I thought I could take a break from Rick Perry but I would be remiss not to post this: The man who said "climate scientists are a secular cult" was the Texas campaign chairman for Al Gore's presidential run in 1988. Yeah.



Now Perry is claiming that was before Gore became The Goracle and got into that global warming thing as if that would exonerate him. It's a lie. One of Gore's campaign priorities in '88 was to curb emissions. Things were different back then. (Three years later in first grade, I learned about greenhouse gas effects without cries of indoctrination.) Yes, climate change was a well supported scientific consensus. It is today too. But now it's used as politic-tac-toe.

Perry is not happy about the news. He said a lot had changed in the years since he worked on Gore’s campaign: “I certainly got religion. I think he’s gone to hell.”

From Politico:

Such was his reputation for green wonkery that, in a January 1988 profile in the Christian Science Monitor, an attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund said of Gore: ''I think it would be safe to say that he goes to bed at night worrying about things like stratospheric ozone depletion and global warming.''

So was all this unknown to Perry, who at the time was a Democrat trying to put Gore in the White House?

Full story HERE.

 

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