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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/557558-gohmert-asks-if-federal-agencies-can-change-earth-or-moons-orbits-to-fight
Gohmert asks if federal agencies can change Earth's or moon's orbits to fight climate change
BY JOSEPH CHOI - 06/09/21 12:45 PM EDT
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) on Tuesday asked a representative from the U. S. Forest Service if it was possible to alter the orbit of the moon or the Earth as a way of combating climate change, though it was unclear if he was being serious.
Gohmert was speaking with Jennifer Eberlien, associate deputy chief of the National Forest System, during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing.
"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 Eberlien, adding that a past director of NASA had once told him that orbits of the moon and the Earth were changing.
"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?" Gohmert asked Eberlien. "Obviously they would have profound effects on our climate."
"I would have to follow up with you on that one, Mr. Gohmert," Eberlien responded.
"Well, if you figure out a way that you in the Forest Service can make that change, I'd like to know," Gohmert added.
Gohmert later responded to tweets about his question by noting BLM stands for the Bureau of Land Management.
As NASA explains in a blog post, Earth's orbit changes from being close to perfectly circular to being slightly more elliptical in a cycle that takes about 100,000 years. The orbit is currently around as close to being circular as it can be.
The angle at which the Earth tilts also shifts slightly or "wobbles" on its axis over the course of tens of thousands of years.
These changes are called Milanković cycles after Milutin Milanković, the Serbian astronomer who first hypothesized them.
These shifts affect Earth's climate in both the short-term and long-term, though they have a relatively minor impact on the planet's seasons and are not behind global warming, according to NASA.
Astronomers have long observed that the Earth's moon is slowly drifting away, moving about an inch away every year.
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Why has God cursed us with so many stupid Republicans?
This is exactly what a Republican of 50 years ago would say about the Republicans of today.
Gomert - stupidest man in Congress.
Firstly aren't republicans climate change deniers? Is this an admission they were wrong? Also given a large percentage of their voters deny the world is round or actually orbits the sun doesn't it complicate things?
Or is he really suggesting climate change isn't man made but the result of the earth needing a rebalance like a wobbly car wheel?
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Are you fucking serious? You must be some kind of SPECIAL retard!!! What are you gonna do, get Superman to push the planet the other way?
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS CLIMATE CHANGE!!! GOT IT? Other planets in our solar system are going through the SAME THING!!! Are you gonna tell me that what we do here makes THEM warm up, too? The Sun goes through heating and cool phases!!! We are in a heating phase, right now!!! THAT'S why the temps have been a bit higher recently, Chicken Little!!! Pretty soon, it'll go back into a cooling phase and you fucking psychotic, self-centered dems will SURELY take the credit for it as if it were something you and that idiot twat Greta did!!! Try paying attention to the REAL science instead of the demoncrap CNN science!!! They TELL you that 97% of scientists believe this bullshit!! What they DON'T tell you is that that's 97% of the 3% of scientists that they bothered to ask!!! The rest of them KNOW it's got NOTHING to do with what we do here!!! And, do you REALLY THINK that fucking braindead child molesting ice cream lord is doing a much better job than Trump? SERIOUSLY? The rest of the world is LAUGHING AT US!!! Take off your blinders, horsey!!! Unplug CNN from that little black-eyed pea rolling around in your head and take a GOOD look around at what's REALLY going on around you!!! Do you REALLY THINK THIS is the best we've got?
Do you really think AT ALL?
Let's see. . . changing the naturally recurring Milankovitch cycles so a bunch of snowflakes don't get too sweaty?
Hmm. . . that would entail first to have the knowledge of planetary and orbital engineering just to theoretically calculated how to balance things out. Then based on those calculations, would need to come up with something powerful enough to move the Moon into an optimum orbit around the Earth and perhaps remove the tidal lock. Then move the Earth to an optimum orbit around the Sun plus adjust the tilt and eliminate the wobble while we're at it. Then move the Sun and the rest of our solar system into an optimum orbit about the SMBH at the center of our galaxy and maybe place it in a more stable portion of the galactic sub-arm it current resides in all while maintaining the first two conditions and not interfere with the heliospheres of any neighboring stars.
Sure, have that for you a week from Thursday.
Well, it makes as much sense as the idea that some panicky people have supported, which is the idea that in order to mitigate the effects of climate change/global warming/the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it we should build vast solar shields in space to block and/or lessen the suns rays. There's a Forbes article on this, but I can't paste the link because I'm not Xper 3 yet :(
u Well, gee; why don't we go whole ham, and launch a buttload of nukes, instead?
A nice nuclear winter will take care of global warming, and it's much simpler than changing the planet's orbit.
/sarcasm
Seriously?
You would actually trust the lowest bidder to move the Earth?
No thanks, i would rather be incinerated by the ai some retard is working on night and day as we speak.
Sounds good to me!
The pollution from the fires in California is 9 times as much as there is from the cars. It was caused by Newsom (Democrat) because of mismanagement.
Let's just get rid of stupid windmills and solar panels and use nuclear energy. Done
i'd rather fire him and his cronies to the moon instead
No, freaking fix our own flaws and don't mess with nature.
... So a politician wants to play God again huh?
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Space 1999!
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