Jeb Bush: Rick Perry 'Has Every Right To Suggest' Global Warming 'Not A Certainty' (VIDEO)

During an interview that aired on Fox Business on Tuesday, former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) weighed in on Rick Perry's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination and the issue of global warming.

Bush denied there's a rift between his family and the Texas governor's camp.

"I’ve never heard anyone in my family say anything but good things about Rick Perry," he said. "Not with my brother, my dad, not with me at all. I admire him and I think Texas has got a great story and he can legitimately talk about that story as a candidate for president."

The former governor insisted that he has no intention of making a run for the White House in the next election cycle. "I will support the Republican nominee," he said. "I might support someone before that, but I believe the Republican candidate will win and I’m looking forward to that."

As for the issue of global warming, Bush articulated his own views on the subject on the heels of Perry raising doubt about the environmental phenomenon during a recent stop in New Hampshire.

"I think global warming may be real," said Bush before adding that "whether it’s manmade or not is the point Perry was pining on."

He continued, "It is not unanimous among scientists that it is disproportionately manmade. What I get a little tired of on the left is this idea that somehow science has decided all this so you can’t have a view. Science has decided that embryonic stem cell research is the way to go and if you don’t agree with that then somehow you’re Cro-Magnon Man or something like that. Governor Perry, as it relates to global warming has every right to suggest that it’s not a certainty.”

Below, a clip of what Bush had to say during the interview.

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Comments

[drillsgtmark]

11:53 PM on 08/26/2011

Just posted a global warming item and one response (with much merit) said it seems useless because the idiots just want to argue.
But what if the men who believed the earth was round instead of flat did not continue to speak out. Of that the earth was not the center of the Universe and it revovled around the sun and not the other way around.
We must continue to speak truth to power and to ignorance because our planet, our way of life and our future depend on it.

[Djay0252]

09:41 AM on 08/26/2011

I would hardly call Jeb Bush a big name. And the laughable side of it all is that if a Democart said it they would be all over them like flies on.....well you know.

[nanreh]

05:45 PM on 08/25/2011

Dear Jeff: you are the smartest among the Bushes, your father was OK, i voted for him, to think that you do not believe in GLOBAL WARMING

Let me give you a simple fact you will understand.

There are almost SEVEN MILLION HUMANS in the planet, they POOP once a day, only one billion have sewer systems, the POOP of the other six billion piles up on the earth surface and runs freely polluting rivers and oceans. this pile of POOP produces METHANE and methane produces CARBON dioxide that makes holes in the OZONE LAYER causing GLOBAL WARMING and melting the ice caps. CAPISH?

Methane (pronounced /ˈmɛθeɪn/ or /ˈmiːθeɪn/) is a chemical compound with the chemical formula CH4. It is the simplest alkane, and the principal component of natural gas. Methane's bond angles are 109.5 degrees (cos−1(−1/3)). Burning methane in the presence of oxygen produces carbon dioxide and water. The relative abundance of methane makes it an attractive fuel. However, because it is a gas at normal temperature and pressure, methane is difficult to transport from its source. It is generally transported in bulk by pipeline in its natural gas form, or LNG carriers in its liquefied form; few countries transport it by truck. (Wikipedia)

[JrayTo]

01:51 PM on 08/25/2011

I prefer to call them $hills, rather than experts...

[Vic22]

12:09 PM on 08/25/2011

Of the many legacies that Reagan has left, one of the worst is the 11th commandment. If rational Republicans could speak freely of other Republicans, they would have been able to call out the ridiculousness of the Tea Party, and the anti science movement ages ago

[Gurinder Dhillon]

11:45 AM on 08/25/2011

I don't think there's any friction between Rick Perry and George W. Bush, for one thing I don't even think Rick Perry believes in fiction he thinks its another liberal conspiracy like climate change or gravity.

[ajax2]

11:20 AM on 08/25/2011

Jeb made one astute comment. No matter who wins, Obama, Perry, or Romney, there will be a Republican in the WH.

[sixx]

11:15 AM on 08/25/2011

Jeb, "Governor Perry, as it relates to religion has every right to suggest that the earth is the center of the universe.”

[Raccoon1]

10:09 AM on 08/25/2011

"It is not unanimous among scientists that it is disproportionately manmade. What I get a little tired of on the left is this idea that somehow science has decided all this so you can’t have a view. Science has decided that embryonic stem cell research is the way to go and if you don’t agree with that then somehow you’re Cro-Magnon Man or something like that. Governor Perry, as it relates to global warming has every right to suggest that it’s not a certainty.”

Republican paranoia. "The science people" are out to get us!! Run for your lives!!

[TruEngineHearing]

09:59 AM on 08/25/2011

Yes, Perry has "every right" to question mankind's contribution to global warming, as I have every right to judge his intelligence by the tinfoil thinking it produces.

[Almondo]

09:59 AM on 08/25/2011

Big name. The shrublet, heh, hilarious.

[newamericanliberal]

09:54 AM on 08/25/2011

Hmmm, Jeb, you let the cat out of the bag. With the Cro-Magnon Man comment, I guess you dont believe the world was created 6K years ago. Does your pastor know?

NAL

[Carol Stephens Briers]

08:50 AM on 08/25/2011

And I thought that Jeb was the smart one....silly me.

[jr3houpe1849]

08:38 AM on 08/25/2011

Hey Rick you might think about asking Jeb not to help you JUst saying

[joeinvt]

08:26 AM on 08/25/2011

George W. Bush put his finger on one of the primary causes of global warming:

"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."—Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000

[newamericanliberal]

09:54 AM on 08/25/2011

Ah, Bushisms. The bad old days.

NAL