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turbinetree

(24,631 posts)
Thu Jul 27, 2017, 05:59 PM Jul 2017

Dept. Of Energy Boosts Perry: Winning Fight Against Climate Scientists

Source: Talking Points Memo

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and his department’s communications staff on Thursday boosted an opinion piece praising Perry’s apparent ignorance of the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions are the primary cause of climate change.

The Energy Department’s press staff first tweeted a link to the column published in the Hill, which Perry then retweeted from his own account.


In the editorial, Canadian economist Ross McKitrick — who does not appear to have advanced degrees in any scientific fields and was the subject of a column titled “Is climate disinformer Ross McKitrick dishonest or dumb?” — praised Perry for giving a “cautious response to an awkward question.”

Asked on CNBC whether he believed carbon dioxide emissions were the primary driving force behind global temperature and climate changes, Perry replied, “No, most likely the primary control knob is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.”

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/perry-energy-department-boost-climate-skeptic-column



What a fucking asshole....................
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Dept. Of Energy Boosts Perry: Winning Fight Against Climate Scientists (Original Post) turbinetree Jul 2017 OP
And stupid, really, really stupid Phoenix61 Jul 2017 #1
Perry is the guy in charge of the US nuclear arsenal VMA131Marine Jul 2017 #2
There is a control knob??? GulfCoast66 Jul 2017 #3
McKitrick's article was a complete pile of manure n/t n2doc Jul 2017 #4

GulfCoast66

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3. There is a control knob???
Thu Jul 27, 2017, 07:29 PM
Jul 2017

Let's just spin it back... Jesus, these rubes are too dense to even attempt to comprehend complex ideas never mind actually understand them.

They have to simply everything to ideas like 'knobs'. Just like their charlitan preachers.

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