Jeb Bush: It's 'Intellectual Arrogance' To Agree With Scientists About Humans Driving Climate Change

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Jeb Bush: It's 'Intellectual Arrogance' To Agree With Scientists About Humans Driving Climate Change
by Kate Sheppard at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/21/jeb-bush-climate-change_n_7351156.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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WASHINGTON -- Likely Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Wednesday that while he acknowledges "the climate is changing," he's not clear on the extent to which human activity may be causing those changes.

"I don't think the science is clear of what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted," the former Florida governor said at an event in Bedford, New Hampshire.

"For the people to say the science is decided on this is really arrogant, to be honest with you," he said, according to CNN. "It's this intellectual arrogance that now you can't have a conversation about it, even. The climate is changing. We need to adapt to that reality."

While acknowledging that climate change is happening and must be adapted to does set him apart from some of his Republican colleagues, the science is fairly clear that human activity -- namely, the burning of fossil fuels -- is the leading driver of rising temperatures in the modern era. As NASA explains, scientists are able to observe the increased concentrations of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases, and they're able to distinguish current warming trends from historic, natural temperature shifts. Ninety-seven percent of peer-reviewed studies agree with this conclusion that human activity is causing global warming, as do the country's leading scientific bodies -- including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Geophysical Union.



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1. And it is not arrogance to deny scientists on behalf of Koch brothers' $$$?

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2. Well most of our elected Democratic centrist leaders don't believe in Climate Change any

more than Jeb does - or else why would they be perfectly okay with the provisions of the TPP?

I mean, this TPP will be Obama's legacy - and he has pushed it so very hard. (With Hillary Clinton supporting it also.)

The TPP allows for American jobs to go over to third world nations, in large part due to the fact that such nations do not have expensive environmental regulations in place.

So while Democratic Centrist leaders here in the USA scream and moan and groan about how much they "care" about the environment, don't they realize that letting their Buddies in Big Industry pollute the Fuck out of the other nations affects the same damn globe?

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3. I'd say it's intellectual arrogance for JEB to make a pretense

of rational thought.

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4. Intellectuals are elitists in right wing world

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5. Obama wanted kids to get a university education if I remember correctly

and according to Santorum "What A Snob!"