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

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8. Well, it's certainly easier than thinking . . . .

And speaking of thinking (or lack thereof), how about this National Journal article?

It's all about how disappointed environmentally-minded GOP donors are with this year's crop of candidates.

Really?

Really?? What did they think was going to happen?

Re­pub­lic­an donor Andy Sabin had a great seat on the floor for Thursday’s GOP pres­id­en­tial de­bate and found him­self in­creas­ingly im­pressed with the way Ted Cruz answered some ques­tions. But over­all, Sabin left frus­trated with a lack of dis­cus­sion of his pet top­ics: en­ergy and cli­mate change. “Zero. None. It’s a non­is­sue,” Sabin said. Just an­oth­er lonely night in the life of a green GOP donor.

Sabin, pres­id­ent of the New York-based re­fin­ing com­pany Sabin Met­al Cor­por­a­tion, may seem like a para­dox. He’s giv­en to Karl Rove’s Cross­roads USA PAC and the state Re­pub­lic­an Party, but also last year gave $3.5 mil­lion to Columbia Uni­versity’s school of cli­mate-change law. He’s vowed to try to get the party to fight cli­mate change, even as many stand­ard-bear­ers on the Right deny that it is hap­pen­ing.

Even though the party on the whole hasn’t em­braced any cli­mate-change ac­tion, there are a hand­ful of donors try­ing to get the GOP on board. North Car­o­lina busi­ness­man Jay Fa­sion, for ex­ample, got plenty of press over the sum­mer (in­clud­ing in Na­tion­al Journ­al), for an­noun­cing a $10 mil­lion 501(c)(4) polit­ic­al ac­tion group and a $165 mil­lion found­a­tion called ClearPath to back Re­pub­lic­an can­did­ates who want to work on clean en­ergy.

So far in the pres­id­en­tial race, that money hasn’t made much of a dent—and now donors are left fig­ur­ing out what’s next.

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http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/355926/environmentalist-gop-donors-are-losing-hope