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Related The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of ... JOHN OLVER JAMES HANSEN JEFF GOODELL JEFF GOODELL DAVID SUZUKI PAUL JOHNSON The emissions that caused this past episode of global warming probably lasted 10,000 years. By burni... JAMES ZACHOS BJORN LOMBORG These new standards build on California's world leadership in clean air and clean energy solutions. ... DEVRA WANG FRANCES BEINECKE Our focus is to understand how high-level clouds, cirrus clouds, impact the climate system. Global w... JAY MACE Putting aside for the moment the question of whether human industrial CO2 emissions are having an ef... ROBERT ZUBRIN [March 2002 Rising carbon dioxide levels associated with global warming could lead to an increase in... PAUL EPSTEIN Climbing oil prices and the problems with climate change make it ill-advised to sink more money into... JEFF MIKULINA Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our at... JOHN OLVER JAMES HANSEN Right now we get 93 percent of our energy from burning fossil fuels. If all of these projects come o... JEFF DEREN MICHAEL MOORE You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels. JACK HERER If we continue on our present course of burning fossil fuels, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Clim... ED MAZRIA Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies somethin... JOHN HOLDREN SYLVIA EARLE We know the chief sources of the warming fossil fuels and, in the tropics, the burning of trees f... PETER GOLDMARK The idea that somewhere in the desert far away you have a CO2 absorber that's removing the CO2 f... KLAUS LACKNER JEFF GOODELL PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY This agreement substantially advances the continuation of a long-term record of sea-level measuremen... ERIC LINDSTROM This is not just good for our farmers, but for all of us hit by high fuel prices. Federal mandates a... RONNIE ANDERSON Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the li... GLORIA REUBEN LYDIA MILLET Nothing could do more to help the world's poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful. ROBERT ZUBRIN Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the height... ENDICOTT PEABODY We are running out of road on decision making -- unless we dramatically change the use of fossil fue... BARBARA YOUNG JEFF GOODELL With the current trend of development in Iran it will not be long before we will have to utilize all... CYRUS NASSERI STEVEN MAGEE JEFF GOODELL We need a vision that reduces our reliance on fossil fuels. But that's also public policy, and that ... SARAH WRIGHT TONY BLAIR Because the bill strengthens the state's energy efficiency programs, it will help protect consumers ... CHARLIE HIGLEY The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to unders... LEWIS GORDON PUGH JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD REX TILLERSON FRANCES BEINECKE MALCOLM TURNBULL LOIS LOWRY I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It ... DON CHEADLE Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce en... JOHN OLVER MARIO J. MOLINA ARUNDHATI ROY TED TURNER This trend in sea surface temperature that's sort of relentlessly rising and the hurricane intensity... JUDITH CURRY Gold prices are going up thanks to the concerns over high international oil prices that are rising m... TANVIR ABID In every study we've done, fuel cells surface as the most promising long-term pathway for the indust... LARRY BURNS MICHAEL SPECTER CLAES OLDENBURG CHRIS HADFIELD ALEX STEFFEN DAN LIPINSKI JOSH FOX I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towa... PAUL KRUGMAN If you have bars that fluctuate up and down dramatically, you know that this is not a short-term inv... MERCER BULLARD It is better to use various inputs to grow corn and make ethanol and use that in your cars than it i... DANIEL KAMMEN It is better to use various inputs to grow corn and make ethanol and use that in your cars than it i... DAN KAMMEN PETER SENGE JAMES HANSEN AZIM PREMJI Oil and gas are limited resources, ... Wasteful use of these fuels and the burning of coal are the m... IAN LOWE Why do we fall down? so we can rise up and become stronger, better, people than we were before we fe... GARY F EVANS... PAULO COELHO I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - ... JACK HENRY ABBOTT Global warming is a fact. Now it's up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial i... P. J. O'ROURKE ALLAN SAVORY BERNIE SANDERS As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we ... JOHN M. MCHUGH It's always important for a coach to decide on the short term and long term - one factor doesn&#... OTTMAR HITZFELD TONY BLAIR FRANCES BEINECKE BJORN LOMBORG If we could cut carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent over the next 20 years we could perhaps preve... WILL STEGER WINONA LADUKE BEN BERNANKE The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; m... BILL MCKIBBEN Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complic... LARS PETER HANSEN JOHN SULSTON The price can't go up in a straight line indefinitely and may need to pause... however, the long-ter... LAWRENCE PETERMAN BERNIE SANDERS BERNIE SANDERS I'm just really a free spirit. You gotta be like that. 'Cause life ain't that complicate... NAYVADIUS CASH BJORN LOMBORG JOE BARTON We now have the specter that new forests might increase greenhouse warming through methane emissions... DAVID LOWE The long-term effects are just terrifying to me. This could be the first generation of all time that... HAROLD GOLDSTEIN I think the important thing is to wean ourselves off fossil fuels and this is a good start. DANIEL HUG JIM BROWN Could it be possible for humanity to put their differences aside for the survival of our species, un... GARY F EVANS... JAMES HANSEN
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