change,” Gohmert said, referring to the Bureau of Land Management.
“I was informed by the immediate past director of NASA that they’ve found that the moon’s orbit is changing slightly and so is the Earth’s orbit around the sun. We know there’s been significant solar flare activity,” he said. “And so, is there anything that the National Forest Service or BLM can do to change the course of the moon’s orbit or the Earth’s orbit around the sun? Obviously, that would have profound effects on our climate.“
Eberlien responded, smiling, “I would have to follow up with you on that one, Mr. Gohmert.“
“If you figure out there’s a way in the Forest Service you could make that change, I’d like to know,” Gohmert said.
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., offered his own solution to Gohmert on Twitter on Wednesday, suggesting that Marvel Comics’ character Captain Marvel could handle the job.
“She can alter planetary orbits with her superpowers. I’m going to work on a bipartisan resolution asking for her help,“ Lieu tweeted.
As for the “immediate past director of NASA” Gohmert referred to in his remarks, that would probably be Jim Bridenstine, a former member of Congress from Oklahoma who had been a climate change skeptic, who argued years ago that humans aren’t responsible for global warming.
“Global temperature changes, when they exist, correlate with sun output and ocean cycles,” he said in remarks on the House floor in 2013.
He said that position had evolved by 2017, when then-President Donald Trump nominated him to be NASA’s administrator. Bridenstine told The Washington Post that after having heard from experts and reading up on the topic, “I came to the conclusion myself that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that we’ve put a lot of it into the atmosphere and therefore we have contributed to the global warming that we’ve seen.“
“And we’ve done it in really significant ways,” he said.
Bridenstine could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
Gohmert, an outspoken opponent of Democrats’ plans to combat climate change, has said he does not believe it is a manmade problem.
“We can’t do anything substantive about the climate change right now, when the moon’s orbit is apparently changing some, the Earth’s orbit is changing some, according to NASA,” he told Fox Business Network last month.
In a statement to NBC News, the space agency said orbits aren’t to blame for the current rate of global warming.
“Past climatic changes driven by small variations in Earth’s position relative to the Sun, known as orbital or Milankovitch cycles, take place over tens of thousands of years,” the agency said Thursday. “These orbital cycles are not producing the changes we observe in our satellite and surface climate records, including rapid warming and CO2 levels that are unprecedented for millions of years.” It added, “scientific evidence shows that human emissions of greenhouse gases, primarily through burning fossil fuels and land use, are driving climate change now.“
“Understanding that greenhouse gas emissions are overwhelmingly responsible for the observed warming allows the scientific community to inform policymakers about how decisions regarding energy sources and land management will determine the amount of future climate change,” the statement said.
The agency’s website says “the current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over millennia.“
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Alan
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We now have proof that Eistein was right when he said that three forces rule the world – stupidity, fear and greed.
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Andy
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Yes I think you are right there!!
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GERARD MENY
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I knew the legendary humor of Wichita, Kansas but where does this guy come from? If he makes little ones I want one
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Gérard Mény
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this is the best way to take it on the head and definitely avoid changes in sea levels.
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Herb Rose
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When these politicians were growing up they must have been told that they were as dumb as a stick, but they still think they are qualified to make decisions for everyone else. The problem is with the political parties that want these mindless idiots (Biden) in office so they can control them.
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Cris
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Why don’t they all go into space and try to figure it out by themselves, so we can actually repair and protect the communities and traditional agriculture from such illustrious minds.
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Barry
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That’s a great idea Chris maybe when they are out there they could get out and just give the moon a little shove.
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itsme
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Must have some rest, read so much these last few months
when i came to…
‘And so, is there anything that the National Forest Service or BLM can do to change the course of the moon’s orbit or the Earth’s orbit around the sun? ‘
i thought what had black lives matter got to do with this? :-+
mind you, things are so crazy today, you might as well throw them into the equation.
obvioulsy means – ‘Bureau of Land Management’
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