Posted March 27th, 2015 at 11:04 am (UTC-4)
Ted Cruz’s comments on climate change are … baffling
In an interview this week with The Texas Tribune, Sen. Ted Cruz made comments about climate change that were so baffling that I wondered about whether I should even address them. But even the baffling things deserve some sort of response. Specifically, he said this, as transcribed by the Huffington Post’s Kate Sheppard:
“On the global warming alarmists, anyone who actually points to the evidence that disproves their apocalyptical claims, they don’t engage in reasoned debate. What do they do? They scream, ‘You’re a denier.’ They brand you a heretic. Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be that it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.”
Phillip Bump / The Dallas Morning News
Ted Cruz’s comments on climate change are … baffling
In an interview this week with The Texas Tribune, Sen. Ted Cruz made comments about climate change that were so baffling that I wondered about whether I should even address them. But even the baffling things deserve some sort of response. Specifically, he said this, as transcribed by the Huffington Post’s Kate Sheppard:
“On the global warming alarmists, anyone who actually points to the evidence that disproves their apocalyptical claims, they don’t engage in reasoned debate. What do they do? They scream, ‘You’re a denier.’ They brand you a heretic. Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be that it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.”