Marco Rubio: Humans aren't causing climate change

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Marco Rubio: Humans aren't causing climate change
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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) dismissed the dire warnings in the White House's latest climate change report, saying flatly that humans were not to blame for the warming planet.

"I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it," he said in an appearance on ABC's This Week, adding that proposed laws to address the issue would do nothing but "destroy our economy."

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Jon Terbush

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.