--- title: Ted Cruz Says Climate Change Fears Falsified By Scientists description: The Texas Senator tells GOP mega-donors that there is no evidence to back up scientists' claims on global warming. canonical: https://time.com/3981623/ted-cruz-climate-change/ author: Philip Elliott article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-03T01:39:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:46.995Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ted Cruz Rejects Climate Change As Science og:description: The White House hopeful says research is garbage and a phenomenon a hoax. og:url: https://time.com/3981623/ted-cruz-climate-change/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc7844c4bc7fac7f6/69885126a988caeea96b2abe/ted-cruz.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Republican presidential candidate Sen. 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Ted Cruz greets supporters at the Georgia Republican Convention in Athens, Ga. on May 15, 2015. Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz greets supporters at the Georgia Republican Convention in Athens, Ga. on May 15, 2015.David Goldman—AP  by [Philip Elliott / Dana Point, Calif.](https://time.com/author/philip-elliott/)  ## Philip Elliott / Dana Point, Calif. Senior Correspondent Aug 3, 2015 1:39 AM UTC Sen. Ted Cruz on Sunday said facts don’t support climate change, in a speech that described the notion as a front for power-hungry politicians who want to control Americans’ lives. During an appearance before some of the most influential conservative donors in the country, the Texas Republican said there is no factual basis for scientists’ research that shows the planet is changing. The 2016 White House hopeful said none of the research is worth the paper it is printed on. “If you look at satellite data for the last 18 years, there’s been zero recorded warming,” Cruz said in California’s Orange County. “The satellite says it ain’t happening.” Instead, Cruz said, government researchers are reverse engineering data sets to falsify changes in the climate. “They’re cooking the books. They’re actually adjusting the numbers,” Cruz said. “Enron used to do their books the same way.” Cruz said scientists four decades ago were studying “global cooling, a global ice age was coming,” and they were as wrong as those who now say the earth is warming. “Senator, you’re not saying global warming isn’t real?” interrupted his interviewer, _Politico’s_ Mike Allen. “I’m saying that data and facts don’t support it,” Cruz said to applause from 450 donors to the political network organized by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch. “Full on denial?” Allen replied, making sure he was understanding the first-term Senator. Cruz was ready with his retort. “It is always disturbing to hear science use the language of theology. Deniers. Heretics. That’s not what sicence is supposed to be about. Science should follow the facts.” Cruz then said the notion is being used to control the economy and energy industry in the hopes of combating of climate change. “To any power-greedy politician, this is the perfect theory. It can never, ever, ever be disproven,” Cruz said. Science, however, does not back up Cruz’s position. Geochemist James Lawrence Powell, an adviser to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, reviewed peer-reviewed science journals and found that only two articles rejected climate change during 2013\. 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