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Jeb Bush pins hopes on 'someone in a garage' to tackle climate change [View all]
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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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
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