Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"The scale of this is really pretty staggering. The figure I use is zeta joules, the joule being the unit of measure of heat energy, zeta being a number that has 21 zeroes behind it."

"The oceans have been estimated to be absorbing 14 zeta joules of heat every year, multiple Hiroshima level explosions worth of heat per second happening in the oceans."

"Thank you very much for being here, Director."

"I personally regret that Senator Braun has chosen to term limit himself because I really value him as a colleague."