At town hall, Perry doubles down on climate skepticism

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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-perry-town-hall-20110930,0,177182.story

At town hall, Perry doubles down on climate skepticism

By Paul West

September 30, 2011, 5:39 p.m.
Reporting from Derry, N.H.—
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry may have backed down on tuition breaks for illegal immigrants, but he’s doubling down on his skepticism of climate-change science.

At a New Hampshire town-hall style meeting, his first of the campaign, the Texas governor sparred Friday evening with a questioner who tried to pin him down on the issue. The man, whom Perry addressed as “Mike,” began by noting a 2011 report from a panel of experts chosen by the National Academy of Sciences, which concluded that climate change is occurring and “is very likely caused primarily by the emission of greenhouse gases from human activities.” The man noted that Perry had ducked—twice--when asked at the Reagan Library debate this month to name the scientists he found most credible on the subject.

“Great,” replied Perry, strolling with a hand-held microphone in front of a crowd at the Adams Memorial Opera House in Derry, N.H. “I’m ready for you this time.”

Perry said that “just within the last couple of weeks, a renowned Nobel laureate” had said that it was “not correct” to say that there was “incontrovertible” evidence that global warming is man’s fault. “There are scientists all across this country who are saying that,” Perry said, adding to that his own conclusion that climate change science “frankly is not proven.”

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1. Another RATpubliCON Doubles Down on Stupid

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2. So who's this Nobel Laureate? Kary Mullis?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis

Mullis has become a crank-at-large, making pronouncements on controversies that fall well outside the field of biochemistry, his area of expertise. Sort of like Fred Hoyle...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle#Rejection_of_chemical_evolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle#Other_controversies