The pollution is so bad you cannot see across the street.

I agree completely with you that the Bush administration did not adequately fund the goals that they set for NASA.

We are trying to get, you know, the Chinese? They could care less. They are building vast numbers of coal.

It is the difference between a carpet bombing with a B52, which is what we are doing today with chemotherapy, and precision surgical strikes.

we need to look to technologies to sequester carbon is probably one of the better alternatives in the short term

I would like to pursue... that we direct some funding to NOAA for you to do the research to tell us what would be necessary in terms of sequestering carbon in the ocean using iron fertilization.

I just want to say once again how much I appreciate the way you have structured these hearings.

I certainly wish they would, but it is an objective fact that they will not and they have indicated they are not signing on to any carbon treaty.

If the Greenland Ice Sheet were to melt entirely the ocean levels would rise by how many meters?

I cannot tell you how much I admire the National Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation.

I think that is self-evident to all us, profoundly disturbing.