Posted on 12/09/2015 7:29:10 AM PST by Isara
Even before it began, Sen. Ted Cruz’s subcommittee hearing Tuesday challenging the accuracy and objectivity of the science behind climate doomsday scenarios drew a heated rebuke from Senate Democrats.
“We need to stop debating whether climate change is real. The science is settled, and Senator Cruz is out of touch,” said Sen. Tom Udall, New Mexico Democrat. “The American people want action. Most of Congress wants action. We need to work together and lead the world in...”
Mr. Cruz — the Texas Republican who heads the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness — said at the hearing that “public policy should follow the actual science and the actual data and evidence, and not political and partisan claims that run contrary to the science and data and evidence.”
He cited predictions of climate catastrophe that have failed to come true, starting with Secretary of State John Kerry’s 2009 op-ed stating that, “Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013.”
A candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, Mr. Cruz said the Senate Democrats’ “prebuttal” to the hearing came as a “backhanded compliment,” adding that the Democrats “doth protest too much.”
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Conservative columnist Mark Steyn described the libel suit filed against him by climate scientist Michael Mann, and accused “Big Climate” of bullying academics and researchers who deviate from the global-warming narrative.
“If you’re a real Nobel Laureate like Ivar Giaever, who won the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics, or if you’re older, tenured and sufficiently eminent, you can just about withstand the Big Climate enforcers jumping you in the parking lot and taking the hockey stick to you,” Mr. Steyn said. “But, if you’re a younger scientist, you know that, if you cross Mann and the other climate mullahs, there goes tenure, there goes funding, there goes your career.”
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Great stuff!
“The science is settled...”
There is no such damn thing.
The Udalls have been a continuing curse on American government. Here’s another example.
New Mexico should just replace Senator Udall with a recording of democrat clichés.
Right on . . . if we had settled science the world would still be flat.
Tom Udall needs to get the flat earth award.
Ask a liberal how much does global warming cost, they call you a racist. Ask a liberal what the risk mitigation strategy is in the event we overshoot and the world starts cooling and they will call you a racist. Ask a liberal, given they have all the money in the world to “fix” global warming how they would actually fix it, and they call you a racist.
The only real answer if a liberal engages you in this debate is to call them a moron. Don’t sugar coat it. That was Alinsky’s biggest fear. We should be using it against them.
“We need to stop debating whether climate change is real. The science is settled, and Senator Cruz is out of touch,†said Sen. Tom Udall
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There is no such thing as settled science, especially climate science where there is no climate model that’s ever been successfully backtested.
“Settled science” is a concept that only exists in the corrupt and criminal world of politics.
If there was a computer model that said puppies become little boys, would that be settled science?
There is no consensus in real science.
algore said 10 years ago we would all be burned to a crisp come Jan. 2016. Rush set up a countdown clock—it’s ticking and we are all still here.
Anyway, why should the burden of 7 billion souls on the planet be the responsibility of 300 million U.S. citizens (and 30 million illegals)?
If you don’t bow down to someone’s idol (in this case global warming), they heat their furnace 7 times hotter.
He cited predictions of climate catastrophe that have failed to come true, starting with Secretary of State John Kerry’s 2009 op-ed stating that, “Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013.â€
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There was a time when the Flat Earth Model was settled science.
Though it's the same thing, it sounds better (and looks better) than sticking one's fingers in one's ears while loudly chanting, "la-la-la-la-la ..."
Now NASA refuses to submit to Congressional oversight.
What debates are you talking about? I can not recall a real debate on this.
If you want to observe Mark Steyn’s brief but brilliant testimony, you can watch at the approx. 47:30 minute mark.
Tagline material. Well stated.
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