Chris Christie: It’s ‘My Feeling’ That Climate Change Isn’t A Crisis

Republican presidential candidate New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, on strengthening U.S. intelligence capabilities and other topics. (AP... Republican presidential candidate New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, on strengthening U.S. intelligence capabilities and other topics. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) MORE LESS
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Tuesday morning said that while he believes that human activity contributes to climate change, he does not feel that it’s a “crisis.”

“The climate’s always changing, and we cannot say that our activity does not contribute to changing the climate. What I’m saying is, it’s not a crisis,” he said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

Co-host Joe Scarborough then mentioned that the past few years have seen record-setting heat.

“I don’t buy that, Joe,” Christie said in response. “I don’t see there’s any evidence that it’s a crisis.”

And when asked what scientist agrees with him that climate change is not a crisis, Christie said, “That’s my feeling. I didn’t say I was relying on any scientist.”

Watch the clip via MSNBC:

H/t Huffington Post

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  1. Phew. I was worried there for a minute. Thanks Chris!

  2. I don’t think the doctor that performed his lap band procedure has Christie’s photo on his office wall of success montage.

  3. Avatar for dswx dswx says:

    Then he is ignoring the peer-reviewed science from his own state’s university (Rutgers) and from one of the top research labs in the world (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab) in Princeton. In short, he is ignorant and anti-science.

  4. "I don't see there’s any evidence that it's a crisis."
    

    But we all see the evidence that all along you’ve been doing favors for your big shot campaign contributors in the fossil fuel industry. That’s what we call “bribery,” Mr. US Attorney.

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