Joe Neguse actually said...

"According to the IPCC, we must reach net zero emissions by 2050, in order to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change."

"Climate change is the existential threat of our lifetimes, and it is a complex problem that can only be solved by an aggressive transformation of our energy economy."

"This remains, as I said at the beginning of my remarks, an existential threat that we all should collectively be working to combat against."

"The Earth is a dynamic system, but that doesn't change the fact that humans are changing the Earth's system, and we are changing the climate."