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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on June 13, 2021, 04:57:04 pm
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Texas Republican asks: Can we fix the moon’s orbit to fight climate change?
“I’d have to follow up with you on that one,” says forestry official Jennifer Eberlien to bizarre question from Louie Gohmert.
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The Texas Republican congressman Louie Gohmert has asked a senior U.S. government official if changing the moon’s orbit around the Earth, or the Earth’s orbit around the sun, might be a solution for climate change.
Bizarrely, the question was not posed to anyone from NASA or even the Pentagon. Instead it was asked of a senior forestry service official during a House natural resources committee hearing on Tuesday.
Speaking with Jennifer Eberlien, associate deputy chief of the U.S. Forest Service, Gohmert asked if it was possible to alter the orbits of the moon, or the Earth, as a way of combating climate change.
https://grist.org/politics/texas-republican-asks-can-we-fix-the-moons-orbit-to-fight-climate-change/
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On the surface it would seem a bit unusual. But, no more unusual than the Bill Gates suggestion of seeding the sky with some kind of particles so as to cool the effect of the sun. No one seemed too unglued about that and Eberlien may have been one of those who didn't seem too disturbed by the suggestion. My guess is Gohmert was testing her to see what kind of lunatic suggestions she would accept as plausible "science".
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"Texas Republican asks: Can we fix the moon’s orbit to fight climate change?"
Heh.
Give this guy the 2021 "Hank Johnson award" for imaginative thinking...