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Fact check: Most Republican presidential candidates flunk climate science
At he request of the Associated Press, eight climate and biological scientists graded for scientific accuracy what a dozen top candidates said in debates, interviews and tweets, using a 0 to 100 scale.
Below Clinton’s 94 were O’Malley with 91; Sanders, 87; Bush, 64; Christie, 54; Ohio Gov. John Kasich, 47; Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, 38; Fiorina, 28; Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, 21; businessman Donald Trump, 15; retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, 13; and Cruz with 6.
GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas had the lowest score, an average of 6. All eight put Cruz at the bottom.
This individual understands less about science [and climate change] than the average kindergartner,” Michael Mann, a Penn State meteorology professor, wrote of Cruz’s statements. “That sort of ignorance would be dangerous in a doorman, let alone a president.”
http://www.startribune.com/fact-che...l-candidates-flunk-climate-science/352965251/
In August, Cruz told an interviewer, “If you look at satellite data for the last 18 years, there’s been zero warming. … The satellite says it ain’t happening.”
These same Republicans who have argued against climate action by saying the U.S. shouldn’t act alone are now trying to derail every effort that facilitates international action—and it’s not going to work,” continued Coequyt. “This is just another desperate, and ultimately futile attempt to derail action to tackle the climate crisis by extremist Senators who are putting themselves in opposition to religious and moral leaders like Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama, the 164 countries who have submitted climate action plans already, dozens of major U.S. corporations calling for climate action and the will of the clear majority of the American public. The American delegation at the COP21 will be empowered by those voices, not held back by the desperate efforts of the most extreme pro-polluter interests.”
Cruz and other GOP’s, including Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), have repeatedly denied the reality of human-caused climate change. Last winter, Inhofe brought a snowball to the floor as “proof” that global warming is not occurring. He also criticized Pope Francis for speaking out about climate change. Cruz spent an entire Senate hearing badgering Sierra Club President Aaron Mair about the organization’s stance on climate change. And just a few weeks ago, Cruz told Glenn Beck that “climate change is not science, it’s religion.”
http://ecowatch.com/2015/11/21/ted-cruz-obama-climate-change/
At he request of the Associated Press, eight climate and biological scientists graded for scientific accuracy what a dozen top candidates said in debates, interviews and tweets, using a 0 to 100 scale.
Below Clinton’s 94 were O’Malley with 91; Sanders, 87; Bush, 64; Christie, 54; Ohio Gov. John Kasich, 47; Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, 38; Fiorina, 28; Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, 21; businessman Donald Trump, 15; retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, 13; and Cruz with 6.
GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas had the lowest score, an average of 6. All eight put Cruz at the bottom.
This individual understands less about science [and climate change] than the average kindergartner,” Michael Mann, a Penn State meteorology professor, wrote of Cruz’s statements. “That sort of ignorance would be dangerous in a doorman, let alone a president.”
http://www.startribune.com/fact-che...l-candidates-flunk-climate-science/352965251/
In August, Cruz told an interviewer, “If you look at satellite data for the last 18 years, there’s been zero warming. … The satellite says it ain’t happening.”
These same Republicans who have argued against climate action by saying the U.S. shouldn’t act alone are now trying to derail every effort that facilitates international action—and it’s not going to work,” continued Coequyt. “This is just another desperate, and ultimately futile attempt to derail action to tackle the climate crisis by extremist Senators who are putting themselves in opposition to religious and moral leaders like Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama, the 164 countries who have submitted climate action plans already, dozens of major U.S. corporations calling for climate action and the will of the clear majority of the American public. The American delegation at the COP21 will be empowered by those voices, not held back by the desperate efforts of the most extreme pro-polluter interests.”
Cruz and other GOP’s, including Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), have repeatedly denied the reality of human-caused climate change. Last winter, Inhofe brought a snowball to the floor as “proof” that global warming is not occurring. He also criticized Pope Francis for speaking out about climate change. Cruz spent an entire Senate hearing badgering Sierra Club President Aaron Mair about the organization’s stance on climate change. And just a few weeks ago, Cruz told Glenn Beck that “climate change is not science, it’s religion.”
http://ecowatch.com/2015/11/21/ted-cruz-obama-climate-change/
