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hatrack

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Sun Jan 31, 2016, 09:24 AM Jan 2016

Bush "Doubts" Sea Level Rise, Admits That He'd Move If He Had To; Invokes Garage-Man To Save Us [View all]

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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.

“What we shouldn’t try to do is pick winners and losers through the federal government,” he said at a gathering in New Hampshire on Saturday, in a newly emerged video.

“The market will work faster. There’s someone in a garage somewhere, parochially I hope it’s in Miami, that’s going to have a clue, to have an answer to this. There are people well-intended on climate change but they need to be careful to not paint the apocalypse. Because we are not there. But we should be adapting.”

Bush said he doubted sea level predictions for south Florida but, if they did come true, he has told his wife that they should move house.

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/29/jeb-bush-marco-rubio-climate-change-garage?CMP=share_btn_tw

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Dumb people like Bush-will be the down fall of the US. riversedge Jan 2016 #1
Even if the guy in the garage comes up with the answer CanonRay Jan 2016 #2
And if they did come up with a solution, like tabletop fusion power n2doc Jan 2016 #10
Unless you can make a gun out of it. CanonRay Jan 2016 #16
This fuckhead is like a microcosm of why humans will be extinct by 2300 frizzled Jan 2016 #3
Well Miami did have an answer for this awhile ago. geomon666 Jan 2016 #4
"The market will work faster" ShrimpPoboy Jan 2016 #5
That's the prototypical right wing answer to every problem. geomon666 Jan 2016 #6
Well, it's certainly easier than thinking . . . . hatrack Jan 2016 #8
See, I'll never understand that. geomon666 Jan 2016 #18
Barb really did give birth to a box of rocks tavernier Jan 2016 #7
jeb probably wasn't as exposed to first trimester chemicals like Gin & ranch clearing round-up. Sunlei Jan 2016 #12
I had a good friend, a liberal, tell me Tthat she thought JEB! was pretty smart ... GeorgeGist Jan 2016 #9
can count on it sea level is a huge consideration on location of their personal mansions. Sunlei Jan 2016 #11
Disposable vacation homes... hunter Jan 2016 #13
yes, I remember katrina. I lived in houston, texas that hurricane. Sunlei Jan 2016 #14
The free market has not once been ahead of the curve. DirkGently Jan 2016 #15
I think Jeb? is waiting for Florida Man to save the country and his candidacy!! madinmaryland Jan 2016 #17
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