A striking resemblance between testimony for Peabody Coal and for Ted Cruz | John Abraham

Contrarian witnesses made many of the same arguments in a court case for the world's largest private-sector coal company as they did in Ted Cruz's senate hearing

In a recent congressional hearing, Ted Cruz (one of the leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination) first asked us to follow the science, and then misused and abused the very science he reportedly admires. The contrarian scientists that were invited to testify are members of a shrinking tribe that every year has to work harder to deny the clear evidence of a human-caused warming world.

Those scientists were William Happer, Judith Curry, and John Christy. They argued that the Earth isn't warming (or has slowed its warming) or that satellite temperature measurements are the best way to measure the Earth's temperatures. In fact, satellites don't measure temperature at all, but these witnesses didn't mention that fact.