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(16) Sen. Whitehouse Time to Wake Up Speech \/ X<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest \u201cJust when you thought Democrats couldn\u2019t get any dumber\u201d by David Middleton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whitehouse: \u2018I Can\u2019t Prove It\u2019, But I Think Fossil Fuel Industry Getting Trump to Undercut Weather Forecasting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By Ian Hanchett 10 Jul 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday\u2019s broadcast of MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe Last Word,\u201d Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) stated that he \u201ccan\u2019t prove it\u201d but believes that the fossil fuel industry is trying to get the Trump administration to undercut weather forecasting because \u201cThey know that when people talk about the weather and give weather warnings, they\u2019re going to talk about climate change now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

How can a person become this stupid? Does this total fracking moron not realize that accurate weather forecasts are critically important to oil & gas operations, particularly offshore operations<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, it appears that it is very easy to be this STUPID when you\u2019re Sheldon Whitehouse<\/a>. Stupid, corrupt, vindictive and, did I mention stupid?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate Policy Enemies List<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Whitehouse has delivered more than 200 speeches on the Senate floor dedicated to climate change and other environmentalist topics. 9<\/sup><\/a> He has accused some in the energy industry of acting like \u201cthugs\u201d who \u201cown the joint\u201d (meaning the U.S. Congress), and has declared government officials who oppose him to be \u201cstooges\u201d of the energy industry. 9<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a May 2015 opinion piece in the Washington Post<\/em>, Whitehouse advocated a federal lawsuit against the energy industry using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. 4<\/sup><\/a> Originally designed for and used in criminal cases to prosecute the mafia, RICO has a civil-lawsuit component that has since been applied to corporate targets such as cigarette manufacturers. Whitehouse admitted he did not \u201chave enough information\u201d to know whether \u201cracketeering activity\u201d had actually occurred with the energy industry, but speculated the civil discovery in a RICO lawsuit might uncover the evidence. 4<\/sup><\/a> In March 2016, then-U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch<\/a> announced she had referred Whitehouse\u2019s RICO concern to the Federal Bureau of Investigation<\/a> (FBI). 10<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July 2016, two months after the Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands sent a subpoena demanding private internal research records, communications, and donor information to libertarian think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute<\/a> (CEI), Whitehouse led a group of 19 U.S. Senate Democrats in a two-day series of floor speeches denouncing CEI and many other free-market think tanks, with Whitehouse saying the research organizations were part of a \u201cfilthy thing in our democracy.\u201d The Senate campaign was aimed at passage of a Congressional resolution that would have called on the non-profit groups to cooperate with \u201cactive or future investigations\u201d of their climate-policy positions that might be launched against them by federal or state law enforcement officials. 11<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CEI president responded, saying Whitehouse had become the \u201cnew Sen. Joe McCarthy,\u201d and that it \u201cis unhealthy for democracy and abusive when members of Congress create an enemies list based on policy positions.\u201d 11<\/sup><\/a> A joint letter sent to all of the Democratic Senators from 22 targeted think tanks stated: \u201cYour threat is clear: There is a heavy and inconvenient cost to disagreeing with you. Calls for debate will be met with political retribution. That\u2019s called tyranny. And, we reject it.\u201d 5<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whitehouse demanded a more-serious pursuit of a RICO case in 2018 and complained that Democrats still \u201chaven\u2019t done the basic due diligence prosecutors do putting an org chart together against a criminal enterprise.\u201d 12<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Influence Watch<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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On Thursday\u2019s broadcast of MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe Last Word,\u201d Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) stated that he \u201ccan\u2019t prove it\u201d but believes that the fossil fuel industry is trying to get the Trump administration to undercut weather forecasting because \u201cThey know that when people talk about the weather and give weather warnings, they\u2019re going to talk about climate change now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":388915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691825557,691820528,691819091,691836594,691836593,691836592,691827887],"class_list":{"0":"post-388912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-fossil-fuel-industry","10":"tag-misinformation","11":"tag-msnbc","12":"tag-rump-administration","13":"tag-sen-sheldon-whitehouse-d-ri","14":"tag-the-last-word","15":"tag-weather-forecasting","17":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0Screenshot-2025-07-15-084344.png?fit=1627%2C976&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1DaM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":404030,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=404030","url_meta":{"origin":388912,"position":0},"title":"Hilarious \u2018In your face\u2019 response to Sen. 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