'The Scientific Method hard at work': Senate to vote on existence of climate change

Brett T. | 5:30 PM on January 13, 2015

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said that he would allow an open amendment process on legislation to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Given that opening, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took to the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon to discuss his amendment to the Keystone XL bill, which asks legislators if they agree that climate change is having an impact on the planet.

The American people need to know whether Congress is listening to the overwhelming majority of scientists when it comes to climate change.

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 13, 2015

At least 37 American scientific organizations and national academies all agree climate change is real and is caused by human activities.

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 13, 2015

Scientists have been virtually unanimous in saying that climate change is real… do members of Congress believe the scientists or not?

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 13, 2015

Let’s settle the science once and for all: by voting on it.

@SpatzieLover @SenSanders Please don't pollute real science with this-w've got enough of a challenge on climate change as it is.

— Ben Jackson (@DadoftheDecade) January 13, 2015

https://twitter.com/Anthropolemic/status/555106685044670464

@ThePlumLineGS Next vote: is gravity real?

— LeePlotkin (@LeePlotkin) January 13, 2015

@ThePlumLineGS tension is palpable

— President “I Caught the Swamp, I Caught Them All” (@realworldrj) January 13, 2015

https://twitter.com/tpabob46/status/555109357508378624

@pizzmoe @NaomiAKlein @christackett Scientists desperately need to be told what to think by middle-class white conservatives.

— John Warner (@JCPWarner) January 13, 2015