Rubio: ‘I Don’t Agree’ With ‘Notion’ Of Climate Change

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a Cuban-American with aspirations to the White House, speaks about the “American dream” on the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s first State of the Union address in 1964, ... Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a Cuban-American with aspirations to the White House, speaks about the “American dream” on the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s first State of the Union address in 1964, where LBJ committed the government to a war on poverty, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. Rubio’s speech was hosted by the conservative American Enterprise Institute. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Sunday said he doesn’t believe that human activity is behind climate change.

“I don’t agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are actions we can take today that would actually have an impact on what’s happening in our climate,” he said on ABC’s “This Week.” “Our climate is always changing. And what they have chosen to do is take a handful of decades of research and say that this is now evidence of a longer-term trend that’s directly and almost solely attributable to manmade activity, I do not agree with that.”

ABC’s Jonathan Karl pressed Rubio on his belief that humans don’t have anything to do with global warming.

“But let me get this straight, you do not think that human activity, its production of CO2, has caused warming to our planet?” Karl asked.

“I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it. That’s what I do not — 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 responded.

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