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Rick Perry is dominating the headlines for his supposedly inept remark invoking Galileo. Famous for his skepticism of climate change, the Texas governor said, "The science is not settled on this. The idea that we would put Americans' economy at jeopardy based on scientific theory that's not settled yet to me is just nonsense. Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.
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"Just because a tiny fraction of people claim global warming isn't real, or that humans aren't responsible, doesn't make them correct. Especially when going up against the overwhelming evidence compiled by a consensus of 97 percent of scientists who study climate as their career."
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"I think the governor answered consistent with his philosophy, consistent with what frankly a lot of Americans and a lot of Republicans believe - that the climate its changing. We're not sure that it's man-made. In fact, there's a lot of questions about whether it's man-made," the Perry campaign's communications director, Ray Sullivan, told ABC News after the debate.
With oil and gas interests among his campaign's top contributors, Perry's scientific pronouncements are unlikely to gain acceptance beyond the ranks of climate skeptics.
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