Rhode Island US Senator Outspoken On Climate Change

We need more of this attitude:

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said Tuesday that if Republicans don't join efforts to combat global warming, they will pay the political consequences.

"I think it's our task to ensure that climate change lines up right behind immigration and gay rights as an issue," said Whitehouse at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference in Washington sponsored by labor unions and environmental groups. If Republicans continue their opposition to measures that confront global warming, Whitehouse said, "they'll run off the cliff like lemmings...."

Whitehouse has emerged as on of the most outspoken environmental advocates in Congress, taking to the Senate floor each week to lecture his colleagues on the climate, usually to an empty room.