Posted on 01/13/2015 3:42:39 PM PST by Libloather
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday he will allow the Senate to vote on an amendment asking if they agree that climate change is impacting the planet.
At his weekly press briefing, McConnell said "nobody is blocking any amendments" to legislation that would approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The GOP leader had promised to allow an open amendment process on the Keystone bill.
But a measure proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) had raised questions about whether he would stick to that commitment.
The Sanders measure asks whether lawmakers agree with the overwhelming consensus of scientists who say climate change is impacting the planet and is worsened by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.
Democrats believe the measure could be a tough vote for some Republicans, particularly GOP senators running for reelection in 2016 in states carred by President Obama in 2012.
McConnell shot back at reports he might block the Sanders amendment, exclaiming "yeah" when asked if his caucus is prepared to take a vote on climate change.
"Nobody is blocking any amendments except the senator from California who is making us burn 30 hours to begin to have this bill up and open for amendments," McConnell said, referring to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
McConnell was referring to opposition from Boxer and Democrats to ending debate on a motion to proceed to the Keystone bill. A deal to end that debate was reached not long after his comments.
"We are not anxious to block anybody's amendment, we are wide open. The Senate is out of practice here," McConnell addded.
Sanders's amendment is one of many Democrats are looking to tack on to the controversial bill, which Republicans are eager to send to President Obama's desk. The White House has threatened to veto the Keystone legislation.
Other amendments from Democrats include a requirement for oil companies to pay into a spill cleanup fund, and to block exports of the oil shipped via the Canada-to-Texas pipeline out of the U.S.
Wonder if they are going to vote as to whether their is a fist up their back side directing most of their moves against the American people.
Happening and impacting the planet are two different things.
The climate is constantly changing. Man has no control over that.
Global warming always finished last of importance to people in poll after poll.
Bring it on!
Well, now, finally a more scientific approach to an invented problem.
...Overwhelming “consensus” of PSEUDO-scientists. THE COMPUTER MODELS PREDICTING CATASTROPHE ARE WRONG!! Any respectable scientist would throw them out and start over.
He’d be better off requesting a vote on who believes in climate stasis.
Apparently the Al Gore crowd does, because they’re the ones who are always wringing their hands over climate change, despite the fact that the climate always changes and always will be changing.
Now if the question is “Does human activity have a significant affect on the climate?” that’s something completely different. I’d be surprised if any senator has the technical background to address that question in an intelligent fashion. Certainly Al Gore and almost everyone in the media doesn’t.
This is satire, right?
The Senate surely has actual business to conduct.
Physicist Howard Hayden's one-letter disproof of global warming claims [pre-Climategate]Dear Administrator Jackson:
I write in regard to the Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act, Proposed Rule, 74 Fed. Reg. 18,886 (Apr. 24, 2009), the so-called "Endangerment Finding."
It has been often said that the "science is settled" on the issue of CO2 and climate. Let me put this claim to rest with a simple one-letter proof that it is false.
The letter is s, the one that changes model into models. If the science were settled, there would be precisely one model, and it would be in agreement with measurements.
Alternatively, one may ask which one of the twenty-some models settled the science so that all the rest could be discarded along with the research funds that have kept those models alive.
We can take this further. Not a single climate model predicted the current cooling phase. If the science were settled, the model (singular) would have predicted it.
(excerpted from Professor Hayden's letter to Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator Environmental Protection Agency. More at link.)
They will vote YES for Global Warming/Cooling(at same time)
Meaningless. Everything they do is meaningless.
And those who are able should be allowed to walk upright.
Boner is well named.
STUPID!!! ALERT!!!
You do NOT vote on TRUTH, it is either True or not but it is not something you VOTE on. IE Science goal is to seek out TRUTH! Thus you can not VOTE and make it so!
By the way Man Made Global Warming is about CONTROL and NOTHING more!!! It has NOTHING to do with the TRUTH!
I hope they round off PI too!
And they could save us a lot of money by raising the speed of light so our computers would run faster.
I say let the committed Socialist add his amendment, but then add another: “Do you agree with the 35,000 scientists who say that the current world temperatures are a result of natural processes and do not require catastrophic control by the government to dictate things that won’t change the temperatures anyway?”
“This is satire, right?
The Senate surely has actual business to conduct.”
Nope, this is what we pay these FOOLS to do all day long.
(TOTAL BULL SHIT!!)
If they vote yes, does that mean it is?
Amend the Laws of Thermodynamics!
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