Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

I urge you to support a completely broad, across the government, multi-agency, not just you and a DOJ task force to respond.

You can't insure what you can't predict.

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

What we do here now will not just have impacts for thousands of years, it will be remembered for thousands of years.