The New American

By Alex Newman

As if to prove that global-warming alarmism is in fact a political movement rather than a scientific one, the U.S. Senate, composed primarily of carbon dioxide-spewing attorneys, voted this week to declare that the climate is changing as it always has, and that (natural) climate change is “not a hoax.” Warming theorists celebrated the news, as if a majority vote by lobbyist-controlled politicians — who remain less popular than cockroaches in most polls — constituted evidence of Truth.

In the end, though, despite their cheering, many climate alarmists apparently either did not understand the measure or were deliberately trying to mislead the public about it. The Senate never agreed with their increasingly discredited catastrophic man-made global-warming theory. Instead, lawmakers simply stated the obvious: the climate changes, just as it has since Earth’s creation and just as it will likely continue to change as long the planet exists.

It was an attempt by alarmist Democrats to divide Republicans. However, the GOP ultimately “punked” the alarmists by celebrating and voting in favor of the climate change declaration. Realist Republicans pointed out that the climate has always changednaturally, and so they would gladly vote for the amendment, introduced by Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and co-sponsored by climate realist Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), reiterating that fact. The widely ridiculed Senate vote came just days after NASA came under fire from scientists for again misleading the media and the public about warming and as the public becomes increasingly skeptical.

The “not a hoax” climate measure, attached to the doomed Keystone XL pipeline legislation as an amendment, was approved 98 to 1. However, that is not because the Senate has suddenly fallen victim to global-warming hysteria. Rather, even the Senate’s leading climate realist, Environment Committee Chairman Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), voted in favor of it and urged his colleagues to do the same. Inhofe, who wrote the book The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, actually co-sponsored the amendment.

On Twitter before the vote, Inhofe reiterated his view that man-made climate change was a hoax and called on his Senate colleagues to vote yes on the amendment. Citing scientific, archeological, and scriptural evidence, the conservative senator noted that while climate change is real, the notion that humans are responsible for “climate change” is a “hoax.”

Even much of the establishment press ultimately acknowledged that alarmist Senate Democrats’ “gotcha” scheme had backfired in spectacular fashion. “With Inhofe’s re-framing the question, the Democrats, trying to engineer a gotcha moment, ended up empty-handed on the vote, with neither the satisfaction of nailing down opposition to scientific consensus [sic] and without a point of leverage for future discussions of addressing the warming planet [sic],” wrote global-warming theorist Philip Bumb in theWashington Post in a piece headlined “Jim Inhofe flips the script on Democratic climate-change-is-a-hoax vote.” Politico, meanwhile, reported that Republicans had “outfoxed” the Senate warming theorists…..

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