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Senate Democrats steamed over Ted Cruz’s hearing disputing climate-change science
Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, December 9, 2015 | Valerie Richardson

Posted on 12/09/2015 7:29:10 AM PST by Isara

Even before it began, Sen. Ted Cruz’s subcommittee hearing Tuesday challenging the accuracy and objectivity of the science behind climate doomsday scenarios drew a heated rebuke from Senate Democrats.

“We need to stop debating whether climate change is real. The science is settled, and Senator Cruz is out of touch,” said Sen. Tom Udall, New Mexico Democrat. “The American people want action. Most of Congress wants action. We need to work together and lead the world in...”

Mr. Cruz — the Texas Republican who heads the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness — said at the hearing that “public policy should follow the actual science and the actual data and evidence, and not political and partisan claims that run contrary to the science and data and evidence.”

He cited predictions of climate catastrophe that have failed to come true, starting with Secretary of State John Kerry’s 2009 op-ed stating that, “Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013.”

A candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, Mr. Cruz said the Senate Democrats’ “prebuttal” to the hearing came as a “backhanded compliment,” adding that the Democrats “doth protest too much.”

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Conservative columnist Mark Steyn described the libel suit filed against him by climate scientist Michael Mann, and accused “Big Climate” of bullying academics and researchers who deviate from the global-warming narrative.

“If you’re a real Nobel Laureate like Ivar Giaever, who won the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics, or if you’re older, tenured and sufficiently eminent, you can just about withstand the Big Climate enforcers jumping you in the parking lot and taking the hockey stick to you,” Mr. Steyn said. “But, if you’re a younger scientist, you know that, if you cross Mann and the other climate mullahs, there goes tenure, there goes funding, there goes your career.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangefraud; cruz; cruzclimatechange; demsclimatechange; globalwarming; hearing; marksteyn; tcruz; tedcruz
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Full Video: Sen. Cruz Climate Science Hearing
1 posted on 12/09/2015 7:29:10 AM PST by Isara
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To: Isara
Mark Steyn's written submitted testimony.

Great stuff!

2 posted on 12/09/2015 7:31:47 AM PST by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: Isara

“The science is settled...”

There is no such damn thing.


3 posted on 12/09/2015 7:31:58 AM PST by lesko
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To: lesko

The Udalls have been a continuing curse on American government. Here’s another example.


4 posted on 12/09/2015 7:32:50 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Isara
“We need to stop debating whether climate change is real. The science is settled, and Senator Cruz is out of touch,” said Sen. Tom Udall, New Mexico Democrat. “The American people want action. Most of Congress wants action. We need to work together and lead the world in...”

New Mexico should just replace Senator Udall with a recording of democrat clichés.

5 posted on 12/09/2015 7:37:49 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: lesko

Right on . . . if we had settled science the world would still be flat.


6 posted on 12/09/2015 7:38:58 AM PST by RatRipper (The biggest threat to US national security is our government and those in it.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Tom Udall needs to get the flat earth award.


7 posted on 12/09/2015 7:40:15 AM PST by Truth29
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To: Isara

Ask a liberal how much does global warming cost, they call you a racist. Ask a liberal what the risk mitigation strategy is in the event we overshoot and the world starts cooling and they will call you a racist. Ask a liberal, given they have all the money in the world to “fix” global warming how they would actually fix it, and they call you a racist.

The only real answer if a liberal engages you in this debate is to call them a moron. Don’t sugar coat it. That was Alinsky’s biggest fear. We should be using it against them.


8 posted on 12/09/2015 7:41:58 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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To: Isara

“We need to stop debating whether climate change is real. The science is settled, and Senator Cruz is out of touch,” said Sen. Tom Udall

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There is no such thing as settled science, especially climate science where there is no climate model that’s ever been successfully backtested.

“Settled science” is a concept that only exists in the corrupt and criminal world of politics.


9 posted on 12/09/2015 7:41:59 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Isara

If there was a computer model that said puppies become little boys, would that be settled science?

There is no consensus in real science.


10 posted on 12/09/2015 7:42:00 AM PST by LoneStar42 (Turn right.)
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To: Isara

algore said 10 years ago we would all be burned to a crisp come Jan. 2016. Rush set up a countdown clock—it’s ticking and we are all still here.

Anyway, why should the burden of 7 billion souls on the planet be the responsibility of 300 million U.S. citizens (and 30 million illegals)?


11 posted on 12/09/2015 7:43:58 AM PST by Joe Bfstplk (If it's irrrelated to elephants, it's irrelephant.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

If you don’t bow down to someone’s idol (in this case global warming), they heat their furnace 7 times hotter.


12 posted on 12/09/2015 7:44:32 AM PST by Lake Living
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To: Isara

He cited predictions of climate catastrophe that have failed to come true, starting with Secretary of State John Kerry’s 2009 op-ed stating that, “Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013.”

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There was a time when the Flat Earth Model was settled science.


13 posted on 12/09/2015 7:45:10 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Isara

14 posted on 12/09/2015 7:46:25 AM PST by Lucky9teen (God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning, and I believe God isn't done yet. TCruz)
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To: lesko
The science is settled...

Though it's the same thing, it sounds better (and looks better) than sticking one's fingers in one's ears while loudly chanting, "la-la-la-la-la ..."

15 posted on 12/09/2015 7:46:41 AM PST by glennaro
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To: Isara
Every Man-Made Global Warming report I've ever heard about has had to ADJUST the RAW DATA to achieve their desired results.

Now NASA refuses to submit to Congressional oversight.

16 posted on 12/09/2015 7:47:50 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: Isara
"We need to stop debating whether climate change is real...."

What debates are you talking about? I can not recall a real debate on this.

17 posted on 12/09/2015 7:49:30 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
I have a goto transcript of one of Rush Limbaugh's shows, where he goes into how stupid Global Warming/Climate Change is and asks some very great questions....that no liberal has ever been able to answer.

I love copying and pasting the part of the transcript that discusses the Climate Change, to liberals, because it stops them cold, and none of them are able to respond to it.
18 posted on 12/09/2015 7:49:59 AM PST by Lucky9teen (God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning, and I believe God isn't done yet. TCruz)
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To: Isara

If you want to observe Mark Steyn’s brief but brilliant testimony, you can watch at the approx. 47:30 minute mark.


19 posted on 12/09/2015 7:50:29 AM PST by Blennos
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To: Moonman62
“Settled science” is a concept that only exists in the corrupt and criminal world of politics.

Tagline material. Well stated.

20 posted on 12/09/2015 7:51:41 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (I propose a Muslim "Rat Out Your Family Day". Make it sorta like a gun buy back.)
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