Scott, Rubio Pissing Off Scientists

“I’m not a scientist,” said Florida Governor Rick Scott last week, when asked if he thought man-made climate change was affecting the weather. “I’m not a scientist,” said Sen. Marco Rubio in 2009, his first in a long line of statement denying climate change.

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“What if we asked ‘Senator: do you advocate drinking toxic sludge?’ or ‘Senator: is jumping off the north rim of the Grand Canyon safe?’ or ‘Senator: should I place my head 

in the jaws of this lion?’,” . “Would the response still be be

 ‘I don’t know, I’m not a scientist’?”