Carbon Quotes · Page 7

The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.

— Piers Corbyn

We need to be focused on solutions for the climate crisis. One of the solutions I find promising is carbon pricing.

— Dean Phillips

If you look at carbon produced per dollar of economic activity, crypto is not a huge outlier.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.

— August Kekule

I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead.

— Nigel Scullion

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

— T. Boone Pickens

Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.

— Thomas Friedman

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

— James Jeans

The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet…

— Wangari Maathai

If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the…

— Winona LaDuke

Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the…

— Cameron Sinclair

Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide…

— David Miliband

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it…

— James Balog

Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions…

— Nicholas Stern

The most effective solution is to vote! Vote the climate-change-deniers out of office. Then, for John Q. Public, it's all about energy…

— Wesley K. Wark

The cap-and-trade plan is more market driven than anything else. If you want to discourage carbon use, you have to make it…

— Phil Gramm

I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the…

— Michael Pollan

We need to put a price on carbon, and that's what cap-and-trade does and that's also what a CO2 tax does. As…

— Al Gore

Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total…

— Ramez Naam

“an even more withering drought returned in 2010. Billions more trees perished, releasing their stored carbon. For the first time, the Amazon…

— Scott Wallace

Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on…

— Michele Bachmann

An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

C'mon kids! Wake up and smell the CO2! Take over your administration building, occupy your university president's office, or storm in on…

— Thomas Friedman

We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We…

— Barack Obama

“so much carbon has been allowed to accumulate in the atmosphere over the past two decades that now our only hope of…

— Naomi Klein

This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use…

— Frederick Seitz

Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation…

— Khabibullo Abdusamatov

“Biomass, which basically is a fancy-sounding name for wood, is one of the old, reliable renewables that can produce energy when it…

— Bjorn Lomborg

This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

There's no free lunch. If you want an industrial economy, you need energy. If you want energy, it will produce pollution. You…

— Charles Krauthammer

These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel,…

— Bill McKibben

The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public.

— Bernie Sanders

I can tell you that a carbon tax will be a total economic disaster.

— Doug Ford

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die…

— Jodie Foster

You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide.

— Reid Bryson

I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...

— Thom Yorke

Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.

— William H. Calvin

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

— Olivia De Havilland

That's a phenomenon of the Left: You don't fight evil. You fight carbon emissions

— Dennis Prager