Moving Forward At Your Own Perry-il, Part 4

For the love of the Flying Spaghetti Monster there, Rick Perry...can you take a break from the Perpetual Gaffe Machine to give me time to catch my breath?  Perry's views on global climate change are just as thick-headed as the rest of the anti-science GOP:

And it’s all one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight. Al Gore is a prophet all right, a false prophet of a secular carbon cult, and now even moderate Democrats aren’t buying it.

Perry went on later this week to suggest that climate scientists were all taking money to falsify their data in a massive, international conspiracy:

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 projects. And I think we are seeing almost weekly or even daily scientists 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, they’ve been changing ever since the earth was born. But I do not buy into a group of scientists who have in some cases found to be manipulating this information.

And the cost to the country and the world of implementing these anti-carbon programs is in the billions if not trillions of dollars at the end of the day. And I don’t think, from my perspective, that I want America to be engaged in spending that much money still on a scientific theory that has not been proven, and from my perspective, is being put more and more into question.

You know, despite not having any proof of any of this nonsense, this is a guy running for President on a platform of Science Is Lying To You For Money.   Yes, in Rick Perry's Texas, climate change is imaginary and everything is fine.

The historic Texas drought that has parched most of the state throughout the summer has caused $5.2 billion in losses to agriculture, making it the most destructive drought in the state's history, agriculture officials said on Wednesday.


They called the damage estimate "conservative," but it still surpassed by more than $1 billion the losses reported in a 2006 drought that had set state records at $4.1 billion.

"This drought will have a lasting impact on Texas agriculture," said Travis Miller, an agronomist with Texas A&M University's Texas AgriLife Extension Service, which released the numbers. "The most remarkable thing is the extent and the severity of the drought combined."

The losses include more than $2 billion in livestock, $1.8 billion to cotton, and more than $1 billion to other crops, including hay, corn, wheat, and sorghum, Miller said.

He said more than 90 percent of the state is listed by the U.S. Drought Monitor as being in either "extreme" or "exceptional" drought, the two worst categories as measured by the monitor.

But the worst and costliest drought in Texas history this year, not to mention droughts reported in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010 in the state?  All lies, totally not data supporting the notion that the Earth's climate is changing.  It's all made up, the $5.2 billion in agricultural losses this year are a "phony contrived mess."  Scientists are evil bastards who lie for money, unlike Republican politicians.