Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

You're bounded by the fiduciary duty to be truthful and accurate, and operate on the best information you can find.

I can remember when the plan for dealing with pollutants coming out of power plants was to raise the smokestacks higher.

The way that I have described this is that climate change causes weather anomalies, and those anomalies make events harder to predict.

I say science is the headlights that drives us forward, and let's us see what's coming.