Climate Change

During a Exxon Mobil conference call PR head Kenneth Cohen states that “Many people want to stick us in a bucket that says we want to deny this [man made global warming] ... That is flat wrong.”

Asked if Exxon Mobile wants cap-and-trade policy he said “It’s a definite maybe”.

During Al Gore’s presidential bid Rick Perry was the head of the campaign in Texas. By then Gore was already touting the save the ozone layer propaganda, along with the demonization of greenhouse gases.

In a radio interview Rick Perry stated that he was campaign manager for Al Gore “before he invented the Internet and got to be Mr. Global Warming”. This statement is deceiving as a Politico article Perry backed crusading Gore in ’88 points out “global warming was already a significant theme for Gore in 1987 and 1988”. In a 1987 speech Gore said that one of his major tasks was to “confront the emerging problems of the greenhouse effect and the threat to our ozone”.

So in spite of what Perry says, Gore was well on his way to being the champion for climate change. Politico called and talked with Perry’s spokesman Mark Miner, and Miner stated that Perry did know about Gore’s positions, but they just disagreed because “the governor has always been a conservative” - (that just happened to campaign for a socialist democrat).