Senate Democrats Try To Pass Resolution Declaring Global Warming Is Real… Sen. James Inhofe Blocks It
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) blocked Senate Democrats on Monday from passing a resolution that would have acknowledged the reality of climate change.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) asked unanimous consent to pass S.Res. 524, which is a measure that expresses the sense of the Senate that climate change is occurring and poses a risk to the United States. But Inhofe objected.
“All we wanted to say in this resolution is climate change is happening,” Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said on the Senate floor. “We can’t afford to sit around here debating whether climate change is real.”
Inhofe has been an ardent climate change denier, saying it is the “biggest hoax” perpetrated against mankind.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who is a sponsor of the resolution, said Inhofe was living in an “alternate reality.”
“To say that we have no warming is just not factual,” Whitehouse said. “Ignorant, out-of-touch or crazy — that’s what young Republicans think of that position.”
Wild Thing’s comment…………
Huge thank you to Sen. James Inhofe.
And during the COOLEST summer we’ve had in many years!
Thanks Sen Inhofe. He ususally sticks to conservative values.
Today in Dallas we are 21 degrees BELOW our normal high. This is due to the second polar vortex this summer. Should we now claim global cooling and urge burning more fossil fuels? Silly of course. Mother Nature will do whatever she wants and mankind has no influence on it at all.