Jeb Bush may be 'the smart brother' – but he's as much of a climate denier as any conservative

[kpete]

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Jeb doesn’t just want to keep burning fossil fuels while the planet burns. He’s an out-and-out flat-earther – just like the other Republicans seen as leading contenders in the 2016 presidential race – and he’s been on the record denying climate science for years.

“I think global warming may be real,” Jeb Bush said in 2011, in what seemed like a promising start to the subject in a Fox interview. But he followed it up with the false statement that there is some kind of dispute among scientists about the causes of climate change – which there is not:

It is not unanimous among scientists that it is disproportionately manmade. What I get a little tired of on the left is this idea that somehow science has decided all this so you can’t have a view.

Those comments put Jeb Bush in lock-step with the other climate deniers in the Republican party – and now that he has become the party’s first (almost) declared candidate, they should help set early battle lines for climate change as a major campaign issue.


http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/16/jeb-bush-climate-denier-republican-presidential-candidate-2016

[tuhaybey]

1. Big oil money

I'm sure that Bush knows science, and hence AGW, are real. But, the oil and gas industry dumps donations on those candidates who publicly deny climate science, so it is no surprise to see that many, maybe even most at this point, Republicans cash in on that.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. "Smart" is relative here ...

In Texas, they say that if W and Perry were brothers, they'd call W "the smart one".

[summerschild]

3. In the Bush context, there is NO smart one.

[Iggo]

4. He's a Bush.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. "somehow science has decided all this so you can’t have a view"

There's so much wrong with that sentence I don't know where to start.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. I think the operative term is "smartER brother", not "smart brother."

I mean, placing yourself besides Dubya is giving yourself a very low bar to judge your own intelligence.

[calimary]

7. He's also a signatory of the PNAC. Project for a New American Century.

The PNAC is the foundational organization of the Iraq War - that also features the signatures of rummy, cheney, paul wolfowitz, three kagans (donald, fred, and robert), scooter libby, ken "it'll be a cakewalk" adelman, richard "the Dark Prince" perle, randy scheunemann, dan "potatoe" quayle, john mccain, charles krauthammer, michael (who for a long time was trotted out as the single "liberal" voice back in the day) o'hanlon, frank carlucci, john bolton, elliott abrams, bill bennett, gary bauer, general barry mccaffrey, ed meece, norm podhoretz, AND chaired by the infamous chickenhawk and "Meet the Press" semi-regular bill kristol. Big-time playpen for the worst and most vile crackpots, nut-cases, panty-waists, and chickenhawks on earth. ALL of them hands-on midwives to the worst and most colossal foreign policy fuck-up in American history.

They're the ones who tried to get this started in the last quarter of the Clinton administration, and were rebuffed. Then they got their boy dickie to pick himself as dubya's ticket partner, and five friendly votes on the Supreme Court, and then they were off to the races on their pet wet-dream. The decision to invade Iraq was THEIRS, and they came into power with dubya, ready to implemented. They just had to find the "right" approach.


http://www.publiceye.org/pnac_chart/pnac.html

[maryellen99]

8. One ? though about Jeb

Will the religious right still back him due to the fact they feel he didn't intervene enough in the Terri Schivao case when he was governor of Florida?