Perry and Romney split on global warming

Washington Post by Philip Rucker | Aug. 17, 2011 (News Report)

A sharp divide has emerged between two leading Republican presidential candidates on the issue of climate change. While apparent front-runner Mitt Romney believes the world is getting warmer and that humans are contributing to that pattern, Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday called that “a scientific theory that has not been proven.” Taking questions at the storied Politics and Eggs breakfast in Bedford, N.H., Perry was asked about a passage in his ... Full Story »

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 by Gary Clark - Aug. 17, 2011

To its credit, the article does devote one paragraph to the "scientific consensus" supporting AGW and vindicating the scientists accused of distortions, but the rest is follows the "he said, she said" formula for so-called balanced reportage. It fails to review any salient data to show how absurd Mr. Perry's posture is, or relate it to the right wing corporate funded backers of such pap. The Limbaugh quote was the only link to irresponsible media propagandizing that could've been explored. Huntsman's strategist deserved more extensive coverage due to his unequivocal endorsement of science as the only reality we have to trust.

The media is derelict in its duty to unflinchingly present what is true as opposed to what (very important) people's opinions of what is true are. I'd love to see Mr. Perry's views reported as Molly Ivans might have treated them, calling his views as...well, crazy, but popular in Texas and other right wing geopolitical areas.

“Huntsman’s chief strategist, said in an interview Wednesday. “The American people are looking for someone who lives in reality and is a truth teller because that’s the only way that the significant problems this country faces can be solved.”

This deserves more development, even though Huntsman is a non-starter in the race.

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