Seth Meyers: Rep. Louie Gohmert's Orbit Question Was Dumb Whichever Way You Look At It
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The lawmaker attracted mockery after he asked if the Forest Service could change the moon's orbit to combat climate change.
Seth Meyers can’t believe the lengths Republicans will go to to avoid dealing with climate change. During a rant Thursday night about the “culture war nonsense” peddled by much of the current GOP, the “Late Night” host took a look at a headline-making conversation this week between Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Jennifer Eberlien, an associate deputy chief at the U.S. Forest Service. Gohmert was widely ridiculed for asking the official whether the Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management could somehow change the course of the Earth or moon’s orbit to address climate change.
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