Ted Cruz Challenged Science At His Climate Change Hearing

[josephpalazzo]

What Ted Cruz Said: A bunch of scientists got stuck in Antarctic ice last year, so John Kerry was wrong about Arctic ice melt. <blockquote>“The summer of 2013 has come and gone, and John Kerry was not just a little bit â€" he was wildly, extraordinarily, entirely wrong. Had the [2014] Antarctic expedition in the picture next to it not believed the global warming alarmists, had they actually looked to the science and the evidence … they wouldn’t have been looked down and been surprised when they got stuck in ice.” </blockquote>What Science Says: The Antarctic is not the same as the Arctic.

What Ted Cruz Said: CO2 isn’t bad, because we’ve had more CO2 in our atmosphere then we have right now.
<blockquote>“I would note that the history with markedly more CO2 pre-dated the industrial revolution, so it didn’t come from automobiles or the burning of carbon fuels. … I would note those facts are directly contrary to what the global warming alarmists tell us day in and day out, and what the media who echoes those concerns tell us day in and day out.”</blockquote>What Science Says: The last time CO2 was this high, humans didn’t exist, and the planet was a terrifying place.

What Ted Cruz Said: Arctic and Antarctic ice are both increasing.
<blockquote>“Here are the inconvenient facts about the polar ice caps. The Arctic is not ice free. This year’s minimum sea ice extent was well above the record low observed in 2011. In the Antarctic, a recent study… indicates that the ice is not only not decreasing, but is in fact increasing in mass, directly contrary to what the global warming alarmists had told us would be happening.”</blockquote><blockquote></blockquote>What Science Says: Sea ice in the Arctic and land ice in the Antarctic have been dramatically decreasing for decades.

What Ted Cruz Said: It doesn’t matter than 97 percent of scientists agree about climate change, because 97 percent of scientists said the sun rotated around the earth in the 1600s.What Science Says: Scientists did not use the modern scientific method in 1600s.
What Ted Cruz Said: Satellite data shows no warming for the last 18 years.<blockquote> “According to the satellite data, there has been no significant global warming for the past 18 years. Those are the data. The global warming alarmists don’t like these data, they are inconvenient to their narrative. But facts and evidence matters.”</blockquote><blockquote></blockquote>
What Science Says: Satellite data, ground-based weather station data, and sea-based buoy data all show a steady warming trend over the long term.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/12/10/3729732/ted-cruz-and-science-have-a-rocky-relationship/

[stromboli]

A supposed man of god either wildly misinformed or an abject liar. I go with the latter.

[Solomon Zorn]

A supposed man of god either wildly misinformed or an abject liar. I go with the latter.

It's the same old right-wing revisionism: don't let the facts get in the way of the official narrative - we can always just make up new facts, or at least, leave out the ones we don't like.

[josephpalazzo]

A supposed man of god either wildly misinformed or an abject liar. I go with the latter.

Most likely he really believes in his shit. That's the scary part.

[Unbeliever]

A supposed man of god either wildly misinformed or an abject liar. I go with the latter.

Yeah, more likely both.

[widdershins]

A supposed man of god either wildly misinformed or an abject liar. I go with the latter.

These people look up information on any given subject with an agenda.  He's likely willingly wildly misinformed.  I doubt he outright knows he's lying.  He simply doesn't trust any source which disagrees with his pre-drawn conclusion and implicitly trusts any source which agrees with him wholeheartedly.  So, when he's looking up information on the subject the only information he actually looks at and believes is the information that supports the belief he already had to begin with.  If it "sounds" reasonable, he simply assumes that it's true because doing so is convenient.  Likely he doesn't even realize he's doing it.

[Brian37]

That fucker is why our country is so fucking dumb.

[Draconic Aiur]

Most likely he really believes in his shit. That's the scary part.

agreed

[Valigarmander]

"The sea level's rising? If global warming is true the oceans should've evaporated by now! Goddamn libtards."

[drunkenshoe]

"It doesn’t matter than 97 percent of scientists agree about climate change, because 97 percent of scientists said the sun rotated around the earth in the 1600s"

I loled at "...Challenged Science..." Good title.