Carbon Quotes - Page 18

• Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of the most powerful things an individual can do - to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind.

  Michael Pollan

  Powerful, Garden, Carbon Footprint

  "Why Bother?". www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I believe everyone who breathes air on this earth, regardless of their job or their bank account, must give back more than just carbon dioxide.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Jobs, Believe, Air

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• There is no option but to transform our world to a zero carbon future. We will fight to ensure that no one is left behind. This report breaks new ground and gives workers and businesses the confidence that there can be an economic plan which creates jobs and sets our planet on the course for survival.

  Sharan Burrow

  Jobs, Zero, Fighting

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• There is no doubt there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, caused by the burning of fossil fuels. It should have an effect on the climate, but the numbers indicate that effect is relatively minor.

  John Christy

  Should Have, Numbers, Atmosphere

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• We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Years, Carbon Emissions, Environmental

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• Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production.

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Oil, America, Environmental

  "The Tar Sands Disaster". www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2013.

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• Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth.

  Michele Bachmann

  Environmental, Arbitrary, Substance

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• The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.

  John Boehner

  Ideas, Environmental, World

  "Nightline" with Cynthia McFadden, www.newsbusters.org. December 22, 2010.

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• So if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?

  John Shimkus

  Atmosphere, Environmental, Use

  "Rep. Shimkus Calls Cap-and-Trade 'The Largest Assault on Democracy and Freedom'" by Alex Pasternack, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2009.

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• I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Carbon Footprint, Trying, Green

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

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• Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half a dozen brats and still keep a modest carbon footprint? I don't think so.

  Julie Burchill

  Believe, Thinking, Yummy

  "Suffer little children? Give me a break" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2008.

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• If we do nothing, we still get to a post-carbon future, but it will be bleak. However, if we plan the transition, we can have a world that supports robust communities of healthy, creative people and ecosystems with millions of other species.

  Richard Heinberg

  Ecosystems, People, Support

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• We conservatives fight evil; the Left fights carbon emissions

  Dennis Prager

  Fighting, Carbon Emissions, Evil

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• If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Years, Two, Carbon Emissions

  "Monckton saves the day!". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2007.

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• We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize behavior that will move us to a post-carbon, post-animal agriculture world, and make our societies more resilient to the shocks that are already baked into the system. But that doesn't make climate change an "economic issue."

  Dale Jamieson

  Moving, Animal, Agriculture

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?

  Tony Abbott

  Simple, Why Not, Want

  "Abbott dogged by old carbon comment", www.smh.com.au. June 7, 2011.

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• As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.

  Wayne Swan

  Climate, Cost, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there's a package there that's very, very good.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Investing, Sulfur

  "Frontline"| PBS, www.pbs.org. February 15, 2007.

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• All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Work, Technology

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• The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any regulation of this process on the part of the organism.

  August Krogh

  Science, Oxygen, Regulation

  August Krogh (1977). “Respiratory adaptations, capillary exchange, and reflex mechanisms: proceedings of the August Krogh Centenary Symposium held in Srinagar, Kashmir (India), October 11-15, 1974”

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• It's better to have a broken CD player that worked once than to never have evolved into a self-aware carbon based lifeform.

  Craig Benzine

  Player, Self, Cds

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• Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many dinosaurs might have died this way when a metropolis-sized asteroid or comet struck the earth 65 million years ago.

  Sam Kean

  Cousin, Years, Earth

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• If you're talking about mugging little old ladies, you don't say, 'What's our target for the rate of mugging little old ladies?' You say, 'Mugging little old ladies is bad, and we're going to try to eliminate it.' You recognize you might not be a hundred percent successful, but your goal is to eliminate the mugging of little old ladies. And I think we need to eventually come around to looking at carbon dioxide emissions the same way.

  Ken Caldeira

  Successful, Thinking, Talking

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• The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science.

  William Happer

  World, Lists, Belief

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• The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would be miserable stewards of creation. We would rob our own children and grandchildren.

  James Hansen

  Children, Carbon Emissions, Climate

  "Obama's tar sand trap" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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