What has always amazed me is that the climate change deniers are mostly from states that are already being impacted. A case in point is Miami, Florida which is increasingly experiencing flooding at high tide. In spite of this Florida’s Senator Marco Rubio still denies the overwhelming scientific evidence of man caused climate change.
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en. Marco Rubio (R) dismissed the dire warnings in the White House’s latest climate change report, saying flatly that humans were not to blame for the warming planet.
“I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,” he said in an appearance on ABC’s This Week, adding that proposed laws to address the issue would do nothing but “destroy our economy.”
The climate change report, released last week, concluded that the nation was already enduring the effects of climate change, such as prolonged droughts in the Southwest. And it faulted carbon-trapping emissions for the phenomenon, warning of incredibly expensive, irreversible damage should swift action not taken soon to curb those emissions.
Now I don’t know if Rubio is just an ignorant rube or thinks he’s going to need some of the Koch brothers money at some point. It will be curious to see what he has to say when a well placed hurricane washes a good share of southern Florida into the Atlantic ocean or the gulf of Mexico. It may even start impacting the economy sooner – if I had money to invest I certainly wouldn’t invest in in southern Florida. In a sense it has already. Insurance underwriters have pulled out of Florida and the state has been forced to be the underwriter.