http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/10/30/3717795/ted-cruz-doesnt-know-the-difference-between-science-and-religion/
Sen. Ted Cruz, candidate for the highest office in the land, thinks that climate change — a phenomenon widely accepted by the scientists who study it — is a religious belief.
“Climate change is not science. It’s religion,” Cruz told Glenn Beck on Thursday.
To back up his claim, Cruz pointed to the way we talk about climate change.
“Look at the language, where they call you a denier,” he said. “Denier is not the language of science … Any good scientist is a skeptic; if he’s not, he or she should not be a scientist. But yet the language of the global warming alarmists, ‘denier’ is the language of religion, it’s heretic, you are a blasphemer.”
In fact, how we refer to self-proclaimed “climate skeptics” is not without debate. The Associated Press recently announced that skeptic is not an appropriate word for “people who don’t accept mainstream science” (the AP’s words), because skeptic suggests that there is some scientific evidence on their side.
The organization, whose style is broadly accepted within the media, dislikes the use of deniers, though, because it is too reminiscent of the phrase Holocaust deniers. It’s unclear whether Cruz also thinks that believing the Holocaust occurred is a religious belief.
Not everyone agrees with the AP — or with Cruz. “Those who are in denial of basic science, be it evolution or human-caused climate change, are in fact science deniers,” climatologist Michael Mann told ThinkProgress at the time.
checkout the rest of the article but what sticks out for me is here we have another republican perpetrating a fraud on we the people with no facts so what does he do to clinch the deal he brings in religion and there goes their base hook line and sinker. listen out for someone claiming climate change is a religion then you'll know it really got through when the evangelicals start attacking it as trampling on their right to religious freedom and a liberal ploy to supress them.
