Carbon Quotes · Page 9

Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free

— Bill McKibben

A vegetarian driving a Hummer emits less carbon than a meat eater on a bicycle.

— Louie Psihoyos

Sweden is not a green paradise, it has one of the biggest carbon footprints.

— Greta Thunburg

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

— Tony Abbott

We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.

— Tony Abbott

The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally.

— William Hague

Carbon dioxide does not cause or contribute to smog, and the Kyoto treaty would do nothing to reduce or prevent smog.

— Stephen Harper

Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it's procedural.

— Bill Hayden

The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this…

— James Hansen

An extremely effective instrument would be to put a price on carbon. It is only through the market that you can get…

— Rajendra K. Pachauri

Obviously the world is moving away from high carbon energy to low carbon energy, and eventually moving away toward renewable energy. So…

— Wangari Maathai

Carbon neutrality is going to be so standardized that you will look at anything that is not carbon neutral and go, "where…

— Christiana Figueres

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

Given the large uncertainties at each major step of the case for reliance on a carbon tax, economists should reconsider their current…

— Robert P. Murphy

You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you, many of you are going to find them chock-full of…

— Al Gore

The existence of the EPA regulation will require large carbon polluters to look at their hole cards, and some of them have…

— Al Gore

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

As the world's largest economy and second-largest carbon emitter, as a country with unsurpassed ability to drive innovation and scientific breakthroughs, as…

— Barack Obama

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

Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero,…

— Rupert Murdoch

And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen,…

— William McDonough

Think of the actual physical elements that compose our bodies: we are 98 percent hydrogen and oxygen and carbon. That's table sugar.…

— Augusten Burroughs

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

If coal wants a place in a carbon-constrained future, they have to look at technology like this. And we think that our…

— Gina McCarthy

Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City…

— Richard Bayan

Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly.

— Cherie Carter-Scott

The Liberal carbon tax is just about raising revenue for government.

— Andrew Scheer

Going meatless reduces our carbon footprint and helps us lead the way towards climate change.

— Marcus Samuelsson

“Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

— Vinod Khosla

If I'd looked at 'Altered Carbon' as the thing I have to hold onto, I wouldn't have been open for Lola Carmichael.

— Simone Missick

My plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet because climate change is not a hoax.

— Barack Obama

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

— Brian Cox

We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.

— Katharine Hayhoe

I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

— Neil Gaiman

A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.

— Michael Pollan

As we burn fossil fuels, we release carbon dioxide, much of which is absorbed by the oceans.

— Tatiana Schlossberg

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

— Campbell Newman

“Time is an abstract concept created by carbon based life forms to monitor their on going decay”

— Thundercleese

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

— David Suzuki