Results 1 to 2 of 2

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

  1. #1
    Senior Member HAPPY2BME's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Posts
    17,895

    Cruz to CNN: Global warming not supported by data

    CNN
    February 20th, 2014

    Cruz to CNN: Global warming not supported by data

    Beaumont, TX (CNN) – Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questions whether global warming is real, arguing that the "data are not supporting what the advocates are arguing."

    "The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that – that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened," said Cruz.

    Cruz spoke to CNN in an exclusive interview following an event here to promote his new energy plan, which he says he will formally introduce in the Senate next week.

    When pressed about the fact that the arctic is melting, and whether that helps prove climate change is real, Cruz dismissed it.

    "Other parts are going up. It is not - you know, you always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called scientific theory that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they have defined it, can never be disproved, because whether it gets hotter or whether it gets colder, whatever happens, they'll say, well, it's changing, so it proves our theory," argued Cruz.

    "I am always troubled by a theory that fits every perfect situation. You know, back in the '70s - I remember the '70s, we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded. And then we were told by Al Gore and others there was global warming and that was going to be a big problem. And then it morphed. It wasn't global warming anymore, it became climate change. And the problem with climate change is there's never been a day in the history of the world in which the climate is not changing," said Cruz.

    Secretary of State John Kerry recently made waves by declaring climate change is "perhaps - perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction."

    Not surprisingly, Cruz disagreed.

    "Well, you know, it is ironic that Secretary Kerry would say that, uh, given that he is, right now, in the process of negotiating with the nation of Iran in - in what Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has called an historically bad deal," said Cruz.

    "It is ironic that he sees a greater threat from your SUV in your driveway than he does from the nation of Iran, with their radical Islamic jihad and - and their stated desire to obliterate, to annihilate Israel. He sees a greater threat from your SUV than he does to Iranian nuclear weapons," Cruz said of Kerry.

    Cruz chose the Spindle Top Boomtown Museum here, where oil discovery sparked the Texas oil boom more than a century ago, to push his ideas to support what he calls a "great American energy renaissance."

    His proposal includes many traditional GOP ideas – more oil drilling and expanding energy exploration and repealing many EPA regulations he calls harmful.

    Missing from his official plan are other forms of energy, what Republicans call "all of the above," but he told CNN he does support alternative energy, as long as it comes from the private sector, not the federal government.

    "We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers," Cruz told CNN.

    "We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy."

    http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...orted-by-data/
    Join our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & to secure US borders by joining our E-mail Alerts at http://eepurl.com/cktGTn

  2. #2
    Senior Member HAPPY2BME's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Posts
    17,895
    Al Gore brings climate change message to Kansas City

    February 22
    By BRIAN BURNES
    The Kansas City Star



    Al Gore has been known for his climate change warnings since the 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth.”
    Susan Pfannmuller | Special to The Star Former vice president Al Gore spoke about climate change Saturday during the Folk Alliance International conference at the Westin Crown Center hotel.
    More News

    But the former vice president, speaking Saturday in Kansas City, cited many more recent examples how heavy use of fossil fuels is contributing to extreme weather events and trends, in his view.

    Gore filled a Westin Crown Center ballroom with a 90-minute presentation, using photos and videos to illustrate a litany of floods, wildfires, torrential rains, droughts, dust storms, rising sea levels and increasing world temperatures.

    To those attending the Folk Alliance International conference, he noted examples of flooding in locations both remote and closer to home, such as in Manitou Springs, Colo., where high water barreled down mountain highways last year, carrying cars along with it.

    “They had never seen anything like this in Manitou Springs,” Gore said.

    He cited the possibility of how flooding in Pakistan could destabilize that country, a nuclear power, and the possible effect that continuing drought in California might have on the world’s food supply.

    “Think about that,” he said. “The Dust Bowl is coming back, quickly, unless we act.”

    Gore presented animation from his 2006 film depicting water pushing into the streets of lower Manhattan — much mocked at the time, Gore said — followed by images of water filling New York City subway tunnels during Hurricane Sandy in October 2012.

    Gore conceded the possible fatigue some may have with his warnings, as well as the possible sense of powerlessness as to what any one individual can do to affect what appear to be vast, unchangeable trends.

    “Do we really have to do this and — if the answer is yes — can we do it?” Gore said, repeating two questions he routinely hears.

    “The answer to both of those questions — spoiler alert — is ‘yes.’ ”

    Gore cited what he considered the increasing momentum with which renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar power have been embraced.

    Just as one telephone company study 25 years ago underestimated the huge increase in the use of cellphones, estimates on the acceptance of wind and solar technology also have been conservative, Gore said.

    Among the countries or states turning to renewable energy strategies, Gore mentioned the Vatican’s increasing use of solar technology. Vatican City, Gore said, wants to be the first CO2-neutral sovereign city-state in the world.

    “They have two advantages,” Gore said. “It is very small, and they have God on their side.”

    He urged his listeners to act on an individual basis.

    “The one missing ingredient may well be you, no kidding,” he said.

    And, given how he was addressing a room filled with folk music admirers, Gore framed his remarks with references to two singers: Bob Dylan and the late Pete Seeger. Reciting a phrase from “The Times They Are a-Changin’ ” and later invoking Seeger’s memory, Gore urged those in attendance to write songs and spread a renewable energy message “all over this land.”

    Folk music, he added, “played a positive role in resolving the central question in civil rights, as to what was truly right and truly wrong.”

    http://www.kansascity.com/2014/02/22...te-change.html
    Join our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & to secure US borders by joining our E-mail Alerts at http://eepurl.com/cktGTn

Tags for this Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •