What is it about natural disasters and liberals who are determined to impose their vision of environmental purity on the rest of America? When people in the Northeast are freezing in uncommonly cold winters and conservatives cite the low temperatures as “proof” that global warming is not happening, liberals remind everybody that “the science is settled,” so the deep cold must be disregarded.

But look what happened when a monstrous tornado struck Moore, Okla., killing 24 and leaving a path of utter destruction 20 miles long and two miles wide. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, stood on the Senate floor on Tuesday and lambasted Republican opposition to federal spending on programs to stop global warming: “When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn’t just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. It hits Oregon with acidified seas, it hits Montana with dying forests. So, like it or not, we’re in this together.”