Ted Cruz Uses #ScienceFacts Hashtag, Gets SLAMMED By Real Scientists

If there’s one thing Ted Cruz is consistently opposed to–even denies the existence of–it’s climate change. So, over the weekend, the Democrats decided to take on Cruz via Twitter for his saying that carbon dioxide does not contribute to global warming:

Cruz, thinking he could win a factual debate with nonsense, decided to reply:

Yeah, he’s really that clueless, and the scientific community decided to let Teddy Boy know it. Consider this article from 2014  entitled “The Worst Climate Pollution Is Carbon Dioxide:”

“As far as climate change goes, the gas that truly matters is carbon dioxide. Unlike its shorter-lived cousins, CO2 sticks around in the atmosphere for decades to centuries, wreaking climate havoc.

“‘It has become very clear that if you want to stabilize warming at any level, you have to start talking about phasing out CO2,’ said Joeri Rogelj, a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and lead author of the study. ‘Reducing other climate pollution can help in different ways and for different things, but in climate stabilization terms, it’s noise on the fact that you have to phase out CO2.'”

Didn’t we all learn this in high school? Was Ted absent on those days, or is he really just so dense that he refuses to accept proven science?

Or perhaps Ted would prefer to read and then ignore this from Phil Plait, who was responding to climate change deniers who say, CO2 can’t be a bad thing because it’s what we breathe out, and that’s not bad at all. Plait writes:

“This is a stunning statement. Like most denier talking points, there’s a germ of truth to it—the carbon in living tissue does come in large part from atmospheric CO 2 —but to say that means it can’t be a pollutant is pretty silly.

“For example, our bodies produce formaldehyde naturally; it’s a byproduct of the metabolic process. Yet the Center for Disease Control and Prevention classifies it as a pollutant. Why? Because too much of it under the wrong conditions is a bad thing.”

So yet again we have Ted Cruz trying to appear smart, and only reinforcing the fact that he is not nearly as bright as he thinks, and, as Donald Trump has said on more than one occasion, he also lies like a rug.

h/t AddictingInfo

Featured Image Via Flickr available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License