Bill Nelson actually said...

"Earlier, Dr. Spinrad, you were talking about the importance of measuring the winds at the surface of the ocean as a means of trying to predict the direction and intensity of hurricanes."

"What is the relationship, if any, between climate change and hurricanes?"

"I think this has tremendous impact on what we want to do in the future, as we think about what sort of mitigating steps we're going to take."

"most of the cost is borne by the American taxpayer, wherever that taxpayer happens to live, because clearly we've seen, in the case of Hurricane Katrina, almost half of the economic loss of that hurri..."