Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"So it is really a dramatic effect. And it is not just a fraction of our fossil fuel energy expenditure, it is a vast multiple."

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

"I think there is a persistent effort to limit our effort to support wildlife and hold off the great extinction to only what can be monetized."

"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."