Happy 50th speech, Sheldon Whitehouse

Sheldon Whitehouse has now told America 50 times that it’s “time to wake up.”

Every week our Senator speaks on the Senate floor about why America needs to start addressing the causes of and solutions to climate change. Wednesday was his 50th such address. No one dresses down the false equivalency of the climate change “debate” better than Sheldon:

“At the Newport tide gauge sea level is up almost ten inches since the 1930’s … you measure that. It takes basically a ruler,” he said. “We’re about three to four degrees warmer in the winter in Narragansett Bay. You measure that. It takes a thermometer. It’s one thing to be against science, it’s another thing to be the party against measurement.”