Rick Perry
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Rick Perry stumbles and mumbles as he tries to defend abstinence education [VIDEO]
"Abstinence works." That's Rick Perry's response to a question about why Texas is sticking with abstinence-only education despite its high teen pregnancy rate.
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Cartoon version of Rick Perry indistinguishable from the real thing
I wish this Taiwanese animated explainer on Rick Perry said more about his laughable positions on climate science, but you gotta love watching a cartoon version of the Republican front-runner pray for rain and get smacked down by God.
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Rick Perry: Just because global warming is a 'fact' doesn't mean it's real
Oh, Rick Perry. He's like a feudal lord who was just defrosted from the 13th century, only better-coiffed and less handy with a lance. He's like his own personal Renaissance Festival. Science? Forsooth, milord, what dost thou mean?
In last night's debate, Perry offered the following extremely convincing (to other 13th-century refugees) argument against global warming:
- Not all scientists believe in it, I am pretty sure.
- I can't name any scientist who doesn't, but then, I can't name any scientists at all.
- Even if they do say it's a fact, that doesn't mean it's true.
- Because Galileo.
- Hey, Galileo! He's a scientist who probably didn't believe in global warming!
- QED.
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Critical List: Obama admin backs more solar projects; Kiribati president wants a new island
The Obama administration provided a loan guarantee to a SolarCity project that would put solar panels on 160,000 military homes — "the larger domestic residential rooftop solar project in history," Energy Secretary Chu said.
Rick Perry thinks he's a smart as Galileo. Or at least that some climate-denying scientists are.
So he’d be pretty irked to see yet more evidence that global warming is real, if he actually read newspapers. -
Firsthand accounts from inside Texas' raging inferno
Texas, which is rapidly turning into just the sort of desert we were promised it would soon be, has already seen a year of record-breaking drought and out-of-control wildfires. Now the flames are threatening residential areas, even the state capital itself.
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Rick Perry: The EPA 'won't know what hit 'em'
Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry announced his intentions to make the EPA unapologetically pro-pollution.
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Critical List: Rick Perry loves nuclear waste; oil spills in Alabama
Rick Perry wanted to expand a nuclear waste site, owned by one of his donors, but a state commissioner objected. Guess what happened to the state commissioner. No, he wasn’t killed, Jesus! But Perry did offer him another job, in order to bribe him away from the waste commission so he could be replaced.
Beijing's going to put congestion fees in place, a policy that New York City has failed to get past suburban commuters. Ah, democracy.
Will you be living under high water stress?
Some businesses, like the insurance industry, believe in climate change. But that doesn't mean they're prepared for it.
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Texas likely to have multi-year drought; Rick Perry likely to deny its cause
Texas' over-the-top, economically devastating, record-breaking drought is likely to turn into a grinding, multi-year drought, reports Kate Galbraith in the Texas Tribune. That could put it on track to compete with the state's worst-ever dry spell in the 1950s, which in turn can barely compete with the prehistoric mega-droughts Texas used to experience.
In other words, Texas is a dry state with a delicate climate, and climate change is only going to make things worse.
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Taste of things to come: Texas drought to shut down power plants
Hey, you know what's wild about Texas turning into a gigantic desert thanks to climate change? I mean besides the fact that this makes it basically Kuwait-on-the-Rio-Grande? Many of the state's power plants, which rely on fresh water to produce electricity, could be shut down by the lack of water.