One Nation under GOP: A Change We Can't Believe in

Recently, the beloved Senator Ted Cruz compared climate change activist to “flat-eathers”. He stated that scientist once believed that the earth was flat and that anyone who denied this fact, such as Galileo, was a heretic. In other words, Ted Cruz is discrediting scientist who raise awareness for global warming because scientist can be wrong. He later stated that in the 1970’s, an article was written about global cooling. Scientist were raising awareness of a cooling phenomenon and said that the earth was heading into a cooling period. Ted Cruz states that scientist then retracted their statement because evidence did not line up with their claims so they shifted to global warming. In the eyes of possible presidential candidate Ted Cruz, scientist are truly advocating for government control of energy sectors.

As a young scientist in blooming, I can say that Senator Cruz’s statements are not only grossly inaccurate but extremely ignorant. First and foremost, the issue at hand is not solely global warming, but climate change. Climate change includes extreme fluctuations in weather. This includes extreme heating and cooling.   What many politicians fail to see is that there has been a drastic change in global climate due to the increase emission of CO2 creating a greenhouse effect. To put it in simple terms, the sun radiates energy onto the earth. The earth then releases the energy back into space at the same rate. However, the emissions created by our major fuel sources create a cap over the atmosphere. This cap traps the suns radiation on earth lowering the rate of release of energy leading to an increase of radiation (heat) on earth.

Global warming is not something made up by left winged liberals who want totalitarian rule over energy sectors. It is a serious issue effecting our entire planet. The fact that men and women like Ted Cruz are the leading politicians of this nation is very upsetting.  There are two huge issues at hand here, the lack of proper scientific education in the United States and the inadequacy of our elected officials. The United States ranks 14^th in education but 3^rd in development. United States ranks 20^th in science education and is below average in reading and mathematics. This level continues to decline. This is definitely not due to developmental issues. We have the capability of improving our educational system but have not done so. This can largely be attributed to those in power, elected officials who are themselves uneducated.  As a country, we are carelessly destroying our planet and our human race by willingly ignoring issues at hand. We must advocate for full social revolution. We must usher in an era of renaissance before it is too late.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/03/25/ted-cruz-compares-climate-change-activists-to-flat-earthers-where-to-begin/

http://www.data.gov/climate/

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/03/248329823/u-s-high-school-students-slide-in-math-reading-science

http://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/PISA-2012-results-US.pdf