Jules Verne Quotes

Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.

Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel cubicles, we sit cozy as kings atop 300 years of flaming carbon.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

[Coal is] a 19th-century fuel very badly suited for the 21st century. There's no way you can wash or scrub coal to make that essential fact go away.

We should not only look at the short-term economic benefits of fossil fuels but also at the bad news for climate change. We should therefore not greet the fossil fuel age unconditionally.

It does not matter whether we burn fossil fuels with malice or with love. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, it is not concerned. It is a collection of gases.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.

If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.

Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter.

Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population.

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.

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.

Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet.

If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years.

I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.

Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.

People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.

We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

We will run out of air long before we run out of oil.