Gov. Goodhair, Other TX Republican Leaders Agree - Global Warming Just "Bad Science" - Star-Telegram

AUSTIN -- Despite warnings from President Bush about global warming -- and in the face of what many experts and even industry leaders describe as overwhelming scientific consensus on the issue -- top leaders in Texas have continued to question the validity of man-made climate change. "Absolutely," Gov. Rick Perry replied when asked recently by the Star-Telegram whether there is scientific doubt that human activity causes global warming. "I am not going to put the state of Texas in a competitive economic disadvantage on some science that may or may not be correct."

State Rep. Phil King said: "I think it's just bad science. I think global warming is bad science." The Weatherford Republican has responsibility for electric-utility issues in the House.

The global-warming debate has exploded in prominence during the legislative session, especially against the backdrop of TXU's controversial plan to build 11 coal-fired plants that environmentalists say will contribute dramatically to greenhouse gases in Texas. Other utilities also propose new facilities. Perry and other key Republicans have expressed general support for those utility plans even as they have rejected the validity of global warming or sidestepped the question.

In a recent opinion piece, Perry said there remains great debate among scientists about the validity of man-made global warming. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said Wednesday that there's an "absence of scientific consensus on the causes of climate change" but added that "we should take every reasonable step to support the development of new technologies and renewable energy sources." House Speaker Tom Craddick, R-Midland, said he did not know whether there was scientific consensus.

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http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/legislature/16542147.htm

ignorant people.

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After all, just think how much money beachfront property in Austin will be worth......

Is there any way we could just kick Texas out of the United States???

No there isn't. There is a bunch of charlatan "scientists" who got their degrees at Holy Name of Jesus Bible Thumper U over a long hot summer who "debate" those who know shit. Fuck the environment, Jesus is coming soon.

What a happy coincidence!

Put a Tiger in Your Think Tank

As you sow, so shall you reap...

But creationism is good science I suppose?

Maybe a winter without snow is no news to Republicans in Texas, but when we don't have to get our shovels out in the great Blue State of Wisconsin until LATE JANUARY, even state conservatives take notice. And some of them don't even blame it on God's rage toward the gays.

Or else he's deliberately dumbing down to court the rightwing nutcases.

In either case, I could do without him.

i thought they had that dirtbag in some scandal. i thought he was busted and on his way out. how do these filthy texas repukes stay in business so long after they've been exposed?

from the effects of climate change and peak oil.

Unfortunately, I have little sympathy for that state- or for Oklahoma. As far as I'm concerned, these are the just desserts for electing ignorant Republicans.

They have two bony growths on the top of their head and they scare me.

Now there's a phrase I never thought I'd see.

via video tape.

perry is a hollow suit air head and always has been a tool without any convictions other than the ones his handlers tell him to have.

more of his patented weather-vane politics.