Last week, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology met to discuss climate change.

Alabama Republican Congressman Mo Brooks is shockingly on that committeee although I have serious doubts that he has any damn idea what the hell they’re talking about.

But Mo has an idea about what causing the oceans to rise.  It’s not the melting of the ice caps.  No, sireee, those ice caps are probably just hiding below the surface. It’s rocks.

Rocks, and silt and stuff are causing the oceans to rise.  I’ll let Mo explain because I seriously doubt I can.

“Every single year that we’re on Earth, you have huge tons of silt deposited by the Mississippi River, by the Amazon River, by the Nile, by every major river system — and for that matter, creek, all the way down to the smallest systems,” Brooks said. “And every time you have that soil or rock whatever it is that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise. Because now you’ve got less space in those oceans because the bottom is moving up.”

No. That’s not right. Vanna, tell him what he wins for the consolation prize.

” … it would take the equivalent of the top five inches of land from the entire surface area of the United States to cause the oceans to rise the 3.3 millimeters a year currently seen. And those five inches would have to fall into the oceans every year to explain the current rate at which they are rising.”

I would say, nice try Mo, but he really needs to just shuddup.

Thanks to Larry for the heads up.