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Posted on 03/19/2015 10:31:31 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
For the nation’s left-leaning entertainers, the most interesting thing about Texas Sen. Ted Cruz this week is his callous willingness to scare toddlers for fleeting political gain. In fact, beyond Cruz’s apparent intention to run for the White House in 2016, this latest craze was of singular interest to Late Night host Seth Meyers.
Meyers welcomed Cruz on to the show on Tuesday night, and the pair had a rather jovial exchange. Things got a little tense, though, when Meyers engaged in a tortured and contrived effort to put Cruz in a corner on the issue of global warming (starting at the 3:20 mark):
At a recent speech, Cruz had warned an audience which included a three-year-old girl that the world was “on fire.” The cliché to which Cruz appealed is universally applied to armed conflicts, and the increasing proliferation of interstate wars and insurgencies around the globe demonstrates that Cruz’s observation was self-evidently correct. Meyers tried to take Cruz’s comments literally when he averred that he, as a faithful member of the church of climate change, believes the world is, indeed, actually on fire. Because it’s extremely hot, you see.
“I think he world’s on fire literally,” Meyers said. “Hottest year on record. But, you’re not there, right?”
To this contention, Meyer’s audience whooped and hollered in a manner that would have made Jon Stewart feel right at home.
Cruz’s response was clever insofar as it undermined the canard to which the left’s climate alarmists cling: That they are wholly rational and data-driven, and their opponents refuse to accept consensus scientific opinion in the parochial service of their political values. Cruz noted that, for 17 years, satellite data has demonstrated that there has been no appreciable warming trend whereas climate models continue to predict catastrophic warming in the near-term. Cruz implied that it was safer to trust empiricism rather than the climate models that have yielded erroneous predictions for decades.
“So, you trust satellites more than computers?” Meyers asked, pivoting back to a joke. Cruz followed suit, and the conversation veered back toward a humorous direction.
This was a great moment for Cruz and for conservatism generally.
I’ve written on multiple occasions on the fact that public opinion data shows that the obsession over climate change is a fad primarily limited to the left. Moreover, it has become an article of faith so central to the progressive identity that the left would compel its candidates and elected leaders to declare that global warming is a more pressing threat to life and liberty than even irredentist foreign regimes or Islamist terrorist organizations. That is an opinion so wildly out of step with the public that Republicans are virtually guaranteed to benefit from their opponents’ myopia.
This clip showed that this left-leaning audience, which was fully primed and ready to cheer for yet another sermon on climate change, was disappointed when they discovered that there were cogent counterarguments that had the capacity to dispel their faith. Of course, no semi-religious conviction dies easy and moments like these are sure to be repeated in the coming months. For conservatives, that might be the best news they’ve heard since, well, last night.
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Seth who?
Scientists - actual Scientists mark you - trust observations over models.
Seth Leftist
Meyer’s is an Obama Bootlicker.
Should we expect anything less from him?
Of course, the question is, what do you propose to fix so called “Manmade Globull Warming”, raising Taxes?
If Seth is really concerned with global warming then he’ll cancel his show.
All of the carbon released travelling to and from the show, flying guests in, and keeping all those lights going is killing Mother Gaia and THE CHILLREN. And it’s racist because all of the lights are white. Not one black light in the place.
Do the right thing, Seth, and cancel your show and pay tribute to your Progressive Masters...
No, man is the cause. They propose to do away with man, or at least thin us out.
TV is a cesspool
Let me make up a comical and ridiculous story (computer model) for Socialist political gain, to give even more power to governments.
Then let me gather actual data from a satellite (observation) and see what that says.
Yes, you should trust satellites more than computers when the computers are using “GARBAGE IN = GARBAGE OUT”.
If we just exterminate leftists all over the world, we can leave ourselves alone.
Everyone knows that TV show hosts know much more than actual Scientists./s
Cruz is unflappable and very fast on his feet. Most impressive.
I have collected evidence for the past few months that the Pacific Northwest is warming and it is out of control. I took temperature samples and placed them in an Excel spreadsheet. If trends continue from January 2015 as they have to today, the earf will be approximately 4,987 degrees by August. This is undeniable. There is no debating the model.
Given that what you’re saying is undoubtedly true, perhaps we should buy up as many apples, cherries and pears as we can.
It really sounds like they’re gonna be in short supply later this year!
Seth Meyers. The guy who wrote the Sarah Palin sketches made famous by Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live.
That's why we go to all the trouble to launch the satellites in the first place.
We want DATA.
After following the UN/IPCC shenanigans and their scientific lemmings the past 10 years, I've come to the conclusion that we have a climate community seriously corrupted by the money handed out by those with hidden agendas. The whole thing stinks.
One thing is sure. Taxpayers living in G8 countries are the target. WE are the losers in this power-hungry, tax-grabbing, wealth-distributing scam.
There is one plus. I find it comforting to watch the EU fall apart. If a handful of broke Euro countries can't make the NWO concepts work, how in the heck would 196 ever make it? (he said, with a smirk). The Lord works in mysterious ways!
Well, we may not even need to exterminate them. Let’s take a page from Douglas Adams. In one of his books, he describes a planet, where the useful people in society decided to rid themselves of the less useful people (sorted by profession, people like beauticians and “telephone sanitizers” were in the less useful group).
What they did was to fake a planetary crisis that would spell impending doom. Then, they built a giant spaceship, supposedly the first of 3, and then assigned spaces on the ship based on profession. Of course, all the nonessential professions were given the “honor” of being on the first ship to depart, and there never was a plan to build the other 2 ships, because there was no real crisis to begin with :)
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