Sentence examples for climate amendment from inspiring English sources

The final climate amendment, introduced by the Hawaii Democrat Brian Schatz, went further, stating: "human activity significantly contributes to climate change".

A Republican Senator, meanwhile, is offering another climate amendment that doesn't address whether global warming is real, but encourages the development of clean energy.

Hoeven's measure was seeking to serve as a more GOP-friendly alternative to a third climate amendment from Senator Brian Schatz (D HI).

"We may not agree on the solutions, on the paths forward, or even on some of the details, but I do believe it's time for us to begin to agree on a basic set of facts," said Senator Brian Schatz (D HI), who is offering a climate amendment, on the Senate floor today.

One successful Republican strategy was to simply embrace and then try to redefine the climate amendment that attracted the most attention (and the only one the Senate adopted): Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's (D RI) 21 January sense of the Senate resolution that climate change "is real and not a hoax".

Sanders is sponsoring a climate amendment of his own, which would specify not only that humans are changing the climate but also that climate change is already having major impacts and that society should take steps to clean up its energy supply.

McConnell said last week that he wouldn't block a vote on one of the climate amendments.

She didn't explicitly say that the climate amendments are nongermane.

But she strongly hinted that she saw the two climate amendments as a sideshow to the Keystone XL debate.

To evaluate how the votes on the climate amendments played out, it's worth considering what each side hoped to accomplish.

The proposed climate amendments—just a few of at least 50 that Senators would like to get votes address a number of issues.