Edward Markey actually said...

"Senator Sessions, they have a big stunning development in Massachusetts. It is that temperatures off the coast of Massachusetts and the Atlantic have been measured at 20 degrees above normal."

"These weird winters are what scientists have predicted would happen as the levels of carbon pollution buildup in our atmosphere from burning fossil fuels."

"It seems that common-sense, scientifically based policy is being put on the books and we thank you so much for doing that."

"The reason we know it is happening is that people have been using thermometers over all these years."