Marco Rubio Not Concerned About Climate Change In Florida
Says he’s “seen reasonable debate” about whether climate change is man-made.
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Marco Rubio said Tuesday that he is not worried about changing climate in Florida specifically, and declined to identify the causes of climate change in general.
“The climate is always changing,” Rubio said vaguely.
Indeed, he tried to cast doubt upon the notion that climate change is a man-made phenomenon.
“I’ve actually seen reasonable debate on that principle,” Rubio said.
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Reality 4 months agoThere is no debate on the cause of climate change. It’s caused by human activity, in particular CO2 emissions. End of debate. What Marc Rubio really means is that there are organizations funded by the Koch brothers, ExxonMobil, and other fossil fuel insterests, and they’ve been paying junk scientists to cherry-pick and manipulate data to deliberately cause confusion and delay. Please keep in mind that Exxon is the most profitable American company; they made $45 billion in profits just last year. And that’s just Exxon. The fossil fuel industry makes BIG money. The huge amount they’ve been spending on lobbying congress and creating a deliberate campaign of misinformation is chump change to them. The “scientists” they’ve paid do not even publish peer reviewed scientific papers; they’re paid industry spokespeople. What do the real climate scientists say about climate change? They say it’s real, it’s very serious, it’s happening faster than predicted, and it’s caused by humans. Peer reviewed papers by climate scientists agree with this consensus. >97% climate scientists agree with this consenus. So does the Academies of Science from 19 countries and all the following scientific organizations: the National Academy of Sciences, NASA, the USGS, NOAA, the American Meterological Society, the IPCC, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, American Astronomical Society, Royal Meteorological Society, American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Physics. Climate change is caused by humans and that means we can and should do something about it.
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benjaminc5 4 months agoIt’s human arrogance that dictates the Earth’s climate has a “normal” setting. That’s something scientists made up. The climate does what it wants at all times.
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Benjamin Sapiens 4 months agoNo, dumbass - but the fact that scientists has established direct links between the increase in humanity’s carbon emissions over the past century and rising global temperature and between said increase in temperature and an increase in the frequency and ferocity of hurricanes in the Gulf does.
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danf18 4 months agoSTOOOOOPID!! Okay, let’s hear your ONE scientist pooh-pooh global climate change. It’s like going to the doctor and the doctor tells you that you have cancer; you don’t like that diagnosis, so you want a second opinion. You go to a second doctor and he/she tells you that you have cancer. You still don’t want to believe it, so you go to a third, and a fourth, and a fifth doctor. After seeing 99 doctors, who all tell you that you have cancer, you finally find a doctor, the 100th one you’ve seen, who finally tells you that no, you don’t have cancer. Now is it wise to believe the one doctor who tells you that you don’t have cancer, or the 99 doctors that tell you that you do indeed have cancer?
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Rick Strandlof 4 months agoWhen his state gets hit by super storm after super storm lets hope his party votes for relief funds.
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kyles25 4 months agoMarco hasn’t spent a half a second looking at this. He willfully places his own state at risk. Florida’s highest elevation is 345 feet, and the state gets regularly slammed with storms. Starting with National Academies of Sciences, working through nationally and internationally respected academies & associations: Over 3 dozen respected organizations expressly endorse the IPCC. He can not name one single respected organization that has posted a respected view to the contrary in writing. He can not name one. Not a single one. Or canvass all climate scientists one by one at the best of the best global institutions: top-50 ranked earth science schools - Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, Oxford, Chicago, Berkeley, MIT, Australian National U., Caltech, UCLA, Yale, etc, etc, etc. The best of the best almost all say we have a serious problem. Marco hasn’t bothered to check. Pretty lazy considering the potential implications. He places so many lives at stake with laziness on this issue…What a shame.
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