Rick Perry thinks Texas climate scientists are in a ‘secular carbon cult’; cult member Andrew Dessler argues that it's not a cult, because lots of other people also belong to the cult

Rick Perry thinks Texas climate scientists are in a ‘secular carbon cult’ | Grist

he argues that climate science is "all one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight" in his book, Fed Up!:

For example, they have seen the headlines in the past year about doctored data related to global warming. They know we have been experiencing a cooling trend, that the complexities of the global atmosphere have often eluded the most sophisticated scientists, and that draconian policies with dire economic effects based on so-called science may not stand the test of time. Quite frankly, when science gets hijacked by the political Left, we should all be concerned ...

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.

In an email interview with ThinkProgress, Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University responds that Perry is wrong:

There are dozens of credible atmospheric scientists in Texas at institutions like Rice, UT, and Texas A&M, and I can confidently say that none agree with Gov. Perry's views on the science of climate change. This is a particularly unfortunate situation given the hellish drought that Texas is now experiencing, and which climate change is almost certainly making worse.