Rick Perry Praises James Inhofe's "Work" On Climate, Refuses To See AIT Until Gore "Concedes Errors"

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Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle said Perry hasn't seen Gore's PowerPoint call for action, "An Inconvenient Truth," and won't until Gore concedes that it contains errors. Asked for elaboration on the scientists who Perry said are abandoning the "global warming bandwagon," his office listed two dozen recent articles, almost none about scientists. They range from calls for Gore to lose his Academy Award to a posting from the Tehran Times ("Iran's leading international daily") stating that Gore doesn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize because as a senator he voted to authorize the first Gulf War.

Castle said the articles show "a myriad of points of view from people who do not succumb to the notion global warming is man-made." Perry's office also touts work by Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., who has called global warming a hoax and identified a dozen scientists who have changed their views on the impact of carbon dioxide, which is a common emission of power plants and automobiles.

Set against them are more than 2,500 scientists who participated in the United Nations panel on climate change, which studied the issue for more than a decade.

In Texas, state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon said last week that the governor and his office had not sought his opinion on climate change. He was among the faculty members of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University who unanimously endorsed the findings of the U.N. climate change panel over the summer. "The (U.N. panel of scientists) is as close to a document reflecting the scientific consensus as we're going to get," Nielsen-Gammon said. "Since it's gone through public and scientific review, it's as close to free of error as it's going to get. And since it's been vetted word-for-word by the hundred or so nations that participated in it, it's not just a scientific consensus, but also a political consensus as well."

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http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/10/21/1021govwarming.html

[muntrv]

1. Perry can't talk right now. He is giving Inhofe a reach around.

[Bitwit1234]

8. In the bathroom...I thought someone was playing the old

song...tap three times on the floor in you want me...............

[MADem]

2. Way-ell, fuuuuuck Rick Perry, then!! He can stay dumb as a post.

All that hairspray has probably impacted his cognitive process anyway.

[aquart]

3. Governor Goodhair?

[hobbit709]

4. Goodhair is so stupid he almost makes shrub look smart

[Javaman]

12. goodhair is so stupid he puts the "e" in idiot. nt

[Gman]

5. Perry probably ranks #50 in intelligence of governors

the guy is just stupid.

But Perry is also smart enough to force toll roads down the throats of Texans so he can get rich beyond his wildest dreams.

[hobbit709]

7. I'd say #52, behind Puerto Rico and the Marianas

[Catch22Dem]

6. WTF do I care if Perry watches it?

He's nothing to me. My senator Inhofe can go fuck himself too.

[Buzz Clik]

9. Yet another Texas GOP governor who doesn't mind flexing his ignorance in public.

[Canuckistanian]

10. Right, like his endorsement means anything?

I say let him wallow in his ignorance.

[Kolesar]

11. It is the idealogues who rise to the top of the party and get elected

In Ohio, most of the GOPukes in the legislature claim that global warming is a hoax.