Marco Rubio: I Don't Believe Humans Are Causing Climate Change

[burfman]

91. hard not to sound like 'chicken little' but the cure will happen by economics eventually

I don't know that anyone really can separate out what's caused by normal climate swings and our man-made pollution - though I admit it's really hard to pretend that our impact is not screwing up things. But it is possible today to see that non-polluting power generation from solar, wind, tides and geothermal are almost to the point that they will be economically superior compared to oil, coal and nuclear - even if you forget about the advantages from getting rid of the pollution. All that's needed is a little more time and the game changing will occur automatically. Fossil fuels while they are still there for the taking are becoming much more expensive as time goes on. Think of how far wind and solar power have come in the last 30 years in terms of cents per watt - and it still has a lot of room to get even better economically. Think ahead and we should see the same things happen to batteries to store the power when the sun isn't shinning or the wind isn't blowing or to run your car instead of gasoline. We could however speed up the arrival of this better future by pouring some more money into R&D along with some subsidies to get things rolling.