Carbon dioxide Quote by Stephen L. Petranek

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

— Elon Musk

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

Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back…

— Seth Shostak

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people…

— Bill Gates

Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon…

— Ted Danson

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

If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short…

— Carlo Petrini

“The instrument Keeling built, the gas chromatograph, works by passing infrared (IR) light through a sample of air and measuring the amount of IR…

— Heidi Cullen

“The discovery of an interaction among the four hemes made it obvious that they must be touching, but in science what is obvious is…

— Anonymous

[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused…

— Joseph Priestley

As we pump greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide, making the seawater acidic and hostile for shellfish and corals.

— Barry Gardiner

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

— Tony Abbott