Rubio Says He "Doesn't Accept" Scientific Evidence For Climate Breakdown

[hatrack]

Uh, you're the Senator-wannabee from Florida. Fine, drown, asshole.

TAMPA - Senate candidate Marco Rubio said Friday that he doesn't accept the scientific evidence for global warming - a stance Rubio has hinted at before, but which the campaign of Gov. Charlie Crist said is a switch for Rubio.

Rubio denied it's a change in his position on the issue.
Climate change in general, and specifically of a "cap-and-trade" plan to limit carbon emissions, has been an issue in the campaign between Crist and Rubio for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate.

In an interview with the Tribune on that subject Friday, Rubio called Crist "a believer in man-made global warming." "I don't think there's the scientific evidence to justify it," Rubio said. Asked whether he accepts the scientific evidence that the global climate is undergoing change, he responded, "The climate is always changing. The climate is never static. The question is whether it's caused by man-made activity and whether it justifies economically destructive government regulation."

Rubio hasn't previously denied global warming outright in published statements on the issue. In December, he told The Miami Herald, "I'm not a scientist. I'm not qualified to make that decision. There's a significant scientific dispute about that."

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http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/feb/13/na-rubio-questions-climate-change/

[OHdem10]

1. We have so dumbed down this country---people can accept science

or not. Sure anyone can choose to believe what they wish.

More is expected of people who want to be leaders.

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. "Every one is entitled to their own opinion"

(whether it's informed or not.)

This appears to be the attitude nowadays.

[Dead_Parrot]

3. My opinion is that Marco Rubio is a complete assclown

Or course, this opinion happens to fit with the available evidence, which is a bonus.

[OKIsItJustMe]

5. I don't need "evidence" to form an opinion

It's an inalienable right, guaranteed to me by the first amendment to the Declaration of Independence.

[Vogon_Glory]

4. Betting Against Climate Change Is Stupid

Betting against the negative consequences of man-made global climate change is stupid. The state of Florida has perhaps more to lose than anybody. Along with the ice-melt from the polar ice caps and the sea rise, Florida also risks having its drinking water supplies contaminated with salt water. Real estate investors, home owners, small business owners, pensioners and small investors with investments in Florida real estate or businesses all risk losing as big as those European investors who had investments in Czar Nicholas II Romanov's Imperial Russia back in 1914.

there's a term that would be common to surfers and such investors if climate change deniers' policies continue to be in force: WIPEOUT!

:dem:

:patriot:

[tinrobot]

6. Does he also not accept scientific evidence that the Earth is round?

Jeeez...

[Viking12]

7. According to Rubio's logic, "There's significant dispute about that"

See there are websites and everything..
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm

[hatrack]

9. And those websites have electrolytes and shit!

Rubio - the Truth Mutilator!

[bananas]

8. When I saw the headline, I thought of Carlo Rubbia, the Nobel physicist

I posted an interesting article about him in the Science forum two months ago,
he won a Nobel for his work in particle physics,
he's credited with inventing accelerator-driven nuclear reactors,
now he's working on solar energy,
he says, "The nuclear error, The future is in the sun" (translated from Italian).
Here's the post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x60525

[sakabatou]

10. "There's a significant scientific dispute about that."

No there fucking isn't. FUCKING LIAR.

[bhikkhu]

11. dispute between opposing faux news science asshats, to clarify. n/t

[depakid]

12. To win a Republican primary- or even a general election in many states, you HAVE TO reject science

or you'll be branded a heretic.