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US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax

Posted by samzenpus on from the who's-to-blame dept.

sciencehabit writes The U.S. Senate's simmering debate over climate science has come to a full boil today, as lawmakers prepare to vote on measures offered by Democrats that affirm that climate change is real—with one also noting that global warming is not "a hoax." In an effort to highlight their differences with some Republicans on climate policy, several Democrats have filed largely symbolic amendments to a bill that would approve the Keystone XL pipeline. They are designed to put senators on the record on whether climate change is real and human-caused.

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  1. Re:They already have by DiamondGeezer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sadly not true. The fashion for some scientists to make names for themselves by producing misleading headlines for their supposed evidence has yet to fizzle.

    Was 2014 the warmest it has ever been globally? No.

    The satellite records (either one) show no special warmth for 2014 and the BEST record shows no statistical significance to the claim that 2014 was the hottest. Why? Because the tiny increase was well within the error bars of the mean temperature statistic

    Has the global warming hiatus ended? No. Do the climate models reflect this? No.

    That said, should Congress be making such a determination? No it shouldn't. But what this Congress is certain to do is cut the funding of climate change to the bone. Then we'll see how much was real and how much was money-powered hype.

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  2. Re:From the outside... by kenj123 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think the euro-centric view is 'first do no harm' and the American view is 'show me the money'.

  3. Re:More proof by mjwx · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm actually curios ho you pan to get 5 to be bigger than 15 (without simply redefining symbols which would be cheating)

    I'm sorry, as you can see on this paper I've just produced, I clearly drew the number five larger. You really should have waited for me to show you the data before you jumped the gun with your answer.

    So basically, the only way you can prove your point is to ignore all the facts and question completely out of context.

    That's exactly how deniers work, well played sir, well played.

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