Duffy said that the impact of rocks falling into the ocean was causing “minuscule effects” when assessed on “human time scales.”
“Studies also show that those rocks are significantly brighter than you are, Congressman,” he added.
Stupid is as stupid does…
Back of the envelope says that the equivalent of the Rocky Mountains would have to had fallen into the sea…
“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,”
I wish these dudes got medical care scaled to their own levels of scientific literacy.
Only in Alabama.
So if you fell into the ocean, Mo, the sea level would rise, right?
“Number One, Make it so…”
Allow me to introduce Senator James Inhofe. He has a snowball.
The stupidity of these guys is absolutely staggeringly breathtaking.
The term fractally wrong comes to mind…
If only, unfortunately.
Causing the Red Sea to part, no doubt.
Yo Mo -
The “soil and rock” is what’s between your bleeping ears, methinks.
This guy is a geologist, right? Right?
Someone tell me he’s a geologist and he’s not just blowing smoke out his ass…
Hey, so what if the water temperature rises a few degrees. What’s the big deal… and don’t give me all that mumbo jumbo stuff.
Brooks should have been smart enough to keep his mouth shut. Brooks just has no business in an exchange concerning a science question with a real live working scientist. I am surprised the head of Woods Hole didn’t pat Mo on the top of the head like a first grader who misspells “soil.”
This guy studied earth science?
I guess I don’t seem to be 100% desensitized just yet… because I’m still stunned by the way those people are so proudly and so forcefully stupid.
There would be a lot of bloodletting and leeches for their bad humors
The Republican Party: the only major political party in the world that holds up stupidity and ignorance as a badge of honor.