During an interview in 2009, Louie Gohmert also claimed that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can help the world to grow 'more plants'
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Climate change has been described as a “super wicked problem,” in that it is so complex, and has no single or clear solution.
Essentially, it seems impossible to solve.
But one Republican congressman has a possible solution: altering the orbit of the moon or the Earth.
At a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on Tuesday, Louie Gohmert, a representative from Texas, asked a senior U.S. Forest Service official whether there was anything the agency could do to change the Earth’s or moon’s orbits.
“I understand from what’s been testified to the Forest Service and the BLM (Bureau of Land Management), you want very much to work on the issue of climate change,” Gohmert said to Jennifer Eberlien, the associate deputy chief of the Forest Service.
“I was informed by the immediate past director of NASA that they’ve found that the moon’s orbit is changing slightly and so is the Earth’s orbit around the sun. We know there’s been significant solar flare activity,” he said. “And so, is there anything that the National Forest Service or BLM can do to change the course of the moon’s orbit or the Earth’s orbit around the sun? Obviously, that would have profound effects on our climate.”
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Smiling, Eberlien responded: “I would have to follow up with you on that one, Mr. Gohmert.”
“Yeah, well, if you figure out a way that you, in the Forest Service, can make that change, I’d like to know,” Gohmert said.
In a 2019 blog post, NASA noted that the current scientific consensus holds that variations in solar activity only play a “very small role” in Earth’s climate, and that warming from increasing levels of human-produced greenhouse gases is “many times stronger” than solar activity.
Last year, the space agency also said that Milankovitch cycles (a series of Earth’s orbital motions) can’t explain all of the climate change that has occurred over the past 2.5 million years, and can’t “account for the current period of rapid warming.”
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“It’s the direct input of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels that’s responsible for changing Earth’s atmospheric composition over the last century, rather than climate feedbacks from the ocean or land caused by Milankovitch cycles,” said NASA.
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Gohmert later addressed the criticism of his proposed solution to climate change by tweeting that BLM stands for the Bureau of Land Management.
He did not respond to requests for clarification on his remarks from CNN or PEOPLE.
In a succinct tweet, Brian Brettschneider, a climate scientist and research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, responded to Gohmert’s statements, saying that “we cannot change the Earth’s or Moon’s orbit.”
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Gohmert is an attorney and a former judge who has previously said he doesn’t not believe that climate change is a man-made problem, according to NBC News.
During an interview in 2009, he claimed that the world is “actually either staying the same or cooling,” and that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can warm things up and help the world to grow “more plants.”
“We can’t do anything substantive about the climate change right now, when the Moon’s orbit is apparently changing some, the Earth’s orbit is changing some, according to NASA,” he also said during an appearance on Fox Business’ “The Evening Edit” in early May.
In the absence of any major action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the global temperature is set to rise by 2.5°C to 4.5°C by 2100, said NASA.
“We are on the verge of the abyss,” said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at an April press conference, unveiling the State of the Global Climate 2020 report by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization.
The report described 2020 as one of the hottest years on record and said concentrations of major greenhouse gases continued to increase, despite the temporary reduction in emissions during the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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