Carbon Quotes

From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.

Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos on the moon.

The Clean Power Plan is a bold step not just in lowering carbon emissions, but also in creating the clean energy jobs of the future.

Developing low carbon sources of energy supply will enhance our energy security

Even if Bill McKibben were to become dictator, future generations would suffer because of the carbon we had already emitted.

In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously

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.

That's a phenomenon of the Left: You don't fight evil. You fight carbon emissions

If you're going to drive a Hummer and buy carbon offsets, that's like getting drunk every night and getting into an AA meeting, throwing money in the basket, and leaving.

Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company.

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

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.

I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence.

We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

As president, I'll set bold goals to combat climate change: generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America within 10 years and slash carbon pollution at home and around the world.

Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels.

I think the deeper truth is that the Kyoto Protocols will not be followed by anyone really and that, in effect, nothing will be done to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions.

Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.

Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.

Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.

Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.

If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.

The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill.

The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago.

Natural gas is a very flexible source of energy that can help us bridge the gap between our current high-carbon economy and our zero-carbon future.

There's no question that natural gas is a lot better than coal or oil, in the sense that natural gas produces less carbon per unit of energy produced.

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

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.

The annual output of carbon emissions is 25 billion tonnes and Global Cool's goal is to reduce it by one billion tonnes a year.

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

If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed, and there will be nothing we can do to cut the speed of climate change.

[The Clean Power Plan] is an important step toward curbing carbon pollution and addressing climate change.

After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease.

A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.

We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration.

I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

The evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere.

Fortunately poorer countries, such as China, are showing leadership and beginning to demonstrate to the world how to invest in low-carbon growth.

Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.

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

There is no high-carbon future

No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future

Low carbon, resource efficient solutions and halting then reversing population growth are two sides of the same coin

...and his eyes were so green they could turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.

I've been to Vulcan where I've been vulcanized, Carbon where you get carbonated and Standard where you get standardized. Ernie Isley's invited me to Castor … and I'm not looking forward to it.

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.

There are a number of causes of climatic change, and until all causes other than carbon dioxide increase are ruled out, we cannot attribute the change to carbon dioxide alone.

It’s time to move the debate past the dogmatic view that carbon dioxide is evil and toward a world view that accepts the need for energy that is cheap, abundant, and reliable.

While we reduce our own carbon footprint we will encourage the companies who truck our DVDs and newspapers, sell us paper, and provide an enormous range of products and services to all contribute.