Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our work suggests that the impacts of human-caused land cover changes on climate are at least as important, and quite possibly more important, than those of carbon dioxide,

The 24-hour variation suggested that the system was very dynamic and that more than a single measurement was needed to tell us if the carbon dioxide rates were going up, staying the same or going down.

Limonene has been around forever, carbon dioxide as well. What we've been able to do is devise this catalyst for the first time that allows these two small molecules to come together to make a plastic,

Gregory Benford

Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years.

I think if you look at most polling, Californians want their taxes on gas to go toward improving the transportation system, not toward something that might marginally improve carbon emissions.

Steve Burton

Frederick citizens vote on this, but it has a big impact on the entire Carbon Valley.

Key would be the detection of carbon and nitrogen containing particles.

China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.

It is all very well for the government to trumpet the merits of technology in reducing carbon emissions, but it simply isn't enough; we need robust, measurable targets, not just vague aspirations.

Ryan Lewis

Glen Carbon is still eligible to receive the exhibit. With its cutting of personnel at the museum, it is causing us to review the application. We need to make sure that there is going to be enough personnel support and community support to back up this exhibit.

Marco Rubio

There is a majority of scientists that say that global carbon emissions by humans causes some changes in the climate.

Al Gore

Human societies rely heavily on hydro-carbon power and this produce a lot of carbon dioxide that increases the global warming.

Annalee Newitz

Humans have obviously contributed a great deal of carbon to the atmosphere. So we are warming the planet up.

Hydraulic redistribution allows plants to continue fixing carbon and grow during the prolonged dry season.

Roger Price

If we over-breathe we lose carbon dioxide. The tissues then become starved of oxygen and then our body's systems start to spasm -it's then that we run into all sorts of health problems.

He is likely one of the longest survivors of this sort of exposure, not only carbon monoxide, but the other circumstances in the mine.

Bill Hayden

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

One is that if you have no price, no limitation of carbon dioxide, you don't have the demand for those technologies.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Ocean acidification is caused by the ocean absorbing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the same carbon dioxide that is the primary cause of global warming, hence the nickname 'the other carbon problem.' As they do so, the oceans become more acidic with terrible consequences.

My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.

Now that we've sent a major signal to the carbon markets that these will continue to grow after 2012 it should unlock a significant and increasing quantity of CDM projects.

Mike Carey

Many ways of taking care of carbon dioxide are being studied, particularly carbon sequestration,

Scratch the surface at conservative think tanks and universities that house free-market economists, and it's not hard to find proponents of a carbon tax.

Richard Rogers

If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.

Timothy Noah

Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.

Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.

Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.

Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.

Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.

Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.

Eduardo Paes

Smart cities are those who manage their resources efficiently. Traffic, public services and disaster response should be operated intelligently in order to minimize costs, reduce carbon emissions and increase performance.

What we have put together is the world's largest carbon trading fund.

Lamar Alexander

I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.