Marco Rubio on Climate Change: Whatever, Man

Senator Marco Rubio would like you all to know that he is not worried about Climate Change. Also, the cause of Climate Change? Whatever...

This clip from the Majority Report, live M-F at 12 noon EST and via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM

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[MaryJo1950]

Yeah 99% of the world's scientists are all involved in a huge conspiracy....that makes sense (that's sarcasm BTW). They know actual science, you don't. The fool would be you. Actually you're a fucking idiot.

[whyamimrpink78]

I agree that we should continue to develop new technologies and advance in newer forms of energy it just that we can't force it. We have to ease into it. Forcing it will kill a lot of jobs and raise energy prices and while we will recover who knows how long that will take. It could take years and even an entire generation to recover depending on what happens.

[Kropotkin2000]

I'm actually a pessimist and think we're probably fucked, but putting that aside. Moving to a sustainable and carbon neutral economy requires creating new technologies and developing existing ones, it also requires building new infrastructures, and modifying old ones, all of this requies *labour* and *resources*, which has the opposite effect of "destroying jobs". Science has no absolutes partly because there is always some statistical uncertainty, but we are far beyond reasonable doubt.

[whyamimrpink78]

There is strong evidence of climate change happening. The questions now are if it is man made, can we do anything about it, and is it really bad? Lets say we put forth policies that raise energy prices a lot and kill a lot of jobs and then climate change ends up becoming really bad, now what? There is too much doubt to make a decision that will cost a lot of money and jobs. Also, science has no absolutes. If we felt that way then we wouldn't have computers if Ipods.

[Kropotkin2000]

You keep making the same assertions that are simple the opposite of reality. The lines of evidence are not just the temperature record. There are proxy reconstructions, climate models, observed environmental effects, a well understood causative mechanism (CO2), glacial retreat, changes in seasons, changes in weather patterns, slowing of the jet stream, all happening too fast to be explained by natural variability. The claim that doing something will destroy the economy is more claptrap.

[whyamimrpink78]

I am not saying we should dismiss temperature change. I am just saying that we shouldn't just jump to conclusions on such little data and a huge doubt. We should continue the research in it but we can't make decisions that will destroy our economy and jobs that has so much doubt.

[GrassFedMeats]

We haven't created enough jobs for the currently unemployed or let alone enough to keep up with population growth.

[GrassFedMeats]

If you have to subsidize the building of that technology, then that money comes out of the productive economy that already exists. It will only result in rearranging the economy while making living standards drop due to more expensive everyday items through inflation. Liberal economic policies will only result in extending recessions.

[Kropotkin2000]

Nothing you've said has any relevance to transitioning to a sustainable, carbon neutral economy using renewable energy resources, which is absolutely needed in the coming decades to avert an ecological catastrophe. Your contention was, to remind you, that doing so would lead to riots, unemployment, food shortages, etc. which is sheer nonsense. The growth of the required technologies and the building of the new infrastructure would *create* jobs and provide more job opportunities.

[GrassFedMeats]

huge banks and special interest corporations at the expense of the middle and lower class. This is why large investment into alternative energy isn't possible right now. All the efforts put into alternative energy will fall on it's face when subsidization fails. Germany has a thriving solar industry at the expense of tax payers and it's fiefdoms in the EU. Germany is the biggest profiteer by being in charge of the EU. The Euro will lose confidence just like the Dollar.