Jeb Bush pins hopes on 'someone in a garage' to tackle climate change

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Jeb Bush pins hopes on 'someone in a garage' to tackle climate change

As rising sea levels threaten their state of Florida, fellow Republican candidate
Marco Rubio also warns that action on climate would ‘destroy’ the economy

Oliver Milman in New York
Friday 29 January 2016 17.49 GMT

Florida’s leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, have both criticized federal action to combat climate change, with Rubio warning it would “destroy” the US economy and Bush predicting “someone in a garage somewhere” will solve the problem instead.

Responding to a rare question about climate change in Thursday’s Republican debate in Des Moines, Iowa, Rubio denied that he ever supported a “cap and trade” system to lower emissions, despite his having called it “inevitable” in 2008.

“I have never supported cap-and-trade and I never thought it was a good idea,” the Florida senator said. “And I do not believe it’s a good idea now. I do not believe that we have to destroy our economy in order to protect our environment.

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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.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/29/jeb-bush-marco-rubio-climate-change-garage

[daleanime]

1. Moran...

[Big Blue Marble]

2. "Someone in a garage"

Well that is, after all, how we got to the Moon.

[BlueJazz]

4. I've been working on it but alas, things are not going well..

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[Big Blue Marble]

6. LOL

Don't give up. Remember it took Edison over a thousand tries to bring forth the light bulb.

[gratuitous]

5. Okay, that's not how we got to the moon

But how much did it cost, and did thousands of people work for free? See, that's what Jeb! wants: A cheap solution dreamed up by some shade-tree mechanic who doesn't want to be paid and that won't cause anyone anywhere to change the way they live.

"So, basically, you want to sleep with this new girl without your present girlfriend finding out or getting mad if she does find out?"

"NOW we're getting somewhere."

[Big Blue Marble]

7. Seriously, I believe his reference is to Silicon Valley success stories.

His vision is clearly technology will save us, not the government. Enterprise will save us and get rich in the process.
How could a Bush think otherwise? As Octafish states below: It is "the vision thing."

[Octafish]

3. ''The vision thing.'' -- George H.W. Bush

Not a priority.

[MisterP]

8. reminds me of when Gingrich said the Moon would have expedited statehood

their vision of science is a boyfriend, and one who beats them

[Brickbat]

9. People find solutions in garages when they have the resources, privilege and time to tinker.

They can't do that without jobs that pay well, flexible work, their own property or space to tinker and, in some cases, support on the side from employers or organizations to look for solutions informally, by offering their own space, resources and know-how to boost the signal on new ideas.

[tanyev]

10. So we could gather the best and brightest scientific minds and give them resources to work on it,

or...we could cross our fingers and hope that someone in a garage figures it out. Brilliant.


Jeb is so smart, S-M-R-T.

[Rex]

11. Yeah so something like Back To The Future...but um that was just fiction Jeb?.

Why are repukes so dense that they are not aware of how stupid they sound in public? Must be all the lead chips they ate as babies.

[smirkymonkey]

12. In other words, if elected, I plan on doing jack shit about

climate change and will not allocate one cent toward solving it.

[Bucky]

13. Sure, it's called solar energy. Which Republicans cut funding to.

[Pathwalker]

14. Planet killers, plain and simple.

Monsters.