Democratic Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said during an interview that he believed the Justice Department should sue the “vast” global warming “denial apparatus” for lying to the American people.

“You go all the way back to the tobacco fight, and the tobacco industry created a kind of false parallel science to go along with the real science and try and compete with it,” he told the League of Conservation Voters on Sunday. “…Well, the polluters have gotten a lot more sophisticated since then.”

“But, this vast denial apparatus that propagates the false doubt, that props up the phony science, that gets these yahoos who can’t survive peer-reviewed scrutiny onto Fox News, onto the cable shows, saying that they’re scientists, they create an artificial conflict about this and that’s why I think there’s doubt.”

“A lot of people haven’t seen through the scam that’s being perpetrated,” Whitehouse said, “So that’s one of the reasons I hope that we get another lawsuit out of the Department of Justice, like the one they brought against the tobacco industry…”

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