Hey, Rick Perry finally gets something right
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Hey, Rick Perry finally gets something right
If Rick Perry gets the GOP nomination, he'll be the first pedal-to-the-metal climate change denier to occupy the Oval Office (although Bush 43 might as well have been one.) In going off on the subject in New Hamphire today, the wild-eyed Texas guy did manage to say something I agree with, though:
In his stump speech, Perry referenced "a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling in to their projects."
I assume Perry was referring to this:
The world's largest oil company is continuing to fund lobby groups that question the reality of global warming, despite a public pledge to cut support for such climate change denial, a new analysis shows.
Company records show that ExxonMobil handed over hundreds of thousands of pounds to such lobby groups in 2008. These include the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) in Dallas, Texas, which received $75,000 (£45,500), and the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC, which received $50,000.
According to Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, at the London School of Economics, both the NCPA and the Heritage Foundation have published "misleading and inaccurate information about climate change."
Or this:
Now Representative Henry Waxman, a Democrat who served as chairman of the powerful House Committee on Energy and Commerce and co-sponsored the bill, is demanding answers on whether the scientist misled the committee on the sources of his financing. Along with his written testimony for the 2009 hearing, Dr. Michaels submitted to Congress a document detailing roughly $4.2 million in funds he has received for his scientific work. Only 3 percent of the funding listed came from energy-sector sources.
After the hearing, Representative Peter Welch, Democrat of Vermont — citing reports that Dr. Michaels had received substantial funds from the coal, oil and gas industry — questioned him on the record about what he received from the energy sector, but he declined to amend his statements.
Or maybe Perry meant this?
One of the world's most prominent scientific figures to be sceptical about climate change has admitted to being paid more than $1m in the past decade by major US oil and coal companies.
Dr Willie Soon, an astrophysicist at the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, is known for his view that global warming and the melting of the arctic sea ice is caused by solar variation rather than human-caused CO2 emissions, and that polar bears are not primarily threatened by climate change.
But according to a Greenpeace US investigation, he has been heavily funded by coal and oil industry interests since 2001, receiving money from ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Insitute and Koch Industries along with Southern, one of the world's largest coal-burning utility companies. Since 2002, it is alleged, every new grant he has received has been from either oil or coal interests.
Wow, I hope none of those climate-change phonies set foot in Perry's Texas. I hear they can treat people pretty ugly down there.
Brilliant. I hope this gets re-run, preferably in some place right-wing folks will see it--although apparently there are many knee-jerk right-wing readers of Attytood if you go by the comments.— Archimedes- Gee Willy, how about the drownwing polar bear hoax?
http://newsbusters.org/node/11879— blackhawk90 - Should be "drowning"— blackhawk90
Comment removed.- Of course the "warmers" have to deny the existence of the Medieval Warm Period.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.science-skeptical.de%2Fblog%2Fbeispiellose-erwarmung-oder-beispiellose-datenmanipulation%2F001195%2F— blackhawk90 - "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell, 1984
— blackhawk90 - In his stump speech, Perry referenced "a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling in to their projects."
I'm quite sure he was talking about Al Gore and his minions.— blackhawk90 - I bet it would be a lot easier to get funding from the Koch Brothers or Exxon Mobile to do a anti-AGW study than it would to get funding for a NOAA study to confirm what we already know.— SteveMG
- Texas drought. Couldn't happen to a nicer governor.— mike l
- Hey batty, think of all the jobs that will be created coming up with new green industries that actually help us. Conservatives live in the past. Can't see beyond their noses.— mike l
- Unfortunately the studies done by the United Nations on Global Warming were done with using poor Science and if produced by those taking college level science would have resulted in failing grades...anyone out there who took science in college please think scientific error and data manipulation issues. This study caused a great deal of harm to the "Warmers" cause, and until it can be recreated using correct scientific procedures and controls will pull down this movement. With all the money the current administration has wasted on low value "shovel ready" projects, perhaps it could more wisely spend some here on a new study to help displace any doubt one way or the other. Let's put scientists back to work.— cb54
- Will Bunch, since you're a political hack, let me help you out here. ANY PERSON with science background, understand that ALL SCIENCE is open to debate. Did you know that Stephen Hawking had a theory he was WRONG about... yet Hawking attacked detractors for YEARS until he realized he was WRONG. Why do I mention that... because it's people like you who treat 'Global Warming' as a religion, not as a science. Any true scientific person would welcome competition of ideas... it's how theories improve. GROW UP and stay away from topics you know nothing about!!!— JGD84
- Let's see. Should I listen to the vast majority of climate scientists - or a bunch of Fox News minions using Google to point out oil-company funded propaganda? Hmmm. Decisions, decisions!— Susie from Philly
- The left refuses to believe a 14.6 trillion dollar debt is a problem, yet call Conservatives deniers. Strange, huh?— jmc
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