Sierra Club HIGH PRIEST is more like it...LOL He’s also one of the two candidates who have unequivocally and repeatedly opposed the renewable fuel standards and the subsidies that are part of the game.
Didn’t Cruz vote to expand H1-Bs?
the data are there?
the data be there???
Ted Cruz is a master debater and has had a lot of training. That Sierra Club dude could not do anything except ask for help from his staff and/or regurgitate talking points.
Ted Cruz for A.G.
Aaron Mair is a lying monster.
Cruz is brilliant here, though he should have dissected the utterly bogus 97% claim more fully in his conclusion.
Note: Cruz does his job in the Senate and runs for president.
This is a man of energy and principle.
+1
Wow, this is right out of Orwell or Rand.
He just keeps saying “no debate, it’s settled, your facts are of no matter, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, you should be forced into a gulag for your blasphemy, you must be mentally ill for aruguing with me and shoud be sent to a facility for re-education, all your base are belong to us...”
Class act!!
The Sierra Club guy either a) is a dolt, or b) perjured himself when he said “the pause” referenced by Cruz is a period of little temperature increase during the 1940s. I’m pretty sure it’s the latter, but it would be impossible to prove. He’d have to be incredibly ignorant not to know about “Mann’s trick to hide the decline in global temperatures” and the UAH satellite data that conclusively demonstrate no warming since 1998.
That was awesome..
I would be terrified to debate Cruz. I don’t know why these people would even try.
Sierra Club HIGH PRIEST is more like it...Moron.
I must be in the 3% of scientists who think global warming is hooey, contrived by liberals to publically fund companies who are obliged to give them kickbacks.
My degrees are in chemistry, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering, so what would I know.
It would be so sweet,so deeply satisfying to see Ted behind the desk in the oval office. One would hear a national sigh so loud it would register on all earthquake charts.
The President of the Sierra Club is not a climate scientist of any kind and, so, has no particular expertise on climate change. He merely quotes what he says is the consensus. He should have said that, as far as he is concerned, this is an assumption, and that he’s not the right person to speak to the assumption. Rather, his testimony is of the probable impact of that assumption.
With regard to the pause, the argument is that the heat being captured by greenhouse gases is being transmitted to the oceans. This is an ex post rationalization of the pause. Nobody predicted this 20 years ago. Rather, the climate alarmists were predicting continually rising surface and atmospheric temperature. How the heat is transferred has yet to be explained. (Apparently, the President of the Sierra Club wasn’t aware of this or was being coy in saying that the earth was still warming.)
Regarding a pause during the 1940s, global temperature has been rising since the end of the Little Ice Age (indeed, the recovery of temperature defines the end of the Little Ice Age). But the process has involved a series of pauses. The was indeed a pause during the 1940s and we are currently in another one. There were other pauses prior to the 1940s. The physics-based model of greenhouse gas heat capture doesn’t explain these pauses. Nor why the earth entered the Little Ice Age or exited prior to the start of the Industrial Revolution. Indeed, for a time, the climate alarmists denied the existence of the Little Ice Age. Perhaps some mechanism could be worked into the greenhouse gas model. Perhaps the heat is transferred into the oceans until a circuit breaker snaps and then the earth resumes warming. But, until models are developed that have predictive power, they’re only ex post rationalizations.
A much simpler explanation of what is going on is related to the wobble in the earth’s orbit. Given that the earth has an active core, it is quite possible the wobble causes times of release of heat as well as all sorts of gases and particulate matter from the core and from the crust. This argues that the heat emanates from the core, and the oceans are being directly heated by underwater vulcanism.
This alternative theory doesn’t obviate concern for the possible additional impact on global warming by the release of carbon dioxide through human activity. If we can figure out how natural variation and anthropomorphic whatever interact, we might develop a power tool for moderating fluctuations in the earth’s temperature due to natural variation.
Just like the advance of science might enable us to save the planet from the next killer asteroid, by detecting and then deflecting the asteroid, the advance of science might enable us to prevent the next Ice Age. But, the politicalization of climate change makes rationale discussion impossible.