Discussion: Scientists: Ted Cruz Understands Less About Climate Than A Kindergartner

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Cruz: I am proud to get the best score from a leftist institution. This shows I am most suitable to lead this great conservative country. Climate science is no match for our lord who created heaven and earth.

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Man. Scientists be dissing.

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Ted Cruz (and the entire Teatroll army) understands a lot of things less than a kindergartener. Perhaps the best example is their understanding of and ideas about how the economy works, which can be adequately summarized as follows:

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If Jim Inhofe and Lamar Smith were contestants they’d come below Cruz.

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Amazing that the good DOCTOR Rand Paul has such a poor grasp of science. Well, he’s in the company of the great DOCTOR Ben Carson. I guess they don’t have to know much science to become a medical doctor these days… that’s reassuring.

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The scientists also docked points from Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) score for once exaggerating that “the planet that we’re going to be leaving our kids and our grandchildren may well not be habitable.”

“I would not say that the planet will become uninhabitable. Regardless of what we do, some humans will survive,” Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University, said of Sanders’ comment, according to the AP.

This isn’t necessarily an exaggeration. The real existential risk of climate change is not that the planet will become too hot for human habitation. The problem is that when the earth’s carrying capacity drops, people don’t just choose to peacefully die off. There will be wars. And we have the technology, and have had the technology for decades, to launch wars that would indeed make the planet too hot (i.e., radioactive) for human habitation.

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I don’t think Cruz doesn’t understand this. He just pretends not to, which is actually worse. He’s a sharp, intelligent man who is craven and cynical.

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The scientists also docked points from Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) score for once exaggerating that “the planet that we’re going to be leaving our kids and our grandchildren may well not be habitable.”

“I would not say that the planet will become uninhabitable. Regardless of what we do, some humans will survive,” Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University, said of Sanders’ comment, according to the AP.

Careful, Prof…

The False Equivalency Machine will link Sanders and Cruz as being equidistant from the 50 yard line.

Besides, I do not believe that this professor would want (or be able) to live on such a “some-humans-would-survive” planet.

KUDOS to Bernie… Phrase your stuff differently, Prof…you are talking to Americans, not the Dutch.

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i certainly go along with the craven and cynical analysis. narcissistic, cowardly, and arrogant also come to mind. i think he essentially has brain-washed himself. he wants something to be a certain way, then searches for any half-baked theory he can find, then doubles down on it. this is delusional. i really do not think this man is well mentally.

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Ted exemplifies the perfect candidate (Manchurian comes to mind) intended by the NeoCons…

His minders are very pleased with his conduct.

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Balls deep he’s a 2.

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You can’t be knowledgeable about science and be a Bible-thumping Christian Dominionist simultaneously. You’re one or the other, and we know which one Rafael’s son is.

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Look, folks, we had a dumbass Texan who thought he was smart sitting in the Big Chair seven years ago. What do we need with another one?

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If a Bible literalist and young Earth Creationist applied for a PhD program in geology or biology at a secular university would denying him/her the slot be religious discrimination? How do you study either while deciding going in the Earth is 6000 years old and every plant and animal that exists is exactly like you see it as it was from day one?

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Amazing that the good DOCTOR Rand Paul has such a poor grasp of science.
Well, he’s in the company of the great DOCTOR Ben Carson. I guess
they don’t have to know much science to become a medical doctor these
days… that’s reassuring.

… but you’re not being snarky, are you? You really think they are scientists.

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Don’t diss the Great Decider! He was Decider in Chief.

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Professors everywhere in Princeton are learning the perils of a ‘pity C’ right now.

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No more than it would be religious discrimination to deny acceptance to aircraft mechanic school to somebody who believed that mechanical problems were caused by gremlins, fairies, and imps.

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