Posted on 08/02/2015 7:15:33 PM PDT by markomalley
Dana Point, Calif. – Senator Ted Cruz on Sunday got perhaps the most enthusiastic applause of any Republican presidential candidate to appear before the 450 donors drawn to Southern California for the Koch brothers’ summer conference with a point-blank denial of global warming.
Politico’s Mike Allen moderated a question-and-answer session with the Texas senator, who said of global warming simply, “The data and facts don’t support it.”
The Texas senator, who dominated his time on stage, leaning into Allen and at one point waving off a question from the moderator, went on to deliver a full-throated denial of global warming and a scathing evisceration of its proponents. The riff showcased Cruz in all of his rhetorical glory – relentless, uncompromising, and witty, talking about an issue on which many Republicans have softened. Cruz at times grate on conservatives, but the off-the-cuff riff was something his supporters will surely point to as a high-point of the campaign season and a reason why this is their guy.
Allen asked Cruz if he is concerned by a Boston Globe story published on Saturday that suggests Republicans will pay a price in 2016 for their skepticism about climate change. Cruz’s response? “Not remotely.”
He went on to recall the 1970s panic over global cooling and a coming ice age. “The solution they proposed was massive government control of the economy, the energy sector, and our lives. Then the data disproved it,” he said. ”Then it became global warming. Interestingly enough, the solution was identical: massive government control over the economy, the energy sector, and our lives. Then the data didn’t support it, so they entered theory number three, climate change. Now, to any power-greedy politician, this is the perfect theory, it can never, ever, ever, be disproven, if it gets hotter, if it gets colder, if it gets wetter, if it gets drier.”
The climate issue is in the news once again with the administration set to unveil sweeping new regulations on carbon emissions from power plants. President Obama earlier in the day released a video that warns of “hotter summers, rising sea levels, and extreme weather events.”
Asked whether the president is exaggerating, Cruz said, ”You know, there’s a different word than exaggerating.”
FINALLY someone has the brass to call it what it is.
Good for Cruz. Man-made global warming is BS. There is cycling of climate change like there has been for billions of years. But not man made.
BOOM!
that’s the Cruz I know and love!
CRUZ or lose.
That statement alone will trigger another donation to his campaign from me.
I think he's going to start doing a lot better after the debates, the more people see and hear him, the more they're going to go for him.
Cruz is proving to be a real bare knuckle fighter. I love how he controls the room and doesn’t back down but keeps advancing. Impressive.
Absolutely love Cruz. If we can’t get him into the White House, my dream is to see him as a Supreme Court Justice.
The answer to the question is that climate change is constantly happening throughout geologic history. The unknown is what causes it. It’s complex but the current climate balance will change and humans are unlikely to have much to do with it. Over the last 300 million years a hot climate has predominanted but recently ice ages have repeatedly intervened. We are at a low in atmospheric CO2 with a minor increase over the last several years. Is it enough to trigger a hot world. I doubt it.
“No money for you”, says the environmental Nazis.
Love it. The look on Mike Allen’s face was priceless.
It’s been shown repeatedly that CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is a trailing, and not a leading, indicator of climate.
Good for Cruz hitting hard on the Globull Warming BS. Great timing to 0bie’s recent GBS fits/threats.
Wonder if the Planned Parenthood videos/funding or illegal immigration/fence were discussions or on the agenda.
I thought when His Wonness was elected that the sea levels were supposed to stop rising....
Is that like 'the price' we're going to pay for wanting the borders secure? LOL - yeah, right.
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>> “Man-made global warming is BS” <<
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All warming is BS!
We are 80 years into a continuous cooling cycle that real scientists expect to last at least another 20 years.
Depressing to see people that like to consider themselves intelligent getting blindsided by pure propaganda.
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I seem to recall that Al Gore and over 3,000 of the “best” scientists won the Noble Prize for work showing global temperatures were GUARANTEED to hit no less than above where we now are. THEY WERE ALL WRONG AS OF LAST YEAR! Everyone one should have to hand their prizes back because EVERY MODEL FAILED that they used.
They have ZERO CREDIBILITY for ANYTHING NOW! Ted is completely right to push back on this scam!
No normal American believes man has control over the weather. This is being pushed by people like Gore who make billions by pushing it, but can’t change the weather. I have read in the past that BO, Jarrett and others will personally profit from this stupidity. Always just follow the money.
[[It’s been shown repeatedly that CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is a trailing, and not a leading, indicator of climate.]]
Exactly, and I wish cruz and others would begin hammering this fact home- the other fact they need to hammer home is that man’s contribution of CO2 to the atmosphere is a laughable 0.00022%- and I wish Cruz would ask people to explain to him, and to the rest of the world, how just 0.00022% of the atmosphere can cause climate change on a global scale
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