Sen. Ted Cruz in CNN interview says human-caused global warming claims aren't supported by data. Cruz seeks an American energy renaissance led not by government picking winners and losers but by the private sector-CNN

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2/20/14, "Cruz to CNN: Global warming not supported by data," CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash and CNN Senior Congressional Producer Deirdre Walsh. Beaumont, Texas 

"Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questions whether global warming is real, arguing that the "data are not supporting what the advocates are arguing."

"The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that – that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened," said Cruz.

Cruz spoke to CNN in an exclusive interview following an event here to promote his new energy plan, which he says he will formally introduce in the Senate next week.

When pressed about the fact that the arctic is melting, and whether that helps prove climate change is real, Cruz dismissed it.

"Other parts are going up. It is not - you know, you always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called scientific theory that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they have defined it, can never be disproved, because whether it gets hotter or whether it gets colder, whatever happens, they'll say, well, it's changing, so it proves our theory," argued Cruz.

"I am always troubled by a theory that fits every perfect situation. You know, back in the '70s - I remember the '70s, we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded. And then we were told by Al Gore and others there was global warming and that was going to be a big problem. And then it morphed. It wasn't global warming anymore, it became climate change. And the problem with climate change is there's never been a day in the history of the world in which the climate is not changing," said Cruz.

Secretary of State John Kerry recently made waves by declaring climate change is "perhaps - perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction."

Not surprisingly, Cruz disagreed.

"Well, you know, it is ironic that Secretary Kerry would say that, uh, given that he is, right now, in the process of negotiating with the nation of Iran in - in what Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has called an historically bad deal," said Cruz.

"It is ironic that he sees a greater threat from your SUV in your driveway than he does from the nation of Iran, with their radical Islamic jihad and - and their stated desire to obliterate, to annihilate Israel. He sees a greater threat from your SUV than he does to Iranian nuclear weapons," Cruz said of Kerry.

Cruz chose the Spindle Top Boomtown Museum here, where oil discovery sparked the Texas oil boom more than a century ago, to push his ideas to support what he calls a "great American energy renaissance."

His proposal includes many traditional GOP ideas – more oil drilling and expanding energy exploration and repealing many EPA regulations he calls harmful.

Missing from his official plan are other forms of energy, what Republicans call "all of the above," but he told CNN he does support alternative energy, as long as it comes from the private sector, not the federal government.

"We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers," Cruz told CNN.

"We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.""

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Added: Regarding the theory of "global cooling," mentioned by Cruz, a 2002 book documents that the famous UK Climate Research Unit led by distinguished UN scientist Hubert Lamb was first concerned about global cooling:

2002 book, “The history of the University of East Anglia, Norwich," by Michael Sanderson, 497 pages, Continuum International Publishing Group.

Chapter 9, "The End of the Beginning," notes the origins of the Climate Research Unit.

CRU's first director came from the UN and
 
at first promoted global cooling.

• from page 285:

"A specialist area of ENV which rose to prominence in the 1970's was the Unit of Climatic Research established in 1971...with sponsorhip from the Nuffield Foundation, Shell Oil, BP, and others. (49) It's first director was Hubert Lamb who had been in charge of the Meteorological Office's research on climate variation and was the Chair of the United Nations World Meteorological Organisation....Professor Lamb came to Norwich as "the ice man," attracting much attention for

• his prophecy

• of world cooling

• and a future ice age within 10,000 years.

Within a few years in Norwich in which the heat wave of 1975-76 had intervened, he had

• switched to warning of global warming

with dire predictions of forest and crop belts being shifted, melting ice caps, and drowned cities. A holocaust within a century was an even more exciting prospect than an ice age in 10 millenia, and it all

• helped to shape contemporary attitudes to global warming.

It also drew much attention to UEA as did two international conferences in 1973 and 1975 which he hosted in Norwich."...


photo from google books website


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6/13/2013, "1970s Global Cooling Scare," Real Science

Many articles documenting global cooling scare.


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Comment: I posted this information about CRU original 'global cooling' focus because a commenter at the CNN article ridiculed Sen. Cruz' reference to 'global cooling.' The commenter said 'global cooling' was just something discussed in two Time and Newsweek articles and not based on science. This is of course false. The chairman of the UN WMO Hubert Lamb advocated 'global cooling' for a period of years. The above book was written about Norwich, England and the history of the entire University of East Anglia, was not a political book, references to the climate group are a very small part of it. People are free to do their own research on the book and come to their own conclusions.

Here's the "lazy, low information" (his/her words) CNN commenter uninformed about distinguished scientist Hubert Lamb:

"ThinkAgain
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Cruz talks about the global cooling talk in the 70s – neglecting to mention that magazines like Time and Newsweek had articles, which were NOT based on scientific evidence.

Cruz relies on the lazy, low-information GOP base
to further his cause. All he really wants to do is exploit our nation's natural resources with impunity so he and his buddies can get rich.
 

February 20, 2014 06:40 pm at 6:40 pm"

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Hubert Lamb was a distinguished scientist and considered "the greatest climatologist of his time":

7/9/1997, "Obituary: Professor H. H. Lamb," UK Independent, Trevor Davies

"H. H. Lamb was the greatest climatologist of his time.

He, almost single-handed, alerted the world to the inconstancy of present climate."...

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The notion of "global cooling" being confined to "the press" was circulated by a famous global warming activist a few years ago:

4/26/10, "Hubert Lamb on ice ages," Bishop Hill

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Comment: The CNN article didn't bring up CO2 which is the entire basis of the global warming hypothesis. CNN frames the issue as, "is climate change real," but that's a meaningless question. The only question is, is human CO2 causing global temperature increase? CNN should know the US government has been proceeding for decades as if the answer is yes with massive climate action and trillions of dollars of taxpayer money. US CO2 has plummeted and China's CO2 far exceeds all other countries to the point that everyone else's CO2 reductions have no effect on the planet. So even if the answer is "yes," as CNN wishes, the US can do nothing about it more than it's already done. The EPA even stated in the Federal Register that Obama's new power plant rules to reduce CO2 emissions will have no effect on CO2 emissions. Nevertheless the US continues to divert millions of taxpayer dollars daily to the CO2 terror industry knowing China is the only country that can lower global CO2. CNN won't be leading off the news everyday calling for a halt to this.

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