CRUZ FACT-BACKWARD ON CLIMATE
AP FACT CHECK: Cruz is at odds with climate change science and its central conclusion that Earth is warming because of human activity
Seth Borenstein and Scott Bauer, January 21, 2016 (AP via U.S. News & World Report)
“Ted Cruz is decidedly at odds with the scientific consensus that Earth is warming because of human activity…[Scientists] say he's misusing the satellite data [to show a short-term temperature drop in a long-term temperature rise. He also distorts the facts to down play ice cap melting. Scientists] say it's only a matter of decades before the sea ice around the North Pole will be melted during the summer months…[Despite his assertion that it is a] pseudo-science, climate change is the consensus view among real scientists…[The Cruz arguments about so-called ‘global cooling’ in the 1970s are also inaccurate]…From 1965 to 1979, 44 peer-reviewed scientific studies found the world was warming, 20 found no trend and only seven found cooling...” click here for more
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