25 thoughts on “Ted Cruz And Climate Change”

  1. Cruz begins: “I just came back from New Hampshire, where there’s snow and ice everywhere…”

    That’s a demonstration of his intelligence?

      1. And utterly unresponsive to the question he was asked. So either Cruz doesn’t realize that it’s unresponsive, which makes him woefully ignorant, or he does know but makes the comment anyway in order to mislead the ignorant. Neither possibility reflects well on him.

    2. The warm mongers told us we would see snow disappear in our lifetime, so yes, it is an intelligent answer.

      1. The IPCCC hasn’t forecast the end of snow in this century or the next, much less in our lifetimes, much less this year. So no, it wasn’t an intelligent answer.

        1. No, but many warm-mongering hysterics have.

          In 2008, High Priest Al Gore said that by 2013, there would be no ice at the poles and that New York would be underwater. The audience for that show probably gets a lot more information from morons like him than from the IPCC.

        2. Oh, now we have to talk only about the IPCCC! This is how you operate. You refute claims by saying, “so and so never said that.” Who cares?

          http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-snow.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0

          http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html

          Person A: The Nazis killed 6 million Jews.
          Person B: My friend knew a Nazi and she said that never happened.
          Person A: Oh, I guess I was wrong.

  2. There’s some irony in the fact that Cruz’s critique of mainstream climate science rests on the measurements of earth-sensing satellites, while his top priority as chair of the Senate space subcommittee is spending less on earth observation in order to spend more on SLS and Orion.

    1. The irony only exists if he wanted to cut weather satellites. Did he? you saw a detailed account of his “top priority”? How do you know it’s his “top priority”. You don’t. How much did he want to cut? What “earth observation” programs did he specifically want to cut? You don’t know any of that either. You keep spouting off on things you have only the slightest knowledge about.

      There are no limits to the depths of silliness to which you’ll descend to try and find something…anything…negative to say about a Conservative.

      1. …and before you now rush off and try to find some of that info – we know you didn’t have it when you wrote the above or you would have referenced it,

      2. Ted Cruz said his top priority is passing an update to the Commerical Launch Act.

        Apparently, Jim knows (or believes he knows) better. There are two possible explanations: 1) he is reading Ted’s mind, or 2) he is making stuff up.

  4. Cruz:
    “. . . satellite data demonstrates that the last 17 years there’s been zero warming. None whatsoever. It’s why—you remember how it used to be called global warming and then magically the theory changed to climate change? The reason is it wasn’t warming, but the computer models still say it is, except the satellites show it’s not.”

    The term “climate change” was promoted by Republican strategist Frank Luntz, who suggested using it because it’s less “frightening” then saying “global warming”:

    It’s time for us to start talking about ‘climate change’ instead of global warming and ‘conservation ‘ instead of preservation.

    1) “Climate change” is less frightening than “global warming”. As one focus group participant noted, climate change ‘sounds like you’re going from Pittsburgh to Fort Lauderdale.’ While global warming has catastrophic connotations attached to it, climate change suggests a more controllable and less emotional challenge.

    http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001330.php

    1. The term “climate change” was promoted by Republican strategist Frank Luntz, who suggested using it because it’s less “frightening” then saying “global warming”:

      Are we supposed to accept it because a republican said it? Many republican leaders are progressive statists.

  5. We all know Democrats depend on Republicans do define the vocabulary of debate.

    *rolls eyes*

    There must be three people on the Internet who would laugh at that assertion, and we are blessed to have the presence of one of them.

    Earlier this month I was snoozing in an igloo which I’d built weeks earlier, and slept snuggly while the outside temperature was -2F. I wasn’t vacationing in the arctic, I was a few miles from Rupp Arena. It gave March madness a whole new meaning.

  6. FTA: “Cruz noted that, for 17 years, satellite data has demonstrated that there has been no appreciable warming trend whereas climate models continue to predict catastrophic warming in the near-term. Cruz implied that it was safer to trust empiricism rather than the climate models that have yielded erroneous predictions for decades.”

    To essentially quote Jim and Andrew” “Oh, look! A squirrel!”

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