Claim: "Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up. In particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there's been zero warming."
Fact-check: Ted Cruz's world's on fire, but not for the last 17 years
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Lauren Carroll
Date published: 2015-03-20T00:00:00