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The GOP accepts the notion of climate change - but not the way Democrats wanted them to.
By Elana Schor
1/21/15 4:59 PM EST
Updated 1/21/15 8:55 PM EST
Senate Republicans head-faked Democrats on climate change Wednesday, agreeing in a floor vote that the planets climate was changing, but blocking language that would have blamed human activity.
In a complicated maneuver that was the first politically perilous test for Senate Republicans, the new majority party split up the votes that Democrats had hoped would force the GOP into an awkward roll call on whether they believed in the science behind climate change just hours after President Barack Obama slammed Republicans in his State of the Union address for dodging the issue.
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But Republicans made an eleventh-hour change in strategy on two Democratic attempts to divide them with Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, their most vocal denier of humans effect on the climate, joining a leading liberal in a symbolic vote on whether global warming is real and not a hoax.
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