Politics and the Environment

Am I reading this correctly:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00054

Half of the Senate supported a constitutional amendment restricting the EPA from regulating greenhouse gasses?

Word of the Day

Calomel

And here's a link to the xkcd comic that is, to me, emblematic of the assumption that science has given us all of the "right" answers:

http://xkcd.com/808/

Bonus word:  emblematic.