article_snippet: The comments will likely stoke the U.S. environmental movement's opposition to a Cruz presidency – which was likely to be present anyway if Cruz should become the GOP's 2016 nominee. '
article_snippet: It's not like Friends of the Earth was going to endorse Cruz, and
article_snippet: now suddenly Friends of the Earth're not,' an Iowa Republican political consultant told Daily Mail Online, describing Cruz as 'a smart guy whose new pronouncements will cost Cruz nothing.'
article_snippet: Cruz can fire up Cruz base and raise money quickly, the Iowa consultant said, by 'casting Cruz as a swashbuckling crusader' against the economic impacts of limits on carbon emissions. '
article_snippet: You know, we shouldn't be causing millions of hard-working men and women to have hard-working men and women energy bills go through the roof,' Cruz said Tuesday, talking about what Cruz sees as the result of government climate policy. '
article_snippet: what he sees as the result of government climate policy causes real harm and suffering when people all across this country lose jobs because the federal government wants to take control of aspects of our lives.
article_snippet: D.C. But D.C.'s Cruz position on carbon emissions and the fate of the planet that will likely raise the temperature of Cruz opponents on the left. '
article_snippet: Adding insult to insult, the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board wrote Wednesday that Cruz's campaign was 'off and bumbling,' castigating Cruz's campaign for 'positioning Cruz's campaign against an overwhelming consensus among the world’s preeminent climate scientists.'
article_snippet: That followed a Sunday interview on the NBC program 'Meet the Press' where California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown said Cruz's position on global warming makes the senator 'absolutely unfit to be running for office.'
article_snippet: At each stage, Cruz claimed, green activists promoted central authority over the nation's energy economy as a solution. '
article_snippet: When someone keeps proposing the same solution regardless of the problem, you start to think maybe green activists just like government control of the energy sector and every aspect of our lives,' someone jabbed.