You know, he did this really well. I will have to pay more attention, not least because he was born in Canada. It’s a shame that politics in the US has to go through this kind of process but that is how it is. This was from the report at Hot Air:

Cruz’s response was clever insofar as it undermined the canard to which the left’s climate alarmists cling: That they are wholly rational and data-driven, and their opponents refuse to accept consensus scientific opinion in the parochial service of their political values. Cruz noted that, for 17 years, satellite data has demonstrated that there has been no appreciable warming trend whereas climate models continue to predict catastrophic warming in the near-term. Cruz implied that it was safer to trust empiricism rather than the climate models that have yielded erroneous predictions for decades.

“So, you trust satellites more than computers?” Meyers asked, pivoting back to a joke. Cruz followed suit, and the conversation veered back toward a humorous direction.

This was a great moment for Cruz and for conservatism generally.

I’ve written on multiple occasions on the fact that public opinion data shows that the obsession over climate change is a fad primarily limited to the left. Moreover, it has become an article of faith so central to the progressive identity that the left would compel its candidates and elected leaders to declare that global warming is a more pressing threat to life and liberty than even irredentist foreign regimes or Islamist terrorist organizations. That is an opinion so wildly out of step with the public that Republicans are virtually guaranteed to benefit from their opponents’ myopia.

This clip showed that this left-leaning audience, which was fully primed and ready to cheer for yet another sermon on climate change, was disappointed when they discovered that there were cogent counterarguments that had the capacity to dispel their faith. Of course, no semi-religious conviction dies easy and moments like these are sure to be repeated in the coming months. For conservatives, that might be the best news they’ve heard since, well, last night.