REPUBLICAN MO BROOKS OF ALABAMA
ATTENDED A HEARING OF THE HOUSE SCIENCE SPACE AND TECHNOLOGY
COMMITTEE ON WEDNESDAY AND HE HAD SOMEHOW TAKES ON WHY SEA
LEVELS ARE RISING.
HE WAS ASKING PHIL DUFFY WHO BRIEFLY RESPONDED WITH I'M
PRETTY SURE ON A HUMAN TIMESCALE THOSE ARE MINUSCULE AFFECTS.
BEFORE I TALKED TO THE PANEL I WANT TO MAKE US ALL LITTLE BIT
SMALL MARTYR BECAUSE HE GOT DUMBER FROM HEARING THAT WITH
SOME FACTS ON GLOBAL WARMING AND RISING LEVELS.
THIS IS COMING
FROM THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION.
SO I AM JUST GOING TO
TOSS OVER TO YOU GUYS.
HOW DO YOU FEEL
WHEN YOU HEAR SUCH MISINFORMATION COMING FROM
THE HOUSE SCIENCE SPACE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE.
IT'S HILARIOUS.
ACTUALLY WATCHED PART OF THAT TAPE AND WE
TOUCH ON THIS ISSUE EARLIER IN THE DAY ON DAMAGE REPORT WHICH
YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT ON YOUTUBE TV STARRING JOHN IADAROLA AND IN
THE VIDEO, MO BROOKS IS LIKE, THE ROCKS TO FALL IN THE WATER
OR WHATEVER IT IS.
WELL, YOU ARE THE CONGRESSMAN ON THE
TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE, SO YOU SHOULD KINDA FIGURE OUT WHAT IT
IS BEFORE YOU ASK THE ACTUAL SCIENTISTS BECAUSE THEN PHIL
DUFFY WAS LIKE NO, THAT IS NOT REALLY HOW IT WORKS AND THEN MO
BROOKS WENT ON TO SAY, WELL, THE ENTIRE I SHE IS GROWING IS
IN ITS?
AND DUFFY WAS LIKE NO IT IS NOT.
IN FACT, THE ICE SHEET HAS SHRUNK
BY 1463 KM IN JUST SIX YEARS BETWEEN 2010 AND 2016 SO HE IS
WRONG ON EVERY COUNT.
WHAT AMAZES ME IS LOOK, I KNOW THAT
YOU ARE WORKING FOR THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY, THAT IS YOUR
DONORS AND YOU ARE TRYING TO SPREAD MISINFORMATION, BUT THAT
YOU DIDN'T BOTHER TO BE ARTFUL ABOUT IT, THAT YOUR STAFF
DIDN'T PREPARE YOU WITH A BETTER EXCUSE THAN ROCKS ARE
FALLING IN THE WORLD WATER, ISN'T IT?
THEY'RE JUST NOT EVEN TRYING.
I DO NOT KNOW IF THIS IS INDICATIVE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING
TO REPUBLICANS OVER ALL, BUT I HAVE LATELY SEEN SOME CHANGES IN
THEIR PERCEPTION IN REGARD TO CLIMATE CHANGE WHICH GIVES ME
HOPE BECAUSE HERE IS WITH THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS.
EVERYONE
REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL AFFILIATION SINCE OUR POT.
REPUBLICANS ARE JUST AS ANGRY AS THE LEFT-WING IS WHEN IT COMES
TO THIS ISSUE.
THEY ALSO HAVE EYES AND EARS AND THEY CAN SEE
WHAT IS HAPPENING AND SO THEY ARE EXPERIENCING THE EXTREME
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
THEY ARE SEEING THE GLACIERS MELTING AND
RECEDING SO I WILL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE.
RECENTLY I WENT TO
ALASKA AND I WAS SURROUNDED BY TRUMP SUPPORTERS.
I WENT ON A CRUISE.
I AM ALL RIGHT, I SURVIVED IT.
FOR THE MOST PART SOME
SUPPORTERS ON OUR SHIP AND WE RUNS WORSE WITH THEM ONCE WE
FINALLY GOT TO ALASKA SO WE WENT TO THE MENDENHALL GLACIER IN
JUNEAU, ALASKA AND IT WAS FASCINATING TO HEAR THESE TRUMP
SUPPORTERS TALK ABOUT HOW KIND OF SHY AND SHEEPISHLY ABOUT HOW,
I DON'T MEAN TO BE POLITICAL, BUT THIS SEEMS TO BE HAPPENING,
THIS MENDENHALL GLACIER HAS BEEN RECEDING CONSIDERABLY, THEY CAN
SEE WITH THEIR EYES.
THEY ARE AFRAID TO TALK ABOUT IT BECAUSE
IT IS SUCH A TABOO IN THEIR PARTY AT THE MOMENT BUT THEY DO
SEE IT, ANOTHER EXAMPLE IS GLACIER BAY WHICH IF YOU EVER