Ted Cruz challenges John Kerry over resurfaced 'Arctic summer' claims

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Ted Cruz challenges John Kerry over resurfaced 'Arctic summer' claims
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The Republican senator called a claim made in 2009 by the U.S. climate envoy 'wildly, spectacularly wrong.'

, the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, about the effects of climate change on Arctic ice.

Cruz responded to a clip of the then-senator for Massachusetts, a Democrat, claiming in 2009 that in five years' time, the Arctic was predicted to experience its first summer without ice, tweeting late Saturday:"Does anyone care that this was wildly, spectacularly wrong?", which has since been viewed 1.9 million times, has prompted a mix of climate denial and support for the sentiment of Kerry's ultimately erroneous prediction.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz slammed U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry on Twitter for comments he made in 2009 about Arctic ice melting within five years."Does anyone care that this was wildly, spectacularly wrong?" Cruz tweeted.reached out to Kerry's office in the Department of State via email for comment on Monday.

Texas is just one of several states in the southwest experiencing similar weather, as well as parts of Europe that have been

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