Climate change is very real and an established fact, beyond any doubt. It’s been operative on this earth since its beginning! What is the hoax is “Anthropogenic Global Warming” which has never been shown to be true!
The senators were right in affirming that Climate Change is true.
That whole article looks to be purposefully confusing, designed to be so, in order to give a wrong impression.
Here’s a quote from the article that is clearer and sums it up ...
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In a surprise move, the Senate voted 98-1 to approve Whitehouse’s amendment that said climate change was “real and not a hoax,” largely because it lacked the caveat that humans caused it.
“The hoax is that there are some people that are so arrogant to think that they are so powerful that they can change climate. Man can’t change climate,” Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., said on the Senate floor.
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The rest of the article is a confusing mess, and done so on purpose to confuse you.
I would have voted:
1. Yes, climate change is real. It’s been changing since creation. Ice age, tropical age, etc.
2. No, humans do not significantly contribute to it. I consider most climate change to be driven by the sun.
3. Yes, humans do contribute a bit in a localized sense. Smog alerts, pollution, etc., do have an impact on ‘my environment’.
The bottom line is that God placed humans here to be good stewards of the planet and that is true regardless of any provable or unprovable human contribution to any problem.
So, if we can find cleaner and better ways of doing things, then we should pursue them. It is not ‘better’ to say Solar if solar is so much more expensive that it impoverishes people/nations. That’s where it’s at right now.
I suspect the best and cheapest solar heating is free simply because of living nearer to the equator. If it doesn’t get cold, then you don’t have to buy heat.
Here I disagree with Inhofe. Man might just well be able to change climate, but cannot do so by burning hydrocarbon fuels. There are other things people do and have done that could well have changed climate, particularly due to animal management or its lack. It may in fact be Biblically documented. I have a lot to say about that, but it isn't published yet. I have a climatologist reviewing that part of the book now.