Jeb: Yes on killing gators, no on VP

DALLAS (AP) — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says he is "light green" on the environment and is skeptical that humans are causing global warming. Bush, whose two terms ended in 2007, also said Wednesday he "can’t imagine" running for national office and isn’t interested in being Sen. John McCain’s running mate.

The younger brother of President George W. Bush made the comments during an address to several hundred business people meeting in a hotel ballroom. Earlier in the day, Bush met with other directors of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp., the hospital chain whose board he joined last year....

...Bush told the Texas audience how he repeatedly vetoed spending state money to market alligator meat. "Alligators proliferate in Florida. They eat small dogs," Bush said. "We don’t need to market them, we need to kill them." After a slight pause, he added, "Is this open to the press?"...

...As governor, Bush, a Republican, was largely silent on global warming. His successor, Charlie Crist — who is often mentioned as a possible GOP running mate for McCain — has said Florida should become a leader in addressing climate change because its low elevation makes it vulnerable if ocean levels rise.

Bush said those who advocate action to limit climate change are acting out of something like religious zeal.

"I don’t think our policies should be based on emotion; they should be based on sound science," he said.

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[Donald Lance]

Jeb! My Brah! So many things to speak about here in the F-L-A, and you choose to talk about gator meat?

Sound science...???

I guess JEB! and the rest of his GOP buddies should have tried out that whole "I don’t think our policies should be based on emotion; they should be based on sound science," thing back during the Teri Schiavo case. Maybe he should let Rhonda Storms and the other un-intelligent designers in on the whole concept.

Wow! It is truly amazing to watch these GOPers like good ole' JEB! flippin' and floppin' with their statements like the dolphins at Sea World. Way to go JEB! you hipocritical a##.

Careful, the press might be here and report what a bunch of phony jerks you Bush bigots are.

Given how Jeb treated our tax surplus, laws, decency, and destruction of our public education -- I wonder if he's talking about the University Gators or the green reptilians.

Texas, businessmen, Bush -- yup don't want it to public that you even considered selling or killing another Florida asset.

Global warming is a scam - thank you for stating the obvious!
We miss you and your leadership sir!!

Go Jeb!

Hmm, let's see should we believe Arnold Schwarzennegar and other liberal trasnspartisan politicans or Thomas Sowell and Jeb? Hard choice here....

I think NOT!

"We miss you and your leadership sir!!"

(Mega-dittos to the 10th power)

Cold Water on ‘Global Warming’
Next week, skeptics will gather in Gotham to discuss the cold, hard facts.

By Thomas Sowell

It has almost become something of a joke when some “global warming” conference has to be cancelled because of a snowstorm or bitterly cold weather.

But stampedes and hysteria are no joke — and creating stampedes and hysteria has become a major activity of those hyping a global-warming “crisis.” ↓

They mobilize like-minded people from a variety of occupations, call them all “scientists” and then claim that “all” the experts agree on a global-warming crisis.

Their biggest argument is that there is no argument.

A whole cottage industry has sprung up among people who get grants, government agencies who get appropriations, politicians who get publicity, and the perpetually indignant who get something new to be indignant about. It gives teachers something to talk about in school instead of teaching.

Those who bother to check the facts often find that not all those who are called scientists are really scientists and not all of those who are scientists are specialists in climate. But who bothers to check facts these days?

A new and very different conference on global warming will be held in New York City, under the sponsorship of the Heartland Institute, on March 2nd to March 4th — weather permitting.

It is called an “International Conference on Climate Change” that will examine the question “Global Warming: Crisis or Scam?” Among those present will be professors of climatology, along with scientists in other fields and people from other professions.

They come from universities in England, Hungary, and Australia, as well as from the United States and Canada, and include among other dignitaries the former president of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel.

All told, there will be 98 speakers and 400 participants.

The theme of the conference is that “there is no scientific consensus on the causes or likely consequences of global warming.”

Many of the participants in this conference are people who have already expressed skepticism about either the prevailing explanations of current climate change or the dire predictions about future climate change.

These include authors of such books as Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years by Fred Singer and Dennis Avery, and Shattered Consensus, edited by Patrick J. Michaels.

This will be one of the rare opportunities for the media to hear the other side of the story — for those old-fashioned journalists who still believe that their job is to inform the public, rather than promote an agenda.

Several films will be featured at the conference — including The Great Global Warming Swindle, a British television program that is now available on DVD in the United States. It is a devastating debunking of the current “global warming” hysteria.

Nobody denies that there is such a thing as a greenhouse effect. If there were not, the side of the planet facing away from the sun would be freezing every night.

There is not even a lot of controversy over temperature readings. What is fundamentally at issue are the explanations, implications, and extrapolations of these temperature readings.

The party line of those who say that we are heading for a global warming crisis of epic proportions is that human activities generating carbon dioxide are key factors responsible for the warming that has taken place in recent times.

The problem with this reasoning is that the temperatures rose first and then the carbon dioxide levels rose. Some scientists say that the warming created the increased carbon dioxide, rather than vice versa.

Many natural factors, including variations in the amount of heat put out by the sun, can cause the earth to heat or cool.

The bigger problem is that this has long since become a crusade rather than an exercise in evidence or logic. Too many people are too committed to risk it all on a roll of the dice, which is what turning to empirical evidence is.

Those who have a big stake in global-warming hysteria are unlikely to show up at the conference in New York, and unfortunately that includes much of the media.

— Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Economic Facts and Fallacies.

Jeb! We miss you!

So how is Jeb benefitting from the state give-a-way to CSX - $700 million dollars? This was his "baby" from the beginning.

Gatordems proliferate in Florida too and though they don't eat small dogs they are pests and while killing isn't necessary they ought to be ignored.

I it's great when the lovers of that drug-addict Rush start screaming
about 'dittos' and 'mega-dittos'. Perhaps they miss out on the fact that by saying they agree with all that Oxi-muncher Rush says proves their own lack of ability to have a thought of their own. Please, we beg you, turn down the radio. Try reading a book, magazine or newspaper. It is a long road to recovery ahead, but you can do it. Just take it slow. Think small thoughts of your own at first. Perhaps pick out your own socks. Slowly you will improve. Your own thoughts will come easier with time. Someday you may even be able to choose for yourself at McDonalds. Please. Try. There is hope.

Thomas Sowell has read some very good books. Ever read one? Or possibly Michael Yon or Victor Davis Hanson or Mark Steyn or Jonah Goldberg or Paul Johnson, or Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. Which is to say, 10:24, take your condescending attitude and your feeble attempt at wit and shove it up there where the sun don't shine.

Ditto.

Miss you, Governor!

Press or no press, controversial or not, your straight-talk we appreciate!

[Omega83]

This Seminole has no problem with the extermination of Gators of all shapes and sizes.

[Omega83]

Jeb was right when he said we have a Hurricane problem too

:)

Dear Jeb,

GO AWAY FOR GOD'S SAKE! AS IT IS, I'VE HAD TO PULL EVERY "BUSH" UP FROM AROUND MY HOUSE BECAUSE I CAN'T STAND EVEN HAVING ANY REFERENCES TO YOU DOPES.

... I also drink only german-made beer too.

Gov. Bush had an unmatched record of success, reform, and innovation(that's why he was elected twice!). Too bad the current Governor can't be that visionary.

clearly, the bush/pierce crime family does not have on-lline an alligator-meat-processing plant. otherwise the miserable whores would be ALL FOR marketing gator meat...something else they can profit from!

Visionary governor? Absolutely!

"Jeb! Again In '10"

"Light green," too funny!

Gov. Bush had an unmatched record of success, reform, and innovation that was used to shift taxes to his private buddies... that's why he was appointed twice!).

Too bad the current Governor is just as useless.

Jeb is gormless when it comes to science.

Jeb is a perfect example of why inbreading is bad.

JEB - YOU ARE A DRIED UP HAS BEEN. JUST SHUT UP.

House seems to think the CSX commuter train will solve global warming too.

Boy Howdy Jeb, yu are a real mans man, jes like your cowboy brother jet fightin' George. Do ya thank we kin make an 'ception to the truck nut law so's Jeb can have a set?

You could give your truck nuts except you're obviously using them for brains. And you ought to consult a physician about that BDS. It's really causing you to make a fool out of yourself.

10:31 always ready with the quick slogan aren't you POS. Anyone, anyone, who can't see that the Bush family has been absolutely disastrous for this country has a serious reality problem.

Jeb says no to VP? Like anyone in their right mind would even ask.

[Paige Boltwood]

I was reading the paper this morning and came across this article about Jeb Bush talks tough on alligators and that really pissed me off and everyone else I talk to.
Mr. Bush instead of going after the alligators I really think you and your brother really need to go back to school cause from kids in elemantary to older people WE are the ones causing global warming all the chemicals from factories, fumes and etc...So, next time you get in your precious limo think not about gators think about the fumes your car lets off into the air and as for gators they have been around for MILLIONS of years it's sad they go after things dogs go after cats are you going to kill them too.??? they will be here before you and they will be here after you but if you keep yourself in denial about Global warming you'll have your wish.