Senate to Vote on Whether Climate Change Is Real

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Senate Democrats led by Bernie Sanders have proposed a measure designed to make Republicans go on the record as climate change deniers: Senate to Vote on Whether Climate Change Is Happening.

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.

[…]

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 carried by President Obama in 2012.

I predict the Republicans will have no problem coming right out with a public denial of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change. This is absolutely mainstream Republican head-in-the-sand policy, and they’ll all toe the line or risk being labeled a RINO. It’s also completely insane and irrational, and seriously dangerous.

Maybe after they vote that climate change isn’t real, the next vote should be on whether the Earth is round or flat.

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1 darthstar  Jan 13, 2015 2:45:28pm

Nobody trolls the GOP like Bernie Sanders.

2 darthstar  Jan 13, 2015 2:47:59pm
3 nines09  Jan 13, 2015 2:49:18pm

I wonder which looms larger in their mind of minds; Religion bought by money or money dressed up by religion. Kudos to Bernie to attempt to get their views onto hard copy. For posterity. And reality. By todays standards, if there are any left in that rare air that the chosen breathe, Jonas Salk was a buffoon. All that cash left on the table…..

4 Mattand  Jan 13, 2015 2:49:56pm

re: #2 darthstar

Sgt. Dan from Forrest Gump is agin the Gayz? Just one more reason to hate that movie.

5 Charles Johnson  Jan 13, 2015 2:53:59pm
6 b_sharp  Jan 13, 2015 2:54:04pm

I sure hope they vote against it so we can all take a sigh of relief and climate scientists can move on to something far more important, reality tv.

7 Decatur Deb  Jan 13, 2015 2:55:52pm

Some legislature supposedly voted to define pi as ‘3’. Must have moved up to the Senate.

8 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2015 2:56:13pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

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well, duh! AGENDA 21!!1111

9 Ace-o-aces  Jan 13, 2015 2:57:59pm
10 Decatur Deb  Jan 13, 2015 2:59:07pm

A goodly number of these people will tell you the Sun can be stopped in it’s rotation around the Earth to provide more daylight for a battle.

11 b_sharp  Jan 13, 2015 2:59:20pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

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Everybody knows climate scientists are greedy dishonest hamsters just looking to get rich off taxpayers hard workbecause they aren’t smart enough to do anything else.

12 Ace-o-aces  Jan 13, 2015 2:59:49pm

re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth

well, duh! AGENDA 21!!1111

Yes the NON-BINDING agreement that will enslave us all!!!!
BOW BEFORE THE MIGHT OF AGENDA 21 OR WE WILL….do nothing…Really, we have no enforcement capabilities at all.

13 dog philosopher  Jan 13, 2015 3:00:21pm

shouldn’t they check the omens to see if it is an auspicious day to hold a vote?

im sure there is a Senate Haruspex

14 Decatur Deb  Jan 13, 2015 3:01:13pm

re: #13 dog philosopher

shouldn’t they check the omens to see if it is an auspicious day to hold a vote?

im sure there is a Senate Haruspex

They don’t have the guts.

15 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 13, 2015 3:03:58pm

I take it that if enough ice melts into the Arctic ocean to make the water too light to sink and feed the deep thermohaline circulation, no new water is needed to replace it, the Gulf Stream shuts down (as it did for a few hours in 2004) and a new Ice Age begins, they’ll say they were right all along?

16 HappyWarrior  Jan 13, 2015 3:04:35pm

re: #4 Mattand

Sgt. Dan from Forrest Gump is agin the Gayz? Just one more reason to hate that movie.

Apparently. Knew Sinise was right wing but sheesh to be anti-gay in that business?

17 HappyWarrior  Jan 13, 2015 3:05:19pm

This is why Sanders is awesome by the way. He’ll never be president but damn it if I don’t like the guy for his courage.

18 Kid A  Jan 13, 2015 3:08:58pm

Next vote: Was the Bible originally written in English?

19 Decatur Deb  Jan 13, 2015 3:09:00pm

re: #16 HappyWarrior

Apparently. Knew Sinise was right wing but sheesh to be anti-gay in that business?

The scrap of news is that he’s not attending. Maybe he found he was getting sucked in.

20 Justanotherhuman  Jan 13, 2015 3:09:42pm

The same climate change deniers probably believe in geocentrism, though.

Expect trials if these idiots ever get in total control.

21 HappyWarrior  Jan 13, 2015 3:10:38pm

re: #19 Decatur Deb

The scrap of news is that he’s not attending. Maybe he found he was getting sucked in.

Well he was invited so I figure he certainly has some anti-gay sentiments. Maybe they saw his name on a list of prominent conservative/Republican actors and thought he would be a good fit. I dunno. I guess I’ll give him the bod until he proves he’s a jackass like Adam Baldwin or Nick Searcy.

22 Justanotherhuman  Jan 13, 2015 3:14:18pm

re: #21 HappyWarrior

Well he was invited so I figure he certainly has some anti-gay sentiments. Maybe they saw his name on a list of prominent conservative/Republican actors and thought he would be a good fit. I dunno. I guess I’ll give him the bod until he proves he’s a jackass like Adam Baldwin or Nick Searcy.

He founded “Friends of Abe”, described here as “Hollywood’s secretive rightwing organization”. Its members are a roster of the right leaning Hollywood famous.

alternet.org

23 HappyWarrior  Jan 13, 2015 3:16:00pm

re: #22 Justanotherhuman

He founded “Friends of Abe”, described here as “Hollywood’s secretive rightwing organization”. Its members are a roster of the right leaning Hollywood famous.

alternet.org

I am aware of that but that doesn’t prove he’s anti gay. Clint Eastwood spoke at the last RNC and Clint to his credit isn’t anti gay rights at all. Bruce Willis is another celeb who identifies as right wing or “libertarian” but isn’t anti gay. I know Sinise is right wing but I don’t know if he’s anti-gay. I do love the irony of FOA likening hte IRS to McCarthyism given that FOA’s ancestors. I.E groups like the Alliance for American Ideals were happy to comply with the real McCarthy when ti came to removing anyone with left wing ideals from Hollywood. I guess irony is lost on people like Sinise.

24 piratedan  Jan 13, 2015 3:17:29pm

Next up on the GOP agenda:

Sue CBS to rehire “jimmy the Greek”, he’s only been dead almost 20 years, should still make him a viable spokesperson….

25 thedopefishlives  Jan 13, 2015 3:19:12pm

re: #20 Justanotherhuman

The same climate change deniers probably believe in geocentrism, though.

Expect trials if these idiots ever get in total control.

Away team to Enterprise: Beam us up. There is no intelligent life down here.

Evening Lizardim.

26 Justanotherhuman  Jan 13, 2015 3:20:14pm

re: #23 HappyWarrior

I am aware of that but that doesn’t prove he’s anti gay. Clint Eastwood spoke at the last RNC and Clint to his credit isn’t anti gay rights at all. Bruce Willis is another celeb who identifies as right wing or “libertarian” but isn’t anti gay. I know Sinise is right wing but I don’t know if he’s anti-gay.

His publicist issued this statement:

“For me, faith has been a catalyst for my mission to honor the men and women who serve in our nation’s military. When I accepted the invitation to speak at the Legatus conference on Veterans issues and share my story, I was unaware of the controversy surrounding some of the participants, and their views on personal matters. I don’t want my mission—which is designed to be unifying—to be disrupted by these, or any controversies, and therefore have decided to withdraw.”

goodasyou.org

27 Decatur Deb  Jan 13, 2015 3:20:26pm

re: #22 Justanotherhuman

re: #23 HappyWarrior

Still maintaining the illusion that you can be the ‘opposition’ without being a total asshole. There aren’t many on that list I’d want at a BBQ, though.

28 HappyWarrior  Jan 13, 2015 3:20:33pm

I do get a kick how right wing actors act like they’re oppressed when they ignore that right wing actors in the past like John Wayne were happy to engage in the blacklisting of left leaning actors, directors, etc.

29 HappyWarrior  Jan 13, 2015 3:21:01pm

re: #27 Decatur Deb

Still maintaining the illusion that you can be the ‘opposition’ without being a total asshole. There aren’t many on that list I’d want at a BBQ, though.

Yep

30 HappyWarrior  Jan 13, 2015 3:26:09pm

re: #26 Justanotherhuman

His publicist issued this statement:

“For me, faith has been a catalyst for my mission to honor the men and women who serve in our nation’s military. When I accepted the invitation to speak at the Legatus conference on Veterans issues and share my story, I was unaware of the controversy surrounding some of the participants, and their views on personal matters. I don’t want my mission—which is designed to be unifying—to be disrupted by these, or any controversies, and therefore have decided to withdraw.”

goodasyou.org

So he doesn’t want his organization to be linked with them. So, he could yeah still share their views but not want his org which seems to be non-partisan to be distracted by associating with an anti gay organization which I’ll give him grudging props for given that there’s LGBT people in the military. FOA still sounds like a moronic group but that’s another story.

31 CuriousLurker  Jan 13, 2015 3:26:56pm

I can’t believe this crap. It’s the 21st century and the congress of a Western country that’s listed among the top ten developed countries of the world and is its current leading superpower is voting on whether or not climate change is real. It’s sooooo embarrassing.

Next month: The U.S. Congress will vote on whether or not our solar system is really heliocentric. If they decide it’s geocentric, then all school textbooks will be modified to reflect the new reality. Any dissenters will be burned at the stake.

O_o

32 HappyWarrior  Jan 13, 2015 3:27:59pm

Can you imagine how painfully boring and sad these anti-gay events must be? The only thing really uniting these people is how much they hate people who just happen to be attracted sexually to members of the same sex. Sounds like a lonely life. No wonder why the prostitutes get a ton of business when these groups come to town.

33 Decatur Deb  Jan 13, 2015 3:28:51pm

re: #31 CuriousLurker

I can’t believe this crap. It’s the 21st century and the congress of a Western country that’s listed among the top ten developed countries of the world and is its current leading superpower is voting on whether or not climate change is real. It’s sooooo embarrassing.

Next month: The U.S. Congress will vote on whether or not our solar system is really heliocentric. If they decide it’s geocentric, then all school textbooks will be modified to reflect the new reality. Any dissenters will be burned at the stake.

O_o

Have you encountered the geocentric websites yet? We had a brush with one here a few months ago. They’re deeply involved in paleo-Catholicism.

34 Justanotherhuman  Jan 13, 2015 3:29:46pm

Hey, it’s Texas…

UPDATE: Soldier Found Dead In Yard Of Killeen Home Tests Negative For Ebola

kwtx.com

(snip)

Killeen police, a hazmat team and several ambulances have sealed off a neighborhood in south central Killeen where a man’s body was found Tuesday morning lying in the front yard of a home.

(snip)

“A justice of the peace had been called to the scene to make a pronouncement of death.”

A fucking non-medical justice of the peace? No medical examiner, or even some kind of doctor?

35 thedopefishlives  Jan 13, 2015 3:29:59pm

re: #33 Decatur Deb

Have you encountered the geocentric websites yet? We had a brush with one here a few months ago. They’re deeply involved in paleo-Catholicism.

We had a real, live, honest-to-goodness geocentrist here? Why do I always miss the good times?

36 Decatur Deb  Jan 13, 2015 3:31:02pm

re: #32 HappyWarrior

Can you imagine how painfully boring and sad these anti-gay events must be? The only thing really uniting these people is how much they hate people who just happen to be attracted sexually to members of the same sex. Sounds like a lonely life. No wonder why the prostitutes get a ton of business when these groups come to town.

“Gay? I thought you were homoousian.”

37 HappyWarrior  Jan 13, 2015 3:31:03pm

re: #35 thedopefishlives

We had a real, live, honest-to-goodness geocentrist here? Why do I always miss the good times?

Missed that too. Oh well. Can’t complain. I been here some good troll cookoffs.

38 Justanotherhuman  Jan 13, 2015 3:31:37pm

re: #31 CuriousLurker

I can’t believe this crap. It’s the 21st century and the congress of a Western country that’s listed among the top ten developed countries of the world and is its current leading superpower is voting on whether or not climate change is real. It’s sooooo embarrassing.

Next month: The U.S. Congress will vote on whether or not our solar system is really heliocentric. If they decide it’s geocentric, then all school textbooks will be modified to reflect the new reality. Any dissenters will be burned at the stake.

O_o

We’re probably not even in a galaxy any longer, according to those types. And there is no “universe”, either.

39 Decatur Deb  Jan 13, 2015 3:31:42pm

re: #35 thedopefishlives

We had a real, live, honest-to-goodness geocentrist here? Why do I always miss the good times?

Short visit, IIRC.

40 thedopefishlives  Jan 13, 2015 3:32:50pm

re: #39 Decatur Deb

Short visit, IIRC.

I don’t doubt that. Charles has little patience for the terminally stupid.

41 Maxwell Not So Smart  Jan 13, 2015 3:32:57pm

The last two post headlines made me blink and do a double take. It’s like I now live in bizarro world.

Senate to Vote on Whether Climate Change Is Real

That GOP Representative Who Compared Obama to Hitler? He’s Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Energy

42 HappyWarrior  Jan 13, 2015 3:33:06pm

Of course these are the same types that believe it’s demons that make gay people gay. Because you know demons if they existed would be focused on silly little things like who people are attracted to and not you know real problems like famine, disease, and war.

43 thedopefishlives  Jan 13, 2015 3:34:10pm

re: #42 HappyWarrior

Of course these are the same types that believe it’s demons that make gay people gay. Because you know demons if they existed would be focused on silly little things like who people are attracted to and not you know real problems like famine, disease, and war.

To be fair, people who see demons in homosexuality do think of famine, disease, and war as demonic acts, as well. They just don’t talk about those so much because it’s so much easier to get into a gay person’s face and yell “THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!”

44 Dr. Matt  Jan 13, 2015 3:34:33pm

Recall, the left worships Lord King Obama…..

45 Kid A  Jan 13, 2015 3:35:06pm

“Angela Merkel Joins Pro-Nazi Muslim Brotherhood at German Rally (Video)”

Dim Jim IS ON IT!!!

46 CuriousLurker  Jan 13, 2015 3:35:50pm

re: #33 Decatur Deb

Have you encountered the geocentric websites yet? We had a brush with one here a few months ago. They’re deeply involved in paleo-Catholicism.

I bumped into some geocentrism not too long ago, but I don’t remember if it was on Twitter, or YouTube or what as I just glanced at it and moved on. I just googled geocentrism and I… *headdesk*

47 HappyWarrior  Jan 13, 2015 3:36:34pm

re: #43 thedopefishlives

To be fair, people who see demons in homosexuality do think of famine, disease, and war as demonic acts, as well. They just don’t talk about those so much because it’s so much easier to get into a gay person’s face and yell “THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!”

Oh I’m sure of that. It’s just that these groups seem more focused on gay people than those problems. When’s the last time we ever saw a Bryan Fischer tweet expressing concern about either?

48 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 13, 2015 3:37:11pm

re: #34 Justanotherhuman

Hey, it’s Texas…

UPDATE: Soldier Found Dead In Yard Of Killeen Home Tests Negative For Ebola

kwtx.com

(snip)

Killeen police, a hazmat team and several ambulances have sealed off a neighborhood in south central Killeen where a man’s body was found Tuesday morning lying in the front yard of a home.

(snip)

“A justice of the peace had been called to the scene to make a pronouncement of death.”

A fucking non-medical justice of the peace? No medical examiner, or even some kind of doctor?

I’m not a Medical Examiner and I didn’t even stay at a Holiday Inn Express but my best guess is lead poisoning. Because, Texas.

49 HappyWarrior  Jan 13, 2015 3:37:16pm

re: #44 Dr. Matt

Recall, the left worships Lord King Obama…..

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That’s why I never will get a corporate brand name for a tattoo. My tattoos are all personal.

50 Kid A  Jan 13, 2015 3:37:36pm

And of course, the Muslim Brotherhood wasn’t there. Merkel was pictured with INVITED GUESTS, the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, NOT the Muslim Brotherhood.

51 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 13, 2015 3:38:03pm

OH LOOK A IDIOT==>

52 Decatur Deb  Jan 13, 2015 3:40:52pm

re: #46 CuriousLurker

I bumped into some geocentrism not too long ago, but I don’t remember if it was on Twitter, or YouTube or what as I just glanced at it and moved on. I just googled geocentrism and I… *headdesk*

‘Twas here, probs. It showed up in the pages of a Passing Fancy who had some other issues.

53 TedStriker  Jan 13, 2015 3:41:12pm

re: #32 HappyWarrior

Can you imagine how painfully boring and sad these anti-gay events must be? The only thing really uniting these people is how much they hate people who just happen to be attracted sexually to members of the same sex. Sounds like a lonely life. No wonder why the prostitutes get a ton of business when these groups come to town.

And what’s funny is that it seems that a not-small number of the virulently anti-gay folks are closeted themselves and are usually knockin’ boots on the down low.

However, denial and self-loathing apparently pays for them…that is, until they get caught.

54 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 13, 2015 3:43:02pm

OH UCCCH

55 HappyWarrior  Jan 13, 2015 3:43:29pm

re: #53 TedStriker

And what’s funny is that it seems that a not-small number of the virulently anti-gay folks are closeted themselves and are usually knockin’ boots on the down low.

However, denial and self-loathing apparently pays for them…that is, until they get caught.

That’s what I was getting at referencing the prostitution. I almost feel bad for them but then again I see them likening giving gay people the same rights in marriage as me to Nazism and it just makes me angry and then of course their praise of an authoritarian douchebag, Putin simply because Putin is a fellow conservative Christian. I think though I’d die of laughter if Putin ended up being another repressed right wing closet case.

56 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 13, 2015 3:43:32pm

We thought all those homeless people just hitchhiked to Florida.

57 Decatur Deb  Jan 13, 2015 3:46:07pm

re: #56 The Vicious Babushka

We thought all those homeless people just hitchhiked to Florida.

Taking lessons from Higgs Bosun, are you?

littlegreenfootballs.com

58 Romantic Heretic  Jan 13, 2015 3:57:41pm

re: #27 Decatur Deb

Still maintaining the illusion that you can be the ‘opposition’ without being a total asshole. There aren’t many on that list I’d want at a BBQ, though.

If they agreed to be lawn dart targets I’d like then there. /evil

59 Romantic Heretic  Jan 13, 2015 3:59:39pm

re: #54 The Vicious Babushka

OH UCCCH

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So, Larry Niven’s organleggers actually exist.


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