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hatrack

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Wed Sep 3, 2014, 08:20 AM Sep 2014

Well La-Dee-Dah: George P. Bush, On TX Campaign Trail, Acknowledges Reality Of Climate Change

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But it is environmental policy that will be under his purview if, as expected, he wins his race to be the state’s next land commissioner in November. Last week, in his first in-depth interview on the topic nearly a year and a half into his campaign, the son of former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, nephew of former President George W. Bush and grandson of former President George H. W. Bush sounded like anything but the Tea Party conservatives with whom he has aligned himself.

For starters, the younger Mr. Bush thinks climate change is a serious threat to Texas, though he stopped short of definitively attributing a hotter and drier state to human activity.

“I think people can agree that there has been warming in recent years,” Mr. Bush, a 38-year-old energy consultant, said. He added that the vulnerability of the Gulf Coast to storms, which he said is worsened by climate change-related problems like sea-level rise and coastal erosion, “honestly keeps me up at night.”

While Mr. Bush joins his fellow conservatives in railing against the federal government, including the Environmental Protection Agency, he did not go so far as to echo many Republicans’ calls to abolish the agency — or their blanket assertions that its recently proposed climate regulations would be a disaster for Texas. “Regardless of your politics,” Mr. Bush said, “the E.P.A. is regulating coal and ratcheting down its overall usage in our electricity grid.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/us/on-climate-a-younger-bushs-ideas-stray-from-party-ideology.html?_r=5

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Well La-Dee-Dah: George P. Bush, On TX Campaign Trail, Acknowledges Reality Of Climate Change (Original Post) hatrack Sep 2014 OP
W also said a lot of "compassionate conservative" claptrap before he stole the election n/t deutsey Sep 2014 #1
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