Another reason to love Governor Rick Perry
From the
UK Guardian:
Rick Perry to delight climate sceptics by running for president
The climate sceptics can finally get excited about the 2012 election: Rick Perry, their candidate of choice, is about to officially throw his hat in the ring.
Perry calls global warming "all one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight." Unlike many of the other GOP presidential candidates, he hasn't expressed concern about climate change in the past, so he won't have to do any back-pedaling. Notorious climate denier Marc Morano is a big fan: "Based on climate views alone, anyone who is holding their nose voting for Mitt Romney because there's no other viable candidate will now rejoice to have an option with Rick Perry."
The Guardian has a pronounced liberal bias so they take some ad hominem pot-shots. A sample:
As a social and fiscal conservative, governor of a state that's been adding jobs (even if they're low-wage), and owner of a full head of lustrous hair, Perry is expected to swagger to the front of the pack in the contest for the Republican nomination.
Damned with faint praise -- even if the job doesn't pay well, this is still full employment for people that don't have a chance in other parts of the USA -- there is a reason why companies are leaving California for Texas. Hair is not germane to the article -- a distration...
A bit fast and lose with the facts too:
But plugging your ears and going "la la la la" doesn't make global warming disappear. Perry's state is getting absolutely hammered by heat and the worst one-year drought in its recorded history. The hot, dry weather in Texas is desiccating rivers and lakes, devastating farmers and ranchers, and driving wildfires that have burned up millions of acres. In the face of these crises -- which are just what you'd expect in a climate-changed world -- Perry proposes neither adaptation nor mitigation but rather supplication. He's been praying for rain and calling on other Texans to do the same. So far no luck.
The drought is indeed tragic but it and the tornadoes from two months ago were both caused by high-pressure zones caused by colder than normal upper atmosphere temperatures.
Posted by DaveH at August 12, 2011 4:34 PM