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Ted Cruz thinks scientists invented climate change
grist.org ^ | 8/3/2015 | Katie Herzog

Posted on 08/03/2015 3:11:48 PM PDT by GoneSalt

Remember Ted Cruz?

Way back last spring, it seemed the Texas senator could be the front-runner for the most extreme, anti-reason candidate in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. That was, of course, before Donald “All Mexicans Are Rapists” Trump captured the attention of the American populace, turning what was your standard 47-candidate presidential primary into a giant, media-fueled train wreck that the nation’s Democrats are slowly driving by with equal parts horror and delight.

Unfortunately for all candidates who are not Donald “Pass the Hairspray” Trump, you’ve basically got to believe in phrenology, bloodletting, and finding Jesus in a piece of toast to stand out in this crowd. Which brings us to Ted Cruz.

Time reports that at a pageant hosted by the very rich and very evil Koch brothers in order to suss out the candidate they’re going to purchase this time around, Cruz said that climate change is a myth perpetuated by scientists and researchers in order to … well, he didn’t exactly specify why they would engage in a massive campaign to convince you that the planet is in peril when it’s really doing just fine, but he’s pretty sure it’s happening:

“If you look at satellite data for the last 18 years, there’s been zero recorded warming,” Cruz said in California’s Orange County. “The satellite says it ain’t happening.”

Instead, Cruz said, government researchers are reverse engineering data sets to falsify changes in the climate. “They’re cooking the books. They’re actually adjusting the numbers,” Cruz said. “Enron used to do their books the same way.” …

“Senator, you’re not saying global warming isn’t real?” interrupted his interviewer, Politico’s Mike Allen.

“I’m saying that data and facts don’t support it,” Cruz said to applause from 450 donors to the political network organized by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch.

At least the man knows his audience.

Cruz is, to put it bluntly, an idiot — possibly even up there with Donald “John McCain Is a P****” Trump. And while Cruz isn’t alone in the Republican Party in rejecting climate change, the scientific establishment — as well as anyone who has been outside this summer — can clearly see that it’s hot as f*** out there and only getting hotter. Or maybe it’s just all the hot air seeping from the GOP.

Nope. It’s climate change.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; election2016; gaynewsrooms; gettedcruz; globaalwarmingscare; hissyfit; homofascism; katieherzog; pinkjournalism; tedcruz; tedcruzbashing; texas; trump
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Just a sample of what one of the "higher evolved beings" among us devolves into when free people don't support her Utopian fantasy. It's only beginning. There will be bloodshed before we're through, and no matter how it goes down the powers that decree will make us the villain.

Just sayin'.

1 posted on 08/03/2015 3:11:48 PM PDT by GoneSalt
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To: GoneSalt

Forgot the barf alert. Sorry.


2 posted on 08/03/2015 3:13:14 PM PDT by GoneSalt
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To: GoneSalt

Too late.

*Wipes up keyboard*


3 posted on 08/03/2015 3:13:55 PM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: GoneSalt

“Donald “All Mexicans Are Rapists”

Just another example of a leftard having no reluctance to lie.


4 posted on 08/03/2015 3:13:58 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: GoneSalt

Climate change = science for those who think star trek was real.


5 posted on 08/03/2015 3:16:51 PM PDT by Made In The USA (Yes Ma'am, I said I'd like three sides of bacon with my eggs. and bacon.)
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To: GoneSalt

government grants invented it.

Already saw a story about a researcher who didn’t fake his results being fired but sued and got his job back


6 posted on 08/03/2015 3:17:57 PM PDT by GeronL
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Dear Katie

What has gone wrong in Venezuela?

7 posted on 08/03/2015 3:19:16 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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The nighttime lows in Central Ohio this week are going to be 59-61 degrees.

In August.

8 posted on 08/03/2015 3:19:21 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: GoneSalt; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; aposiopetic; ...
    Ted Cruz Ping!

    If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
    Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

    CRUZ or LOSE!

9 posted on 08/03/2015 3:21:03 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: edpc

Yup. We had a hot week of mid to upper 80s here in Michigan but after the cold front last night we’re expecting lows in the mid 50s here in southern Michigan for the next week.


10 posted on 08/03/2015 3:21:51 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: GoneSalt

Google Katie Herzog and you’ll discover some things that are mostly not surprising.


11 posted on 08/03/2015 3:21:55 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: GoneSalt

It’s all about government control.

I have to give the progressives credit, they’ve done a great job planting this concept in the minds of the public. And of course the logical next step is having government “save” us from it.

The typical USA millennial “knows” far more about climate change than the Constitution.


12 posted on 08/03/2015 3:23:43 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: GoneSalt

More accurately, he thinks politicians invented ‘global warming climate change crisis mongering’ and that they’ve induced scientists to jump on the bandwagon


13 posted on 08/03/2015 3:26:29 PM PDT by xzins (Freeper welfare: Letting others pay you Freep-a-fare! https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: GoneSalt

Arrogance is a painfully pathetic pretender to real intellect.


14 posted on 08/03/2015 3:26:56 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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Here is Katie Herzog, the girl-boy or boy-girl or whatever that knows so much more about Global Warning and Climate Change than Ted Cruz. She describes herself/himself as:

"Katie Herzog is a Seattle-based writer and producer. Her work has been featured on Salon, the Guardian, Vox, and she forcibly subscribed all 1501 of her Gmail contacts to a non-consensual newsletter. Herzog is a staff writer at Grist, and she is currently at work on a book of essays ..."


15 posted on 08/03/2015 3:30:41 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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Why is she wearing BC (birth control) glasses? Are they back in style now?


16 posted on 08/03/2015 3:32:15 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: GoneSalt
"Forgot the barf alert. Sorry."

You should be. I got almost 12 words into this weapons grade stupid rant before I pulled out.

She's one of these "settled science" types who couldn't tell how many electrons are in a shell with the Periodic Table tattooed on her no doubt ample lap, yet she is an expert on what the temperature will be in two hundred years.

17 posted on 08/03/2015 3:33:11 PM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
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To: InterceptPoint
Amazon ruined our “gayborhood”: Tech-bros are swallowing up Seattle’s Capitol Hill — are LGBT districts across the country endangered?
Rainbow flags turn to NFL banners as former bastions of queer culture transform into playgrounds for rich straights
KATIE HERZOG

18 posted on 08/03/2015 3:33:53 PM PDT by x
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To: InterceptPoint

19 posted on 08/03/2015 3:35:45 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: GoneSalt

hey Katie you brainless twit....they are still trying to melt global warming piles in Boston I think.


20 posted on 08/03/2015 3:35:50 PM PDT by oust the louse (The LEFT has no principles, it only has goals !)
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