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Posted on 05/26/2015 9:31:43 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Ted Cruz, the junior U.S. senator from Texas and first official contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, compared people who think that the climate is warming to "flat-Earthers" and described himself as a modern-day Galileo in an interview with the Texas Tribune.
"On the global warming alarmists, anyone who actually points to the evidence that disproves their apocalyptical claims, they don't engage in reasoned debate," Cruz said in an interview with reporter Jay Root on Tuesday. "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."
Root noted that Cruz's disbelief that the planet is warming puts him out of step with younger voters. But Cruz dug in.
"I'm a big believer that we should follow the science, and follow the evidence. 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," said Cruz. "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."
While the argument that the satellite data does not show temperatures rising is a favorite among climate deniers, it represents a skewed view on what we know about temperatures conditions on Earth. Average global temperatures are still increasing, just not as quickly as they did in previous years, largely due to ocean cycles. And claiming that a pause disputes that warming is occurring ignores
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Ted Cruz Ping! I thought this the other day. They remind me of the time people believed the sun revolved around the earth. Deny the facts and support a theory that glorifies your own ideology.
I hate to disagree with you, Ted, but they are more akin to Al Capone.
They call us stupid. We call them stupid.
What difference does it make?
I like Cruz, but he is confusing flat-earthism vs. heliocentric/ptolemeic.
Hmmm, wonder if the huffpo ever referred to Obama as “the junior U.S. senator” prior to his run at the White House......probably not.
That makes them wrong and the data clearly shows it.
We need to invent a brand new word to describe the unbelievable moronic belief in AGW.
Wrong.
Ted should not waste his time on Tomorrowland then. Of course, no one else should either.
“Average global temperatures are still increasing, just not as quickly as they did in previous years, largely due to ocean cycles. “
But it does prove that the models are incorrect and the models are what the entire alarmist case is based on.
Taking a page from their playbook.
they sure haven’t been increasing in Michigan...I have been waiting for global warming for years and our winters still suck...
"LEFTIST" comes to mind...
“But it does prove that the models are incorrect and the models are what the entire alarmist case is based on.”
Their response : but the models are correct if what had been modeled happened, and it could have.
Flat Earthers are not themselves akin to Capone?
Many imams are themselves pushing the notion of a flat earth, for the record.
Marxists don’t give a crap about the environment. They never have. They simply use ‘global warming’, etc... as tools to implement social engineering in an effort to force specific political outcomes.
To a Marxist there is no such thing as a ‘non-political entity’. EVERYTHING is political, which is why everything is Leftist countries is politicized. The environment is not immune to this. The environmental movement is not the ecology minded do gooders of the 1970’s. It has been hijacked by Stalinists. The ‘ecology movement’ has evolved into a revolutionary cause.
Global Warming is their hammer and the court system is their sickle.
Chicken littles. The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
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