Carbon Dioxide Quotes

• Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.

  Michele Bachmann

  Stupid, Silly, Environmental

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

  James Baker

  Thinking, Energy, Excess

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• It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.

  Piers Corbyn

  Hockey, Ice, Age

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• 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 in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Zero, Average

  "Innovating to zero!". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2010.

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• Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.

  Craig Kilborn

  Cutting, Night, Broken

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• I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Global Warming, Carbon, Policy

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• The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.

  Piers Corbyn

  Moving, Years, Trends

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• Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle...

  Michele Bachmann

  Earth, Natural, Carbon

  "Stumped By Science: Michele Bachmann Calls CO2 'Harmless,' 'Negligible,' 'Necessary,' 'Natural'". Brad Johnson, The Wonk Room (Think Progress), April 24, 2009.

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• [The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused myself with making experiments on the fixed air [carbon dioxide] which I found ready made in the process of fermentation . When I removed from that house I was under the necessity of making the fixed air for myself; and one experiment leading to another, as I have distinctly and faithfully noted in my various publications on the subject, I by degrees contrived a convenient apparatus for the purpose, but of the cheapest kind.

  Joseph Priestley

  Air, House, Firsts

  "Life and Correspondence of Joseph Priestley". Book by John Towill Rutt., 1831.

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• Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Oil, Impact

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• Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth.

  Michele Bachmann

  Environmental, Arbitrary, Substance

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• Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.

  Bill Nye

  Animal, Pigs, Years

  "Bill Nye on Sandy, Climate Change and the 2012 Election". Interview with Richard Greene, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.

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• We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

  Elon Musk

  Running, Atmosphere, Environmental

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.

  Sylvia Earle

  Yield, Oxygen, Sea

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• On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

  Clive Anderson

  Tree, Environmental, Levels

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• The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science.

  William Happer

  World, Lists, Belief

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• No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control and energy production. The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science.

  William Happer

  Government, Atmosphere, Energy

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• The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Impact, Atmosphere

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• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

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• It’s time to move the debate past the dogmatic view that carbon dioxide is evil and toward a world view that accepts the need for energy that is cheap, abundant, and reliable.

  Robert Bryce

  Moving, Past, Views

  "The Murdoch Legacy" by Jeffrey Sachs, www.huffingtonpost.com. Ocotber 10, 2011.

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• The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is.

  Rick Santorum

  Plant, Danger, Carbon

  "Santorum Denies Global Warming" by Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. March 15, 2012.

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• I believe everyone who breathes air on this earth, regardless of their job or their bank account, must give back more than just carbon dioxide.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Jobs, Believe, Air

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• We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of 2007, our best scientists, led by NASA's Jim Hansen, went back to work and produced a series of papers showing that with more than 350 ppm (parts per million) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we couldn't have a planet "similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted."

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ice, Civilization

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• A couple degrees warmer would be good for humanity and planet, especially with more plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide in the air. [...] But a couple degrees colder would bring serious adverse consequences for habitats, wildlife, agriculture and humanity."

  Paul Driessen

  Couple, Agriculture, Air

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• What an honor. What a responsibility. What a gift we have been given to be born in an atmosphere with oxygen and carbon dioxide and millions of years and phenotypes cheering us on with recycles of energy.

  Marina Keegan

  Cheer, Responsibility, Oxygen

  Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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