Climate change denier picks a drowning city to announce for president

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I blame the consultants for telling someone like Mark Rubio he could credibly run for president. His announcement speech consisted of making allusions to Hillary Clinton’s age — said the young man who wants to take us back to the Gilded Age:

On Monday, junior Republican Senator Marco Rubio will announce that he’s running for president. The city he’s chosen for his formal announcement? His hometown of Miami, which is a city that faces drowning due to the changing climate. Rubio rode a Tea Party wave to his first term in the Senate in 2010, and he couldn’t havepicked a better spot to remind people that he doesn’t accept the vast field of science that shows how climate change threatens southern Florida. Rubio’s head is buried somewhere in Miami Beach’s sand, while the city faces encroaching tides because of rising sea levels.

His first public comments as a climate change denier came in 2009, when Rubio told the Miami Herald, “I’m not a scientist,” to explain the “significant scientific dispute about” whether climate change is real. (Again, among scientists, there is no dispute.) In his 2013 response to the State of the Union, Rubio said, “The government can’t change the weather.” Last year, in an interview with ABC’s This Week, Rubio again rejected science. “I don’t know of any era in world history where the climate has been stable,” he said. “Climate is always evolving, and natural disasters have always existed… I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it.”

For the record, Rubio once saw the benefit of acting on climate change. In a2007 video unearthed by BuzzFeed, he argued that “global warming, dependence on foreign sources of fuel, and capitalism have come together to create opportunities for us that were unimaginable just a few short years ago.” Today, though, Rubio says that if we do something about climate change “it will destroy our economy.” But climate inaction is going to destroy Miami soon enough, damaging Florida’s economy in the process.

A map from the New York Times shows what 5 feet of sea level rise would do to Miami, something that could happen in a century: It would permanently submerge 20 percent of Miami’s “dry, habitable land,” and 94 percent of Miami Beach.

Oh, he also says if God wants the climate to change, we have to let it.

2 thoughts on “Climate change denier picks a drowning city to announce for president

  1. RFLMAO – Jesus wants us all to live in water parks? I wish that was on tape like the glass of water thing. All Dems need to do is just let Hillary have it and no drama this time around. Let the press focus on the clown car – it’ll be hilarious.

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