1.0Climate Change Dispatchhttps://climatechangedispatch.comThomas Richardhttps://climatechangedispatch.com/author/ccdeditor/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="YgfefM8keF"><a href="https://climatechangedispatch.com/sen-whitehouse-has-lost-all-perspective/">Sen. Whitehouse has lost all perspective</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://climatechangedispatch.com/sen-whitehouse-has-lost-all-perspective/embed/#?secret=YgfefM8keF" width="600" height="338" title="“Sen. Whitehouse has lost all perspective” — Climate Change Dispatch" data-secret="YgfefM8keF" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> Last Sunday, in The Washington Post ("The fossil-fuel industry's campaign to mislead the American people"), Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., called for his opponents in the global warming debate to be charged under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, the law designed to put organized crime bosses in prison. His logic seems to be that there's a vast conspiracy being perpetrated against the American public regarding global warming by the fossil-fuel industry. From where I sit, neither side in this debate has much credibility left. It doesn't take any conspiracy by the fossil-fuel industry to come to this conclusion. The "truthers" have taken care of that all by themselves. Al Gore, in his 2007 movie "An Inconvenient Truth," told us that the polar ice caps would be devoid of ice by 2013. Guess what didn't happen?https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics8_sheldon.jpg