Inhofe Urges GOP Candidates To Straight-Up Reject The Idea Of Climate Change

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No, I'm not making this up .. .

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Sen. Marco Rubio disputed the idea that he's a climate skeptic in the second GOP debate, asserting instead that he opposes policies to reduce emissions if they burden the U.S. economy while failing to affect global temperatures. "America is not a planet," said Florida's Rubio.

The interaction occurred 149 minutes into the three-hour program, drawing in several candidates who repudiated the idea of enacting an "insurance policy" to guard against the risk of sea-level rise and other impacts of planetary warming. The question posed by CNN's Jake Tapper referred to a cautionary program of emission cuts outlined recently by George Shultz, the former secretary of State under President Reagan.

Shultz's standing as an iconic figure in the Republican establishment earned him little leeway in the swashbuckling debate held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Shultz supports a revenue-neutral carbon tax to address the unpriced release of emissions by American industry. "Everyone makes a mistake once in a while, even George Shultz," said New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has said that humans contribute to global warming.

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That's a sharp change from 2008, when Sen. John McCain of Arizona supported a cap-and-trade program to address rising temperatures as the Republican nominee. McCain said yesterday that the candidates are "all over the place" on climate now. Asked how he would talk about climate change today, McCain said: "Well, I think that it's an issue. But I don't think that we're going to be effective without the use of nuclear power." Another lawmaker, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, urged the candidates to be "courageous" by rejecting the idea of climate change. "I'd love to be in their body answering that question," Inhofe said yesterday.

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1. This brings to mind Nero fiddling

Only this time it won't just be Rome burning.