Posted on 10/08/2015 6:32:22 AM PDT by Rockitz
Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is showing Sierra Club President Aaron Mair to be an ideological hack and global warming alarmist.
At a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Cruz subjected him to a withering cross examination. Mair was reduced to stammering and frequent awkward pauses which he used to receive whispered advice from staff. He repeatedly referred to the discredited “97 percent of scientists concur” claim, and was unwilling to acknowledge valid scientific data that disproves the claim.
Mark Steyn, sitting in for Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday, called Cruz’s relentless questioning of Mair “a thing of beauty.”
Ten different times in his testimony, Mair claimed that “97 percent of the scientists concur and agree that there is global warming.”
“The problem with that particular statistic, which gets cited a lot,” Cruz rebutted, “is it’s based on one bogus study.”
The day began contentiously and Mair proved completely unprepared for the piercing questions posed by Cruz.
“In your written testimony you said that the science behind climate change and its effect on minority communities ‘should not be up for debate.’ I’m curious. For the Sierra Club is this a frequent practice to declare areas of science not up for debate, not up for consideration of what the evidence and data show?” Cruz asked of Mair.
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I’m proud to be in the 3%, but then I’m only an engineer...
Look how many millions of Americans bought the ‘4 out of 5 Dentists agree’ and the shock and fear those red pills lit up the bacteria in your mouth when chewed up on TV.
Thank you. I read and reposted it elsewhere. Hope it stops someone or many of them from contributing.
Me too.
I do too, but I wish he would have asked the stupid idiot Sierra boy was, “is that the only answer you have?” The guy kept saying the same thing over and over and over again, just like he was pleading the 5th.
Moron. Science ain’t determined by majority vote.
and of course “Globull warming” is an article of faith and public policy for every country in the European Union, Canada, Australia and almost every other nation state on the planet.
These governments (including ours) remind me of the opening scene in Kubrick’s 2001—apes jumping up and down, screaming, and waving their arms around a huge black monolith.
The 97% hoax is from the Doran & Zimmerman “study” in 2008.
10,257 scientist were sent a online survey with 2 questions.
Only 3,146 responded.
All responses were anonymous and they were also able to identify the area of expertise.
Nearly 20% said main had NO significant influence on global temperatures.
More “Climate math” needed....
They reduced the original list of over 10,000 down to 79 self described “Climate scientist”. 77 of the 79 said the earth was warming, hence the 97%.
Now that my friends was a good old fashioned country ass whoop’n.
You just gotta love the Cruzer.
Great! Just trying to keep this story front and center.
Affirmative action - in action.
Even I will admit that there is probably some small insignificant impact on global temperatures, but the models greatly overstate that impact as we have seen these past 18 years.
IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS BRING DATA!
I've said this before, the whole climate-change story is the new "Cold War" for the Left. If they can convince enough people that this is a threat, they will control every aspect of our lives, Constitution be damned. The threat will be never-ending, and any temperature data will be hung over our heads every time a new bill comes up for a vote.
Yet today, scientists are still trying to test and verify some of Einstein's theories, and they aren't considered kooks.
The hypocrisy is astounding.
I believe in Galileo's time, it was 100 percent of the scientists concur and agree that the earth was the center of the universe.
I sometimes wonder if Ted Cruz is running fro president just to get Secret Service protection because he really pisses the hell out of the Leftist whackadoodles.
Cruz absolutely destroys the President of Sierra Club on the topic on Global Warming.
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