Today, Senator Ted Cruz announced he is running for President, the first, no doubt of a string of avowed climate science deniers that will be vying for the Chief Executive job.

Above, on his NBC “Late Night” show, Seth Meyer interviewed Senator Cruz a few weeks ago, and questioned the Senator’s stance on climate change. I think Seth let the Senator get away with a few whoppers.

I’ve offered to run a seminar for talk show hosts in this political season, to prep them for situations just such as this, which are bound to come up again.

If anyone knows Seth, pass this along. My hourly rates are reasonable.

Dear Mr Meyers

A few weeks ago Senator Ted Cruz appeared on your program – significant because the Honorable Senator is now running for President of the United States.

I greatly appreciate that you challenged Mr Cruz on his denial of climate science, and I hope you’ll continue to challenge future political guests on this critical issue.

That said, I think you let Mr Cruz get away too lightly with three talking points that are often heard, and can be effectively knocked down.

Let’s take the first one – “I just came back from New Hampshire, where there’s snow and ice everywhere.” We are supposed to infer, apparently, that because there is snow, in winter, in New Hampshire, that there is no global warming.

I suggest you have your graphics guys blow up a few key graphs. Here’s one. (click it for a larger version)

Ask your guest if they have looked at a temperature map of the globe, where they would see that New Hampshire, (or wherever the cold spot of the moment is) is an anomaly in a sea of warmth, as this February 26th, 2015, map from the University of Maine shows. Ask them if a President should have a global view, or one that ends at our shores, or the state line of New Hampshire.

Let’s take the next one: “Satellite data demonstrate that for the last 17 years there’s been zero warming, none whatsoever.”

Have your guys put this one up, Global Temperatures over the last century and a half from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

When we look at global temperatures as we should, decade by decade, the warming trend is clear. Can you point to where this graph shows a flat temperature, Senator?

You can then show the audience how climate deniers, like Senator Cruz, like to cherry pick beginning and end dates for their talking points – which one could use to arguably, show that temperature has not risen at all at any given point in the last century, even as clear data shows it has.

Senator Cruz then followed up with “Remember how it used to be called global warming, but then it magically changed to climate change?”

You can simply ask, “When was that change made?” – because when Physicist Gilbert Plass nailed the physics on this back in 1955, he was calling it “Climatic Change”.

And the global scientific body monitoring this issue was founded in 1988, and named “The Intergovernmental panel on”, say it with me Senator,…. “Climate Change”.

Again, Seth, thanks for your attention.

I’m available if you schedule me soon, my summer calendar is filling up.

best

Peter Sinclair

Media DirectorDark Snow Project