Paul: Climate Has Been Changing for 1.5 Billion Years

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
BARTIROMA: "Senator Paul, you are one of 15 Republicans to vote for an amendment which states that human activity contributed to climate change. President Obama has announced an aggressive plan to cut carbon emissions. At the same time, energy production in America has boomed. Is it possible to continue this boom and move toward energy self-sufficiency, while at the same time pursuing a meaningful climate change program?" 
PAUL: "The first thing I would do as president is repeal the regulations that are hampering our energy that the president has put in place. [Applause] Including the clean power act, while I do think man may have a role in our climate, I think nature also has a role. The planet's 1.5 billion years old, we've been through geologic age, through geologic age. Temperatures have been warmer, colder, temperatures in the atmosphere has been higher. We need to look before we leap. The president's often fond of saying he wants a balanced solution, but we need to balance keeping the environment clean, we will have rules for that, but we've got to balance that with the economy. He's devastated my state. I say the president is not only destroying Kentucky, he's destroying the Democrat party because nobody wants to associate with him. What we really need is somebody that understands we need energy of all forms, and that means we will have solar and wind and hydro, but we will still have coal and we will have natural gas, and we've got to have an all of the above policy. But it would be a mistake to shut down all of our industries in the coal fields and shut down the coal power plants. If we did so, we'll have a day we wake up and big cities are very cold or very hot. It's a big danger and shouldn't do it. And what we should do is say we want all of the above, free up--"