Actually, no. Cruz’s opinion is that there is no scientific basis behind climate change- that it is a religion.

Had you bothered to read the announcement you linked, you might have learned that 1. sea ice and land ice are different things 2. Gains in Antartic ice are much smaller than losses in Arctic ice 3. melting land ice can lead to increasing sea ice.

You might note that when Matt Ridley says “I’m a landowner”, what he means is “I’m a landowner who has coal mines on his land.” Ridley has a vested interest in keeping coal as an energy source because if impacts his rents.