Heb! Now Admits That Humans Linked To Climate Change, Proposes Nothing, Musters Strawman Army
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GOP presidential hopeful Jeb Bush says human activity is contributing to climate change and the country has an obligation to work to stop it.
“I think it’s appropriate to recognize this and invest in the proper research to find solutions over the long haul but not be alarmists about it,” Bush said in an interview published Thursday with Bloomberg BNA.
“We should not say the end is near, not deindustrialize the country, not create barriers for higher growth, not just totally obliterate family budgets, which some on the left advocate by saying we should raise the price of energy so high that renewables then become viable,” he added.
Ed. - Strawman Army, ATTAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!
The remarks differ from comments Bush made as recently as June on the issue, when he recognized that the climate is changing but questioned whether human activity plays a role — something the vast majority of scientists in the field believe.
“The climate is changing, whether men are doing it or not,” he said in June, adding that he is “a little skeptical” of taking advice on climate policy from Pope Francis, who released an encyclical on climate change days later, according to the Huffington Post.
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http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/249771-jeb-bush-humans-contribute-to-climate-change
And a modern classic: "For People To Say The Science Is Settled On This Is Really Arrogant, To Be Honest With You" - and that was all the way back in . . . May.
First, Jeb Bush said he was “not a scientist” when it comes to climate change. Now, he says the scientists are not to be believed. In comments reported by CNN on Wednesday, the potential 2016 presidential candidate called the science of human-caused climate change “convoluted,” and questioned the degree to which carbon emissions are responsible.
“For the people to say the science is decided on this is really arrogant, to be honest with you,” he reportedly said. “It’s this intellectual arrogance that now you can’t have a conversation about it, even.”
Of the climate scientists who actively publish research, 97 percent agree that humans cause climate change. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — which draws on the knowledge of almost 800 climate experts across the globe — says it is at least 95 percent likely that human activities are the main cause of atmospheric and ocean warming since the 1950s.
In the scientific world, a 97 percent rate of agreement does amount to a consensus. No scientific issue is 100 percent certain; Indeed, there are similarly small percentages of researchers who think the HIV virus does not cause AIDS, and that smoking cigarettes does not cause cancer.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/05/21/3661573/jeb-bush-climate-change-intellectual-arrogance/
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