Jeff Merkley actually said...

"I believe you are acknowledging in that, which I am glad to hear, that it is a serious problem and that the EPA, that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and we have a legal obligation to take it on."

"I do feel like perhaps you don't understand the gravity of the situation, from your response."

"In my home State you have an impact on the oysters, because the Pacific Ocean is 30 percent more acidic than it was before we started burning coal."

"Yes, it is very logical, you can do it in the laboratory, as Senator Whitehouse noted, that carbon dioxide traps heat."