Emissions Quotes - Page 8

• Connect with people, visibly and loudly showcase initiatives that reduce greenhouse gases emissions, nurture youth leaders, or spread the message by raising awareness through campaigns. I am convinced that your contributions will ensure that climate change solutions safely power our - and especially your - future.

  Christiana Figueres

  People, Leader, Messages

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• For me the two biggest issues are climate change and animal welfare/animal agriculture. And oddly enough animal agriculture is such a contributor to climate change. According to the United Nations, 25% of climate change comes from animal agriculture, so every car, bus, boat, truck, airplane combined has less CO2 and methane emissions than animal agriculture.

  Moby

  Airplane, Animal, Two

  "Climate Champions speak out: Moby on Climate Change". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We must prepare for a changing climate by incorporating climate preparedness into every aspect of our planning - for food, water, health, energy, even national security. We must reduce our emissions to prevent even more dangerous change.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Water, Energy, Climate

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• I think the deeper truth is that the Kyoto Protocols will not be followed by anyone really and that, in effect, nothing will be done to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Thinking, Kyoto Protocol, Done

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy security.

  Roger Helmer

  Men, Wind, Rotten

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• We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.

  Nicholas Stern

  Running, Risk, Half

  "Clash: Sir Nicholas Stern". Interview with David Biello, www.scientificamerican.com. November 26, 2007.

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• Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation endures nearly double-digit unemployment.

  Fred Upton

  Jobs, Commitment, Unemployment

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• A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot economist [Sir Nicholas Stern]. Environmental head bangers are talking nonsense when they claim that aviation is the fastest-growing source of carbon emissions. Coal-fired and oil-fired power stations are the biggest contributor of carbon but I have yet to hear any fearless eco warriors advocating nuclear power as they drive around in their SUVs to their next protest meeting.

  Michael O'Leary

  Lying, Warrior, Talking

  "Labour targets airlines over carbon emissions" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2007.

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• It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped.

  Tony Abbott

  World, Lasts, Dramatic

  "2009 Australia's second warmest year ever, according to Bureau of Meteorology figures" by Julian Drape, www.heraldsun.com.au. January 5, 2010.

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• In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

  Walther Bothe

  Energy, Nucleus, Radiation

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• You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Country, Responsibility, Air

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• Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking fact: when an aluminium foil is irradiated on a polonium preparation [alpha ray emitter], the emission of positrons does not cease immediately when the active preparation is removed: the foil remains radioactive and the emission of radiation decays exponentially as for an ordinary radio-element. We observed the same phenomenon with boron and magnesium.

  Frederic Joliot-Curie

  Science, Light, Preparation

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• We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies target, the Government has failed to do that. We want a national demand side management strategy for the country to reduce electricity consumption and the Government, up until now, has done very little on that score.

  Kevin Rudd

  Country, Government, Years

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• It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it. Biodiesel and ethanol are better for the environment and for the air we breathe. The use of biodiesel is a positive step toward minimizing pollutive emissions and greenhouse gases. By focusing on school buses, we can affect the health and wellbeing of the people most susceptible to that pollution - our children - today.

  Julia Roberts

  Children, School, Commitment

  "(PRN) Julia Roberts Joins Earth Biofuels, Inc. as Spokesperson and Advisory Board Member". www.chron.com. July 18, 2006.

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• In a sense the U.S. is climate illiterate. If you look at global polls about what the public knows about climate change even in Brazil, China you have more people who know about the problem and think deep cuts in emission are needed.

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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• The horn of dilemma of energy politics is what really drives concern about this energy in this country, at the gut level for most people, is high gas prices. And if you really want to fight global warming and try to reduce our carbon emissions, the cleanest, easiest, most rational way to do it would to make the price of gas even higher through very stiff gas prices.

  Rich Lowry

  Country, Fighting, Carbon Emissions

  "Senate Passes Energy Bill; Clinton Spoofs 'Sopranos'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. June 22, 2007.

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• The US is responsible for 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. It should take responsibility for leading the way.

  Tony Juniper

  Responsibility, Energy, World

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• A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.

  Paul Watson

  Meat, Riding, Vegan

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• In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.

  John Henry Carver

  Two, Competition, Giants

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• If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning.

  Fred Upton

  Jobs, Media, Effort

  "Declaring war on the regulatory state" by Fred Upton, www.washingtontimes.com. October 18, 2010.

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• Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing emissions. It's sort of like the goose that keeps on giving.

  Frances Ford Seymour

  Giving, Swamps, Matter

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• Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly.

  Gina McCarthy

  Impact, Decision, Energy Use

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• Indeed the three policy pillars of the neoliberal age-privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and the lowering of income and corporate taxes, paid for with cuts to public spending-are each incompatible with many of the actions we must take to bring our emissions to safe levels.

  Naomi Klein

  Cutting, Age, Income

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  James Hansen

  Years, Decide Upon, Action

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• The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For example, with only about 4% of the world's population, the United States, the largest money economy, consumes in excess of one-quarter of the world's energy and materials and generates in excess of 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Land, Energy, Typical

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