In a surprise move, US Senate Republicans joined Democrats and went on record on Wednesday acknowledging that climate change is real. The symbolic amendment attached to a controversial bill authorizing construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline was approved 98-1 after Senator James Inhofe, seen as the climate change denier in Congress, announced he was supporting the legislation. Mr. Inhofe, however, strongly rejected any suggestion that human activity was responsible for climate change.

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