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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that deer-in-the-headlights Sierra Club chief was too dumb to know what hit ‘em.
Brilliant
Global warming is hokum.
Go Ted Go! Have got to find this on youtube!
I’d have to say that the Sierra Club found a person who guarantees to shrink the contributions to that agency.
After all, selecting a person by Affirmative Action will bring in all that minority money, won’t it?
Would love to know how much Sierra Club is paying this guy. Their Board of Trustees should be absolutely ashamed.
"Thing of Beauty" ping ...
BUMP . . . for later.
The relevant number to the low IQ voter is 97. 97% of scientist say it is fact, and he got to repeat that lie over and over.
Except his claims are not “destroyed”, they are the centerpiece of public policy and are strongly supported by all four branches of government.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3345627/posts 32 comments
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3345919/posts 17 comments
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He toed the Party line very well. The Party is always correct.
That was a masterpiece takedown.
Worth every post. Thank you. I hate, loathe, and despise the Sierra Club.
The Q & A reads like it could have been written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for South Park parody.
I love Ted Cruz!
I'm curious about the term "scientist" in this context. No one is just a "scientist," as most researchers describe themselves within their given field of research; e.g., meteorology, climatology, geology, biology, etc. Plain old "scientist" is a very peculiar term, but those who use it must believe it resonates with people. Who, in their right minds, would not believe a scientist? What do the 3% of the pooled "scientists" who don't agree with the findings believe? Are they deniers? Based on what reasons don't they believe in man-made global warming?
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