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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars. -- Vinod Khosla
Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy. -- Tony Abbott
Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent. -- Donella Meadows
We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries. -- Hugo Chavez
As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy. -- Craig Stevens
Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy. -- Michael Burgess
Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions. -- James Hansen
You should be attacking the carbon emissions, period, and whether it's cap-and-trade or carbon tax or whatever, that's the realm in which we should be playing. -- Joe Biden
For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions. -- Bernie Sanders
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
Whether it is to reduce our carbon-dioxide emissions or to prepare for when the coal and oil run out, we have to continue to seek out new energy sources. -- Martin Rees
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
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability. -- Jim Clyburn
If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix. -- Judy Biggert
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
I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality, that our policies to meet our energy needs must also deal responsibly with environmental issues, including the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions. -- Jeff Bingaman
If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy. -- Bernie Sanders
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
Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification. -- Ted Danson
Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires. -- Malcolm Turnbull
I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption.' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food. -- Nicholas Stern
I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it. -- Peter Singer
The park lies directly downwind from a slew of coal plants. Virtually all of the major contaminants in the local air and water are direct results of coal emissions. Coal produces ozone, which kills trees. Coal produces sulfates, which kill fish. No other park in the country has more ozone or sulfates than Shenandoah National Park. -- Wil S. Hylton
We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se but to improve the quality of life and the environment. We all want to leave the planet in decent shape for our kids. Radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions is not necessarily the best way to achieve that. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions. -- Bill Gates
Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend. -- Wilbur Smith
I love that smell of the emissions! -- Sarah Palin
COâ?? emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere. -- Gore Vidal
We conservatives fight evil; the Left fights carbon emissions -- Dennis Prager
Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses. -- William H. Calvin
When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax. -- Mark Steyn
Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question. -- Eileen Claussen
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions. -- Barry Commoner
A reduction in emissions matters more than what a country pays for it. -- Ross Garnaut
That's a phenomenon of the Left: You don't fight evil. You fight carbon emissions -- Dennis Prager
The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions. -- Ernest Moniz
We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible. -- Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars." -- Vinod Khosla
We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change. -- Tony Abbott
Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking. -- Daniel Goleman
We all know that cattle and beef are among the biggest contributors to carbon emissions. -- Jochen Zeitz
The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill. -- Joseph J. Romm
The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions. -- Peter Diamandis
Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero. -- Alex Steffen
Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero." -- Alex Steffen
A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle. -- Paul Watson
It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped. -- Tony Abbott
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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
There is a majority of scientists that say that global carbon emissions by humans causes some changes in the climate. -- Marco Rubio
There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity, -- Denis Hayes
The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it. -- James Hansen
Once firms had to pay to pollute, they became incredibly inventive at figuring out cheaper ways to eliminate their SO2 emissions. -- Bob Frank
The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective. -- Barry Commoner
I think all countries need to aim to cut the CO2 emissions per person, taking account of externalities like imports and exports. -- Martin Rees
Although they [light and medium trucks] have only 5% of the transportation market..., they account for fully 35% of greenhouse gas emissions from freight transportation. -- David Suzuki
I think natural gas has been a big part of the solution if in fact we need to reduce man-generated carbon dioxide emissions. -- Todd Young
Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels -- Nicholas Stern
If the US is the country that most contributes with greenhouse gases, in the world, it should assume more responsibility to reduce emissions -- David Luiz
If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions. -- Barack Obama
There is no set period of time or total amount of carbon emissions that we can stay below to ensure we stay safe. -- Katharine Hayhoe
The annual output of carbon emissions is 25 billion tonnes and Global Cool's goal is to reduce it by one billion tonnes a year. -- KT Tunstall
Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out. -- Edward Teller
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
Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy. -- Michael Burgess
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
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
A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme. -- Richard Flanagan
CO2 emissions have been increasing, but the rise in air temperature stopped around 2001. Climate change is due in large part to naturally occurring oscillations. -- Syun-Ichi Akasofu
Vehicle emissions standards directly sparked the development and application of a wide range of automotive technologies that are now found throughout the global automobile market. -- Keith Ellison
If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas. -- Judy Biggert
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
Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for many decades. -- Tom Wigley
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
If we dont continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas. -- Judy Biggert
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
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
There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government. -- Tony Abbott
I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive. -- Chris Alexander
If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest. -- Mark Begich
Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa -- Ban Ki-moon
Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years. -- Steven Chu
Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics. -- Mark Dayton
The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will bring about effectual change. -- Richard Burr
How are we going to know what impact that has on the greenhouse gas emissions? How are we going to hold everybody accountable for doing their part? -- Christy Clark
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
The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design a part of all design. -- Ian Shapiro
In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously -- David Miliband
I am sympathetic to developing countries' concerns: because of our emissions it's their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it's their fields that turn to desert. -- John F. Kerry
I have advocated an entirely different approach than cap and tax, which would be worldwide in application and which emphasizes technology as a way of reducing total emissions. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
In the quest for comparative advantage, investment will flow towards those countries that can offer more output for fewer emissions. Inaction will cost jobs. Action will support jobs. -- Julia Gillard
Many countries - as well as cities, states and provinces - are taking global warming seriously and are working to reduce emissions and shift to cleaner energy sources. -- David Suzuki
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
The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. -- Bjorn Lomborg
Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity -- Tom DeLay
I want a Mini-Cooper because it's fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It's small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next car. -- Christina Ricci
USA schools know that computer electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions, WiFi and campus cell towers are radiation poisoning the children and the government is determined to keep on doing it. -- Steven Magee
Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role. -- Ali al-Naimi
But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it. -- Malcolm Turnbull
We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty. -- Ramez Naam
Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy. -- Fred Upton
Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes. -- Tony Abbott
Smart cities are those who manage their resources efficiently. Traffic, public services and disaster response should be operated intelligently in order to minimize costs, reduce carbon emissions and increase performance. -- Eduardo Paes
Naturally, we will continue to offer very powerful vehicles in the future. Nevertheless, no other manufacturer has reduced the CO2 emissions of its fleet as substantially as the BMW Group. -- Norbert Reithofer
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
The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions and the climate would not be destabilised. -- Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body. -- Roger Scruton
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
The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon. -- Al Gore
You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. -- Ramez Naam
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
The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions. -- Conrad Black
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
2020. There'll be cold fusion. We'll actually be able to power our cars with our own feces. That's right. The emissions problem will be a little intense, but just light a match. -- Robin Williams
We are going to expand enormously -- our economy, our consumption, over the years to come ... But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction. -- Tony Blair
The promise of energy savings, reduced carbon emissions and affordable lighting was there from the inception. The proliferation of the technology into areas such as displays, automotive, medicine and horticulture was unexpected. -- Shuji Nakamura
I believe that we're all connected to each other with an invisible spiritual thread through which we can transmit energy emissions and positive thinking. I want you to use your visualization techniques. -- Uri Geller
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. -- Martin Winterkorn
It's important to see things in perspective. Automobile traffic is responsible for only 12 percent of total CO2 emissions. One should be able to point this out without being accused of changing the subject. -- Martin Winterkorn
We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions. -- Tony Blair

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