04/21/2009
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"Thank you, Madam Chairman, for holding this hearing--fittingly, on Earth Day--to discuss ocean acidification."
"We have to act. And it's very fitting that, on this day, Earth Day, we're discussing ocean acidification."
"Unfortunately, as reported by the National Research Council today, adding so much carbon dioxide to the ocean has caused its pH to decrease by a tenth of a unit since the beginning of the industrial r..."
"About one-third of the carbon dioxide we have emitted into the atmosphere has been drawn down into the ocean."