Ted Cruz lights up climate protesters by interrupting his speech

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz clashed with a group of climate activists who interrupted his remarks at an event Thursday night.

Demonstrators sat on stage next to Cruz and began chanting, apparently to draw attention to the issue of climate change and to protest Cruz's positions on energy, during Cruz's remarks in a Thursday evening event hosted by a conservative organization in Washington, DC. not back, instead of using the microphone to question activists about their basic climate and energy knowledge, they show grainy footage of the incident posted on social media.

“Wait, wait, which country is the biggest climate polluter on planet Earth?” Cruz asked the protesters. “You have no idea. You're a protester and you're totally ignorant of what you're protesting. What's the answer?”

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Climate protesters disrupted Senator Cruz's speech tonight. He flipped the script and put them in place. “Which country pollutes the planet Earth's climate the most? You have no idea!”

The obvious well-known answer is Communist China. They wouldn't say or they don't know… pic.twitter.com/PGrLPkrplO

— Darin Miller (@DarinBMiller) July 12, 2024

“Okay, so you don't have one,” Cruz said a few seconds later. “He's literally protesting the climate, and he can't tell you who is the biggest polluter on planet Earth. And he won't.”

One of the activists responded to Cruz with a response that is almost inaudible in the footage.

“Which country is the most polluting on planet Earth today?” Cruz said before one of the protesters said it was the US

“Okay, so this young lady has no idea, she said 'the United States of America,'” Cruz said. “She's protesting and she literally has no idea. By the way, the answer is Communist China. Which country leads the world in reducing carbon emissions? Do you know the answer to that? I'll give you a hint, okay? be the wrong answer you gave earlier: it is the United States of America.”

The crowd then started cheering for Cruz.

“Do you know why?” Cruz continued. “The reason is what you're protesting: fossil fuels. No, no, you're so ignorant you don't know. So if you're going to protest, face some facts.”

China is by far the world's biggest carbon polluter, seconds in The Carbon Brief, and the country allowed an average of two new coal plants per week by 2022, seconds at the Center for Research in Energy and Clean Air.

The US, meanwhile, reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 17.5% between 2005 and 2022, seconds in the data of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Many energy industry experts have credited the natural gas boom of the late 2000s as the main driver of this reduction, as a boom in affordable and cleaner gas allowed the country to reduce its reliance on coal.

Between 2005 and 2022, US energy production from natural gas approx duplicate while coal consumption declined, and US natural gas consumption increased about 46% over the same time period, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration.

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