Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

I contend that America is on the losing end of the largest transfer of wealth through theft and piracy in the history of mankind.

I would urge you to not mimic the ostrich that puts its head in the sand and look to the facts around you.

The amount of carbon pollution that mankind has released into the atmosphere is not a theory, it is a fact.

It is textbook science, it is not a theory in that sense. It is fully established and virtually unchallenged.