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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPierce: Is the Human Race Too Dumb to Survive on This Planet?
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a20735339/climate-change-republicans-house-science-committee/Is the Human Race Too Dumb to Survive on This Planet?
A visit with the Republicans on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
MAY 17, 2018
...Anyway, ol Mo is a member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee and, on Wednesday, the committee held a hearing on the use of advanced technology to combat the climate crisis.
If you now hear the rising roar of an onrushing train of Stupid, youre not imagining it. Get off the tracks immediately!
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) said he was bothered that established climate science has not been questioned more by the committee, which has accused federal climate scientists of fraudulently manipulating climate data and subpoenaed their records. "I'm a little bit disturbed by, No. 1, over and over again, I hear, 'Don't ever talk about whether mankind is the main cause of the temperature changing and the climate changing,'" he said. "That's a little disturbing to hear constantly beaten into our heads in a Science Committee meeting, when basically we should all be open to different points of view."
Look! There on the back of the caboose. Its good ol Mo Brooks!
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) questioned Duffy on the factors that contribute to sea-level rise, pointing out that land subsidence plays a role, as well as human activity. Brooks then said that erosion plays a significant role in sea-level rise, which is not an idea embraced by mainstream climate researchers. He said the California coastline and the White Cliffs of Dover tumble into the sea every year, and that contributes to sea-level rise. He also said that silt washing into the ocean from the world's major rivers, including the Mississippi, the Amazon and the Nile, is contributing to sea-level rise. "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.
Swear to God, we deserve to have the bees take over and right soon, too.
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Pierce: Is the Human Race Too Dumb to Survive on This Planet? (Original Post)
mcar
May 2018
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spanone
(135,831 posts)1. i wonder daily....
KT2000
(20,577 posts)2. Simply - yes.
mcar
(42,309 posts)3. I fear you are correct
FuzzyRabbit
(1,967 posts)4. We're probably too dumb to survive on any planet.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)5. I know at least 42% of voting Americans are.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)6. No doubt...
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)8. Yes. Yes, I think we are.
At least a good 40% of us are anyway. All of them are republicans.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)9. Damn, where are the human eating dinasaurs when you need them? nt
Exotica
(1,461 posts)10. If this was limited to the US proper, yes, but thankfully it is not, we shall overcome
We dont deserve this planet for its remaining 500 million to 1 billion years it has left for habitability.
TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)12. Too dumb and too selfish
unfortunately.
Oneironaut
(5,494 posts)13. Surprised we're still around, to be honest.
I think its by pure luck we havent had a global nuclear war yet.