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Townhall
Ted Cruz's
Festival of Fraud
Steve Chapman
Dec 12, 2015
You have to feel sorry for Ted Cruz. Donald Trump has hogged so much
airtime with his cynical demagoguery that the senator from Texas has
had a hard time capturing the attention of Republican voters. That is
surprising, because when it comes to cynical demagoguery, this is the
first time Cruz has ever lost out to anyone.
His patented formula is a mix of repellent ingredients:
misrepresentation of facts, baseless smears, exaggerated sincerity and
pretended solidarity with the average person. If Cruz tells you it's
raining, you can leave your umbrella at home.
Most candidates need a full-length speech or a 45-minute town hall
meeting to show off all the qualities that should disqualify them. But
an interview he did with NPR the other day captured the essence of Cruz
in six minutes of nonstop mendacity.
The topic was global warming. Every major scientific body has confirmed
its existence, but as "the son of two mathematicians and computer
programmers and scientists," he feels particularly qualified to debunk
it.
"The scientific evidence doesn't support global warming," he informed
NPR. "For the last 18 years, the satellite data -- we have satellites
that monitor the atmosphere. The satellites that actually measure the
temperature showed no significant warming whatsoever."
There are two flaws in his argument. The first is that satellite data
are not the only scorecard. Records of surface temperatures, for
example, show that "warming during the first 15 years of the 21st
century is at least as great as the last half of the 20th century,"
according to a study by scientists at the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
The second is that the satellite data don't refute global warming. NASA
says that based on surface temperatures, 2014 was the warmest year on
record. Based on satellite data, it was the third-warmest.
The same data indicate that of the 14 hottest years ever, 13 occurred
in this century. When Cruz says there has been "no significant warming"
since 1997, he's engaging in brazen deception...
Read the rest of the article at Townhall
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