Senate Votes That Climate Change is Real

The U.S. Senate voted 98-1 in favor of a an amendment stating that “climate change is real and is not a hoax,” The Hill reports.

“The provision offered by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) to put Republicans on record about climate change ahead of the 2016 election passed with near unanimous support, with only Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the chairman of the campaign committee for Senate Republicans, voting no. In a surprise, one of the Senate’s staunchest climate change skeptics, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), voted in favor of the amendment.”