Sheldon Whitehouse Quotes

When I was sworn in, we had Republican-sponsored climate-change bills all over the place. You had John McCain running for President in 2008 on a strong climate platform. You could see American democracy actually starting to work at solving a difficult problem.

You can't go do the Green New Deal, but Republicans can't just criticize the ideas of Democrats without proposing an alternative.

George H.W. Bush said we will lead on climate change, and we'll lead from the top. That was 30 years ago. And now Republicans can't even acknowledge that climate change is human caused or real because of the outside spending in our elections.

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.

It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.

Gore's problem is that the issues are all on his side.

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.

Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support.

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

For reasons we don't have to get into, climate change has become an incredibly polarized issue in the United States. I think that is sad. My own personal view is that we're in a planetary emergency such has not been seen in 600,000 years.

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry - now so in tow to the fossil fuel industry that it cannot face up to the realities of carbon pollution and climate change.

The dirty secret is that climate change is not really a partisan issue in Congress.

The big polluters are confident in their grip on Congress. They have basically achieved control of the Republican Party, and as a result, they are basically able to block action in Congress that the public needs and the country deserves.

Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even furtive.

The queue of activists, interest groups, and ordinary people wringing their hands over what a President Donald Trump might do in office is long, and environmentalists are at the front of the line.

In 1980, a young Senator Al Gore held the first Congressional hearings on global warming.

Irrationality may be more prevalent in the party of climate denial, but it isn't limited to Republicans.

As co-founder of the Senate Climate Solutions Caucus, I know we need to promote vehicles that reduce our carbon footprint, but it doesn't need to be in the form of tax breaks for the wealthy and their luxury vehicles.

Most of the Republican Party denies climate change and has fought all efforts to address it.

It's crazy that we happen to have a country where it depends on what political party you are in whether you believe in climate change or not.

I believed Justin Trudeau in 2015. I thought he would be a climate leader. I was wrong.

Trump is surrounding himself with so many climate sceptics and when he himself says he thinks climate change is a Chinese hoax then there are real concerns.

On climate change, we have only a handful of years to make massive changes, according to the scientists. The politicians have to act, and only the people can make them, because Royal Dutch Shell's not going to do it.