Posted on 03/23/2015 2:06:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
The war of words over climate change is getting blisteringly hot between Gov. Jerry Brown and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, with the Republican presidential candidate blithely dismissing the Democratic governor as one of those “global warming alarmists” who relies on ridicule and insult.
A Brown campaign strategist shot back Monday that the “factually irrational” Cruz is apparently now determined to “stand out from a pack of troglodytes in the GOP race for the White House.”
The public slap down — and the dis of Brown — came as Cruz formally announced his run for the White House at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., becoming the first Republican to jump into the 2016 race.
Cruz was responding to Brown’s statements on “Meet the Press” Sunday, when he launched into a verbal beat down of Cruz when asked about the senator’s recent observation that in New Hampshire, there was “snow and ice everywhere,” more evidence that “there’s been zero warming.”
“That man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of the existing scientific data,” Brown told host Chuck Todd. “It’s shocking, and I think that man has rendered himself absolutely unfit to be running for office.”
Cruz shot back, telling Sirius XM radio’s “Breitbart News Sunday” that “global warming alarmists” like Brown “ridicule and insult anyone who actually looks at the real data,” and engage in “ad hominem attacks.” Cruz insisted global warming isn’t happening, even though “apocolypic computer models said we should see substantial warming.”
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He’s a contender. That salvo rightthere is gets me 80% of the way to voting for him.
Shut yer mouth Moon-Pie.
Why don’t you undo the damage you’ve already to my great state of California.
FUJB!
TED CRUZ-2017
The part about what polls show about climate change say most people don’t consider it an important issue!!
Too Cold: Global warming.
Can't decide: Climate change
When liberals come out frothing at the mouth then you know they are hearing the truth and will attack to try and silence the truth.
Well done Ted Cruz, keep up the good work and great speech today and without a teleprompter too.
Jerry Brown is Humor Free.
Cruz’s campaign needs to dissect Brown’s nonsensical answer and show it for what it is. It was all over the place and filled with unrelated ‘science’ words to show how much he knows about climate.
that’s why I don’t understand why Cruz wants to wrestle with a pig about it. He’s never going to convince the AGW true believers and guys like Moonbeam love the adoration they will get for fighting “the good fight”.
LOL so true.
In the winter they use the phrase of climate change and yet use global warming in the summer.
These people think they are so self absorbed and smart that they have no idea they are sounding like idiots and have no wonder they have become a laughing stock.
Ted Cruz just reset all their arguments to zero.
The left can never respond with facts. Because facts don’t support their rhetoric. Instead the left can only respond with name calling. Cruz is going to destroy the left singlehandedly.
Who is a typical leftist idiot unfit to polish Sen. Cruz' boots.
. . . sound like they are as delighted as Br’er Fox holding Br’er Rabbit by the ears and listening to him plead “Don’t throw me into that briar patch!”
So this chart is showing that weather balloons and satellites are showing no warming in the last 40+ years whereas other datasets are showing warming?
I love the rats circular firing squad.
Actual measurements(Balloons) vs model predictions.
LOL…there are some of us who remember the Democrats foolishly salivating at the prospect of another “stupid” guy running who would be a cinch to beat. His name was Ronald Reagan.
take the same graph and overlay the total number of wind generators by capacity for each year.
Then get back to me.
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