Posted on 03/26/2015 8:22:55 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Ted Cruz, who earlier this week announced his plans to run for president, spoke about climate change in a recent interview with the Texas Tribune, and Cruz’s comparison of what he calls “global warming alarmists” to the “flat-Earthers” of centuries past have the web buzzing today.
Cruz says that those who believe in climate change refuse to accept a thoughtful argument to the contrary, and instead, throw out the label of “denier.”
“On the global warming alarmists, anyone who actually points to the evidence that disproves their apocalyptical claims, they don’t engage in reasoned debate. What do they do? They scream, ‘You’re a denier.’ They brand you a heretic. Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be that it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier,” Cruz said.
As the Washington Post points out, Galileo wasn’t the first one to challenge the flat-Earth claims. His issue was with the planets and the fact that the Earth revolves around the sun, which contradicted previous beliefs. Now, many are seeing Cruz in a different light, as his beliefs are being challenged by what MSNBC’s Steve Benen calls “poor logic.”
“The next time Cruz is described as a brilliant conservative with a towering intellect, let’s keep this little incident in mind,” Benen wrote.
“If you look at global warming alarmists, they don’t like to look at the actual facts and the data. The satellite data demonstrate that there has been no significant warming whatsoever for 17 years. Now that’s a real problem for the global warming alarmists. Because all those computer models on which this whole issue is based predicted significant warming, and yet the satellite data show it ain’t happening.”
This isn’t the first time Cruz’s comments have rubbed potential voters the wrong way; earlier this week, he said in an interview with CBS This Morning that his tastes in music changed after 9/11 because he felt country musicians handled the tragedy in a better way.
“You know, music is interesting. I grew up listening to classic rock and I’ll tell you sort of an odd story. My music tastes changed on 9/11. And it’s a very strange—I actually, intellectually, find this very curious, but on 9/11, I didn’t like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me and I have to say, it—just as a gut level, I had an emotional reaction that says, ‘These are my people,'” Ted Cruz said.
But Galileo was not condemned for denying the earth was flat (no educated person in Europe from 500BC onward thought this), but arguably for denying geocentricity.
Globull warming is a mere theory, which cannot be proved but, can be disproven with historical facts.
Anthropogenic effects are a total lie bought by Marxist, Proletariats, who are intellectually lazy and morally bankrupt.
Cruz has a debate award named for him......rinos beware.
(a) global temperatures have not measurably changed in more than 20 years and
(b) the last twenty years have arguably seen the largest increase in industrial output in history as China went from being a third world country to an imitation first world country.
I like his argument, but he needs to fix it up a little. Leave the flat earth out of it, because it’s a belief that died out in pre-ancient times (500 years BC), but modern atheists like to falsely tie it to the early Christians.
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Cruz hits another loaded 4-bagger!
They are losing their minds in the MSM.
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Zakley!
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Follow the money.
“Anthropogenic effects are a total lie bought by Marxist, Proletariats, who are intellectually lazy and morally bankrupt.”
Good job.
Always follow the money.
Liberals are violent, lying weasels.
... Cruz was first in his class at Princeton and Harvard
bada-bing! LOL! And Right on!
True, true!
If you really want to watch their heads explode ask them a simple question.
First point out that the earth is 4+ billion years old and the climate has been constantly changing since earth first developed an atmosphere.
Then ask them if the climate has been changing for 4 billion years why do you want to stop it now.
Let them try to answer the ridiculous.
That’s, RINORATS GOP’e
If the govt was interested in the truth they would equally fund grants to DISPROVE mans role in climate change. After a number of years the funded participants would meet for a live debate on PBS.
Tell the libs that ? That’s climate’s nature to change.
Every time a cold front comes in it rains, wben it rains, climate is changing, when the winds blow, climate changes.... It’s the ebb and flow of life, do they want to stop life ?
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