Posted on 12/23/2015 12:30:11 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is promising, if elected president, to pull the United States out of the nonbinding climate change accord that nearly 200 countries agreed to earlier this month.
Cruz, a GOP presidential candidate, on Tuesday told reporters in Tennessee that the agreement is part of an extreme focus on climate by President Obama.
"Barack Obama seems to think the SUV parked in your driveway is a bigger threat to national security than radical Islamic terrorists who want to kill us. That's just nutty," he said, according to The Washington Post.
"These are ideologues, they don't focus on the facts, they won't address the facts, and what they're interest[ed in] instead is more and more government power."
The agreement is the first pact in which the world's developing countries joined with richer ones in promising to cut emissions.
Obama said the United States would reduce its greenhouse gases 26 percent to 28 percent by 2025, though the target is not legally binding, nor is any country's target in the deal.
Cruz is one of the most skeptical candidates on climate change, refusing to grant even that the world is warming, let alone endorse the scientific consensus that human activity is the main cause of it.
He repeated his contention that global temperatures have not risen for 18 years, calling it "an inconvenient truth" for climate activists, a reference to the title of former Vice President Al Gore's documentary on global warming.
Cruz chaired a hearing to that effect earlier in December, in which he railed against "global-warming alarmists" who do not like that the world has stopped heating up and called them part of a "climate-industrial complex."
The warming "pause" has been refuted by recent research, including a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study published this summer that examined a wider range of data than the data set that found a pause.
The only silver lining to the cloud cast by 0bama is he has not passed laws and treaties to forward his agenda, He has done everything by unofficial agreements and EOs.
This means it can all be undone instantly when we get a true leader back in the White House.
*bump*
Does anyone know where Mr. Trump stands on this issue?
...but we would have guessed that...!
“Secretary of State John Kerry says that flat-Earth skeptics should be disqualified from ‘high public office’.”
Just as ‘scientific’ as the good-ol’ days, eh, Ketchup boy? BTW, did you pay the taxes on that new yacht yet?
‘scientific consensus’ != science
scientific consensus brought us ‘eggs are bad..then they’re good’, ‘fat is bad, unless ABC, XYZ’, the food-pyramid, BMI (Michael Jordan is obese), ‘gay is normal’. Hell, weren’t they the ones who prescribed SMOKING back in the 40-50’s (and don’t tell me they didn’t know...they’ve been calling ‘em coffin nails for AGES)
Course, if you tried to settle on ONE model, it’d show just what a fraud they are.
Climate change, racial justice and gay rights - the only 3 things that give POTUS a tingle up his leg.
Ted Cruz is right on so many issues.
FUJK!!!!
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On the cleverness scale....he’s maxing out at an “11”. I can’t think of any candidate from the past hundred years who was able to think and debate at the level he is currently. If it was Cruz and Hillary.....with four of her hand-picked moderators helping her at some debate....he’d tear all five of them apart.
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