US Senate refuses to accept humanity's role in global climate change, again
Source: The Guardian
US Senate refuses to accept humanity's role in global climate change, again
Senators accept global warming is not a hoax but fail to recognise human activity
is to blame, nearly 27 years after scientists laid out man’s role
Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
Thursday 22 January 2015 17.03 GMT
It is nearly 27 years now since a Nasa scientist testified before the US Senate that the agency was 99% certain that rising global temperatures were caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
And the Senate still has not got it – based on the results of three symbolic climate change votes on Wednesday night.
The Senate voted virtually unanimously that climate change is occurring and not, as some Republicans have said, a hoax – but it defeated two measures attributing its causes to human activity.
Only one Senator, Roger Wicker, a Republican from Mississippi, voted against a resolution declaring climate change was real and not – as his fellow Republican, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma once famous declared – a hoax. That measure passed 98 to one.
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