Carbon Quotes - Page 9

• Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

  Victor Grignard

  Hydrogen Atom, Atoms, Acid

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• Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful.

  Frederick Seitz

  Data, Climate, Use

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• Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.

  RZA

  Fire, Body, Causes

  Source: www.complex.com

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• We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So that's the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication.

  Cyril Ponnamperuma

  Life, Thinking, Energy

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• Carbon is, as may easily be shown and as I shall explain in greater detail later, tetrabasic or tetratomic, that is 1 atom of carbon = C = 12 is equivalent to 4 At.H.

  August Kekule

  Details, Atoms, May

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• Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Water, Climate, Teeth

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• Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don't want. It's like a cigarette tax.

  Stewart Brand

  Want, Able, Cigarette

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.

  Barack Obama

  Carbon Emissions, Climate, Cost

  "Obama on Obama on Climate" by Thomas L. Friedman, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2014.

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• Trees are very good friends. Firm friends. My five year olds tree could be relied upon to be there next day, uncritical and protective. And think of trees contribution to our lives. They provide boats, buildings, paper, furniture and, for clog-wearers, footwear. As well as contributing toothpicks and chopsticks they give little birdies somewhere comfy to sit. Best of all, they help produce breathable air and lock up that naughty carbon. Why is why I am talking to the Greens about giving trees the vote.

  Phillip Adams

  Good Friend, Naughty, Thinking

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• We need to put a price on carbon, and that's what cap-and-trade does and that's also what a CO2 tax does. As long as our current valuation in the marketplace tells us every minute of every day that it's perfectly all right to dump 90 million tons of global warming into the thin atmosphere surrounding the planet every 24 hours as if that atmosphere is an open sewer, then the individual actions are not going to solve the problem.

  Al Gore

  Long, Atmosphere, Doe

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• We are very confident that the data is showing that carbon capture and sequestration is technologically feasible and it's available. It has been successfully demonstrated and there are full-scale both conventional and unconventional coal projects with CCS that are moving forward. So there is no question that there's continued investment in this technology.

  Gina McCarthy

  Moving, Technology, Data

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you're going to drive a Hummer and buy carbon offsets, that's like getting drunk every night and getting into an AA meeting, throwing money in the basket, and leaving.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Night, Drunk, Leaving

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• Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.

  Pat Buchanan

  Enough, Diesel, Engines

  "The Heresies of Pat Buchanan" by Jacob Weisberg, newrepublic.com. October 22, 1990.

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• Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad dire consequences. In order to fuel our complex civilizations, we are lacing our planet's atmosphere with carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that, if it has not already begun doing so, will soon warm the Ice Age climate to which we owe our very existence.

  Steven M. Stanley

  Order, Ice, Civilization

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• Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.

  Edward Teller

  May, Global Warming, Significant

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• In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.

  Christopher McDougall

  Children, War, Teenager

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.14, Profile Books

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• Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Crush, Pay

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• ...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons.

  Richard Lindzen

  Global Warming, Increase, Predictions

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• There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all this is merely a material process, then what they call matter, I call mind, soul, spirit, or consciousness. Possibly it is a question of terminology, since scientists too on occasion use terms that express awe and mystery. Most often, perhaps, they use the expression that some of the natural forms they encounter seem to be "telling them something."

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Expression, Soul

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.25, Crown

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• We need to put a price on carbon. This needs to be a priority for all of us in how we vote.

  Al Gore

  Priorities, Needs, Vote

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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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• The Clean Power Plan is a bold step not just in lowering carbon emissions, but also in creating the clean energy jobs of the future.

  Catherine Cortez Masto

  Jobs, Creating, Carbon Emissions

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I support an all-of-the-above approach attacking climate change - everything from moving America towards being carbon-neutral, moving our country towards clean energy.

  Tammy Duckworth

  Country, Moving, America

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• I love being a carbon molecule.

  Duncan Trussell

  Love Is, Molecules

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• I think natural gas has been a big part of the solution if in fact we need to reduce man-generated carbon dioxide emissions.

  Todd Young

  Men, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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