Posted on 12/11/2015 8:20:28 PM PST by Isara
Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz told NPR in a Wednesday interview that the term “climate change” is the perfect “pseudoscientific theory for a big-government politician who wants more power.”
In the interview, Cruz recalled the global cooling arguments from the 1970s, telling NPR’s Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep that some of the same researchers worrying about global cooling as a threat in the 70’s, are the same people now telling people global warming is a problem today.
The Texas senator asked Inskeep if he remembered back 30 or 40 years ago when politicians were telling people ” … that we were facing the threat of an incoming ice age, and their solution to this problem is that we needed massive government control of the economy, the energy sector and every aspect of our lives. But then, as you noted, the data didn’t back that up. What they were saying was disproven by the evidence. The Earth was not cooling.”
And now, Cruz added, those researchers — the ones saying global cooling was a blight in the 1970s — are making out with millions of federal dollars to shift focus from global cooling to global warming.
"Whatever happens, suddenly these scientists, who are receiving government grants to keep researching this, and these politicians - and, interestingly enough, the solution they are proposing for climate change - massive government control of the economy in every aspect of our lives – is exactly the same solution they proposed for global warming, it’s exactly the same solution they proposed for global cooling," the presidential candidate said of politicians and scientists pushing for more action on climate change.
Cruz and Inskeep eventually discussed solutions to the problems climate change might engender –namely, innovations springing up within the free market.
"I fully expect in 100 years or maybe 50 years or maybe even 10 or 20 years - I mean, change can be very rapid - that we will move to different energy sources than we are using today," said Cruz, concluding his remarks on climate change, "I also trust that the innovation that will drive that will come from the American free-enterprise system. It will come from innovators putting capital at work."
Read the full NPR interview here.
PRESIDENT Ted Cruz!
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Of COURSE it is!
Does it even need to be said?
That’s like saying, “The sun rises in the east” on the morning news!
(OK, the CNN crowd probably DOES need to be told...)
If this were a Facebook Post, I would click “like”.
I remember it well; living in Michigan at the time, there were dire warnings of falling lake levels with global cooling, lost farm output, global starvation!!!
And then... nothing.
Until they invented the next crisis, and fabricated the data to support it.
What America really needs right now is some “sensible, common sense” GOVERNMENT CONTROL.
'Climate Change' Term Is Trojan Horse For Big Government WORLD GOVERNMENT
For Global Government, really. Ogawd, it’s gonna get ugly.
The reason for the switch was more people were working and spending more time indoors with the AC running in the summer.
People weren’t acclimated to the heat like they were before so when they went outside from the 70 degrees inside to 90+ degrees outside it hit them like a bat so it was easier for them to believe it was getting hotter.
Obama wants World government with him as President
Dwight wuz Right!
We could use common sense Climate Jihad Control.
Yup.... Big Climate has been around for a long time. Every time it runs into an obstacle, it just shifts gears and reinvents itself to take another run at sucking in the gullible....
Name one climate change policy that reduces government.
Pretty much.
Welcome to FR.
That has a nice ring to it. And a whole lotta hope to go along.
Global warming........................a way to siphon and tax Americans to fund the new world order
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