Senate says climate change not caused by humans

[Bubzer]

WASHINGTON — 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.

http://bangordailynews.com/2015/01/22/politics/senate-not-ready-to-tie-climate-change-to-mankind/

[Bubzer]

1. Here's the roll call

Voted against the amendment (nay—human activities don’t contribute to climate change)

Barrasso, John (R – WY)
Blunt, Roy (R – MO)
Boozman, John (R – AR)
Burr, Richard (R – NC)
Capito, Shelley Moore (R – WV)
Cassidy, Bill (R – LA)
Coats, Daniel (R – IN)
Cochran, Thad (R – MS)
Corker, Bob (R – TN)
Cornyn, John (R – TX)
Cotton, Tom (R – AR)
Crapo, Mike (R – ID)
Cruz, Ted (R – TX)
Daines, Steve (R – MT)
Enzi, Michael B. (R – WY)
Ernst, Joni (R – IA)
Fischer, Deb (R – NE)
Flake, Jeff (R – AZ)
Gardner, Cory (R – CO)
Grassley, Chuck (R – IA)
Hatch, Orrin G. (R – UT)
Heller, Dean (R – NV)
Hoeven, John (R – ND)
Inhofe, James M. (R – OK)
Isakson, Johnny (R – GA)
Johnson, Ron (R – WI)
Lankford, James (R – OK)
Lee, Mike (R – UT)
McCain, John (R – AZ)
McConnell, Mitch (R – KY)
Moran, Jerry (R – KS)
Murkowski, Lisa (R – AK)
Paul, Rand (R – KY)
Perdue, David (R – GA)
Portman, Rob (R – OH)
Risch, James E. (R – ID)
Roberts, Pat (R – KS)
Rounds, Mike (R – SD)
Rubio, Marco (R – FL)
Sasse, Ben (R – NE)
Scott, Tim (R – SC)
Sessions, Jeff (R – AL)
Shelby, Richard C. (R – AL)
Sullivan, Daniel (R – AK)
Thune, John (R – SD)
Tillis, Thom (R – NC)
Toomey, Patrick J. (R – PA)
Vitter, David (R – LA)
Wicker, Roger F. (R – MS)


Voted for the amendment (yea—
human activities contribute to climate change)

Alexander, Lamar (R – TN)
Ayotte, Kelly (R – NH)
Baldwin, Tammy (D – WI)
Bennet, Michael F. (D – CO)
Blumenthal, Richard (D – CT)
Booker, Cory A. (D – NJ)
Boxer, Barbara (D – CA)
Brown, Sherrod (D – OH)
Cantwell, Maria (D – WA)
Cardin, Benjamin L. (D – MD)
Carper, Thomas R. (D – DE)
Casey, Robert P., Jr. (D – PA)
Collins, Susan M. (R – ME)
Coons, Christopher A. (D – DE)
Donnelly, Joe (D – IN)
Durbin, Richard J. (D – IL)
Feinstein, Dianne (D – CA)
Franken, Al (D – MN)
Gillibrand, Kirsten E. (D – NY)
Graham, Lindsey (R – SC)
Heinrich, Martin (D – NM)
Heitkamp, Heidi (D – ND)
Hirono, Mazie K. (D – HI)
Kaine, Tim (D – VA)
King, Angus S., Jr. (I – ME)
Kirk, Mark (R – IL)
Klobuchar, Amy (D – MN)
Leahy, Patrick J. (D – VT)
Manchin, Joe, III (D – WV)
Markey, Edward J. (D – MA)
McCaskill, Claire (D – MO)
Menendez, Robert (D – NJ)
Merkley, Jeff (D – OR)
Mikulski, Barbara A. (D – MD)
Murphy, Christopher (D – CT)
Murray, Patty (D – WA)
Nelson, Bill (D – FL)
Peters, Gary (D – MI)
Reed, Jack (D – RI)
Sanders, Bernard (I – VT)
Schatz, Brian (D – HI)
Schumer, Charles E. (D – NY)
Shaheen, Jeanne (D – NH)
Stabenow, Debbie (D – MI)
Tester, Jon (D – MT)
Udall, Tom (D – NM)
Warner, Mark R. (D – VA)
Warren, Elizabeth (D – MA)
Whitehouse, Sheldon (D – RI)
Wyden, Ron (D – OR)

[valerief]

4. No Dems voted against. Guess they didn't need their DINOs. nt

[rurallib]

2. or stated a little differently

"Senate declares itself world's stupidest group by vote of 50-49"
Apparently one senator was undecided.

[valerief]

3. I think it rains gold coins inside the Capitol. That's definitely caused by humans. nt

[octoberlib]

5. I'm in the middle of reading Jane Mayer's book on the Koch brothers and this is

100% their doing. I actually have to commend the Republicans who did the right thing and admitted climate change is real because they'll be primaried and attacked.

[Rex]

6. Yes well Congress is a total joke owned by Citi and JP Morgan.

So admitting climate change would mean their masters would be displeased.

[SunSeeker]

8. It's not Congress. It just REPUBLICANS who are denying human cause. nt

[Rex]

9. Since they control everything might as well be all of Congress.

The Dems never seem to get anywhere.

[SunSeeker]

10. By not naming the Republicans specifically, we let them off the hook.

This bullshit "a pox on both their houses" or "both parties are the same" lie is how Republicans keep getting re-elected. Which is why Dems are blocked from doing more about climate change.

[Rex]

11. Well nobody really believes both parties are the same, but when Congress is identified the world

over as a joke and not worthy of being a body of governance - everyone has to take the blame. If only Dems would have stood up 30 years ago to this crap and not just sat on their hands.

So really has nothing to do with 'both parties are the same' canard as the fact that we Dems just take it and take it.

[SunSeeker]

12. Maybe if we laid blame where it belongs and named names, Congress wouldn't be a "joke."

Don't you think it is ironic that you assert Dems shouldn't "just take it" but you refuse to call out the GOP, instead taking blame that belongs on the GOP and spreading it to Dems? Are you a Dem?

[Rex]

13. Show me where I refuse or said refuse to call out the GOP?

I'll wait.

[SunSeeker]

14. By referring to "Congress" rather than "Republicans." nt

[Rex]

16. Wow, that is a really nice try at nothing. So you have nothing at all.

Been calling them out PERSONALLY for 30 years now...sorry to kill your one try at making sense.

[SunSeeker]

19. Why refer to the problem as "Congress" when it is all Republicans who voted this way? nt

[Rex]

20. Because it is a problem of Congress or are you saying we are in the wrong for their stupidity?

As a body Congress is a joke the world over, sorry if that is too much for you to handle. Not my problem.

[SunSeeker]

21. Dems are not the joke. The GOP is. nt

[Rex]

22. Congress is a joke. nt

Play your silly game with someone else.

[SunSeeker]

25. The Republicans in Congress are the joke.

You are the one playing a silly game here. I'm just trying to set the record straight, not keep just "taking it."

[Rex]

26. Okay so now I know you are just being silly with the taking it stuff.

I am glad it bothers you so much that Congress is a joke, but sad to see you don't care to do anything about it but try and change the subject.

Try again?

[SunSeeker]

28. I am doing something about it.

I'm voting for Dems instead of bashing them by lumping them in with the "idiots" and "jokes" that are the GOP.

[SunSeeker]

7. Not since flat-earthers' convicted Galileo has a fundamental scientific fact been so attacked.

The GOP have joined the flat-earthers in history's hall of shame.

[hifiguy]

17. i have little doubt that some of them ARE

flat-earthers. There are probably some geocentrics among that crowd of geniuses, too.

The only place where the world glides through the universe on the top of a turtle, supported by four elephants, is in Terry Pratchett novels.

[geomon666]

15. Pathetic.

Absolutely pathetic.

[Rex]

18. And this is the Congress other world leaders laugh at. And for good reason.

Not that other countries don't have idiots leaders, but boy do we know how to pick them! Sadly so many of them come from my state of Texas...which is still trying to secede from reality.

[SunSeeker]

23. Are any of these "idiot leaders" from Texas Dems?

If not, why don't you just say so many of these idiot Republicans come from Texas?

[Rex]

24. Because I am not paranoid like you are?

Where is your blue tarp? Congress is a joke the world over, deal with it or not obviously it bothers you enough to bother me.

[SunSeeker]

27. I'm not "paranoid," I just want blame placed where it belongs: the GOP.

Something you inexplicably refuse to do in this thread.

[Mendocino]

29. People this dumb

should be barred from holding public office.

[daleo]

30. For Pi day, they should vote on the value of pi

That might be good for a laugh.