Can we have mitigation activity on Marco Rubio’s Sunday morning show appearances?

The junior senator from Florida, dear readers:

KARL: The White House came out with a big new report on climate change and listed Florida as being right, you know, saying that — that Florida is right at the center of this, that, in fact, Miami, Tampa are two of the cities that are most threatened by climate change. So putting aside your disagreement with what to do about it, do you agree with the science on this? I mean how big…

RUBIO: Well…

KARL: — a threat is climate change?

RUBIO: Yeah, I — 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. Our climate is always changing. And what they have chosen to do is take a handful of decades of research and — and say that this is now evidence of a longer-term trend that’s directly and almost solely attributable to manmade activity…

I don’t know of any era in world history where the climate has been stable. Climate is always evolving and natural disaster have always existed.

But I do believe that the fact is, that these events that we’re talking about are impacting us, because we’ve built very expensive structures in Florida and other parts of the country near areas that are prone to hurricanes. We’ve had hurricanes in Florida forever.

And the — the question is, what do we do about the fact that we have built expensive structures, real estate and population centers, near those vulnerable areas?

I have no problem with taking mitigation activity. What I have a problem with is these changes to our law that somehow politicians say are going to change our weather. That’s absurd.

For a man who says scientists base conclusions on “a handful of decades of research,” uses jargon like “mitigation activity,” and snarks listeners into thinking Barack Obama wants to slap a carbon tax onTthe Lord Our God (e.g. “changes to our law that somehow politicians say are going to change our weather”), he sure likes to repeat “the fact that.”