1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Carbon dioxide is....being portrayed as a pollutant; in fact, it makes things grow, and it is not toxic to humans. — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Goals and caps on carbon emissions are practically worthless, if coal emissions continue, because of the exceedingly long lifetime of carbon dioxide… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“Even now, the photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans produce the oxygen in half the breaths you take, and they lock away an… — Ed Yong 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
Climate is not responding to greenhouse gases in the way we thought it might. If increasing carbon dioxide is in fact increasing… — Chris de Freitas 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
Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history.… — Don Aitkin 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
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
How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more… — James Hansen 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
Just about every generation has some horrific evil that it must fight. For the Democratic Party today that evil is carbon dioxide… — Dennis Prager 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
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
In recent years, America's wealthiest man has begun to tackle energy issues in a major way, investing millions in everything from high-capacity… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
“Instructions for Dad. I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon dioxide is real. Water… — Jeanette Winterson 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
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann 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
The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
