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One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases -- Simon Newcomb
Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel, however large, and by the great effect heat has in dilating them, but by the uniformity and simplicity of the laws which regulate these changes. -- James Clerk Maxwell
You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases. -- Elon Musk
The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour. -- Pieter Zeeman
There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases. -- Timothy Noah
Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming. -- Jamais Cascio
Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon. -- Rose George
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution. -- James Lovelock
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. -- Jack Herer
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
Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature. -- Alan Lowenthal
Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better. -- Nicholas Stern
Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite. -- Ted Turner
The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases. -- Nicholas Stern
I've been vegan for 15 years, and it turns out it makes a very big impact on the environment to eat fewer animal products, which cause more greenhouse gases than all of transportation combined. -- Emily Deschanel
First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them. -- Otto Hahn
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
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
Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases. -- Burton Richter
Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted. -- Carl Safina
Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor. -- Mary Roach
Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn't even want a slice of. -- Grace Paley
The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere. -- C. V. Raman
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
The usual metric for whether a planet is habitable or not is to ascertain whether liquid water could exist on its surface. Most worlds will either be too cold, too hot or of a type (like Jupiter) that may have no solid surface and be swaddled in noxious gases. -- Seth Shostak
One volcano puts out more toxic gases - one volcano - than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this 'climate change,' and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells. -- John Raese
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 government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases. -- Bob Brown
She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them. -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I am sure vegetarians must also account for a lot of gases. Look how many beans they eat. -- Antony Worrall Thompson
Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised -- Nicholas Stern
According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature. -- Wilhelm Wien
Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere? -- Svante Arrhenius
Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life? -- Lynn Margulis
...the contribution of greenhouse gases to the Vostok temperature changes can be...between a lower estimate of 40% and a higher estimate of 65%. -- Claude Lorius
There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live. -- Rose George
Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs. -- Robert Reich
I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars. -- Jessica Stern
The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology. -- John Burroughs
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
Is there some thought being given to subsidizing the clearing of rainforests in order for some countries to eliminate that production of greenhouse gases? -- Dana Rohrabacher
Planet Bog - Pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking atmosphere of poisonous gases... but aside from that, it's not much like Earth. -- Bill Watterson
...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases. -- James Hansen
...warming of the climate system is unequivocal...most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases... -- Rajendra K. Pachauri
...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons. -- Richard Lindzen
The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history. -- Ray Bradbury
That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than highway full of hummers. -- Thomas Friedman
There are always advancements that are happening with mining technology and the ability to detect gases or methane within the mine. Those things are moving forward every day. -- Morgan Spurlock
The world community simply should not support such extreme measures when there are so many other pressing issues at hand. The optimal response to greenhouse gases is to start modestly. -- Robert O. Mendelsohn
We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth. -- Denis Hayes
There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent a significant proportion of infrared radiation from escaping into space. -- George W. Bush
Because of the inherent time lag in the climate system, the greenhouse gases that have already been pumped into the atmosphere will undoubtedly lead to a certain increase in temperature in the coming decades. -- Hans von Storch
Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable. -- Tony Blair
Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity. -- George W. Bush
The big damages come if the climate sensitivity to greenhouse gases turns out to be high causing greater global warming than current projections. Then it's not a bullet headed at us, but a thermonuclear warhead. -- Raymond Pierrehumbert
Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by as much as nine degrees Fahrenheit sometime after the year 2000. -- Carl Sagan

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