Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

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

The input side is going up because of carbon dioxide emissions, but the output is going up because of temperature rises.

The impact of the carbon monoxide is the greatest danger. Progress has been slow.

E. O. Wilson

No-till in and of itself is a carbon credit. If someone is willing to pay you to do what you've been doing, then why not get involved? You are just leaving money on the land if you don't.

Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.

The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

The U.S. can become carbon neutral in our lifetimes. In the process, we will put millions of Americans to work, make our companies more competitive, and shield our communities from extreme weather. And we will honor our obligation to leave the world a better place for future generations.

They can only spend about 20 or 30 minutes before they run into pockets of carbon monoxide. It takes such a toll they have to come out and rest for about an hour.

Richard Flanagan

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.

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.

Whereas today the cost to purchase commercial-grade carbon fiber is between $8 and $10 per pound, the goal is to reduce that figure to between $3 and $5 per pound.

Any time we're producing yellow flames, we're producing carbon monoxide.

So as you increase carbon dioxide, plant growth is actually boosted,

Arlen Specter

The lack of carbon monoxide discloses only that there was no fire long enough to have gotten into the respiratory systems of the people who were so tested, ... It doesn't say anything else.

And a lot them confuse radon with carbon monoxide and talk about how it's not a risk unless you have an old furnace.

All of forms of power generation create carbon. Some sort of carbon sequestration is the most likely intermediate-term carbon solution.

Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.

They plan to use state-of-the-art boiler technology and activated carbon injection. Cleaner plants will come on line in the future as the technology advances. But right now, what SME is planning is just about as good as it gets.

Chris Hadfield

It's a really big deal to do a spacewalk. It's much riskier than staying indoors. It's complex. It uses up a lot of the precious resources onboard. It uses up oxygen. It uses up carbon dioxide scrubbers.

Sylvia Earle

Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon - it's a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.

David Suzuki

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

Denis Leary

My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.

Martin O'Malley

We are already witnessing a transformation in the U.S. economy to increased production of lower carbon energy through fuel switching to natural gas and expansion of wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable non-carbon intensive energy sources.

Leonard Susskind

Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.

Rawlins, Carbon County, Wyoming and The Daily Times have lost a faithful, caring, passionate booster.

Our experience and relationships put us in a unique position to offer carbon management solutions designed for next generation businesses.

James Hansen

Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop using it.

The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

Bruce Dickinson

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.