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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe knuckle dragging Republicans in the Senate embarrassed America. Again.
In 50-49 vote, US Senate says climate change not caused by humansWASHINGTON The Senate rejected the scientific consensus that humans are causing climate change, days after NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared 2014 the hottest year ever recorded on Earth.
The Republican-controlled Senate defeated a measure Wednesday stating that climate change is real and that human activity significantly contributes to it. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, offered the measure as the Senate debated the Keystone XL pipeline, which would tap the carbon-intensive oil sands in the Canadian province of Alberta.
The Senate voted 50-49 on the measure, which required 60 votes in order to pass.
Only in the halls of Congress is this a controversial piece of legislation, Schatz said.
The chairman of the environment committee, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., is an enthusiastic denier of climate change, saying it is the biggest hoax perpetrated against mankind.
The hoax is there are some people so arrogant to think they are so powerful they can change the climate, Inhofe said Wednesday on the Senate floor. Man cant change the climate.
The Senate, with Inhofes support, did pass a separate measure saying that climate change is real just not that human activity is a cause. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., was the only senator to vote against it.
The Democrats pushed for the climate change votes as an attempt to get Republicans on the record in advance of the 2016 elections, with polls showing that a majority of Americans believe humans are causing global warming. The votes were offered as non-binding amendments to the bill authorizing construction of Keystone.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, urged her colleagues to vote against the finding that climate change is significantly caused by humans.
Murkowski, chairwoman of the energy committee, has expressed worries about the impact of climate change on her state. But she said on the Senate floor that the fact the measure included the word significantly was enough to merit voting against it.
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Just five Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, joined the Democrats on Wednesday in voting for the finding that human activity significantly contributes to climate change.
Graham said hes not a scientist, but that he has heard enough from scientists on the issue to be convinced.
He rejected Democratic arguments that approving the Keystone XL pipeline would worsen climate change, though, maintaining that the Canadian oil sands are going to be developed even if the pipeline is not built.
http://bangordailynews.com/2015/01/22/politics/senate-not-ready-to-tie-climate-change-to-mankind/
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The knuckle dragging Republicans in the Senate embarrassed America. Again. (Original Post)
catbyte
Jan 2016
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underpants
(182,734 posts)1. No snowball?
Inhofe is going soft.
spanone
(135,815 posts)2. Obama: GOP is the 'only major party in advanced world' to deny climate change
Barack Obama chided Republicans on Friday for standing apart from every other rightwing party in the developed world by denying the science of climate change.
In a confident defence of the Paris climate deal agreed by nearly 200 nations last weekend, Obama predicted that Republican opposition to the accord and the denial of climate change itself will not be sustainable.
The American Republican party is the only major party that I can think of in the advanced world that effectively denies climate change, the president said. Its an outlier.
Many of the key signatories of this deal, the architects of this deal, come from centre-right governments. Even the far-right parties in many of these countries, they may not like immigrants for example, but they admit, Yeah the science tells us weve got to do something about climate change.
In a confident defence of the Paris climate deal agreed by nearly 200 nations last weekend, Obama predicted that Republican opposition to the accord and the denial of climate change itself will not be sustainable.
The American Republican party is the only major party that I can think of in the advanced world that effectively denies climate change, the president said. Its an outlier.
Many of the key signatories of this deal, the architects of this deal, come from centre-right governments. Even the far-right parties in many of these countries, they may not like immigrants for example, but they admit, Yeah the science tells us weve got to do something about climate change.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/18/obama-year-end-press-conference-climate-change-republicans
CanonRay
(14,096 posts)4. I'm no longer certain we are in the advanced world. nt
spanone
(135,815 posts)5. guess the President has to appear optimistic...?
Skittles
(153,138 posts)7. teabagging stupidity
onecaliberal
(32,812 posts)3. :
niyad
(113,215 posts)6. again??? you mean, STILL, don't you?
MyOwnPeace
(16,925 posts)8. My question - WHY?
What do they hope to gain by this stupidity?
Is it part of the "Anti-anything-Obama-says" campaign?
Is it part of the anti-intellectual movement (those "nerds" - professors - brainiacs - etc)?
I TRULY do not understand their "head-in-the-sand" behavior!
moondust
(19,970 posts)9. Fossil Fuels Forever!!!!
starroute
(12,977 posts)10. This story is a year old
It's dated January 22, 2015 and refers to climate date for the year 2014.