> During a congressional hearing last week, Republican Representative Louie Gohmert of Texas asked a U.S. Forest Service official if her organization or the Bur

> During a congressional hearing last week, Republican Representative Louie Gohmert of Texas asked a U.S. Forest Service official if her organization or the Bureau of Land Management could change the orbit of the moon or Earth to reverse the effects of human-caused climate change. ... Given the political affiliation and lack of context for the questioning, my assumption was that Gohmert was trying to point out how ridiculous it is to think that people can act on a scale large enough to affect the planet. This applies both ways: to create climate change or to reverse its effects. The man may indeed be dumb as a bag of rocks, but without some more context to this exchange there's no way to know.