Rick Perry stood by his opposition to climate change science, and to controls on carbon emissions.
“The science is not settled on this,” said Perry. “The idea that we would put Americans’ economy in jeopardy based on a scientific theory that’s not settled yet, to me is nonsense.”
Perry also said that even if many scientists agree on a theory, this does not necessarily make it true.
“Galileo was outvoted for a spell,” said Perry, referring to the famous astronomer who was persecuted in the early 1600s for insisting that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
