Tony

8 oktober 2015 13:59

Mr Mare hade lika Svårt att förklara sig som
Stefan Löfven när han skulle reda ut olika procentsatser!

Gunnar

8 oktober 2015 14:15

Att argumentera för väsenskilda ståndpunkter ger problem med fokuseringen.
Och man kan ju inte veta vilket av ämnena som prioriteras och styr en individs generella ställningstagande
.
Med detta sagt att jag tror att det är bättre att fokusera på det f n mer akuta problemet. Det ger mer 'bang for the buck' s a s.

Mats (ateist) Proffstroll

8 oktober 2015 19:07

Ted Cruz är köpt av oljebolagen

Climate change, energy policy, and EPA[edit]

Cruz has "outright denied" the scientific consensus on climate change.[190][191] In January 2015, Cruz voted for a Senate amendment stating that climate change is real, but not man-made; rejecting an amendment stating that human activity significantly contributes to climate change; Cruz voted against an amendment stated that climate change was real and that humans were significantly contributing to it.[192] In a March 2015 interview with the Texas Tribune, Cruz called environmental advocates concerned "global warming alarmists" and said that they are "the equivalent of the flat-earthers."[193] Cruz's views on climate change attracted criticism from Democratic Governor Jerry Brown of California, who said in March 2015 that "That man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of the existing scientific data. It's shocking, and I think that man has rendered himself absolutely unfit to be running for office."[194]

Cruz has claimed that "satellite data demonstrate that there has been no significant warming whatsoever for 17 years."[195][196] The Annenberg Public Policy Center's FactCheck.org stated that this claim was "misleading" and that "Cruz cherry-picks data to arrive at a spurious conclusion."[197] The Washington Post fact-checker said that this statement was "not correct" and a "highly misleading statement to the average viewer or reader."[198]

As chairman of the United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness, Cruz has criticized NASA for conducting what he considers to be too much research on climate change and Earth science, stating that research into these fields are not part of the "core function of NASA."[199][200] FactCheck.org found that Cruz's comments "made some misleading claims regarding the agency’s budgets and the science that it conducts" and noted that research into earth and atmospheric sciences has been fundamental to NASA's mission since the agency's inception."[199]

Cruz received more than US$1 million in campaign donations from the oil and gas industry since 2011.[201] Cruz is a critic of the EPA, calling it "unbelievably abusive" and "populated by zealots,"[202] and has accused the Obama administration of waging a "war on coal."[202][203] Cruz opposes EPA's Clean Power Plan, which aims to cut carbon emissions from power plants; Cruz accused President Obama of engaging in a "lawless and radical attempt to destabilize the nation's energy system" and called the plan "flatly unconstitutional."[204] Cruz, who says that he is an advocate for "volunteer conservation," and also criticized efforts by the EPA to expand regulatory oversight on water, which Cruz characterized an attempt "to turn irrigation ditches into lakes and rivers and oceans."[205]

Cruz is a supporter of TransCanada's controversial Keystone XL Pipeline,[203] and along with every other Republican senator was a cosponsor of legislation in support of the pipeline.[206] Like most Republican senators, Cruz supports opening areas for offshore drilling.[203] Cruz favors "expanding energy development on federal land" and has "pushed for preventing federal restrictions on fracking."[203] In July 2015, Cruz's super PAC, "Keep the Promise," disclosed that the billionaire brothers Dan and Farris Wilks, who earned a fortune in the West Texas fracking boom, contributed a record-setting $15 million to the super PAC.[207]

Cruz has offered amendments seeking to lift ban on U.S crude oil exports and to expedite approval of export permits for liquid natural gas, issues which divide Republicans."[203][208]

Thoralf Alfsson

8 oktober 2015 19:32

Stefan Löfven är köpt av LO!

Klippet handlar ju faktiskt om att presidenten för Sierra Club blir svarslös i utfrågningen. Inte huruvida Ted Cruz får donationer från företag eller organisationer. Vilket alla politiker får i USA. Även demokrater!

Hm

9 oktober 2015 00:10

Mats har kopierat ur engelska wikipedia ett stycke under rubriken Environmental policy wiews. Tycker inte det tillför någonting beträffande Aaron Mairs svarslöshet som fortsatt är uppenbar och 'talande'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz