Carbon Quotes - Page 5

• I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Wings, Fiber, Crossings

  "Austrian Pilot Hopes To Break Freefall Record". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. May 23, 2012.

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• If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

  Douglas Wilson

  Water, Pedals, Mankind

  "Wilson-Till Debate". Credenda/Agenda Magazine (Vol. 7; No. 1), infidels.org.

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• If coal wants a place in a carbon-constrained future, they have to look at technology like this. And we think that our rule can help stimulate technology, growth, and innovation, bring those costs down, and allow coal a more stable opportunity to continue to be invested in.

  Gina McCarthy

  Technology, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is measured. It's uncontroversial. It's going up. We know that has a tendency to warm the atmosphere and we should be worried about that.

  Martin Rees

  Atmosphere, Worried, Carbon Dioxide

  "Lord Martin Rees, Eminent British Scientist". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 28, 2010.

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• The fact that natural selection and evolution crafted essentially carbon and water into a mechanism that can think and be conscious means there's nothing in physics that says you cannot do that to a greater degree.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Mean, Thinking, Water

  Source: collider.com

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• The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions.

  David Roberts

  Carbon Emissions, Black, Lines

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• Trump has been very, very open and clear on what he's going to do. He's going to make the U.S. very competitive on taxes, corporate and personal. He's eliminating policy on carbon and the regulatory environment on shale and energy and pipeline development. These are all things that Canada has to do and we no longer have a competitive environment to do them in. It manifests itself in the slow grind of our economy.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Energy, Development, Pipeline

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble-one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.

  Lester R. Brown

  Aquifers, Land, Civilization

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• Clearly, the left-wing groups want to use this carbon theme as a tool for wealth redistribution.

  Lubos Motl

  Wings, Want, Groups

  "Poland rejects global carbon communism". motls.blogspot.ru. October 04, 2009.

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• Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Climate, Burning, Fuel

  Interview with Lisa Mullenneaux, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 27, 2012.

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• I think 99% of climate scientists would agree that we need to reduce emissions as quickly as possible, and then begin removing greenhouse gasses and carbon from the air. And if we don't do that we are looking at some range of catastrophe.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Thinking, Air, Climate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is no set period of time or total amount of carbon emissions that we can stay below to ensure we stay safe.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Carbon Emissions, Safe, Periods

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.

  Don Cheadle

  Issues, Water, Scary

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You can't say British Columbia's carbon tax is exactly the same as increasing hydroelectricity rates in another province. They're very different mechanisms, but we shouldn't deny that both of them can have an impact, and that's why we're talking about this broadly.

  Christy Clark

  Impact, Talking, Different

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• To put it in context, the federal government was, at the beginning [of the Vancouver meeting], talking about a $15-per-tonne floor for carbon emissions. We're at $30 a tonne, so we're already double that. But our economy is growing at a faster rate - three per cent of GDP is our projected growth in British Columbia.

  Christy Clark

  Government, Talking, Gdp

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• hy is it you can impose a new tax and keep your economy growing? Only if you cut other taxes by exactly the same amount. The problem with carbon taxes around the world has been you dump a new tax onto the economy and it's just adding more tax.

  Christy Clark

  Cutting, World, Growing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded elections with billions of oily petrodollars from carbon tycoons.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Democracy, Firsts, Climate

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• When I'm talking about a developing world, I also look at clean-water access - women who are more vulnerable to sexual violence when they're fetching water. And talking about what we have going on here, with our carbon footprints and our emissions, is just as important to me as figuring out how to provide clean water to people who need it in regions around the world.

  Sophia Bush

  Talking, Carbon Footprint, Water

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• We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.

  Christy Clark

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We're talking about should we increase taxes? Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax.

  Robert F. Engle

  Thinking, Talking, Carbon Emissions

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Our climate leadership team has recommended it go up and I would say there's always going to be upward pressure to raise the carbon tax. Remember, we're already double what the only other province who has a carbon tax is at right now, Quebec - they peg it at about $15 a tonne.

  Christy Clark

  Team, Climate, Pressure

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet. One leads to ecological collapse. The other is a reversion, in many ways, to poverty.

  Ramez Naam

  Energy, Climate, Burning

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions are going to pay for themselves for any given power-plant, say.

  Ramez Naam

  Carbon Emissions, Issues, Ozone

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.

  Bill Gates

  Energy, Generations, Done

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• I'd like to see a little more action on the energy side of things. I've been pushing for some kind of a carbon tax for years, and it seems to me we've had lots of opportunities to do it.

  Robert F. Engle

  Opportunity, Years, Pushing

  Source: bigthink.com

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