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“Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!”

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The Guardian has helpfully assembled a selection of quotations from Republican leaders that outline their position on climate change and helps to explain why the GOP, a party that unites tens of millions of Americans, including Governor Baker, has become the “anti-science” party:

Donald Trump
Tweeted in November 2012: “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive.”

Tweeted in December 2013: “Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!”

Tweeted in January 2014: “This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps, and our GW scientists are stuck in ice” and “Any and all weather events are used by the GLOBAL WARMING HOAXSTERS to justify higher taxes to save our planet!” …

Marco Rubio …
Said in September 2015: “We’re not going to make America a harder place to create jobs in order to pursue policies that will do absolutely nothing, nothing to change our climate. America is a lot of things, the greatest country in the world, absolutely. But America is not a planet.”

Ben Carson
Said in November 2014: “There’s always going to be either cooling or warming going on. As far as I’m concerned, that’s irrelevant. You can ask it several different ways, but my answer is going to be the same. We may be warming. We may be cooling.”

Ted Cruz
Said in October 2015: “Climate change is not science. It’s religion. Look at the language, where they call you a denier. Denier is not the language of science. Any good scientist is a skeptic. If he’s not, he or she should not be a scientist. But yet the language of the global warming alarmists, ‘denier’ is the language of religion. It’s heretic. You are a blasphemer.”

John Boehner
Said in May 2009: “Every time we exhale we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, you know when they do what they do you’ve got more carbon dioxide.” …

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  1. Read it for what it is. The statement is one that I would expect every Democrat to make. We’re not willing to pursue policies that harm other aspects of our society and don’t address climate change. I’m totally happy with that statement.

    I’m not suggesting that Rubio is good on climate change politics. I am merely pointing out that that quote isn’t problematic.

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