Just two of the five presidential candidates remaining in the Democratic and Republican primaries – billionaire developer Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) – completed a questionnaire from the American Energy Alliance. Trump’s response to the survey is his most comprehensive statement to date on energy and environment issues and thus, in the words of Thomas Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, it “give[s] us a sense of the way he is thinking about these things.” Cruz, by contrast, has a record of votes, statements in Senate hearings, and legislation introduced concerning energy and environmental policy in addition to his response to the survey.
Both Trump and Cruz are skeptical of the policies implemented by the Obama administration to prevent purported dangerous anthropogenic climate change. Both candidates reject imposing a carbon tax, complain of the Obama administration’s regulatory “overreach,” and promise to scale back or rescind the Clean Power Plan. Both also promise to review the administration’s conclusion carbon dioxide endangers public health and welfare and to evaluate the social cost of carbon calculation used to justify climate regulations. Cruz went a step further than Trump, directly disputing the Obama administration’s science claims, stating in a survey response, “the observed temperature evidence does not support the claims that carbon dioxide is dangerous.”..... To Read More
My Take - This clearly domonstrates two things - Trump is always just winging it and isn't on top of anything, or he isn't willing to state that which everyone who claims to be a conservative knows - green initiatives are not based on science or need. At least we know Cruz is completely aware of that based on his questioning of the President of the Sierra Club. Please see the video below:
As for the claim of 97% of scientists agree on global warming - please enjoy my Sunday, November 30, 2014 article - The 97% Lie
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