Here Are All the Senators Who Do and Don’t Believe in Human-Caused Climate Change

[icymist]

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/senators-dont-believe-human-caused-climate-change/?mbid=social_fb

Voted against the amendment (nay—human activities don’t contribute to climate change)

Barrasso, John (R – WY)
Blunt, Roy (R – MO)
Boozman, John (R – AR)
Burr, Richard (R – NC)
Capito, Shelley Moore (R – WV)
Cassidy, Bill (R – LA)
Coats, Daniel (R – IN)
Cochran, Thad (R – MS)
Corker, Bob (R – TN)
Cornyn, John (R – TX)
Cotton, Tom (R – AR)
Crapo, Mike (R – ID)
Cruz, Ted (R – TX)
Daines, Steve (R – MT)
Enzi, Michael B. (R – WY)
Ernst, Joni (R – IA)
Fischer, Deb (R – NE)
Flake, Jeff (R – AZ)
Gardner, Cory (R – CO)
Grassley, Chuck (R – IA)
Hatch, Orrin G. (R – UT)
Heller, Dean (R – NV)
Hoeven, John (R – ND)
Inhofe, James M. (R – OK)
Isakson, Johnny (R – GA)
Johnson, Ron (R – WI)
Lankford, James (R – OK)
Lee, Mike (R – UT)
McCain, John (R – AZ)
McConnell, Mitch (R – KY)
Moran, Jerry (R – KS)
Murkowski, Lisa (R – AK)
Paul, Rand (R – KY)
Perdue, David (R – GA)
Portman, Rob (R – OH)
Risch, James E. (R – ID)
Roberts, Pat (R – KS)
Rounds, Mike (R – SD)
Rubio, Marco (R – FL)
Sasse, Ben (R – NE)
Scott, Tim (R – SC)
Sessions, Jeff (R – AL)
Shelby, Richard C. (R – AL)
Sullivan, Daniel (R – AK)
Thune, John (R – SD)
Tillis, Thom (R – NC)
Toomey, Patrick J. (R – PA)
Vitter, David (R – LA)
Wicker, Roger F. (R – MS)

Voted for the amendment (yea—
human activities contribute to climate change)

Alexander, Lamar (R – TN)
Ayotte, Kelly (R – NH)
Baldwin, Tammy (D – WI)
Bennet, Michael F. (D – CO)
Blumenthal, Richard (D – CT)
Booker, Cory A. (D – NJ)
Boxer, Barbara (D – CA)
Brown, Sherrod (D – OH)
Cantwell, Maria (D – WA)
Cardin, Benjamin L. (D – MD)
Carper, Thomas R. (D – DE)
Casey, Robert P., Jr. (D – PA)
Collins, Susan M. (R – ME)
Coons, Christopher A. (D – DE)
Donnelly, Joe (D – IN)
Durbin, Richard J. (D – IL)
Feinstein, Dianne (D – CA)
Franken, Al (D – MN)
Gillibrand, Kirsten E. (D – NY)
Graham, Lindsey (R – SC)
Heinrich, Martin (D – NM)
Heitkamp, Heidi (D – ND)
Hirono, Mazie K. (D – HI)
Kaine, Tim (D – VA)
King, Angus S., Jr. (I – ME)
Kirk, Mark (R – IL)
Klobuchar, Amy (D – MN)
Leahy, Patrick J. (D – VT)
Manchin, Joe, III (D – WV)
Markey, Edward J. (D – MA)
McCaskill, Claire (D – MO)
Menendez, Robert (D – NJ)
Merkley, Jeff (D – OR)
Mikulski, Barbara A. (D – MD)
Murphy, Christopher (D – CT)
Murray, Patty (D – WA)
Nelson, Bill (D – FL)
Peters, Gary (D – MI)
Reed, Jack (D – RI)
Sanders, Bernard (I – VT)
Schatz, Brian (D – HI)
Schumer, Charles E. (D – NY)
Shaheen, Jeanne (D – NH)
Stabenow, Debbie (D – MI)
Tester, Jon (D – MT)
Udall, Tom (D – NM)
Warner, Mark R. (D – VA)
Warren, Elizabeth (D – MA)
Whitehouse, Sheldon (D – RI)
Wyden, Ron (D – OR)

[F4lconF16]

1. I'm sensing a pattern here... nt

[demmiblue]

4. You don't have to be a climate scientist to notice that!

[onyourleft]

2. Thank you...

...for posting. I am happy to see how Ayotte voted.

[BrotherIvan]

9. Your post is a homophobic slam and I wish you would stop it

His politics are despicable. But at least he voted against the pack. But please stop with the insinuations as it equates that being gay or even appearing so is something to be ashamed of. Knock it off.

[demmiblue]

11. +1

[PatrynXX]

23. gotta love the politically correctly offended :(

boring. clearly it was not since it was a split decision abusing the report button. changing the subject. yes it was not well thought out but it wasn't homophobic. Gay used to mean happy btw. Get a little less offended

[BrotherIvan]

24. I didn't alert

And you can go away now.

[jalan48]

39. What did I miss?

[BeanMusical]

52. +1

[staggerleem]

18. Stop the Presses!

Lindsay Graham and John McCain DISAGREE about something??!! Is this their first "lover's quarrel?"

[exboyfil]

5. Historic

In the future one group we be cursed as being on the wrong side of history as much as the church and Galileo. We are not talking about social policy here, it is straight up science.

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. Thank you to all the senators for going on the record as complete and total dumbshits.

Not like we didn't know it already, but it's nice to have it codified.

[C_U_L8R]

7. A confederacy of dunces

You really have to be a special sort of
moron to be a Republican these days.
What dopes.

[moondust]

8. Fossil fuel profits is gooood.

End of story.

[BrotherIvan]

10. The shame that should follow them to the grave

Craven fools all who voted against a mountain of evidence.

[central scrutinizer]

12. coming soon

votes on

gravity
making pi = 3
flat earth
age of earth set at 6000 years

[LeftishBrit]

26. Don't give them any ideas they haven't got already...

I'm sure quite a few of them would vote for the 'young earth' one in particular.

[Fred Sanders]

13. Who says amendments to GOP bills serve no purpose?

[Voice for Peace]

14. Lindsay Graham believes!

very nice to see at least a few republican votes on this.

[sarge43]

15. Huh. Ayotte broke from the pack

She's usually a sock puppet.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. I honestly suspect that Lisa Murkowski knows better,

but she is too indebted to Big Oil to make any ripples. I'm disliking her more and more with each passing day.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

28. If I thought most of those assholes actually beleived what they were saying, I would

be very depressed.

[RufusTFirefly]

17. Isn't it sort of pathetic that we're cheering on those few Republicans who voted "Yes"?

Do we really need to congratulate them for accepting virtually irrefutable scientific evidence?

As a country, we should be walking around with a paper bag over our head.
We are a laughingstock in the rest of the world. A truly dangerous laughingstock.

[Curmudgeoness]

19. Not one Dem on the "nay" side

but a few Reps on the "yea" side. A few surprises in that.

[bigwillq]

20. Glad to see my two DEM senators (from CT)

on the YEA list.

[PatrynXX]

21. hmmm

Joni. wonder how much Joni knows Iowa smh. hello got snow? (thats the weather part of it) no course not we got rain. Brown christmas mostly brown January . Clearly Joni is not from Iowa.... at some point Snow will be something the south only experiences

[Blue_In_AK]

25. I could say the same about Murkowski.

We're having one of the warmest winters on record here, only today getting our first significant snowfall of the season. Everyone agrees that the arctic (i.e. Alaska) is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and yet she's still pushing Keystone, drilling ANWR, etc. etc. She's only thinking of campaign contributions for 2016 when she will surely have a fight on her hands.

[rurallib]

22. by one vote (50-49 by my count)

the US senate accepts proven science.

Who went to the can and skipped the vote?

[RufusTFirefly]

27. Harry Reid's on IR: upper body injury n/t

[rurallib]

30. Thank you. That would have given the pro science faction a much more impressive 2 vote win

Sure says a lot about the senate.

Republicans may begin to believe they can repeal the law of gravity if this keeps up.

[2naSalit]

29. The usual suspects. n/t

[BlueStater]

31. Truly embarrassing.

Why was this even voted on at all? Isn't this like voting whether the sky is blue or not?

[world wide wally]

32. I want to see a vote on plate tectonics

Just out of curiosity

[beam me up scottie]

33. Science: Not A Democracy

[raouldukelives]

34. Funny how those most concerned about our deficits.

Don't care about the only deficit that will really concern our children.
One has to wonder what future people would prefer. Inheriting a debt free government or an ocean that had fish in it?

[Mass]

35. I do not even need to look. Markey has been fighting on this issue for a very long time

as was his predecessor Kerry. Two heroes of this fight.

Warren is on the right side of the issue too. Good for her. You have to be really stupid not to think human activity is at least a significant part of the problem.

[father founding]

36. Columbus, You fool.

This is the same vote on Whether the earth is round.

[lark]

37. I'm surprised Mancin voted with the Dems this time, maybe there is some hope for him?

Can't believe Lindsey Graham voted with the Dems! He must be serious about being a presidential contender - lol.

Rubio disgusts me, since he's from my home state of FL. where climate change will make the biggest impact.

[hatrack]

50. Sense of the Senate Resolution - you think anybody in WV is paying attention to Manchin on this?

Doubt it.

[Rhiannon12866]

38. K&R! I'm fortunate with my senators (NY), but my new congressperson is just horrible...

And I don't need to wait and "give her a chance," since her mentor is Paul Ryan!

[Enthusiast]

40. Ever wonder why the country is so fucked up? Well there you have it.

[KamaAina]

41. There are five sane repukes -- and Lindsey Graham's one of them?!

FSM help us!!

[mountain grammy]

42. Probably the most bipartisan vote we'll see for a long time.

I guess it's official now, my newly elected senator is not a scientist, he told us that, but he is an idiot. Voted no for the Kochs, his new masters.

[certainot]

43. and here's a list of 90 colleges and universities than help enable that

planet destroying crap

the only reason an entire party can continue this shit in lock step is that the fear if they don't, with the intimidation and enablement created by blasting 50 mil a week from 1200 radio stations while the environmental groups ignore it.

[JonLP24]

45. I don't believe talk radio has a thing to do with it though they likely have the same benefactors

Oil & Gas contributions to Democrats: $5,423,578
Oil & Gas contributions to Republicans: $36,042,218

Democrats: 13%
Republicans: 87%

I know John McCain is smart enough to know the real reason, hell even his running mate Sarah Palin admitted in the Katie Couric interview that is obvious climate change is caused by human related factors living in Alaska where you can easily measure the methane coming from the ground but someone got a hold of her and told her to not say that so by the VP debate she stumbled on the man made question when that was one question where she didn't stumble during the Couric interview. "Drill, baby, drill" McCain though would rather have oil corporations pay for his reelection campaigns until he retires or dies.

[certainot]

46. many of those r sens are smart enough to figure it out but they're

on a team. and they know they need republican radio to enable their ability to play the game and take the money. they're greedy shits and they know they need a constituency to point to to enable their irrational anti democratic anti earth suicide plan. that's why they need rw radio- to create their made-to-order flat earther neanderthal constituencies. most recently they're called teabaggers, but they're just the same old talk radio base, the talk radio dittoheads, listening to the same message on the same time frame from 400 different script-reading.blowhards.

[JonLP24]

47. I agree

Living in Mesa which based on statistics is the most conservative city with a population 250,000+ (which are true as we only have 1 Democrat in city council) I run into so many working to none class who run on and on about global warming and how it is a myth but they don't have to stop & ask myself who does it benefit to believe it is a lie or true. It comes across to them liberals are on some wild ass conspiracy theory but don't realize oil companies (even geopolitics are greatly influenced by oil) have been pushing this, a GOP memo telling them to deny & recruit scientists sympathetic to their POV. I remember one of the times I challenged their ranting he said, "They already talked about this. They came together and figured out it isn't real" I just basically told them to look up peer review research on the matter. Another would rant & rave on how much Al Gore got paid per speeches, how much gas he was using to fly around the world giving speeches. How much his big mansion burns fuel but since I didn't know the facts specifically when it came to Al Gore I didn't respond except to mention it didn't come from him but it is what separates me from the rest out here, I'll only enter a debate unless there is a factual basis to my claims. Oh boy, you wouldn't believe how many of them said "Obama wants to cut social security".

On edit - I forgot to mention the first example was or is (I haven't seen him since 2009) very good friends with a sit-by-the-radio Rush listener.

[certainot]

48. yeah, the gore stuff has been regular talk radio cud since he ran

against bush and because the left was ignoring it (republican radio) and much more was why bush was even in the race.

similar for kerry. they had a problem with obama in that at that time they couldn't get too overtly racist without backlash. now it's easier for them, after 6 years of it, they've made it more 'acceptable'.

the con mind needs certainty more than truth- to ease the fear, and limbaugh has the royal certitude- on everything, even when he contradicts himself a sentence later.

[JonLP24]

44. Susan Collins is actually further left than a few of our Democrats

Joe Manchin is the furthest right on the chart. She is also slightly left of Heidi Heitkamp & Joe Donelly. Everyone else Democratic in the US Senate is clearly left of her.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/bernard_sanders/400357

[catbyte]

49. YAY both my MI senators embrace reality. Then again, they're Democrats.

It's going to be a loooooooong 2 years...

[CrispyQ]

51. I wrote my first letter to Cory Gardner today.

For all the good it will do.

Sent Bennet some kudos too. Gotta let him know when he does good.

[rock]

53. We would've had all the senators that don't believe in climate change

pose for a group photo but unfortunately they all believed that a camera might capture their spiritual self and so declined.

[customerserviceguy]

54. Really, is anybody surprised by this?

So-called 'moderate' Republicans have been fully chased out of the party, either by the tea party in red states, or moderate Democrats in the blue ones. This was predictable, except for the handful of GOP deserters who were either very safe in their states, or were in purple states where there was no straddle possible.

[hughee99]

55. Since when was science determined by a vote? Will they vote on gravity next week?

n/t

[Jack Rabbit]

56. This is a little more meaningful than other vote

If the Koch-addled idiot Inhofe could vote for it, it didn't mean a thing.