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A member of Congress has suggested that the White Cliffs of Dover tumbling into the English Channel was causing rising sea levels.
Republican Mo Brooks of Alabama pushed back at the notion that rising sea levels were the result of global warming in a hearing of the House Science, Space and Technology on Wednesday.
Instead, Brooks pointed to silt deposition as well as erosion as a cause of rising sea levels. Questioning scientist Phil Duffy of the Woods Hole Research Center, Brooks postulated that silt and mud washed by rivers into the ocean caused water levels to rise as it settled on the sea floor. “Now you have got less space in those oceans because the bottom is moving up,” he said.
He went on: “What about the White Cliffs of Dover … [and] California, where you have the waves crashing against the shorelines, and time and time again you have the cliffs crashing into the sea? All of that displaces water which forces it to rise, does it not?”
This simpleton really blaming rocks for rising sea levels...These are the people running our country.....
Believe lawyers over scientist brehs
Future looking bleak brehs
Republican congressman explains sea-level rise: it's rocks falling into the sea