US Senate Votes 98 to 1 –> Climate Change Is Real

This proves that a Republican Senate is totally qualified to resolve scientific questions.

Let it be recorded for history that late in the afternoon of January 21, 2015, the United States Senate formally acknowledged that climate change is real.
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As to that other critical question of whether human beings are contributing to it? Well, the Senate is not so sure. In a series of largely symbolic votes Wednesday afternoon, newly-disempowered Democrats tried to force Republicans to stake out a firm position on climate change after years of party leaders trying to dodge the question by saying they’re “not scientists.”

The result was a split decision: The Senate overwhelmingly voted, 98-1, in favor of an amendment stating that “climate change is real and not a hoax.”

A commenter to an article on the vote added this list:

The consensus on ‘economic stimulus’?
The consensus on light rail?
The consensus on high speed rail?
The consensus on infrastructure spending?
The consensus on the food pyramid?
The consensus on BMI?
The consensus on the efficacy of lie detectors?
The consensus on the damages payday loans cause?
The consensus on the damage drug use causes?
The consensus on the current feasibility of renewable energy sources?

I would add one point that is only alluded to: they believe Reefer Madness is a documentary. With the possible exception of Rand Paul.


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3 responses to “US Senate Votes 98 to 1 –> Climate Change Is Real”

  1. Sigivald Avatar
    Sigivald

    Climate change is real.

    Because the climate is not static.

    Thanks, Senate!

  2. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    Properly viewed Reefer Madness is a documentary –
    About what a whack job Anslinger was.

    Climate changes all by itself, so as presented that resolution is meaningless.

  3. Kathy Kinsley Avatar
    Kathy Kinsley

    Well, of course the climate changes. That isn’t the issue. See above two comments.

    There are those who are listening to “OMG THE CLIMATE IS CHANGING” and saying, “well, of course it is” and there are those who are saying “but we must never let ANYTHING change!”

    And, for some reason, the former are being called conservatives?

    (And no, I’m no conservative by “Conservative” standards, but I get accused, nonetheless, when I object to idiocy.)