The U.S. Senate has voted overwhelmingly, 98 to 1, to approve an amendment affirming that climate change is real and "not a hoax."
The vote came on an amendment to legislation that aims to force approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from the Canadian oil sands to the United States.
Senators opposed to the pipeline, who say it would help accelerate climate change by encouraging mining of oil sands, are using votes on the bill as an opportunity to force Republican senators to take a stand on whether climate change is real. Some Republican lawmakers have dodged the issue, saying they lack the scientific credentials to evaluate the evidence for climate change. One lawmaker, Senator James Inhofe (R–OK), has even called climate change a "hoax."
The amendment, from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D–RI), takes a veiled jab at Inhofe, asking simply whether it is “the sense of the Senate that climate change is real and not a hoax."
In a surprise this afternoon, Inhofe rose before the vote to ask to become a co-sponsor of the Whitehouse amendment. Scattered applause greeted his remarks. "Climate is changing," he said, "and climate has always changed." The hoax that he has talked about, he suggested, is that there are people who think they are so "arrogant" and "powerful" that "they can change climate."
NOW WE ELECT SCIENTISTS TO SENATE?
ReplyDeleteI will never pay a carbon tax,just as I will never get Ovomit uncare or pay the IRS a BS fine NEVER!
ReplyDeleteOf course climate change is real........ we have millions of years of geologic records proving that. The current debate is about whether humans are causing a change now, and which direction the change is moving in.
ReplyDeleteI had thirty years worth of being a believer in "global warming" UNTIL I saw the newest scientific discoveries on how the sun controls the earth's climate indirectly. Find a copy of _The Chilling Stars - Cosmic Climate Change_ or see "The Great Global Warming Swindle": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Mx0_8YEtg