Set forth by the one true god, Al Gore.

Via The Hill:

Senate Democrats slammed Republicans Friday over their climate change tactics.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said Republicans have “no plan” to tackle climate change.

“Republicans in Congress have no plan to address climate change and cannot even bear to utter the words. Even worse, the majority leader [Mitch McConnell] wants to impose on states his irresponsible plan for congressional action,” the Senate Democrats wrote in a USA Today op-ed. “The Republican Party in Congress has become the political arm of the fossil fuel industry.” […]

“There is a massive political and public relations operation being run by the fossil fuel industry to create false doubt and plant phony questions to delay their day of reckoning so they can keep making money,” they said. “It’s the same game, and in many cases the same people, that Big Tobacco used for years to raise doubt that its products make people sick.”