Carbon dioxide Quotes

Breathing is give(carbon dioxide) and take(oxygen), such is life, find balance.

— Marcel Williams

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

— Reid Bryson

“Your carbon dioxide is breaking my concentration.”

— Emma Lesko

You're so lazy. No, I'm not. I've been converting oxygen intocarbon dioxide all day.

— Anonymous

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

— Tatiana Schlossberg

“Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide.”

— Jessica Bell

...and his eyes were so green they could turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.

— Rainbow Rowell

So, if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?

— John Shimkus

Carbon dioxide is…being portrayed as a pollutant; in fact, it makes things grow, and it is not toxic to humans.

— Dana Rohrabacher

How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more…

— James Hansen

I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open…

— Freeman Dyson

The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or…

— Bjorn Lomborg

“In other words, turning a tree into a desk just slows down the release of carbon dioxide, it doesn’t prevent it.”

— Mark Schapiro

My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global…

— Buzz Aldrin

It was huge mistake to avoid working with the rest of the world because (a) we're the largest source of the problem:…

— Bill McKibben

Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence…

— Frederick Seitz

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

If you choose to make regulations about carbon dioxide, that's OK. You as a state can do that; you have a right…

— John Christy

Places that have become agricultural deserts, trashed by giant corporations, could be reforested, drawing carbon dioxide from the air on a vast…

— George Monbiot

There is no strong evidence to prove significant human influence on climate on a global basis. The global cooling trend from 1940…

— Peter Stilbs

They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the…

— Isaac Asimov

“The warming effect of carbon dioxide is strongest where the air is cold and dry; mainly in the arctic rather than in…

— Physicist Freeman Dyson

“You might say I’ve become an unwilling expert on the Krebs Cycle. It’s vital to my existence. Life and death, really. That…

— Jacob Whaler

“It’s] pretty clear that times of high carbon dioxide—and especially times when carbon dioxide levels rapidly rose—coincided with the mass extinctions,” writes…

— Peter Brannen

Here's the problem - carbon dioxide doesn't contribute to smog and isn't a health threat. All of this is being done because…

— Kenneth P. Green

“Venus is kept that way by a thick, dense atmosphere that’s full of carbon dioxide. It’s the greenhouse effect gone wild—runaway, as…

— Bill Nye

“it turns out, is the natural and the most cost-effective carbon sink. According to Rattan Lal, Distinguished University Professor at the Ohio…

— Judith D. Schwartz

I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists…

— Charles Krauthammer

“Choosing expensive carbon-cutting policies or insisting on green development approaches might seem like an easy choice for the world’s elite in Washington,…

— Bjorn Lomborg

We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but…

— James Lovelock

“Emissions of carbon dioxide are largely by-products of productivity-- of industry, governments, and individuals producing things that we want more of (including…

— Bjorn Lomborg

“Photosynthesis, the activity that ultimately makes all life possible, permits plants to trap energy from the sun and store it in the…

— Richard M. Ketchum

“A lot has changed since Copenhagen, however, which is why many big energy companies are paying close attention to the Paris talks.…

— Anonymous

“Finally, some scientists concede that consciousness is real and may actually have great moral and political value, but that it fulfils no…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix. Remember, respiration means to re-spire, to…

— Michael J. Cohen

“The human eye has to be one of the cruelest tricks nature ever pulled. We can see a tiny, cone-shaped area of…

— David Wong

“When the Earth was only about a third of its eventual size, it was probably already beginning to form an atmosphere, mostly…

— Bill Bryson

“Why trust this account when humanity has never been so rich, so healthy, so long-lived? When fewer die in wars and childbirth…

— Ian McEwan

“The principal energy sources of our present industrial civilization are the so-called fossil fuels. We burn wood and oil, coal and natural…

— Carl Sagan

“I had thought fermentation was controlled death. Left alone, a head of cabbage molds and decomposes. It becomes rotten, inedible. But when…

— Michelle Zauner