Miami Beach mayor: Rubio '100%' sounds like a climate change denier

Philip Levine says Rubio's answer at Thursday's GOP debate ignores reality of sea level rise in places such as Miami Beach, which has spent $100m on sea defenses

The mayor of Miami Beach, one of the US cities most vulnerable to sea level rise, has criticized Marco Rubio after the presidential hopeful said that it's not possible to "change the weather" or the rising oceans through government regulation.

Asked if he accepted the reality of human-induced climate change, Rubio, a US senator for Florida and running for his party's presidential nomination, said: "If the climate is changing, one of the reasons is because the climate has always been changing."