One of the many things that is disturbing about almost all (perhaps all) of the GOP candidates for president is that they dispute that climate change is something real and a threat. One of those candidates, Ted Cruz, recently told Glenn Beck that climate change is not good science; it's just like a religion to activists. Yep ... climate change is like religious dogma, and it's not science. Follow me below the fold for the clip from Right Wing Watch.
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From Right Wing Watch:
Pointing to a recent congressional hearing in which he grilled the president of the Sierra Club about the supposed lack of data and evidence for the existence of global warming, Cruz told Beck that "climate change is not science, it's religion."
Look at the language where they call you a 'denier,'" he said. "Denier is not the language of science. Look, I'm the child of two scientists ... The essence of the scientific method is to start with a hypothesis, then look to the evidence to disprove the hypothesis; you're not trying to prove it, you're trying to disprove it. Any good scientist is a skeptic; if he's not, he or she should not be a scientist. But yet the language of the global warming alarmists, 'denier' is the language of religion, it's heretic, you are a blasphemer. The response from the Sierra Club, 'We have decreed this is the answer, you must accept it.' And so he didn't know his facts because he just knew his religion.
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