Unlike Whitehouse, the majority of Americans aren’t global warming fanatics.

Via The Hill:

Republicans will lose the White House in 2016 if they nominate a candidate who is a “climate denier,” predicts one Senate Democrat.

Speaking on a call set up by Organizing for Action, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) laid down the gauntlet for Democrats’ new push this year against climate change skeptics in Congress.

“Republicans have to produce a presidential candidate and I think if he’s a denier, he’s finished,” Whitehouse said Wednesday. “Which means they will have to trek a little bit towards the middle to cover their presidential candidate.”

Whitehouse said Democratic lawmakers plan to make “deniers pay a political price” in the elections of 2014 and 2016. He said the push will include an all-nighter in the Senate for concerned members to speak out about climate change.