So he's got a defense...
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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Just, No.
bwahahahah snort bwahahaha haha... That I believe is my favorite post of the day...
Please oh please let the Trump people attacking Cruz for this....
How Business Insider Got it Wrong.
So he's got a defense...
Trump is on record (heard him the other day) as saying this whole thing is a fraud too.
Cruz actually believes in dominant-human-caused climate change (no longer “global warming” just “weather”)?
Really? Cruz actually believes in this hokum? If so, he’s certainly useful to the Left’s efforts to use this and other nonsense as justification for more tyranny and less individual freedom.
I’m willing to bet Trump will start ridiculing Cruz over Twitter any hour now: “Ted denies science like he denies his Canadian heritage and his love of Goldman Sacks. Ted is a nasty denier.”
No more anti-science phrase exists in modem society.
science says Very little warming.
to me no significant and very little are the same. BTW I am for Trump.
If true, I believe that the first 2 humans (big assumption here) that should be eliminated are Seth Borenstein and Scott Bauer, Associated Press...from there go after the people quoted in their “article”...
So not only do the scientists get to decide how much warming there is, they get to set the timeframes as well?
LOL
Those warmists wouldn't know a FACT if it bit them on the @$$!
Its really cold here in Maryland and we are expecting a major snow storm tomorrow night and Saturday.
The highs have been ~ 32 degs F the past few days.
We could us some warming,
So they admit that temperatures haven’t gone up for 18 years.
AGW is so significant, so overwhelming that it’s world-destroying effects have been completely quashed by El Nino. For 18 years. Right.
This is what happens when the scientific community begins to lose their power of reason.
Trump will say whatever is the most popular.
Yeah, they warming weenies never do that with arctic ice levels by starting from an all-time freak high level. Oh wait....
This is why we need to be forced to pay for corn ethanol.
But only US grown corn ethanol.
Go Trump!
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