WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Wednesday to acknowledge that climate change is real, bringing itself up to date with every major scientific body in the world.
But the Senate also voted down a pair of measures acknowledging that human activity plays any role in that change.
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Democrats say they’re not done trying to force Republicans on the record on climate change. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said there will be a vote Thursday on his own amendment on climate change.
“It starts by admitting you have a problem, just like many other areas of human life,” Whitehouse said Wednesday in a speech.