Emissions Quotes - Page 2

• Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.

  Fred Upton

  Mean, Cutting, Thinking

  'The Rachel Maddow Show', www.nbcnews.com. December 29, 2010.

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• I think we can lower our emissions. I think the world will be better off if we did that, and we can do it without cap and trade.

  Fred Upton

  Thinking, World, Caps

  "GOP Reps Regale Copenhagen with Scientific Knowledge" by Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. December 18, 2009.

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• The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Opportunity, Impact, Carbon Emissions

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• Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

  Vinod Khosla

  Carbon Emissions, Coal, Gasoline

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• You know, if you're Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on the Internet would say: 'I could have done that in half an hour, and it's been done before. What's the big deal? I expected something more from him.' Meanwhile, they didn't do it, right? They're still living at home with their mothers.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Mother, Zero, Home

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• Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

  Joan Jett

  Meat Industry, Car, Environmental

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• The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  People, Population, Half

  "Shakespeare had no BlackBerry and Aristotle mananged without an iPhone" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2009.

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• The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.

  James Hansen

  Country, Kyoto, United States

  "We have only four years left to act on climate change - America has to lead". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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• There is no strong evidence to prove significant human influence on climate on a global basis. The global cooling trend from 1940 to 1970 is inconsistent with models based on anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. There is no reliable evidence to support that the 20th century was the warmest in the last 1000 years.

  Peter Stilbs

  Strong, Years, Support

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• It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

  Barry Commoner

  Zero, Impossible, Approach

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.

  Hugo Chavez

  Country, Venezuela, Percent

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• We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

  Hugo Chavez

  Economic Models, Socialism, Lifestyle

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• The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

  Dan Lipinski

  Zero, Car, Independence

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• The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.

  Dan Lipinski

  Zero, Water, Environmental

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• Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

  Donella Meadows

  Cutting, Germany, Netherlands

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• Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer children - or even no children. The lifetime CO2 emissions of a UK citizen amount to 750 tonnes (the equivalent - apparently - of 620 return flights between London and New York), so the extra 10 million by which our population will rise between now and 2074 will, over their lifetimes, emit around 7½ billion tonnes of CO2..."births averted" is probably the most single most substantial and cost-effective intervention that governments could be using

  Jonathon Porritt

  New York, Children, Government

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• President Bush insisted today that he was not caving in to big-money contributors, big-time lobbyists, and overall industry pressure when he broke a campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. But the air was thick today with accusations from people who believe that's exactly what happened.

  Dan Rather

  Believe, Air, People

  "Clamoring for Kyoto" by Rich Noyes, www.newsbusters.org. May 24, 2012.

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• There is not going to be, we can be quite certain, there's not going to be any action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by China or India or Indonesia or Brazil unless all developed countries are making a major effort. It will still be a big job to get them in, even if we are all making the effort. But our making the effort is a necessary condition.

  Ross Garnaut

  Country, Jobs, Responsibility

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• By using vertical space more effectively, you not only make more room for greenery but shorter commutes also mean less pressure on CO2 emission problems and by freeing up time now spent on unproductive commuter trains, people would have more options in their lives.

  Minoru Mori

  Mean, Space, People

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• First, we must stop wasting energy. A quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from the home. Our housing stock - the oldest in Europe - is costing us the earth... After transport, heating is the second biggest driver of energy demand in Britain. British Gas research suggests that householders who put in energy efficiency measures cut their gas consumption by 44%. Better insulated buildings will do much of the work for us.

  Chris Huhne

  Home, Cutting, Europe

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• Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy - almost throughout the last century - growth in its intensity. It is no secret that when they go up, temperatures in the world's oceans trigger the emission of large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. So the common view that man's industrial activity is a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a misinterpretation of cause and effect relations.

  Khabibullo Abdusamatov

  Ocean, Men, Views

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• 'Scientific' computer simulations predict global warming based on increased greenhouse gas emissions over time. However, without water's contribution taken into account they omit the largest greenhouse gas from their equations. How can such egregious calculation errors be so blatantly ignored? This is why man-made global warming is 'junk' science.

  Michael Myers

  Taken, Men, Errors

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• CO2 is a minor player in the total system, and human CO2 emissions are insignificant compared to total natural greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, lowering human CO2 emissions will have no measurable effect on climate, and continued CO2 emissions will have little or no effect on future temperature....While controlling CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels may have some beneficial effects on air quality, it will have no measurable effect on climate, but great detrimental effects on the economy and our standard of living.

  Jonathan Duhamel

  Player, Air, Quality

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• In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy.

  Lucy Powell

  Issues, Long, Lists

  "The plea of car owners ..." by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

  Tony Abbott

  Taxes, Be Good, Wells

  "Abbott discusses new leadership role". www.abc.net.au.

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