"Climate Denier Ted Cruz Is Poised to Become a Lead Senator on Science"

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Climate Denier Ted Cruz Is Poised to Become a Lead Senator on Science
By Rebecca Leber at the New Republic

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120180/climate-denier-ted-cruz-may-lead-senate-science-subcommittee

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he GOP's Senate takeover means the chamber's leadership positions will be filled with Republicans next year. That's bad news for the environment: The Senate’s worst climate change denier, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, will likely chair the Environment and Public Works Committee. But it's also bad news for science: Texas Senator Ted Cruz, another climate denier, may be next-in-line to become chair of the Subcommittee on Science and Space, which oversees agencies like the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

In a February interview with CNN, Cruz said he doesn’t think the Earth is warming.

“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.”

He then parroted a myth beloved by deniers.




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[shenmue]

1. There should be a big teacher protest

with supporters like Bill Nye and Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

[Rhinodawg]

2. That's the joke of the century.

"Evolution....what's that?"

[Xipe Totec]

3. The next chairman of the séance committee. nt

[niyad]

7. hey, at least seances can be good entertainment (see the seance scenes in "ghost", for example)

whoopi was a sheer delight!

[onecaliberal]

4. They should rename it the assbackward committee

[rurallib]

5. In a related story Richard Dawkins to be next Pope

makes as much sense.

[Cha]

6. Something else out of the Twilight Zone that non Voters didn't give a shite about..

thanks apple~

[kairos12]

8. His first subcommittee appointment will be chairman for the dunking of witches.

[Phlem]

9. !

[vanlassie]

10. "I'm not a scientist..."

"But I play one in Congress."

[SoapBox]

11. Congratulations Puke and Bagger voters...

This is what you got.

And to every Dem that didn't cast your FUCKING ballot because you were too lazy, tired, apathetic, playing games, texting, calling someone, bitching about the President, mad about "immigration" or whatever...

This is what you got.

[Wella]

12. Ah, the husband of a Goldman Sachs wife in charge of a crucial issue

Why am I not surprised?