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Carbon Dioxide Quotes

Words on a gas that shapes the whole planet.

These carbon dioxide quotes draw on ice-core data and rising ocean acidity to describe how this long-lived gas ties into Carbon and climate.

In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants.

Quotes by Aaron Klug

When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... to not feel like you have to do something... I don't think you're human.

Quotes by A. J. Buckley

Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that...

Quotes by Sylvia Earle

The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of...

Quotes by Sylvia Earle

About Quotes

If India moves towards 100 percent LED lighting, we will reduce almost 79 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This will also reduce the electricity bills of people.

Quotes by Piyush Goyal

It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.

Quotes by Piers Corbyn

The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.

Quotes by Piers Corbyn

Ocean acidification is caused by the ocean absorbing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the same carbon dioxide that is the primary cause of global warming, hence the nickname 'the other carbon problem.' As they do so, the oceans become...

Quotes by Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves of plants pick this carbon dioxide up, and the plant...

Quotes by Percy Julian

Carbon Quotes

We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being...

Quotes by Nicholas Stern

The European auto industry made a commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 140 grams per kilometer. But then there was a significant change in what customers wanted in their vehicles.

Quotes by Martin Winterkorn

If we want to stabilize the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at some level - it really doesn't matter which level - you end up having to stop emissions virtually completely.

Quotes by Klaus Lackner

Our leaders must get to grips with the huge risk that carbon dioxide emissions pose to the economy and the environment. As we know, carbon dioxide is a long-lived gas. It hangs around.

Quotes by Jose Angel Gurria

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica...

Quotes by John Olver

Change Quotes

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints.

Quotes by John Coleman

Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop using it.

Quotes by James Hansen

On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation on Earth because it has been burning it from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

Quotes by James Hansen

We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.

Quotes by James Hansen

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

Quotes by James Baker

Fossil Quotes

I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change.

Quotes by Gina Rinehart

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these carbon dioxide quotes discuss?
They discuss ice-core climate records, ocean acidification, and how carbon dioxide, described as a long-lived gas, relates to shifts in global temperature.
How far back do the ice-core records go?
One quote references relationships between carbon dioxide and temperature visible over roughly 800,000 years of ice-core data.
What is ocean acidification, according to these quotes?
It's described as excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere gradually making the oceans more acidic, with effects the quotes call slow but accelerating.
Do the quotes mention emissions and the economy?
Yes, one quote notes that carbon dioxide emissions pose risks to both the economy and the environment, since the gas persists in the atmosphere for a long time.
Where can I read more about environmental change?
See our Change collection for more quotes touching on environmental and broader shifts.

From Arctic ice to ocean chemistry, the set reflects on emissions and the broader theme of Change in the natural world.