Quotes About Carbon

The fact that companies are getting into building power plants that collect their own CO2 on-site shows there's some leadership in that industry. Some industries have seen the writing on the wall: that carbon will have to be managed.

Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.

The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally.

So if you combined this thing with carbon taxes, you would get taxed if you burn carbon, but paid if you sequester carbon.

Like what? Mary asked. Issued for what? For not burning carbon. Started writing on the whiteboard, feeling she was oriented enough to be ready for some figures. Not equations, which might just as well be Sanskrit to her, only some numbers.

Then, with grave formality, he unsheathed his sword. How old is that thing? Have you had it carbon dated? He looked aghast, as if she'd insulted his grandmother. Hey, no disrespecting The Sword. Besides, it's only three or four centuries old. Only? I would think that technology has improved since then. Why wouldn't you get a new one? I'm on my way to, remember? Try to keep up, halfling.

Everyone is born with carbon equality.

And what is breath? It is the carbon dioxide and oxygen that come from the metabolism of every cell in that stranger's body. That is what you are inhaling, just as other people are inhaling your breath. So we are all constantly exchanging bits of ourselves—physical, measurable molecules from our bodies.

El proceso del carbono y del oxígeno, esenciales para el crecimiento de organismos biológicos, requirió y requiere muchas coincidencias desde el momento del Big Bang. El hecho de que tú y yo existamos, y que el Universo, las estrellas, las galaxias y los planetas existan, ¡es un suceso muy improbable! ¡Una absoluta coincidencia! Un milagro que se remonta al principio del tiempo.

those natural releases are almost perfectly balanced by natural processes that absorb carbon dioxide. For

Automobiles account for about 20 percent of the carbon dioxide from all human sources, yet about one fourth of the world's population enjoys their benefits.

Only a few components of our atmosphere are greenhouse gases, which absorb infrared photons. The three most important are (in order) water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane. Nitrogen, oxygen, and argon, which make up approximately 99.9% of the dry atmosphere, are not greenhouse gases. • The carbon cycle describes how carbon cycles through its primary reservoirs: the atmosphere (containing 100 GtC), land biosphere (2,000 GtC), ocean (1,000 GtC in

I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.

Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.

The relationship between carbon consumption and human well-being is causal, not coincidental.

The Clean Energy Jobs legislation will provide predictability and certainty for large carbon emitters.

I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.

Tax what you burn not what you earn.

For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.

What you do by having an income tax rate reduction across the board, you really provide great incentives for people to work, produce, and increase output. So I would support a carbon tax in replacement for a progressive income tax.

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes.

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.