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Dem senator: Humans causing climate change, saying otherwise is 'bogus'
The Hill ^ | June 14, 2012 | Pete Kasperowicz

Posted on 06/14/2012 8:22:01 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) declared on the Senate floor Thursday that the debate over whether humans are causing climate change is over, and that it has been shown conclusively that human activity is leading to global warming.

"People say there are questions about the theory," he said. "No, there are not.

"The argument that the jury is still out on climate change is a false and bogus argument," he added. "The jury is not out. In fact, the jury is in, the effects are obvious, they surround us every day, and we need to take action."

Whitehouse said the theory that warmth creates a moist atmosphere that traps heat has been around since the Civil War. "That's been basic textbook science for a century," he said. "It's never been controverted. It's a law, essentially, of science."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; rhodeisland; sheldonwhitehouse
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1 posted on 06/14/2012 8:22:11 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
the debate over whether humans are causing climate change is over

Oh.

Well...if we aren't permitted to exercise our First Amendment rights then I guess it's on to the Second.

2 posted on 06/14/2012 8:28:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Human caused climate change? Wait until the next super-volcano erupts! Or the Sun has a hiccup! Or God decides to clear His throat! Then you'll see climate change. What we have now is nothing more than a little epochal variation.



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

3 posted on 06/14/2012 8:30:10 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Shut up you meathead, you.

Whew! I feel better now.


4 posted on 06/14/2012 8:31:42 PM PDT by logitech (Who's here so vile, that will not love his country? If any speak, for him I have offended)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
No global warming for 15 years

Forget global warming - it's Solar Cycle 25 and the next Ice Age we need to worry about

5 posted on 06/14/2012 8:32:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

IOW.....let’s continue the GLOBAL redistribution of wealth......and $$$$ going to despots, etc.

This all started a few years ago when Bono (contrived by the UN) was screaming that the US should ‘forgive’ 3rd World countries of their ‘debt’. It goes on and on.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/general/2001-06-14-bono.htm


6 posted on 06/14/2012 8:34:14 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Wings cannot be redistributed, they can only be broken. ~ Oleg Atbashian (People's Cube))
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To: Free ThinkerNY
RATs ALWAYS lie about everything

Now you were saying Senator?

7 posted on 06/14/2012 8:36:08 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

All ‘rats should go jump in the ocean to show how much it’s rising.


8 posted on 06/14/2012 8:38:51 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sheldon Whitehouse is an A-hole, and always has been the same!

Actually, I was shocked that the National Geographic did a comprehensive article on the sun, and explained that the sun goes though many differing cycles of output, from 11 year cycles to thousand year cycles.

Yeah, I was amazed, but more amazing was that the article didn’t mention global warming - er - climate change.

So I wrote a letter to the editor thanking them for some real science about the variability of the sun. Doubt it will get published.

BTY, the output of the sun is the equivalent to exploding 100 million hydrogen bombs per second - and to think that some gases coming out of your clean tailpipe scrubed of emmissions by a platinum screen in your catalytic converter are causing global weather variation.

Total madness!


9 posted on 06/14/2012 8:39:59 PM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Me: Democrat blowhards are causing climate change, the debate is over.


10 posted on 06/14/2012 8:40:09 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are just useless and useful idiots.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"People say there are questions about the theory," he said. "No, there are not.

Reminds me of politicians trying to outlaw the law of physics or who believe they can rewrite the law of supply and demand.

Throw them all out and start over.....
11 posted on 06/14/2012 8:44:43 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

ALL democRATs suck, saying otherwise is ‘bogus’.


12 posted on 06/14/2012 8:47:01 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well since we are about to hit the “singularity” in about 20 years anyways, Any climate change won’t mean a hill of beans anyways...


13 posted on 06/14/2012 8:47:13 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Whitehouse was born in New York City, New York, the son of Mary Celine (née Rand) and career diplomat Charles S. Whitehouse, and grandson of diplomat Sheldon Whitehouse. He graduated from St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, and from Yale University in 1978

http://images.politico.com/global/070904_freshman-whitehouse.jpg

During the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Whitehouse cautioned that conservative opposition to the bill was moving toward historical incidences of mob violence, saying “Too many colleagues are embarked on a desperate, no-holds-barred mission of propaganda, obstruction and fear. . . . History cautions us of the excesses to which these malignant, vindictive passions can ultimately lead. Tumbrils have rolled through taunting crowds. Broken glass has sparkled in darkened streets. Strange fruit has hung from southern trees.”

In December 2009, Whitehouse said “birthers,” “fanatics,” and “people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups “oppose America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009.

Whitehouse has said that development of alternate energy sources, including solar power, will eliminate U.S. dependence on foreign oil

Whitehouse dismissed Climategate: “Climategate should properly be known as climategate-gate because it was the scandal that was phony.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Whitehouse


14 posted on 06/14/2012 8:50:45 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Cheerio

Someone should tell this A-hole that a “Theory” is NOT a proven fact.


15 posted on 06/14/2012 8:51:51 PM PDT by anoldafvet
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The argument that the jury is still out on climate change is a false and bogus argument,...

No, the use of the word "jury" is a lame straw-man attempt to frame an issue as something that has a discussion and then a consensus. This is the case if the issue was a political one. But, it's not.... it's a scientific one. And there is no such entity of a jury... just a lot of interested scientists, some wanting grant money saying that there is man-made GW, and some honest scientists saying the whole notion is a bunch of crap.

16 posted on 06/14/2012 8:54:14 PM PDT by C210N ("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
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17 posted on 06/14/2012 8:56:33 PM PDT by ILS21R (John Locke: When the social contract is broken, the people must revolt.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What we’re looking at right now is another LITTLE ice age such as started around the time of Joan of Arc and is caused by fluctuations in solar output. Real ice ages have cosmic causes and centuries worth of warning, we are not in danger of anything like that.


18 posted on 06/14/2012 8:59:08 PM PDT by varmintman
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) declared on the Senate floor Thursday that the debate over whether humans are causing climate change is over, and that it has been shown conclusively that human activity is leading to global warming.

I dunno about you'ns but that settles it for me.

19 posted on 06/14/2012 8:59:25 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Obama versus Romney? Cyanide versus arsenic.)
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Top Contributors
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

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http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00027533&type=I


20 posted on 06/14/2012 8:59:58 PM PDT by kcvl
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