Carbon Quotes - Page 2

• We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.

  August Kekule

  Science, Nomenclature, Chemistry

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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 hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

  Joseph Needham

  Ideas, Hierarchy, Structure

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• You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Jesus, Stars, Oxygen

  "A Universe From Nothing". Lawrence M. Krauss' speech at the Atheist Alliance International Convention at the Marriot Hotel Convention Center in Burbank, California, www.youtube.com. 2009.

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• Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Ocean, Impact, Numbers

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• Carbon capture and storage, its commercial development.. is going to be the key to the future of coal. If it is successful commercially, then the Australian coal sector will be a center of prosperity and growth; if it's not successful then it won't be. I think in the long run it's as simple as that.

  Ross Garnaut

  Running, Successful, Thinking

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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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• ...is the carbon molecule lined with thought?

  Saul Bellow

  Molecules, Chemistry

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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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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• Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

  David Suzuki

  Simple, Energy, Burning Fossil Fuels

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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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• I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!

  Richard Chamberlain

  Unique, Two, Carbon Footprint

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Keys, Mcdonalds

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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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• Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

  Donella Meadows

  Tasks, Forests, Politician

  "No Point in Waiting Around for Leadership". The Global Citizen, November 30, 2000.

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• I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

  Adrienne Rich

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  Adrienne Rich (1971). “The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero, and it won't be solved by one government acting alone. The climate problem will not be solved without mass participation by the general public in countries around the globe.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Country, Zero, Responsibility

  Rupert Murdoch's Speech on Carbon Neutrality, www.theaustralian.com.au. May 10, 2007.

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• My wife and I have purchased two hybrids. We bought a 3 kw photovoltaic unit. We recycle and offset our carbon emissions on the Internet. We turn things off. But we also spend two nice salaries every year, and here's the dirty little secret - our environmental footprint is HUGE, I'm sure. We've all got to do what we can in our individual lives, but we've also got to drive the systemic changes that will make the big differences.

  James Gustave Speth

  Nice, Dirty, Years

  "Book World: 'The Bridge at the Edge of the World'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2008.

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• Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.

  Van Jones

  Climate, Coal, Renewable Resources

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Carbon-free energy is simply something we have to do. The time for talk is past. If we turn around net carbon emissions by 2020 rather than 2040, we get another 2° of fever rather than 3° - and that's a big difference.

  William H. Calvin

  Past, Differences, Carbon Emissions

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.142, William H. Calvin

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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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• If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed, and there will be nothing we can do to cut the speed of climate change.

  Mark Lynas

  Ocean, Cutting, Climate

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• In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.

  Bertrand Russell

  Years, Water, Elements

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.19, Psychology Press

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• Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity.

  Tom DeLay

  Business, Cutting, Opportunity

  "Firms offered help shrinking carbon footprints" by Hilary Osborne, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2006.

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• All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star stuff.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Blood, Years

  Carl Sagan (1973). “Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective”, p.190, Cambridge University Press

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