Bush "Doubts" Sea Level Rise, Admits That He'd Move If He Had To; Invokes Garage-Man To Save Us

[hatrack]

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Bush, once governor of Florida, has said he supports federal government support for “basic research” into low-carbon energy but, like Rubio, places his faith in the free market to deal with rising temperatures and the extreme weather events, drought and sea level rise they bring.

“What we shouldn’t try to do is pick winners and losers through the federal government,” he said at a gathering in New Hampshire on Saturday, in a newly emerged video.

“The market will work faster. There’s someone in a garage somewhere, parochially I hope it’s in Miami, that’s going to have a clue, to have an answer to this. There are people well-intended on climate change but they need to be careful to not paint the apocalypse. Because we are not there. But we should be adapting.”

Bush said he doubted sea level predictions for south Florida but, if they did come true, he has told his wife that they should move house.

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/29/jeb-bush-marco-rubio-climate-change-garage?CMP=share_btn_tw

[riversedge]

1. Dumb people like Bush-will be the down fall of the US.

[CanonRay]

2. Even if the guy in the garage comes up with the answer

the Republicans won't believe him because it's science.

[n2doc]

10. And if they did come up with a solution, like tabletop fusion power

The GOP would be the first to ban it.

[CanonRay]

16. Unless you can make a gun out of it.

[frizzled]

3. This fuckhead is like a microcosm of why humans will be extinct by 2300

nt

[geomon666]

4. Well Miami did have an answer for this awhile ago.

That was to split the state in half so we could solve our own goddamn problems because people like you are so fucking useless that today we still can't get a single fucking thing done and now it's too late to really do anything about it.

[ShrimpPoboy]

5. "The market will work faster"

The financial incentives to do something about climate change don't really exist yet and won't until it's too late. What a stupid, jingoistic response.

[geomon666]

6. That's the prototypical right wing answer to every problem.

"Somebody somewhere is going to solve the problem so I don't have to. What a great visionary leader I am."

Crock of shit.

[hatrack]

8. Well, it's certainly easier than thinking . . . .

And speaking of thinking (or lack thereof), how about this National Journal article?

It's all about how disappointed environmentally-minded GOP donors are with this year's crop of candidates.

Really?

Really?? What did they think was going to happen?

Re­pub­lic­an donor Andy Sabin had a great seat on the floor for Thursday’s GOP pres­id­en­tial de­bate and found him­self in­creas­ingly im­pressed with the way Ted Cruz answered some ques­tions. But over­all, Sabin left frus­trated with a lack of dis­cus­sion of his pet top­ics: en­ergy and cli­mate change. “Zero. None. It’s a non­is­sue,” Sabin said. Just an­oth­er lonely night in the life of a green GOP donor.

Sabin, pres­id­ent of the New York-based re­fin­ing com­pany Sabin Met­al Cor­por­a­tion, may seem like a para­dox. He’s giv­en to Karl Rove’s Cross­roads USA PAC and the state Re­pub­lic­an Party, but also last year gave $3.5 mil­lion to Columbia Uni­versity’s school of cli­mate-change law. He’s vowed to try to get the party to fight cli­mate change, even as many stand­ard-bear­ers on the Right deny that it is hap­pen­ing.

Even though the party on the whole hasn’t em­braced any cli­mate-change ac­tion, there are a hand­ful of donors try­ing to get the GOP on board. North Car­o­lina busi­ness­man Jay Fa­sion, for ex­ample, got plenty of press over the sum­mer (in­clud­ing in Na­tion­al Journ­al), for an­noun­cing a $10 mil­lion 501(c)(4) polit­ic­al ac­tion group and a $165 mil­lion found­a­tion called ClearPath to back Re­pub­lic­an can­did­ates who want to work on clean en­ergy.

So far in the pres­id­en­tial race, that money hasn’t made much of a dent—and now donors are left fig­ur­ing out what’s next.

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http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/355926/environmentalist-gop-donors-are-losing-hope

[geomon666]

18. See, I'll never understand that.

Voting (and in the above case, donating) against your own best interests and against the best interests of every living creature on the planet. If you're that environmentally conscious, why in the every loving fuck of it all would you ever vote or donate to a republican? Especially these days.

It makes no sense.

[tavernier]

7. Barb really did give birth to a box of rocks

didn't she, each dumber than the next.

No wonder she didn't want Jeb! to run.

[Sunlei]

12. jeb probably wasn't as exposed to first trimester chemicals like Gin & ranch clearing round-up.

[GeorgeGist]

9. I had a good friend, a liberal, tell me Tthat she thought JEB! was pretty smart ...

I just shook my head.

[Sunlei]

11. can count on it sea level is a huge consideration on location of their personal mansions.

vacation homes not so much, they're fully insured.

[hunter]

13. Disposable vacation homes...

... disposable people. Government subsidies for the most affluent, armed response against everyone else.

Remember George W. Bush and hurricane Katrina?

[Sunlei]

14. yes, I remember katrina. I lived in houston, texas that hurricane.

'homeless people' refugees were all over Houston, stuck in their cars, out of gas, no money, no help. lots of them kids, elderly people, pets it was was hot for days. electric was out here for about 3 weeks but it could have been so much worse for my family.

[DirkGently]

15. The free market has not once been ahead of the curve.

The free market cares about the environment exactly 0%. Exxon started to raise the alarm about global warming in the 1970s, but buried its own research because it realized it would rather make money right up until disaster struck.

The free market did nothing about smog until the government intervened.

Nothing about the ozone layer until government intervened.

Child labor. Egret feathers. Seatbelts and airbags. Slavery.

The free market takes action to put ethics, human health, the environment, or long-term thinking of any kind ahead of immediate profits approximately NEVER.

[madinmaryland]

17. I think Jeb? is waiting for Florida Man to save the country and his candidacy!!