Rubio Gets Asked Who His Climate "Advisors" Are - Can't/Won't Name Anyone

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Kind of like how he couldn't name a single member of Wu-Tang, huh?



WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA — As he struggles to win the primary in his own home state, Sen. Marco Rubio is rejecting pleas from his own fellow Florida Republicans to support measures to combat climate change. When challenged by debate moderators Thursday night about rising sea levels threatening Miami, Rubio stuck to his position that climate change is natural, and not spurred by carbon emissions.

When ThinkProgress asked Rubio at a Friday press conference which groups or experts he has consulted to come to this conclusion, he cited only unnamed “economists and scientists.”

“Every time someone comes to see me and asks me to support one of these [climate change mitigation] policies, I always ask them, ‘Can you tell me how many inches of sea rise it will prevent?’ They say it won’t, but it will set an example for the rest of the world,” Rubio said. “Then when you ask economists, it’s clear that the cost of these policies will fall on American businesses.”

Despite stating that human activity was not the primary cause of climate change, Rubio told ThinkProgress that he encourages “innovation” to reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, but doesn’t want the government to mandate that reduction. When ThinkProgress tried to press Rubio to name any individual expert or group who has given him information about climate change, he ignored the question.

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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/11/3759329/rubio-climate-advisers/

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1. Morans will be the death of us.

[Goblor]

2. Rubio

is an idiota. OK, then Rubio, just for arguments sake: Even if climate change is not made-made, why not study (by providing funding!) its impacts, current issues and future devastating possibilities so we can be PREPARED?

Edward Abbey was right: "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell". The Right Wing nuts who cry about potential lost profits and the 'burden' on businesses, be it due to climate change or clean/air water regulations, are the enablers of the cancer. In terms of resources, we live in a closed system that can't continue to support every free-enterprise business we can think of, nor the billions needed to be the pet-consumers that keep the system growing (Profits).

F-U Rubio, how about thinking outside the box? How about population restrictions? How about more industry regulations? How about deplying "Our Troops" to defend Mother Earth from the corporate rapists?