Emissions Quotes - Page 2

• Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to have to make even bigger cuts if we're going to allow the developing world to have their share of growing industrial prosperity...The Kyoto Protocol is only the first rather modest step. Much, much deeper emission reductions will be needed in future. The political implications are mind-blowing.

  Michael Meacher

  Country, Cutting, Kyoto Protocol

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• How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.

  James Hansen

  Long, Degrees, Temperature

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• 'Goals' and 'caps' on carbon emissions are practically worthless, if coal emissions continue, because of the exceedingly long lifetime of carbon dioxide in the air.

  James Hansen

  Air, Carbon Emissions, Long

  A letter to Obama by James and Anniek Hansen, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2009.

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• Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.

  Al Gore

  Summer, School, Years

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• Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

  Van Jones

  Home, Recovery, Cutting

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• Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you ever wonder whether sea ice concentrations back then were low, too?

  Roy Spencer

  Ice, Sea, Measurement

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• The problem of environmental children's health is very urgent in Russia. Environmental situation now is the main factor, which determines young generation's health... the volume of pollutant emissions in atmosphere and water grew and scale of ecological man-caused catastrophes increased. More than half of Russian territories, where 60-70 percent of the of population lives, have unsafe ecological situation.

  Maria Cherkasova

  Children, Men, Russia

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• With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major emission problems.

  Moon Bloodgood

  Causes, Global Warming, Problem

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.

  James Hansen

  Decide Upon, Years, Humanity

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• Unless we decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within just a few years from now, our destinies will already be chosen and our path towards hell unalterable as the carbon cycle feedbacks... kick in one after another.

  Mark Lynas

  Destiny, Years, Carbon Cycle

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• The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Carbon Emissions, Energy, Climate

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• The ice caps are melting now. They're not going to refreeze next year just because we reduce our emissions. We're going to live in that world. So plan for it.

  Ron Sims

  Years, Ice, Climate

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• Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.

  William H. Calvin

  Growth, Climate, Stopping

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.137, William H. Calvin

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• Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2°C warmer than today), Antarctica had far less ice and sea levels were a stunning 25 meters higher than today. If we stay on our current emissions path, the planet will almost certainly be that warm by the century's end.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Years, Ice, Sea

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• I love that smell of the emissions!

  Sarah Palin

  Smell

  "Support Palin! Put a comedian to work!" By Dean Obeidallah, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2011.

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• Climate change is a crucial issue in todays global agenda. Hopefully, we will wake up to this reality, sooner rather than later. Pressure has been mounting on European Union Member States to act decisively to fight global warming. A bold target has been set reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20 by 2020.

  Joseph Muscat

  Fighting, Reality, Issues

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• There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Mean, Cutting, Carbon Emissions

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

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• Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

  Daniel Goleman

  Air, Sea, Environmental

  "Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything". Book by Daniel Goleman, 2009.

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• We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Years, Carbon Emissions, Environmental

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• ... the consensus of the scientific community has shifted from skepticism to near-unanimous acceptance of the evidence of an artificial greenhouse effect. Second, while artificial climate change may have some beneficial effects, the odds are we're not going to like it. Third, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases may turn out to be much more practical and affordable than currently assumed.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Acceptance, Odds, Community

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• Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions.  I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions.

  Judith Curry

  Air, Doe, Limits

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• I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming.... I remain to be convinced about the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

  Nick Minchin

  Global Warming, Theory, Humans

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• The policies being promoted are insane... If you believe energy poverty is a good thing, you should support controls on carbon emissions. But most of the world disagrees with that.

  Myron Ebell

  Believe, Carbon Emissions, Support

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• These proven positive consequences of elevated CO2 are infinitely more important than the unsubstantiated predictions of apocalypse that are hypothesized to result from global warming, which itself, may not be occurring from rising atmospheric CO2 levels. The aerial fertilization effect of atmospheric CO2 enrichment is the only aspect of global environmental change about which we can be certain; and to restrict CO2 emissions is to assuredly deny the biosphere the many benefits that accrue from this phenomenon.

  Keith E. Idso

  Environmental, Important, Rising

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• With this information, in light of the increasing human demands on vegetation, it is my personal opinion that capping CO2 emissions or reducing them to some prior level would be akin to 'biting the hand that feeds us.

  Keith E. Idso

  Light, Personal Opinions, Hands

  "Co2: Villain Or Friend? An Exclusive Interview With Keith E. Idso". Interview with Bonner Cohen, www.heartland.org. January 1, 1999.

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