At a May 2018 hearing of the US House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Representative Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) speculated that perhaps rising sea levels could be attributed to rocks falling into the ocean. For example, he asked his constituents to consider the continuously eroding White Cliffs of Dover. These have to be filling up the ocean over time, and all the water that they displace must be going somewhere. It is comforting that like Aesop’s crow,*6 Representative Brooks understands the consequences of putting rocks in water. But this is an entirely inadequate explanation that belies
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