“Climate change is not science,” GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz told Glenn Beck in an interview that aired on TheBlaze TV Wednesday night.

“It’s religion,” he said. “Look at the language where they call you a denier.”

Cruz went on to say — as “the child of two scientists” — “denier is not the language of science.”

The Texas senator said the “essence of the scientific method” is to start with an original hypothesis and then pursue evidence that disproves that hypothesis.

Cruz recently went toe-to-toe over the truth of climate change in a Senate hearing with Sierra Club President Aaron Mair. The lawmaker asked Mair, “Is it the Sierra Club’s position, as you just testified, that the Earth is cooking up and heating and warming right now?”

Read the article “Ted Cruz: ‘Climate Change Is Not Science, It’s Religion’” on theblaze.com.