Perry invokes Galileo in defending his climate change doubts - The Hill's E2-Wire

GOP White House hopeful Rick Perry stood behind his doubts about climate change at his first debate appearance Wednesday night – and suggested Galileo would have his back.

Perry invoked the Italian scientist – who drew the Catholic church’s wrath in the 1600s for arguing the earth revolves around the sun – in claiming that human-induced climate change is an unsettled theory.

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And it couldn't save him from a stumbling defense of his skepticism about climate change science in which he invoked the Italian scientist Galileo, who was tried for heresy in the 1600s for promoting the theory that the Earth revolves around the sun.

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it is a good sign that scientists plan to launch a coordinated effort to quickly and routinely assess the extent to which extreme weather events should be attributed to climate change