Jeb Bush Says People Who Accept Climate Science Are ‘Really Arrogant’

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/05/21/jeb-bush-says-people-who-accept-climate-science-are-really-arrogant/

Jeb Bush has shown himself as another one of the Republican party that is “anti-science.” Interestingly enough, Bush followed up his comments on climate change on Wednesday with a call for conservatives to become better at understanding and embracing science in all its forms.

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 cigarettesdoes not cause cancer.

But policy decisions surrounding the human health risks of HIV and cigarettes don’t take into consideration the very small percentage of scientists with contrary opinions, because a percentage of consensus in the high nineties is as close to certainty as most science ever gets.

[Wilms]

1. Well, he can argue he's not poll driven.

Most Republicans Say They Back Climate Action, Poll Finds

By CORAL DAVENPORT and MARJORIE CONNELLYJAN. 30, 2015

WASHINGTON — An overwhelming majority of the American public, including half of Republicans, support government action to curb global warming, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times, Stanford University and the nonpartisan environmental research group Resources for the Future.

In a finding that could have implications for the 2016 presidential campaign, the poll also found that two-thirds of Americans said they were more likely to vote for political candidates who campaign on fighting climate change. They were less likely to vote for candidates who questioned or denied the science that determined that humans caused global warming.

Among Republicans, 48 percent say they are more likely to vote for a candidate who supports fighting climate change, a result that Jon A. Krosnick, a professor of political science at Stanford University and an author of the survey, called “the most powerful finding” in the poll. Many Republican candidates question the science of climate change or do not publicly address the issue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/us/politics/most-americans-support-government-action-on-climate-change-poll-finds.html

[Beartracks]

2. Only a non-intellectual would utter the phrase "intellectual arrogance." n/t

[Beartracks]

3. GOPers think 35% of voters is a mandate but 97% of scientists is "not a consensus." n/t

[MBS]

4. Good point! n/t

[WinkyDink]

5. Jeb is the REAL "Pander Bear" (remember Dukakis?).

[lonestarnot]

6. Jethro is adverse to letter S. Science, sense, suffocate, simpleton.

[flobee1]

7. "that now you can’t have a conversation about it, even"

BULLSHIT!
We tried that route long ago, but you rights didn't even want to utter the words global warming! Now that you have a chance to run for president, NOW you want a civil discussion!

[Beartracks]

9. "You can't even have a conversation about it," he said, in a conversation about it.

I know, it was probably an interview-type conversation, but still....



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[woodsprite]

8. I'd rather be thought arrogant than proven ignorant.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. As I said in another thread on this topic

Intelligence is elitist in right wing world.