Burning Quote by Alana Beard

When you buy carbon offsets, you pay to take planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere in exchange for the greenhouse gases you put…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

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

— Isaac Asimov

I know that nuclear is better than fossil fuels when it comes to carbon dioxide, but nuclear energy is by no means clean. We…

— Sheryl Crow

It will be nearly impossible to slow warming appreciably without condemning much of the world to poverty unless energy sources that emit little or…

— Henry Sylvester Jacoby

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

— Bill McKibben

There is no doubt there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, caused by the burning of fossil fuels. It should have an effect…

— John Christy

Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now, we are…

— Sylvia Earle

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may challenge life…

— Sigourney Weaver

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

— Tatiana Schlossberg

“Adding carbon dioxide, or any other greenhouse gas, to the atmosphere by, say, burning fossil fuels or leveling forests is, in the language of…

— Elizabeth Kolbert