“Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.” So said comedian Steve Wright, who as most people can tell was joking!

GOP climate change denier  Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks (GOP Tea Party) was not joking when in a Congressional committee he  expressed his skepticism that ocean levels were rising due to human activities — in terms similar to those of comedian Steve Wright.

Said Alabama’s finest about rising ocean levels due to warming temperature and ice melt: “What about erosion?” Brooks offered during the exchange. He added: “Every time you have that soil or rock, whatever it is, that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise because now you’ve got less space in those oceans because the bottom is moving up.”

There was speculation Brooks might again try to run for one of Alabama’s US Senate seats. Should he do so and win, the bottom would truly be moving up. But it is evident the level of the US House will never move up if it remains filled with GOP tea party jackasses like Alabama’s Mo Brooks.