It's perfectly ironic that Whitehouse charges fossil fuel companies with a "misinformation campaign to mislead the public and cast doubt in order to protect their financial interest." ? Technocracy News Editor

On July 11, 19 Democratic senators, led by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), took to the floor to attack fossil fuel companies for engaging in a "web of denial" about climate change.  Senator Whitehouse and his like-minded colleagues are using climate change as a Trojan Horse to hide their environmental agenda and their hostility to the economic benefits derived from using fossil fuels.

Senator Whitehouse's resolution claims that fossil fuel companies have engaged in a "misinformation campaign to mislead the public and cast doubt in order to protect their financial interest."  It also claims that think tanks, public relations firms and other organizations have been funded to give legitimacy to this campaign and are part of this web of denial. These senators base their allegation on a sound bite—"the science is settled"—that is derived from the radical tactics of activists like Saul Alinsky.  Sound bites are not evidence.