Former Governor Rick Perry is mostly famous for being somewhat less intelligent than George W. Bush. More recently he’s best known for becoming the head of a very important governmental agency of which he does not understand the first thing about. Like everything else connected to the Republican Party and Donald Trump, the new Secretary of the Department of Energy fills us all with depressing thoughts and feelings. Inside Climate News has more unsurprising but equally depressing Rick Perry news—he’s a non-climate-denying climate denier!
Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Monday he does not believe carbon dioxide emissions are the main driver of the earth's record-setting warming, a core finding of climate science. Instead, Perry said, the driver is most likely "the ocean waters and this environment that we live in."
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But Perry went further in his response to CNBC host Joe Kernen—who has expressed his own skepticism about climate science in the past—when asked whether he viewed carbon dioxide as the main "control knob" for climate.
"No. Most likely the primary control knob is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in," Perry, a former Texas governor, said.
This is the new conservative fad/tact. Climate change is happening, yes. It’s probably a little bit man-made, sure. But how and what we can do to actually change it? Rick Perry and his fellow oil drillers couldn’t tell you, and it’s best we all just make a lot of money before we all die. The end. What a great story! Problem solved! We won! Want to buy a car?