{"id":404030,"date":"2025-09-22T10:47:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=404030"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:47:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:47:27","slug":"hilarious-in-your-face-response-to-sen-sheldon-whitehouse-by-the-heartland-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=404030","title":{"rendered":"Hilarious \u2018In your face\u2019 response to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse by the Heartland Institute."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Anthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Heartland Institute Responds to U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Demand for Information on Its Climate Work and Influence. They write on their website<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democratic Senator from Rhode Island demands all correspondence from Heartland with Trump administration concerning recission of the Endangerment Finding by EPA<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heartland President James Taylor responds by demanding Sheldon Whitehouse acknowledge energy and climate positions he has promoted that benefit his many corporate political donors<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heartland also demands to know of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: \u201cHave you ever chosen to be a long-term member of any social club that was NOT Whites Only?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Whitehouse in 2023 led the opposition to an amendment that would have denounced a statement calling Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas a \u201chouse slave\u201d on the House Senate Judiciary Committee<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCHAUMBURG, IL (September 18, 2015) \u2014 The Heartland Institute received a letter on September 16, 2025 from U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). He wrote Heartland \u201cto better understand [The Heartland Institute\u2019s] role in the proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rescission of the 2009 endangerment finding.\u201d Sen. Whitehouse is not a stranger to Heartland with these kinds of letters from Democratic members of Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Heartland Institute<\/a> is known globally<\/a> as the leading think tank pushing back on climate alarmism, has hosted 15 International Conferences on Climate Change<\/a>, and has presented The Climate Realism Show<\/a> on YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, and X for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the letter from Whitehouse here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Whitehouse\u2019s party is in the minority, so he has so subpoena power. Heartland Institute President James Taylor pointed that out in his reply to the senator<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am not surprised to receive such a letter from you, though I am surprised that it took you so long to send one. Your track record is to verbally flex about and threaten The Heartland Institute when you are in the minority party and have no power to back up your bullying tactics. Then, when your party is in the majority and you have the authority to schedule hearings, issue subpoenas, etc., you become quiet as a church mouse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Whitehouse has featured The Heartland Institute in many of his speeches to an empty chamber on the Senate Floor. (Here is one<\/a>, in which Sen. Whitehouse lied about Heartland\u2019s funding and work on smoker\u2019s rights and Environment & Climate News<\/em> with the protection from slander on the public\u2019s Senate floor. And here<\/a> is one of Heartland\u2019s reactions.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor said he will happily testify in the Senate before Sen. Whitehouse whenever he is called by him to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven though you have no power to back up your public chest-pounding, I will graciously look favorably upon answering all your silly questions and provide all the information you desire if you first truthfully answer my questions for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor\u2019s questions to purported climate expert Whitehouse include the following, with many citing reports from the from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):

Were temperatures warmer or colder than today when human civilization first arose 6,000 years ago?<\/p>\n\n\n\n