Carbon Quotes - Page 3

• Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing

  David Miliband

  Zero, Agriculture, Atmosphere

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• The most effective solution is to vote! Vote the climate-change-deniers out of office. Then, for John Q. Public, it's all about energy conservation: use less, because most of what we're consuming is from fossilized carbon!

  Wesley K. Wark

  Office, Energy, Climate

  "General Wesley K. Clark, Co-Chair of Growth Energy". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

  Paul MacCready

  Intelligent, Technology, Earth

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• Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Coffee, Java, Stage

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Glory Road”, Berkley

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• It was huge mistake to avoid working with the rest of the world because (a) we're the largest source of the problem: 4% of us who are in the U.S. produce 25% of the world's carbon dioxide.

  Bill McKibben

  Mistake, World, Problem

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really be calculated (they are a rounding error in the UN's attempts to do national comparisons), and yet, most of whose people are at risk from increased flooding due to rising sea levels.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Lying, Errors

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of 2007, our best scientists, led by NASA's Jim Hansen, went back to work and produced a series of papers showing that with more than 350 ppm (parts per million) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we couldn't have a planet "similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted."

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ice, Civilization

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• Energy is a sector of the economy that has been particularly resistant to innovation. This is precisely the problem. It is why we are still dependant on energy sources that are 100 to 150 years old while virtually every other sector of the economy has transformed itself. This is why we believe that the faith that many environmentalists still hold that carbon regulations and taxes will drive sufficient private sector investment into energy markets to create the kind of innovation we need is unfounded.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Believe, Years, Innovation

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then.

  Nicholas Stern

  Business, Risk, Atmosphere

  "Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change - it's far, far worse'" by Heather Stewart and Larry Elliott, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the new clean energy industries of the future are much higher priorities for most voters than capping carbon emissions or taxing dirty energy sources. So why not redefine our agenda as the solution to those problems?

  Ted Nordhaus

  Jobs, Dirty, Oil

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• This going on and on about how terrible a carbon-based economy is, these people are full of crap. They don't know what they're talking about. Their motives are not necessarily good just because they say they are being good. It's peace, love, and understanding. To which I can just say, "Shut up." Human liberty, rule of law, and free markets fix this stuff. It isn't necessary to go around being the Mia Farrow of the ecosphere.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Talking, Law, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We now know that climate action does not require economic sacrifice. This is fully in line with the World Bank Group's findings. It is up to all of us to make smart policy choices that will help combat climate change. For example, putting a price on carbon is a necessary step and could drive resources and investments to a cleaner economy.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  Smart, Sacrifice, Climate Action

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• Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Simple, Oxygen

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• With our abundance of wind, solar, and geothermal energy, Nevada has been a leader in moving away from carbon emissions and embracing a clean energy economy that has created good-paying jobs in our state that can't be shipped overseas.

  Catherine Cortez Masto

  Jobs, Moving, Wind

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I would say that everyone that you see who is successful in the mainstream, at the top of Billboard, who has a Top 40 hit... at some point, unless they're a complete fabrication of the industry with no identity of their own and a carbon copy clone of someone else, they in themselves started out being underground.

  Immortal Technique

  Successful, Identity, Mainstream

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• The scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not caused by carbon dioxide produced in human activities.

  Robert Jastrow

  Years, Lasts, Temperature

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• DEMAND, PURCHASE & USE LOW CARBON PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. MAKE LOW CARBON SEXY!

  Christiana Figueres

  Sexy, Use, Demand

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• The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels... If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy and maybe we prevent the greatest disaster so far in human history, saving millions of lives while improving billions more. If we fail, basically it's business as usual while things slowly get worse all around us.

  Al Gore

  Answers, Fuel, Saving

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• I loved IRON MAN: Robert Downey Jr. has been and probably will be my favourite actor for a long time…but IRON MAN, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, SUPERMAN RETURNS and all the others feel a little like Saturday morning cartoons next to the carbon black glory that is 'The Dark Knight.' Trust me, *this* is the future of this sort of thing.

  Grant Morrison

  Morning, Dark, Men

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• Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.

  Fred Upton

  Mean, Cutting, Thinking

  'The Rachel Maddow Show', www.nbcnews.com. December 29, 2010.

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• All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Zero, Distance, Government

  "Going global: social innovation" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2010.

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• Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation.

  Robert Winston

  Usual, Three, Phases

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• The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

  Napoleon Hill

  Giving Up, Character, Persistence

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.113, Penguin

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• 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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• Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

  Azar Nafisi

  Real, Trying, Fiction

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.3, Random House

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