05/08/2013
https://www.congress.gov...
"This debate was not driven by science but by a decades-long campaign of lies, distortion, and deceit funded by the fossil fuel industry."
"In my view, we have got to make it clear to the fossil fuel industry that their short-term profits are not more important than the future of our planet."
"In the end, sadly, history is likely to judge the actions of the CEOs of fossil fuel companies as causing more death and more human misery than the tobacco industry."
"Delay is costly. Taking carbon out of the atmosphere is far more expensive than not putting it into the atmosphere in the first place."