GOP White House hopeful Rick Perry stood behind his doubts about climate change at his first debate appearance Wednesday night – and suggested Galileo would have his back.
Perry invoked the Italian scientist – who drew the Catholic church’s wrath in the 1600s for arguing the earth revolves around the sun – in claiming that human-induced climate change is an unsettled theory.
“The idea that we would put Americans' economy at . . . jeopardy based on scientific theory that's not settled yet, to me, is just nonsense,” said Perry, the governor of Texas. “I mean . . . and I tell somebody, I said, just because you have a group of scientists that have stood up and said here is the fact, Galileo got outvoted for a spell.”
Perry, on the stump last month, alleged that a “substantial number” of climate scientists have manipulated data to win money for projects. But he declined, when asked Wednesday, to name scientists he finds most credible on the topic.
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