Since He Represents S. Florida, Curbelo (R) Capable Of Recognizing Reality Of Warming, SLR

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Curbelo represents the southern tip of Florida. His district includes the Everglades, Florida Keys and parts of the Miami metro area, some of the most vulnerable places on earth to sea level rise. In Key West, climate change is responsible for 94 percent of all flood days over the past decade, a number that will increase as land ice melts and pushes oceans higher. Roughly 10 percent of his constituents live within five feet of current sea levels. Just to the north of his district, Miami Beach has spent $400 million on pumps to reduce the number of sunny day floods.

Understanding and addressing these risks is central to Curbelo’s legislative efforts, including a recent bipartisan bill he introduced in the House calling for $3 billion annually to improve wetlands and flood infrastructure.

Those efforts also run against the grain for many Republicans at the federal level, who have largely ignored climate change or denied the science behind it. President Trump and a number of his cabinet members have falsely questioned the influence of human carbon pollution on the climate and have enacted policies out of step with taking action to reduce that pollution. Nearly 60 percent of Curbelo’s Republican colleagues in the House are climate science deniers, according to a ThinkProgress analysis. That makes it exceedingly unlikely that a bill like Curbelo’s will end up for a vote on the floor.

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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), for example, joined the caucus in March despite having a lifetime score of 4 percent on the League of Conservation Voter’s environmental scorecard and consistently voting against clean energy and climate action bills in the House. His district is considered a tossup, though, and joining the caucus could provide him with political cover.

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http://www.climatecentral.org/news/gop-congressman-bipartisan-climate-action-21536

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1. "Nearly 60 percent of Curbelos Republican colleagues in the House are climate science deniers, "

jesus...!!... speaking of whom, I wonder how many of them are awaiting the rapture..

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2. Christopher Hitchens says it better here than I ever could - worth watching!

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3. He is never worth watching...no that is not true. I take that back..

I just don't like the guy... LOL..
But, thanks.

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PS.. I can't stand Bill Maher either.. so there is that...

I'd rather listen to Bucky Fuller..

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4. No, trust me - it's worth it . . .

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5. +++++++++++

Suicide Cults

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6. " . . . so that the cult of death can take over."

Precisely.