Senate votes 98-1 that climate change is 'not a hoax'

[IDemo]

Source: The Week

The Senate was set to vote on a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline today, but first it voted on a couple amendments. One of these was pure symbolism, stipulating that climate change is "real and not a hoax." Oddly, even the fervent anti-environmentalist James Inhofe (R-Okla.) voted for it, first claiming on Twitter that the amendment actually affirmed climate change was a hoax, then later arguing that the hoax was not climate change itself, but whether it is caused by humans (it is).

Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) was the lone vote against.



Read more: http://theweek.com/speedreads/535015/senate-votes-981-that-climate-change-hoax

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[Dont call me Shirley]

1. Who was the non-voter?

[femmocrat]

2. Wicker, R-Miss. nt

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

24. The most ignorant man in congress.

How he beat out Inhofe and King, I'll never understand.

[brucefan]

3. I think Harry Reid

Out injured?

[onenote]

8. Correct.

Wicker voted -- he was the lone 'no' vote.

Reid did not vote because he is still recovering from his injuries.

[2naSalit]

34. I think that is so...

Last night on RS I heard that he is going to have eye surgery soon, maybe today? But soon as he is in danger of losing sight in his right eye due in part to damage from the accident due to broken bone around his eye.

[roguevalley]

10. I am in tears over this vote. I am not young and I don't

have to live as long in the shit storm that is here already. i live in Alaska and have seen a December in the 40's and a January where it is just now getting down toward zero but we haven't hit it. We have no snow.

Usual December through March where I live: -10 to -30 with between 4-8 feet of snow. I am down to nothing here. I dread the future and because they had their chance to bury us all, this vote actually brings tears to my eyes.

They can't stand against any environmental initiatives because of their insistence that it isn't happening. They ended that today. I feel slightly better for the young ones now. Thanks for this post.

[groundloop]

12. I hear ya'...... 67 degrees here (n. of Atlanta) in the middle of January

I dread thinking what this summer is going to be like.

Those moronic deniers in Congress are unbelievable.

[NancyDL]

15. My feelings exactly...

i, too, live in the North and I, too, fear for my grandchildren.

[roguevalley]

17. welcome to du nancydl

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

25. But they don't think humans cause it - ergo, do nothing.

[roguevalley]

32. it will be less likely to sustain objections to something you

agree is happening than something you refuse to admit is here.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

33. They don't agree "it" is happening, so they'll do nothing.

If the earth is warming it's just the natural cycle and humans are fools to think we can influence it. (that's what they would say)

[blackcrow]

35. on the coast

just above sea level. Projected rise by 2100 in my area - nine feet.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

4. Well...

That settles that, then.

Now let's get on to fixing things.

[packman]

5. See- there is intelligence lurking

about in the Senate - now, if it was the House? Who knows?

[Cryptoad]

6. Geez,,,,

these Rethugs have never denied Climate Change is taking place,,,,, they deny we people are causing it. They think it is Divine Providence .

[Jamastiene]

28. Exactly. That is why this vote doesn't really do anything.

I have never heard them denying climate change is happening. They deny that we have anything to do with it and deny that we should try to do anything about it. So, this vote will do nothing.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. An Osian, ossified source of basket cases

[tclambert]

9. So Republican senators admit the world is warming. That's halfway to sanity.

Yet they insist people did not cause it. Must be cows. Yeah, those darn cows and their world-threatening flatulence!

[DrBulldog]

11. But the verdict by the Senate is still out on ...

... whether the sun rises in the east or in the west ...

[calimary]

14. Welcome to DU, DrBulldog!

Glad you're here! This is most interesting. I'm actually surprised the vote was as lopsided as it was. I thought the knuckle-draggers and other members of the Heads-in-the-Sand Gang would have dared to show more strength.

[defacto7]

22. Well if you're standing just slightly east of the International date line..

the sun rises in the east and sets... in the east.... If you're just west of the international date line the sun rises in the west and sets in the west.... geopolitically speaking. Of course you'd probably drown watching.

[Gothmog]

13. This is interesting

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. Even Inhofe???

He's the clown who claims it's all a scam by scientists to raise money.

Because, you know,...EVERYBODY is into greed.

[Kelvin Mace]

19. Yes,

but he apparently had no idea what he was voting for.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. THAT I can believe.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

36. LOL!!! Just saw the clip where he says, "The climate is always changing".

[YOHABLO]

18. Solutions will not happen without leadership .. the Republicans have offered NONE.

Meanwhile, we could be passing legislation to take drastic efforts to curb CO2 levels .. they're still sitting around scratching their asses, trying to decide whether it's a HOAX (?) These people need to go.

[brooklynite]

21. I'll accept Inhofe's "clairification"...because it doesn't matter

If we accept that Climate Change is a problem, it doesn't matter what the immediate cause is. What matters is what we can do about it, and the only thing we can do is modify the human influences.

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. 49 Repub senators then voted it's not man-made; 5 R and 43 Dem and 2 Ind voted it is

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/senators-dont-believe-human-caused-climate-change/

Repubs who can recognise science when they see it:
Alexander, Lamar (R – TN)
Ayotte, Kelly (R – NH)
Collins, Susan M. (R – ME)
Graham, Lindsey (R – SC)
Kirk, Mark (R – IL)

(missing Dem is Harry Reid, for the usual procedural reason, I imagine, or his injury)

[DetlefK]

26. Why am I still sitting in my lab, when facts are up for a vote???

In other news, the Senate just voted that fracking-fluids in your ground-water are good for your health and that fossils were put underground by the devil to tempt mankind...

[olddad56]

27. well there you go, that should take care of any cliamte change issues we have....

now they can allocate billions to off shore companies they have invested it to 'fix it'.

[dsharp88]

29. NEXT WEEK they vote on whether or not 2+3=5. n/t

[Kennah]

37. If it's not in the Bible ...

[Myrina]

30. The founding fathers must be rolling in their graves at what idiocy takes place now ...

SMH.

[librechik]

31. In a surprise vote...

at least there's this.