Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil companies extract it from… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Air is one we hold in common; it has a limited carrying capacity for pollutants and that's being used up by those… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
NASA's Aqua satellite is showing that water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas, works to offset the effect of carbon dioxide - CO2.… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
We have to, in the next ten years, begin to decrease the rate of carbon dioxide emissions and then flatten it out.… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The climate's sensitivity to greenhouse gases is considerably lower than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims - so much lower, in… — Kenneth P. Green Copy Share Image
It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
In the head-spinning cosmos of climate change, everyday hundreds of people claim there are 'thousands of papers' in support of a theory,… — Joanne Nova Copy Share Image
Al Gore likes to say that mankind puts 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. What he probably… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
“I try when it matters”. “Like when?” “Like when I’m about to die and stuff. Besides, I just had a super busy… — Benedict Fetsch Copy Share Image
I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals… — Michael Myers Copy Share Image
Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you're talking about mugging little old ladies, you don't say, 'What's our target for the rate of mugging little old ladies?'… — Ken Caldeira Copy Share Image
“If you don’t want my tongue in your mouth, you better say so fast.” Her eyes had only the time to widen… — Max Monroe Copy Share Image
When whales die, their bodies sink to the bottom of the ocean and over time become part of the marine sediment layer,… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When you buy carbon offsets, you pay to take planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere in exchange for the greenhouse gases… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
“He could taste the familiar tang of museum air - an arid, deionized essence that carried a faint hint of carbon -… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of… — Aaron Klug Copy Share Image
“...syn bio tech had come on stream, springing full-grown from the bench like the Incredible Hulk bursting his lab coat, a great… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
For the last 16 years, temperatures have been going down and the carbon dioxide has been going up and the crops have… — David Bellamy Copy Share Image
I don't like being called a denier because deniers don't believe in facts. There are no facts linking the concentration of atmospheric… — David Bellamy Copy Share Image
When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is… — James Baker Copy Share Image
The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential… — William Happer Copy Share Image
We have an atmosphere that is roughly 21% oxygen. The rest of it is largely nitrogen. There's just enough carbon dioxide (CO2)… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Many people I've met believe that plants are made up of soil-that the tree outside your house, for example, is mostly made… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a… — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
One of the reasons the United States has actually been reducing its emissions in recent years is actually that there's been a… — Chris Mooney Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If NASA were advancing a space frontier there would be challenges you've never seen before. You have to be creative and you… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There is no proof that carbon dioxide is causing or precedes global warming…All indications are that the minor warming cycle finished in… — John Williams Copy Share Image
The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
“These same forces now keep the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from taking bold action to regulate carbon dioxide pollution as our planet… — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share Image
