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… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it;… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
Unless a price can be put on carbon emissions that is high enough to force power companies and manufacturers to reduce their… — Rajendra K. Pachauri Copy Share Image
Fracking is an amazing instance of discovery of many things that come together to make it much cheaper to extract oil and… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
When you think about what Homo sapiens are about, you almost feel that we are replacing ourselves. We won't be able to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The irony is that one of the things people want to solve climate change is more market - more price on carbon… — Bill McKibben 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
“Except for hydrogen, all the atoms that make each of us up—the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
War and, apparently, hurricanes are very good for the oil business. But I've got to believe at a certain point, as a… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
I am all emptiness and futility. I am an empty stranger, a carbon copy of my form. I can no longer find… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the… — Alex Steffen 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
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
For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it's one of the most… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The fact that we have been able to perturb the carbon cycle with our industrial revolution is evidence of how vulnerable we… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Carbon nanotubes are amazing because they're really good electrical conductors, yet they are only a few atoms in diameter. You can make… — Paul McEuen Copy Share Image
“Thus human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
I give thanks for the fact that I can get this stick with a bit of steel nib on the end, dip… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The only place Al Gore conserves energy these days is on the treadmill. I don't want to suggest that Al's getting big,… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
If the people that believed the moon landing was staged on a movie lot had access to unlimited money from large carbon… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Only dramatic cuts in the federal deficit, a rollback of regulations that cripple small and community banks, a cancellation of future tax… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am worried about climate change. In one respect, I may be more worried than other people. I am worried because I… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
The Keystone XL project has built strong safety measures into its design with the newest technology. Additionally, 80 percent of the new… — John Hoeven Copy Share Image
Essentially, my kids grew up with the emphasis on the environment because I became a political activist in about 1969 and it… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Absent the net, we certainly couldn't have organized in 190 countries around the world. It's no substitution for face to face interaction… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
This going on and on about how terrible a carbon-based economy is, these people are full of crap. They don't know what… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
Banks and investors have poured money into dirty energy and high-carbon for decades. While no single policy is a magic bullet for… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
CO2 from air can replace petroleum: it can produce plastics and acetate, it can produce carbon fibers that replace metals and clean… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
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