Thank, heavens! The Republicans finally have a moderate, sane, sensible candidate: Jeb Bush, from a dynastic family you may not have heard of... oh wait, as Suzanne Goldenberg of the Guardian reminds us, hes your basic trailblazing, Im-not-a-scientist climate denier! Now theres a shock, but maybe the world needs a little Republican shock therapy... something like a giant storm that sweeps Washington away? Tom In Bush family lore, Jeb was always supposed to be the smarter, more level-headed one. As with many media constructs, of course, that’s just not true. When it comes to climate change, Jeb Bush is a lot more radical than his brother. Jeb doesn’t just want to keep burning fossil fuels while the planet burns. He’s an out-and-out flat-earther – just like the other Republicans seen as leading contenders in the 2016 presidential race – and he’s been on the record denying climate science for years. “I think global warming may be real, Jeb Bush said in 2011, in what seemed like a promising start to the subject in a Fox interview. But he followed it up with the false statement that there is some kind of dispute among scientists about the causes of climate change – which there is not: It is not unanimous among scientists that it is disproportionately manmade. What I get a little tired of on the left is this idea that somehow science has decided all this so you can’t have a view. Those comments put Jeb Bush in lock-step with the other climate deniers in the Republican party – and now that he has become the party’s first (almost) declared candidate, they should help set early battle lines for climate change as a major campaign issue. theguardian/commentisfree/2014/dec/16/jeb-bush-climate-denier-republican-presidential-candidate-2016
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:07:36 +0000
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