Texas Republican asks: can we fix the moon’s orbit to fight climate change?
by Edward Helmore from on (#5JW3K)
I'd have to follow up with you on that one,' says forestry official Jennifer Eberlien to bizarre question from Louie Gohmert
The Texas Republican congressman Louie Gohmert has asked a senior US government official if changing the moon's orbit around the Earth, or the Earth's orbit around the sun, might be a solution for climate change.
Bizarrely, the question was not posed to anyone from Nasa or even the Pentagon. Instead it was asked of a senior forestry service official during a House natural resources committee hearing on Tuesday.
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