Republican lawmaker: Rocks tumbling into ocean causing sea level rise - Polidicks

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/republican-lawmaker-rocks-tumbling-ocean-causing-sea-level-rise http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/388161-gop-lawmaker-says-rocks-falling-into-the-ocean-is-causing-higher 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. Bonus: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/17/heres-how-big-a-rock-youd-have-to-drop-into-the-ocean-to-see-the-rise-in-sea-level-happening-now/?utm_term=.91f9e0617a5b

Only rocks that seem to be tumbling are the ones rolling around in his head

Gotta be one big ass rock mate...

Even if those ocean level raising rocks were real, they'd still be less dense than this man.

I’ve not seen such genius from the GOP since “CO2 feeds plants, and we breathe plant gas, so all this excess CO2 in the atmosphere is actually helping us breathe!”

Unbelievable that this filth is even on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. Fuck all these pieces of shit who go against the will of the people.

Lmao if rocks were doing this we'd be on an ocean planet like, since forever ago

You'd think you'd go with all the ships and other shit we build and put in there before you go with rocks. But even then none of that stuff significantly raises the sea level. I think I heard all the stuff we put in the water barely raised it a few millimeters.

See, claiming it's rocks is supposed to imply that it is just nature taking it's course and as such that everything is "fine". Anything else hints that there may be a problem and it """"""""""""""""""may"""""""""""""""""" be the fault of humans.

You'd need an object with the mass of a mountain to even raise the levels to a noticeable degree.

Reminds me of a thing one of my elementary school teachers blurted out during an excursion to the Adriatic. A bunch of classmates were skipping stones on a rocky beach and when the teacher noticed they walked over to them and yelled "YOU FOOLS, DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF EVERY HUMAN SKIPPED A STONE INTO THE WATER" Best part is that right after the group(all of us were younger teens then) just rolled their eyes and said "Uhh yeah it'd wash it back out duh"

Maybe, but what you really mean is the volume of a mountain

If you dropped the entirety of Everest into the ocean, you'd barely see a few centimeters across the whole planet, if that.

GOP purposely stacks the dumbest of their party onto the committee to sabotage it, and have been doing this for years

Hmm, maybe it's caused by rocks... Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance Looks like they have reached stage 3. We are getting there. Whoo!

My god, we must be losing entire continents by the day at that rate, this is a real crisis.

this might be the single most stupid, unironic statement i've read in a long time and that's saying something given the last year

i mean technically it is true that erosion causes the sea level to rise. it's just kinda like saying atmospheric escape is why the ozone is being depleted.

It's also technically true that congressional republicans are depleting the atmosphere of precious oxygen. There's no need to dip toes in apologetics for these people. They're not doing anyone any favors by using their station to muddy the waters. They're intentionally sowing confusion to discredit academia and protect their paymasters. They're doing the public a disservice.

Shouldn't it be both? An object with the volume of a mountain alone would cause it to float at or near the surface. Having a large mass would mean it would having more matter packed within. Thus weighting more and causing it to sink rather that float. Putting a beach ball in your bathtub will have little effect on the water level as compared to a bowling ball for instance.

An object floats because it displaces an amount of water equal to or greater then its own weight. So the beach ball floating in your bath tub IS causing the water level to rise, just not by a noticable amount because the weight of the beach ball (i.e. the downwards force applied by gravity causing things to sink) is so small that it doesn't need to displace much water in order to float. For example, when icebergs melt it doesnt cause sea levels to rise overall because the amount of water added to the ocean is equal to the amount of water that was originally displaced by the ice. It's only when glaciers (i.e. blocks of ice on solid land) melt that the overall sea level rises, because that ice wasn't already floating on the ocean and contributing to the sea level by 'pushing' the water down beneath it and 'pushing' it up elsewhere.

It's like these people are working on the same logic a 4 year would work on.

Which is why I said it'll have little effect on the water level as compared to the bowling ball.

Yeah, but it kind of sounded like you were saying that whether it floated or not was the deciding factor.

And coincidentally it would manage to lower the rock's intelligence.

These people arent stupid, they know they are ruining the environment and they don't care. They are old and will die soon and would rather get as much profit as possible before then, you and me and the rest of the world don't matter to them.

Hope this guy never tries to get in the water. The rocks in his head would cause the ocean to flood half the damn continent

The Earth is 70% water and rocks falling into the ocean are causing sea levels to rise... Okay