49 GOP Senators: Climate Change Not Caused By Humans
The final climate amendment, introduced by the Hawaii Democrat Brian Schatz, went further, stating: “human activity significantly contributes to climate change.”
Only five Republicans supported it – Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Susan Collins of Maine and Mark Kirk of Illinois.
Rand Paul of Kentucky, Marco Rubio of Florida, and Ted Cruz of Texas – all thought of as leading Republican contenders for the 2016 presidential race – voted against. The bill was defeated 50-49.
Money quote from Senator James Inhofe (R-OK)(pictured),
Click here for reuse options!“Climate is changing and climate has always changed and always will,” Inhofe told the Senate. “The hoax is that there are some people who are so arrogant to think they are so powerful they can change climate. Man can’t change climate.”
Copyright 2015 Liberaland
By: Stuart Shapiro
Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.
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photojack53 March 7th, 2015 at 21:44
And if it came to a vote on whether dinosaurs existed, those same Republicans would vote “NO” as if what idiocy they proclaim can trump science. The science is iron-clad. The evidence has been mounting and if anything, the I.P.C.C. Reports were being too cautious and underestimated the influence of man and the now increasing rapidity of our effects on our climate. James Inhofe bedamned! His snowball antics in the Senate and claims of knowing better than ALL the climate scientists because of “God”, reeks of hypocritical stupidity so blatant that he should be removed from office, NOW! Al Gore ably and accurately called out the GOP over their obvious motives. NOT their constituents or the citizens of America, but their dirty oil and coal contributors and big corporate donors. What else could cause them to FAVOR the oil and coal industries OVER THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY OF ALL AMERICANS AND THE CITIZENS OF EARTH!
NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN IF YOU VALUE AMERICA OR OUR FUTURE!
jabusse March 8th, 2015 at 06:30
The science used by the warmists is faith based. Faith in one’s ability to model the future and make specific predictions (all catastrophic, of course, and all including a request for more funding) from widely scattered inconsistent and unbaselined data. Although I sometimes question the Bible, there is a lot of wisdom in it and although I have no idea if God said anything I do have faith that as long as the world turns and rotates on its axis offset from the plane of its elliptical orbit, we will have night & day, spring and winter, hot and cold, rain and snow, long days short days, clouds, and blue skys, wind and calm. That is just proven physics. Physics developed only in the 19th century, that curiously agrees with the Bible written about 2400 years ago. The warmist stuff is the stuff of fantasy.