Quotes of: Greenhouse-gases Keyword

There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called liquids that turned into gases easily, "spirits." Methyl alcohol, they called "wood spirit"; ethyl alcohol, "wine spirit." Even today, alcoholic beverag...

Isaac Asimov

Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news.

Norman Foster

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

William Cowper

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

Jack Herer

There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.

Rose George

Cold men destroy women,” my mother wrote me years later. “They woo them with something personable that they bring out for show, something annexed to their souls like a fake greenhouse, lead you in, and you think you see life and vitality and sun ...

Lorrie Moore

Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

Stewart Udall

Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.

John Hickenlooper

The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

Pieter Zeeman

According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.

Wilhelm Wien

There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Edward Abbey

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

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans' health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

Gina McCarthy

When people switch to car-sharing from car ownership, they reduce their vehicle miles traveled by 44 percent, and thus their greenhouse gas emissions go down by, like, 40 percent.

Jessica Scorpio

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

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...

Peter Singer

Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

Donella Meadows

Isn’t the universe full of gaseous elements?” Andrew says, “Yeah, there are gases and neutrinos and this shit they call dark matter.

The Snow Queen

Donkey: ...And then one time I ate some rotten berries. Man, there were some strong gases seepin' outta my butt that day!

Shrek