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News Climate Change Wednesday, Aug 17 2011

Rick Perry Accuses Scientists Of Manipulating Climate Data

Aug 17, 2011

On August 17, 2011, Texas Gov. Rick Perry called climate change “a scientific theory that has not been proven,” and accused scientists of manipulating the data in order to secure funding:

PERRY: “You may have a point there because, I do believe that the issue of global warming has been politicized. I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data, so that they will have dollars rolling into their, to their projects. I think we’re seeing almost weekly or even daily scientists who are coming forward and questioning, the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. Yes, our climate’s changed, it’s been changing for ever-ever since the earth was formed, but I do not buy into that uh, a group of scientists, who have in some cases found to be manipulating this information and the cost to the country and to the world of implementing these uh, uh anti-carbon programs is in the billions if not trillions of dollars at the end of the, of the day, and I don’t think from my perspective I want America to be engaged in spending that much money on still a scientific theory that has not been proven, and from my perspective is more and more being put into question.”


Published: Aug 17, 2011

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