Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"we need to clean that mess up."

"It is probably the most warned of hazard that we have ever seen, but because the fossil fuel industry has got so much of our Congress locked up in its grip we have not responded to those warnings."

"We all know that it is going to change our physical world. We all know that it is going to raise sea levels."

"We have got a Nobel Prize winner, testifying under oath, about the catastrophic economic consequences we are looking at."