{"id":49900,"date":"2015-03-21T21:21:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T03:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/21\/on-climate-change-ted-cruz-and-piling-up.html"},"modified":"2015-05-10T14:44:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T20:44:23","slug":"on-climate-change-ted-cruz-and-piling-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/21\/on-climate-change-ted-cruz-and-piling-up.html","title":{"rendered":"On Climate Change, Ted Cruz, and Piling Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And by piling up I mean that Ted Cruz is usually at enough of a reality disadvantage talking about stuff, but when he starts going off about climate change, he ventures way into cloud-cuckoo land.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, there he is, in a leadership position in the Senate, pressuring NASA to stop looking so much at, y&#39;know, Earth and what&#39;s going on there. And he thinks he could be our next president, too, which would be a barrel of laughs and\/or tears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2015\/03\/19\/ted_cruz_stream_of_global_warming_denial_on_seth_meyers_show.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/YDDjcHvdSYN-g4TSv3jWjX3BO60Bk7swIqaqHv5rrrIdg05m-A6GF_PZtKUKVL-FGbVWAAuH3IFPoFqaBgWpcmvY1tXJHAXuGFBlfGQXatZ2H-Cb0jO1Jgj3EOvNotGHHtohDAFLWxa8FiEX2pvCNAB8EndzQxP_IHIVfGU1ypvHLmIato9PD9ro=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2015\/03\/19\/ted_cruz_stream_of_global_warming_denial_on_seth_meyers_show.html'>Ted Cruz Goes Full Orwell<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIn case you haven&rsquo;t heard, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is not a fan of reality. The reality of science, that is. He has a history of saying global warming&ndash;denying talking points and used some of his political power just this past week to pressure NASA into downplaying its role in&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/PWFSpegHvT4'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And by piling up I mean that Ted Cruz is usually at enough of a reality disadvantage talking about stuff, but when he starts going off about climate change, he ventures way into cloud-cuckoo land. And yet, there he is, in a leadership position in the Senate, pressuring NASA to stop looking so much at, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/21\/on-climate-change-ted-cruz-and-piling-up.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Climate Change, Ted Cruz, and Piling Up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,748,100,353],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-dolts","category-elections-2014"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130579,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/04\/not-to-kick-ted-cruz-while-he-is-down-but.html","url_meta":{"origin":49900,"position":0},"title":"Not to kick Ted Cruz while he is down, but","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-May-16 1:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it is the Onion, after all. 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