At a hearing
of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Cruz subjected him to a
withering cross examination. Mair was reduced to stammering and frequent
awkward pauses which he used to receive whispered advice from staff. He
repeatedly referred to the discredited “97 percent of scientists concur” claim,
and was unwilling to acknowledge valid scientific data that disproves the
claim. Mark Steyn, sitting in for Rush
Limbaugh on Wednesday, called Cruz’s relentless questioning of Mair “a thing of
beauty.” Ten different times in his
testimony, Mair claimed that “97 percent of the scientists concur and agree
that there is global warming.” “The
problem with that particular statistic, which gets cited a lot,” Cruz rebutted,
“is it’s based on one bogus study.”....To Read More.....
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