article_snippet: Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz laid down a marker Tuesday on global warming, saying that denying human activity is heating the planet makes Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz a renegade truth-teller in the mold of the Renaissance astronomer Galileo Galilei.
article_snippet: Climate activists, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said in a half-hour videotaped interview, 'brand you a heretic' if you disagree with them. '
article_snippet: Today the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers,' Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz told the Texas Tribune. '
article_snippet: the Texas Tribune used to be: "the Texas Tribune is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat.
article_snippet: And this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier,' Cruz said.
article_snippet: the Texas Tribune political reporter Jay Root's one-on-one interview in New York City with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas' junior senator and the nation's first declared 2016 presidential candidate, included a series of jabs about global warming . 'DENIERS': Cruz says Cruz dissent about climate change is like the 17th century astronomer Galileo's refusal to believe the Sun revolved around the Earth .
article_snippet: Cruz's 'flat-Earther' epithet is likely misplaced, since Galileo never staked Cruz's 'flat-Earther' epithet career on a claim that the Earth was round.
article_snippet: That was well-known by the time Cruz's 'flat-Earther' epithet was an influential scientist.
article_snippet: But the Texas senator's Galileo analogy is a direct slap at environmentalists, calculated to set Cruz's 'flat-Earther' epithet apart from more moderate Republicans expected to enter the presidential race soon.
highlights_snippet: In Texas interview, he says it was once 'accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier'
  Claims 50-year swing from 'global cooling' to 'global warming' and then to 'climate change' shows liberals just want to control the US economy .
  