A 'yes' vote reallys means 'no'

America’s Senator agree, but on nothing.

They have voted “yes” the climate is changing, but “no” it is not because of human influence.

Such a stance is typical of a climate change denier with them agreeing unequivocally that the climate is changing, but tempering that with conditional statements that is has always changed and that what we are seeing is not caused by humans.

The changes, they are referring to and conveniently omit, happened over thousands, if not millions of years, while those troubling the world now are the manifestation of human behaviour since the Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s, a mere blink in geological time.

A story on the ABC headed: “Climate change is real, US Senate agrees; Republican Senator rejectsit is man-made” tells us that US Senate Republicans have joined Democrats on the record acknowledging that climate change is real.

The symbolic amendment, attached to a controversial bill authorising construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, was approved 98-1 after Senator “James Inhofe, seen as the top climate change denier in Congress, announced he was supporting the legislation.

“Mr Inhofe, however, strongly rejected any suggestion that human activity was responsible for climate change,” the ABC reported.