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Fact check: How Ted Cruz gets it wrong on climate change [Earth is warming because of humans]
Business Insider ^ | 01/21/2016 | Seth Borenstein and Scott Bauer, Associated Press

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; tedcruz
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To: justlittleoleme

Please oh please let the Trump people attacking Cruz for this....


This statement explains alot. You clearly have no clue who Trump or his supporters are.


41 posted on 01/21/2016 10:57:55 AM PST by magglepuss (Don't tread on me)
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To: justlittleoleme

My thoughts exactly.

Since Trump is anti-Cruz on everything lately, and even willing to become a birther just to attack Cruz, what’s the over/under on Trump becoming Global Warming Alarmist?


42 posted on 01/21/2016 10:58:17 AM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: Slyfox
Exactly. And the Sun is Going to Sleep.....
43 posted on 01/21/2016 10:59:40 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And, the several ant-hills in my yard cause micro-climate change by their activity.

The tagline...please.


44 posted on 01/21/2016 10:59:46 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And at this rate it MIGHT be a degree warmer (or colder) several decades from now, and there MIGHT be negative consequences (or not).

Global warming is settled (political) science.


45 posted on 01/21/2016 10:59:50 AM PST by unlearner (RIP America, 7/4/1776 - 6/26/2015, "Only God can judge us now." - Claus Von Stauffenberg / Valkyrie)
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To: justlittleoleme

Because alot of liberals do support Trump over Hillary


Isn’t this pretty much a necessity if republicans are to win?


46 posted on 01/21/2016 11:00:22 AM PST by magglepuss (Don't tread on me)
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To: Lakeshark

Trump being on record matters little to him.. sight well anything he has ever said before this election cycle and then contrast to this election cycle.


47 posted on 01/21/2016 11:01:30 AM PST by Bidimus1
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To: Lakeshark
Well since you asked...

Sarah Palin running as McCain’s VP didn’t make McCain less of a liberal.

Sarah Palin Endorsing Trump for president doesn’t make Trump any less of a liberal.

Sarah Palin is doing what is right for Sarah Palin. Beck...I don't defend him.

48 posted on 01/21/2016 11:02:17 AM PST by justlittleoleme (Cruz or Lose. Trump is a progressive populist liberal.)
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To: agere_contra

It would help if the posters would fix the headlines so they pointed you the right direction


49 posted on 01/21/2016 11:04:10 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: SeekAndFind

‘Cause blizzards in the NE are a sure sign of “climate change”, formerly known in the algore parlance as “global warming”.

The only cure is to immediately purchase carbon credits from algore INC.


50 posted on 01/21/2016 11:05:39 AM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

Why does not Constitution expert Cruz simply say the following concerning major constitutional problems with the federal funding for global warming?

Even if so-called global warming had been proven with the repeatable results of scientific method-based experiments, it remains that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate environmental issues.

In other words, global warming is nothing more than a PC buzzword to secure unconstitutional federal funding with no accountability.


51 posted on 01/21/2016 11:05:40 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: roamer_1
"0.7-degree warming since 1979"

According to satellites.

So we have 36 years of satellite data.

And the earth is HOW old again?

4.5 billion years?

What kind of retard scientist would draw any "conclusions" from that?

52 posted on 01/21/2016 11:06:55 AM PST by boop ("That's a hell of a price to pay for being stylish" -Dirty Harry)
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To: justlittleoleme
Hey, you tried to start the stupid meme that Trump supporters would attack Cruz over this.

Btw, to date I've preferred Cruz.

53 posted on 01/21/2016 11:08:27 AM PST by Lakeshark
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To: boop
And the earth is HOW old again? 4.5 billion years?

Well, I'd best hold my tongue on that one... But I get your meaning. ; )

54 posted on 01/21/2016 11:09:55 AM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: sickoflibs

It’s been a little colder up here in the mountains of MD, but looking forward to the snow!!


55 posted on 01/21/2016 11:15:44 AM PST by conservativesister (And FReepers, please quit attacking each other. We're all in this together.-"JR")
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To: conservativesister

We got like 1/4 inch last night here (Howard county)

It was pretty.

However too many Maryland drivers drive 40MPH on 55 roads when the only snow (or ice) is on the sides.


56 posted on 01/21/2016 11:22:40 AM PST by sickoflibs (Donald Trump : 'It will be wonderful. It will be glorious., You will be amazed, Just wait"')
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To: sickoflibs

Gee, if only we’d broadcast black coal dust on the polar caps, like activists suggested in the 1970’s to fight ‘the coming ice age’ and subsequent crop failures and starvation...


57 posted on 01/21/2016 11:28:44 AM PST by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: SeekAndFind
But by starting his comparison period in 1997, Cruz has selected a time when temperatures spiked because of an El Nino weather pattern.

Imbecile. The data Cruz is referring to is a least squares regression analysis to determine how far back you can go in the tempreature record without getting a statistically significant rise in temperature. The start point is determined by the calculation.

58 posted on 01/21/2016 11:30:43 AM PST by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: SeekAndFind

Crock of crap.


59 posted on 01/21/2016 11:31:39 AM PST by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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To: polymuser
RE:”Gee, if only we'd broadcast black coal dust on the polar caps, like activists suggested in the 1970’s to fight ‘the coming ice age’ and subsequent crop failures and starvation.”

You won't be laughing when we are all under water and the sharks are chasing you!

60 posted on 01/21/2016 11:35:06 AM PST by sickoflibs (Donald Trump : 'It will be wonderful. It will be glorious., You will be amazed, Just wait"')
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