Jeb Bush Also "Not A Scientist"; The "Smart" One Is Just Another Denialist Bullshit Merchant

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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. Democrats say they are convinced climate change can be a winning issue – or at least a convenient form of political shorthand for defining even the least conservative GOP candidates as extreme, anti-science or just plain old.

Now we’ll get a first look at how the other other Bush chooses to define himself. But there are clear signs Jeb Bush feels most comfortable in the dubious territory between denial and doubt. In 2009, Jeb was even an early adopter of the “I am not a scientist” line – which gained traction among some Republicans this year as a way of ducking the denier label. It’s hard to see how those extreme views on climate will go down with corporations – and potential donors – that have been distancing themselves from outright denier positions, such as those promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council.

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