Freeman Dyson Quotes About Atmosphere

Quotes about: Atmosphere

• The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of corn growing in full sunlight in the middle of the day uses up all the carbon dioxide within a meter of the ground in about five minutes. If the air were not constantly stirred by convection currents and winds, the corn would stop growing.

  Freeman Dyson

  Air, Wind, Atmosphere

• We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Carbon Cycle, Tree

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.172, Pantheon

• Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

  Freeman Dyson

  Atmosphere, Climate, Global Warming

• We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.

  Freeman Dyson

  Atmosphere, Global Warming, Carbon

• The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.

  Freeman Dyson

  Mean, Science, Carbon Cycle

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