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Ted Cruz and Galileo are as similar as Madonna and myself

Texas senator, climate-denier, and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz made his modest climate change views known when he spoke with the Texas Tribune yesterday, saying this: 

"[Contemporary] global warming alarmists are the equivalent of flat-Earthers. You know it used to be it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier."

The problem with these comments is that, like most of Ted Cruz's opinions, he gets things backwards. Climate-change deniers are the flat-Earthers in this scenario, not the Galileos. 

You see, Ted, many believed the Earth to be flat until science and reasoning proved otherwise. Once it was proven through these measures that the Earth was round and not flat, those whom denied this fact were called deniers or "flat-Earthers." Similarly, while many people may once have doubted the significant impact humans have on this Earth's climate, science and reasoning have proven otherwise. So those whom deny these findings are commonly labeled as climate-deniers or climate-change deniers, akin to flat-Earthers. In other words, Ted, you're a flat-Earther. Congratulations!

Given Cruz's rationale here (or lack there of), expect him to say the following things in the future: 

Cruz: "What's this deal with gravity? Gravity? Seriously? Gravity isn't even real!"

Fact-check: "Gravity is in fact real."

Cruz: "Who do you think you are, Albert Heinstein? Galileo's my middle name!"


Cruz: "I can't stand when people tell me that 2 + 2 = 4. It doesn't equal 4! It equals 7!"

Fact-check: "2 + 2 = 4"

Cruz: "That's such bull crap! What do they know? I tell you what, if Galileo had a doppelganger, that person would be me!"


Cruz: "How could the Earth be round? It just makes no sense. The only things that are round are balloons, balls, and boobs. I'm telling you, the Earth is flat!"

Fact-check: "No, the Earth is not flat; it's round."

Cruz: "Whatever. I'm like Galileo, man."

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/25/3638622/ted-cruz-is-like-galileo/
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