Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas criticized the climate movement Monday night as a type of Trojan horse effort activists started to target the fossil fuel movement while also gaining control over aspects of the government.
Climate change is “the perfect, I believe, pseudoscientific theory because it could never be disproven,” the Texas senator said at a Texas Oil & Gas Association forum.
He also chastised his Democratic opponent, Beto O’Rourke, for not being in line with the state’s energy industry.
Cruz, a Republican running for re-election in the first midterm election in the Trump-era, also noted that the environmental movement is predicated on government control over the energy sector.
“The solution for climate change is the same as global cooling and global warming, which is massive government control of the economy, the energy sector and every aspect of our lives,” he said. Cruz also told attendees that the climate movement has made huge gains over the decades.
The fossil fuel industry needs to counteract a “misinformation and propaganda effort,” he said, adding that journalists and celebrities are at the vanguard of the movement. “We’re getting killed — killed — in the culture.”
Cruz added: “The left has those commanding heights and uses it to push the agenda that all of you are bad,” he told the audience. “On the right, look, the best and the brightest, what do they go do? They go make money.”
He has spent several months railing against the use of taxpayer funds on programs devoted to influencing discussion on global warming. Cruz took issue in June with public funds going to the National Science Foundation, for instance.
“We find NSF’s stewardship of the federal taxpayer dollars devoted to the latter project particularly egregious for a number of reasons,” Cruz and colleagues Rand Paul of Kentucky and James Lankford of Oklahoma wrote in a letter to NSF Inspector General Allison Lerner.
Their letter came after NBC News reported the non-profit group Climate Central “reached more than 500 local TV weathercasters” as part of its “Climate Matters” program that launched in 2012.
The program was backed by two NSF grants totaling more than $4 million that were rewarded in 2009 and 2014, according to federal records.
The grants were issued to two universities and Climate Central, a website covering environmental issues. (SEE ALSO: More Spectacular Fraud At Climate Central)
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Global Warming/Climate Change is a big fat lie being used by Globalists the Useless Nations the Democrats and the Eco-Freaks to create a One World Goverment all run by them
Ted Cruz is right on except for one point. “Climate change is the perfect, I believe, pseudoscientific theory because it could never be disproven,” Climate change rests entirely on the IPCC climate models. These have clearly failed. That alone disproves anthropological climate change. In addition, there is very poor correlation between carbon dioxide levels and recent temperature records. Of the warming on blamed on mankind forty percent was between 1910 and 1941 when carbon dioxide was much lower and not raising rapidly. Add to this that there is 0.84 (very high) correlation between temperature data and solar output. These three things together prove that the warming predicted by the anthropological climate change movement is wrong.
Claims of frightful global warming fuel a $trillion dollar industry and scam .
Any global warming we get is part of a long term cycle and is mostly beneficial .
Who disagrees climate changes ? No one I know . Natural variables absolutely crush
any effect from the trace gas and plant food … CO2 and the mathematic models used to whip up fear are disproven inaccurate lies . President Trump just finished the scam off .
Meanwhile Canada’s silver spooned Mr. Dress Up just overpaid $2 billion for a sixty year old pipeline and plans to use his liberal majority to impose a carbon tax on citizens to virtue signal after getting shit kicked in NAFTA talks . His parties top priority….. “gender neutral ” language and stopping the earths Hollywood fever .
Senator Cruz might reflect on the fact that while the AGW scam can’t be disproven, it has NEVER been proven.
I have worked in high tech industries for 34 years and am still working. At times I have held management positions. There is no way that a large industry would put in such a huge investment on such feeble evidence as the climate activists are demanding for climate change. If we listen to them their motivations can be understood. They often say these actions (to fight climate change) should be done anyway. In other words, these huge investments should be done even if climate change didn’t exist (which is doesn’t as a real issue).
Always notice that the ones doing all the yammering about Global Warming/Climate Change live in big fancy energy sapping homes ride to their award shows and Climate Change get get together’s on gas guzzling Limos fly all over the globe in Leer and Gulfstream jets(John Travolta has a 707)and the various Eco-Wacko groups are rolling in the dough even while they want the usial suckers to donate to them so Greenpeace can keep its ships and Zodiacs fueled with Fossil Fuels and Al Bore can try and sell his junk science fake Documentries