Bloomberg: Cruz Says ‘Some of the Stupidest Things I’ve Ever Heard’ on Climate Change
Former mayor of New York Mike Bloomberg told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz “says some of the stupidest things” he’s ever heard about climate change.
“Even the right-wing crazies no longer say climate change isn’t real. They say ‘it’s natural, it’s not business, not man-made,'” Bloomberg told Amanpour in an interview that will air Friday.
The former mayor said “right-wing crazies” are starting to acknowledge climate change “because in every one of their towns and villages and states and counties, they now have floods where they had droughts, they have droughts where they had floods, they have storms, they have tornadoes.”
“You’ve got a guy like Ted Cruz — who I think [Alan] Dershowitz said was the smartest law student he ever had — and he says some of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard,” Bloomberg said adding the “only explanation” is that Cruz “doesn’t believe it, he’s just saying it.”
“Ted Cruz is a smart guy and you can’t say what he says in an intelligent way,” Bloomberg said.
Bloomberg spoke with Amanpour and Anne Hidalgo, the current mayor of Paris, just before the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks on the city. Next week, Paris is set to host COP21, a climate change conference among world leaders. The conference aims to reach a consensus on battling climate change globally.
“As [Winston] Churchill once said about America, ‘You can always depend on them to do the right thing after exhausting all other possibilities,'” Bloomberg said of America’s ability to lead the world in reducing greenhouse emissions. “I think we will eventually do the right thing on climate change as well.”
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