Posted on 01/21/2016 10:28:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
NORTH CONWAY, N.H. (AP) -- Ted Cruz is decidedly at odds with the scientific consensus that Earth is warming because of human activity.
A look at some of the Republican presidential contender's claims on the subject in New Hampshire this week and how they compare with the facts:
CRUZ: "The satellites that actually measure the temperature, that we've launched into the air to measure the temperature, they have recorded no significant warming whatsoever for the last 18 years."
THE FACTS: Scientists, including those who work with the very satellite measuring system that Cruz refers to, say he's misusing the satellite data. They do show warming, albeit relatively little over the period Cruz cites, says Carl Mears, senior scientist for Remote Sensing Systems, which produces the data that Cruz refers to.
But by starting his comparison period in 1997, Cruz has selected a time when temperatures spiked because of an El Nino weather pattern. Starting at an artificially high point minimizes the rate of increase since then, Mears said, adding, "If you start riding your bike at the top of a big hill, you always go downhill, at least for a while."
More important is what's measured at the Earth's surface, where people live, Mears said. Those ground-based systems show a greater degree of warming.
The long-term trend that Mears' satellites show is about 0.7-degree warming since 1979, when satellites started measuring temperature. Ground-based monitors show a warming of about 1 degree during the same period. And 1979 was not among the top five hottest or coldest years in the 36 years of records.
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The article goes to great lengths to attack Cruz precisely because he does NOT believe in this hokum.
I’m a Trump supporter also. He says
Donald Trump On Climate Change: ‘I Believe It Goes Up And It Goes Down’ “So I am not a believer, and I will, unless somebody can prove something to me, I believe there’s weather.”
But a perfect example of the infantile leftist collectivist mind that literally sees truth itself as that which is approved by the group.
I know this is not 1912 and I may not every particular but read this. My great grandparents married and went to Canada to live. Grandpa had lived there about 5 years after being born and raised in the USa. They had a male child while there. After 1 year they came back to the USA. They filled out alien cards the remainder of their lives and my great uncle was not able to serve in WW2 because he was classified a Canadian citizen.
You will have to wait until the earth moves into position to reflect its rays upon our head where you are thereby warmed.
Be happy for now the stink bugs are in hiding.
The writer is just using different measuring criteria that support their preferred outcome.
The very same thing they accuse Cruz, and the rest of us who believe the Global Climate Change bit is nothing but a statist scam, of doing.
Thermometers have been around a long time. Go back farther and you'll get an outcome thats supports just about every hypothesis.
OK, glad to hear that. I glanced at the headline and the article and thought it was saying something else.
If the instruments were properly sited and the data collected and interpreted honestly, he might have a point. However, given their (warming weenies) propensity to count temperature measurements taken in ludicrously inaccurate ways, the atmospheric ones are probably more trustworthy. There's no one there to put an AC unit under the thermometers or pave with black asphalt.
Exactly. Run from consensus.
The fact that a business publication is preaching the “religion” of climate change is just another sign
of where the country is headed, regardless of who gets elected president.
East Coast about to get hammered with 1 to 2 feet of Global Warming this weekend. Yay!
Because alot of liberals do support Trump over Hillary... Alot of liberals believe in global warming.... thus my conclusion....
Nope. Will defend Cruz all day long on this.
RE: The fact that a business publication is preaching the âreligionâ of climate change is just another sign
Not agreeing with them, but this article was taken by Business Insider from the Associated Press and re-posted.
You should have put a copyright on that, so Trump would have to write a check to you.
The last two cold winters, especially last winter killed off most of them before Spring,
Years ago (2011-2013) my house would be full of them by May, all over the place. They are trying to get out and mate when it gets warm and are attracted to the sunlight(in day time).
By July they are all dead, their purpose over.
Last year almost none. They cant take the really cold temperatures,
Hey Science can't figure out that asphalt is hotter in the summer. Go five miles out temp drops a few degrees. Putting thermometers near asphalt is fake science.
Good for you Jim. I can see how the headline combined with the bracketed text might have thrown you off.
Right. No warming.
Do you now hate Sarah Palin too?
Do you now think Glenn Beck is brilliant?
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