The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The fossil fuel industry has been a particular disgrace, polluting our politics as well as our planet. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population. — Fatih Birol Copy Share Image
I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We have taken on the fossil fuel companies, combating climate change and even the energy utilities. — Sara Gideon Copy Share Image
There is no doubt there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, caused by the burning of fossil fuels. It should have… — John Christy Copy Share Image
The great thing about cheap natural gas, again it's cheap, and it provides a cleaner alternative to coal. But it's still a… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer. — Shuji Nakamura Copy Share Image
“The tractor’s arrival had signaled, among other things, agriculture’s shift from an almost exclusive dependence on free solar energy to a total… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
We cannot sell out our public lands for destructive fossil fuel development that pollutes our air, water, and land. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
The choice before us is simple. Will we continue to subsidize the dirty fossil fuels of the past, or will we transition… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“Worshipping God is like mining for fossil fuels,” someone argued. “Plenty of smart people know it is shortsighted, and yet they have… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
That is certainly the promise of [Donald Trump] campaign and the promise of his economic program.This economic program is really the pickup… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model… — Tom Segalstad Copy Share Image
We are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We need a firm cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. No coal, oil, or gas could enter the economy until the… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
“We are fossil fuel addicts. What happens when drug addicts detox? They can be rash, cranky, even psychotic and dangerous. It would… — Russell Gold Copy Share Image
Every candidate running for president has got to answer the following very simple question: At a time when we need to address… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Oil companies earned a permanent enemy in me when they messed with the electric car the first time around, and I think… — Chris Paine Copy Share Image
Rome wasn't built in a day, and we won't replace fossil fuels with clean energy based on the events of a single… — Michael Brune Copy Share Image
I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendents - those who will ring… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
“Climate Change. When we talk about our responsibilities as human beings and as parents, there is nothing more important than leaving this… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Shortly after Bush took office, a government scientist prepared testimony for a Congressional committee on the dangerous effects of industrial uses of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
“by 2008 the arithmetic of climate change presented an almost unimaginable challenge. If the world were to stay within the range of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
With living wage jobs, basically 20 million of them to help jump-start a sustainable and healthy economy, with an insured, just transition,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We couldn't outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Facebook is to mental health, what fossil fuel is to climate health.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter. — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
For as long as we're using fossil fuels at all, globally, Canadians should be using Canadian sources. — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
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