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The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.
There is a majority of scientists that say that global carbon emissions by humans causes some changes in the climate.
Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.
Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.
We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.
I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.
Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
I don't believe in carbon offsetting. Planting 60 trees so you don't have to say your Hail Marys that night? It's a crock.
I believe that nuclear needs to be a part of the solution if the U.S. really wants to be aggressive about reducing carbon.
We have for many years included a price of carbon in our outlook. We put it in as a cost. Everything gets tested against it.
If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.
I'm encouraged by what I'm seeing happening with more and more CEOs stepping up, saying, 'I have to fight carbon emissions.'
Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
My father was bigger than life, an entity and everyone expected us, as his offspring, to be saintettes, these little carbon copies.
We need to reduce carbon emissions, protect Maine's key industries and preserve our coastlines from flooding and rising sea levels.
If the carbon tax really was about saving the world, we would presume the largest industrial emitters of carbon would have to pay it.
I'm determined to use all of my powers to make sure that Britain leads the way in sourcing the energy we need from low carbon sources.
The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.
As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.
Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.
Many retailers have complained bitterly to me about the complexity of the Carbon Reduction Commitment. It's not a commitment; it's a tax.
I planted trees but the idea that you can offset carbon is nonsense - planting trees is more a way of acknowledging harm and apologising.
I was very much taken with carbon fibers because they seemed like the perfect medium to explore transport studies in carbon-based systems.
On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.
My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.
America is a global leader on clean air progress and carbon dioxide reductions, and we are the envy of the world when it comes to clean water.
The enthusiasm around carbon capture and sequestration was probably greater before the shale-gas discovery and the low prices were so prevalent.
If we got more efficient with electric grid capacity, we would substantially reduce our carbon footprint, and people would be likely to copy us.
As we pump greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide, making the seawater acidic and hostile for shellfish and corals.
Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas out there. Other substances, such as water vapor and nitrous oxide, also trap heat to varying degrees.
We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive.
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.
Opponents have claimed that regulating carbon will hurt the economy and businesses. The economies of California and British Columbia prove otherwise.
We must act to reduce the increasingly dangerous and destructive levels of carbon pollution that account for practically all of global climate change.
I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.
The fact is that any carbon legislation is designed to make us not use coal. So if you're a state that has a lot of coal, you're going to get hammered.
Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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.
... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork.
Scratch the surface at conservative think tanks and universities that house free-market economists, and it's not hard to find proponents of a carbon tax.
Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.
The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.
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.
China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.
New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, and New York City has been a leader in energy efficiency.