"It's dumb, it's irresponsible. And, oh, by the way, zero marginal cost energy is cheaper."
"I think I can say this with confidence but one needs to be careful about superlatives in this line of work. I think I am the only Member of Congress as a freshman who made a campaign promise before ge..."
"If the justification for not creating the OTA is that in 25 years we haven't found the political will, in 25 years we haven't found the political will to get serious about climate change. That is no r..."
"I introduced H.R. 5194, the Climate Change Financial Risk Act, with Senator Schatz, of course, introducing the companion bill in the Senate."
"The reasons for that are, and I am sure you know this, but just to reiterate for everyone here, from 2016 to 2018, average economic losses from natural disasters were $150 billion."
"Right now, if we don't change direction, we are at 4 degrees of warming."
"At 8 degrees, Manhattan feels like Qatar, essentially. It is really unpleasant."
"This dwarfs the financial crisis, and presumably a lot of those homes will be subject to 30-year mortgages."
"There is a fundamental equity problem that, if we charge the market rate for insurance, people aren't going to have insurance."
"the U.S. is not currently the global leader in weather forecasting."
"I want to absolutely echo your point that we need to be goal- rather than path-focused."
"If my cell phone is any predictor, this is not the Committee hearing that most of the country is watching today."