Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamais Cascio

Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas out there. Other substances, such as water vapor and nitrous oxide, also trap heat to varying degrees.

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.

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.

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,

Gordon Brown

Carbon saving can be a way of making money and increasing returns on investment. It makes economic opportunities of a climate-friendly energy policy real and tangible.

Carbon monoxide is an invisible killer, odorless and colorless. Keep generators a safe distance from your home, away from open doors, windows and vents. Don't take a chance,

Richard Smalley

Carbon has this genius of making a chemically stable, two-dimensional, one-atom-thick membrane in a three-dimensional world. And that, I believe, is going to be very important in the future of chemistry and technology in general.

Marco Rubio

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

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.

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

Anne Taintor

I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.

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.

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.

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.

Marcus is just like his dad. He's a carbon copy.

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,

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

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

The back-to-back hurricanes in the Gulf Coast region within a three-week time span hit the country in the most vulnerable spot -- our carbon fuel supply.

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.

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.