RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Senator Rubio: If God Wants the Climate to Change, We Must Let It
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 8:29 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Senator Rubio: If God Wants the Climate to Change, We Must Let It I can't find any other newsource that quotes him saying things quite that extreme about God and Jesus and coimate change. THis feels more like something The Onion might write, but you never know. That was my impression. Let me know if you find out one way or the other. Seems too nutty to be true, but that’s the way the Right Wing rolls these days. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , rick@... mailto:rick@... wrote : Senator Rubio: If God Wants the Climate to Change, We Must Let It Written by http://www.newslo.com/author/alex-kuzio/ Alex Kuzio May 12th 2014 WASHINGTON – Republican Senator Marco Rubio (FL), a prominent Christian and noted skeptic of climate change science, yesterday argued that Americans http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-rubio-denies-climate-change-20140511-story.html should resist efforts by the federal government to curb carbon dioxide emissions. Sen. Rubio, who is a likely candidate for president in 2016, said that such programs would be “against God’s Will,” since “for all we know, God wants the Earth to get warmer.” Speaking at a luncheon with potential donors, Rubio admitted that “it’s getting more and more difficult to deny that the Earth is getting hotter—just look at the new NASA report.” Rubio was referring to two studies http://www.businessinsider.com/west-antarctic-ice-sheet-collapse-means-2014-5 released Monday which indicate that the “melting of the Western Antarctic Ice sheet is unstoppable, and the glaciers are doomed to collapse and melt into the sea,” which will raise sea levels significantly, leaving much of the world’s coastal cities underwater. “So yeah, I don’t deny it’s happening,” Rubio said. “But what we absolutely cannot say for sure is that a warming Earth is not just part of God’s plan,” Rubio explained. “God knows what He’s doing, and it pleases Him to see half of Manhattan underwater and Miami wiped out completely, then we cannot stand in His way.” Rubio is a Roman Catholic, although he and his family practiced as Mormons for a time. He has said that he believes “with all [his] heart that God still destines for us an even better future and the opportunity to continue to serve as an inspiration to the world.” Today Rubio said that climate change doesn’t necessarily dash the hopes for a better future. “God destines us for a better future, and rising sea levels are a part of that, then it must be for the best,” he said. Rubio’s remarks follow those he made on Sunday, when he told “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos that he does not believe climate change is the result of human activity. “I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it… [and] I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it, except it will destroy our economy,” Rubio added. Today the senator clarified those remarks. “What I meant was that Jesus Himself is probably responsible for global warming,” he said. “I can’t tell you exactly why he’s doing it, but that’s what Faith is for—trusting that Jesus is warming up the planet so we can all live in water parks or something equally awesome.”
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Senator Rubio: If God Wants the Climate to Change, We Must Let It
The answer lies on the website, itself: http://www.newslo.com/about-us/ http://www.newslo.com/about-us/ JUST ENOUGH NEWS…Newslo is the first hybrid News/Satire platform on the web. Readers come to us for a unique brand of entertainment and information that is enhanced by features like our fact-button, which allows readers to find what is fact and what is satire. Newslo’s “No Need to Satirize” brings you completely factual stories that are so ridiculous, they don’t need our trademark touch. Whenever you see #NNTS, you’re reading COMPLETELY real news that only seems too absurd to be true. Read the story on the website, and you can see what's factual and what's not: http://www.newslo.com/senator-rubio/ http://www.newslo.com/senator-rubio/
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Senator Rubio: If God Wants the Climate to Change, We Must Let It
I sent this to a conservative friend. He said: If you don’t like carbon dioxide I think you should stop breathing. The climate changes whether you like it or not. We’ve been through many cycles of warming and cooling since the beginning of time. The United States is the cleanest place on earth. Talk to China and India about pollution. Get them to agree to stop polluting and then come back and talk to me about it. I might be waiting a long, long time. The kind of changes you want would absolutely wreck our economy. You worry too much. --- I replied: Climate change will do much more harm to our economy than any efforts we might make to curb it. I just saw a National Geographic article which showed what the world would look like if all the ice melted. That may or may not ever happen, but scientists are now predicting a 14 ft. sea level rise in the next 100 years. Maybe more, the way things are going. What will the inundation of our (and the world’s) coastal cities do to the economy? This can be seen as an economic opportunity. When the Russians put up Sputnik, we rose to the challenge and were on the moon in a little over a decade. That had huge economic benefits in terms of technological innovations. We could do the same with alternative energy technologies, but the fossil fuel industry is doing its best to thwart that, and the Republican party is in bed with them. Meanwhile, other countries are forging ahead with alternative energy technologies, and will reap the economic advantage. From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 12:05 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Senator Rubio: If God Wants the Climate to Change, We Must Let It The answer lies on the website, itself: http://www.newslo.com/about-us/ JUST ENOUGH NEWS…Newslo is the first hybrid News/Satire platform on the web. Readers come to us for a unique brand of entertainment and information that is enhanced by features like our fact-button, which allows readers to find what is fact and what is satire. Newslo’s “No Need to Satirize” brings you completely factual stories that are so ridiculous, they don’t need our trademark touch. Whenever you see #NNTS, you’re reading COMPLETELY real news that only seems too absurd to be true. Read the story on the website, and you can see what's factual and what's not: http://www.newslo.com/senator-rubio/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Senator Rubio: If God Wants the Climate to Change, We Must Let It
I can't find any other newsource that quotes him saying things quite that extreme about God and Jesus and coimate change. THis feels more like something The Onion might write, but you never know. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rick@... wrote : Senator Rubio: If God Wants the Climate to Change, We Must Let It Written by Alex Kuzio http://www.newslo.com/author/alex-kuzio/ May 12th 2014 WASHINGTON – Republican Senator Marco Rubio (FL), a prominent Christian and noted skeptic of climate change science, yesterday argued that Americans should resist efforts http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-rubio-denies-climate-change-20140511-story.html by the federal government to curb carbon dioxide emissions. Sen. Rubio, who is a likely candidate for president in 2016, said that such programs would be “against God’s Will,” since “for all we know, God wants the Earth to get warmer.” Speaking at a luncheon with potential donors, Rubio admitted that “it’s getting more and more difficult to deny that the Earth is getting hotter—just look at the new NASA report.” Rubio was referring to two studies released Monday http://www.businessinsider.com/west-antarctic-ice-sheet-collapse-means-2014-5 which indicate that the “melting of the Western Antarctic Ice sheet is unstoppable, and the glaciers are doomed to collapse and melt into the sea,” which will raise sea levels significantly, leaving much of the world’s coastal cities underwater. “So yeah, I don’t deny it’s happening,” Rubio said. “But what we absolutely cannot say for sure is that a warming Earth is not just part of God’s plan,” Rubio explained. “God knows what He’s doing, and it pleases Him to see half of Manhattan underwater and Miami wiped out completely, then we cannot stand in His way.” Rubio is a Roman Catholic, although he and his family practiced as Mormons for a time. He has said that he believes “with all [his] heart that God still destines for us an even better future and the opportunity to continue to serve as an inspiration to the world.” Today Rubio said that climate change doesn’t necessarily dash the hopes for a better future. “God destines us for a better future, and rising sea levels are a part of that, then it must be for the best,” he said. Rubio’s remarks follow those he made on Sunday, when he told “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos that he does not believe climate change is the result of human activity. “I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it… [and] I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it, except it will destroy our economy,” Rubio added. Today the senator clarified those remarks. “What I meant was that Jesus Himself is probably responsible for global warming,” he said. “I can’t tell you exactly why he’s doing it, but that’s what Faith is for—trusting that Jesus is warming up the planet so we can all live in water parks or something equally awesome.”
