Carbon Quotes

• You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Animal, Grandchildren, Careers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. October 1968.

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• We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

  Elon Musk

  Running, Atmosphere, Environmental

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle...

  Michele Bachmann

  Earth, Natural, Cycles

  "Stumped By Science: Michele Bachmann Calls CO2 'Harmless,' 'Negligible,' 'Necessary,' 'Natural'". Brad Johnson, The Wonk Room (Think Progress), April 24, 2009.

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• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

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• We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Fashion, Atmosphere, Needs

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• Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it's procedural.

  Bill Hayden

  Harder, Wraps, Bits

  "Interview with Cosmoe's Bill Hayden". Interview with Eugenia Loli, www.osnews.com. May 13, 2002.

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• We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn't seem to be enough: we want to go all the way to zero... Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Zero, Ambition, Differences

  Rupert Murdoch's Speech on Carbon Neutrality, www.theaustralian.com.au. May 10, 2007.

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• Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.

  Peter Garrett

  Government, Details, Schemes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

  Jack Herer

  Burning, Fuel, Fossils

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• The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.

  Piers Corbyn

  Moving, Years, Trends

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• I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear.

  Steven Chu

  Country, Ocean, Thinking

  "Earth Day 2009: Obama Energy Chief Lays Out Climate Doomsday Scenario". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

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• I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.

  Nicholas Stern

  Change, Attitude, Drinking

  "Vegetarian diet is better for the planet, says Lord Stern" by David Batty and David Adam, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

  Asa Gray

  Animal, Oxygen, Years

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological School of Yale College”

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• Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Mother, Water, Lasts

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• Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.

  Craig Kilborn

  Cutting, Night, Broken

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• I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Global Warming, Policy, Destructive

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• A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time ..., not in a free state, but in a state of combination.

  Michael Faraday

  Horse, Men, Twenties

  Michael Faraday, Hermann L. F. Von Helmholtz (2010). “Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology”, p.175, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or seven hours. What, then, must be the daily amount of carbon going up into the air in the way of carbonic acid! ... Then what becomes of it? Wonderful is it to find that the change produced by respiration ... is the very life and support of plants and vegetables that grow upon the surface of the earth.

  Michael Faraday

  Life, Growing Up, Science

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• Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.

  Lucy Powell

  Yield, Fuel Prices, Effort

  "Saving the economy or saving the planet is not an either-or" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2008.

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• The world's forests need to be seen for what they are - giant global utilities, providing essential public services to humanity on a vast scale. They store carbon, which is lost to the atmosphere when they burn, increasing global warming. The life they support cleans the atmosphere of pollutants and feeds it with moisture. They act as a natural thermostat, helping to regulate our climate and sustain the lives of 1.4 billion of the poorest people on this Earth.

  Prince Charles

  Life, People, Support

  Prince Charles' Speech to a WWF gala dinner at Hampton Court Palace on the Prince's Rainforests Project, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2007.

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• Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Oil, Impact

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• The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Impact, Atmosphere

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• Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Running, Night, Energy

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• Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.

  Michele Bachmann

  Stupid, Silly, Environmental

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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