Methane Quotes

• For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane.

  Neal Stephenson

  Oxygen, Atmosphere, Trying

  "In the Kindom of Mao Bell" by Neal Stephenson, www.wired.com. February 1, 1994.

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• Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.

  Bill Nye

  Animal, Pigs, Years

  "Bill Nye on Sandy, Climate Change and the 2012 Election". Interview with Richard Greene, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.

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• Dado que el óxido nitroso [liberado por el suelo fertilizado con nitratos] es 296 veces más potente que el CO₂ en el calentamiento global y el metano [pedos de vaca] es unas 26 veces más potente que el CO₂, el efecto invernadero combinado de nuestro ganado en todo el mundo es mayor que la suma total de todos los coches, trenes, autobuses, camiones, barcos, aviones y jets.

  Thom Hartmann

  Avión, Coche, Medio ambiente

  "Umbral: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink". Libro de Thom Hartmann, p.22, 23 th Of July de 2009.

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• Air is one we hold in common; it has a limited carrying capacity for pollutants and that's being used up by those who pollute the atmosphere. So we have to stop that externality. We would never allow a utility to put their coal slag in a dump truck and back it up to the city park and dump it in unlimited amounts for free. But that is exactly what we do with carbon dioxide and methane.

  Jay Inslee

  Cities, Air, Atmosphere

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• Nuestro sistema solar es fantásticamente extraño. Hay mundos con características que nunca habíamos imaginado. Tormentas más grandes que planetas, lunas con océanos bajo la superficie, lagos de metano, worldlets que intercambian lugares... y eso sólo en Saturno.

  Phil Plait

  Océano, Luna, Lagos

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• 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

  Moving, Technology, Advancement

  Fuente: www.movieweb.com

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• The business of raising animals for food (with its continuous heavy waste stream of methane and nitrous oxide - leading global warming gases) is responsible for about 18% of global warming. Some scientists actually say the number is closer to 50%.

  Kathy Freston

  Animal, Numbers, Waste

  "Kathy Freston: Sobre cómo convertirse en veganista". Entrevista con Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 7 de abril de 2013.

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• ...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

  Global Warming, Increase, Predictions

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• En el peor de los casos, la selva amazónica ardería, las turberas siberianas liberarían enormes cantidades de metano, etc. Para cuando los niños de seis años de hoy tengan 60, el calentamiento global ya estará fuera de control.

  Mark Lynas

  Years, Worst Case Scenario, Climate

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• A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.

  Carol Browner

  Animal, People, Environmental

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• I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.

  Elon Musk

  Oxygen, Rockets, Achieve

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• The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases doubles from pre-Industrial Revolution concentrations, the global average temperature will increase, and that the increase will be 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius or 3 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit... In Dallas, for instance, a doubled level of carbon dioxide and other gases like methane, would increase the number of days a year with temperatures above 100 degrees from 19 to 78 each year.

  Bill McKibben

  Average, Years, Numbers

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• Obama's clean power plan, methane regulations, and increased fuel economy standards are about as good as our political system can do at this point in our history. Let's embrace these things, make them work, and push for more, rather than denouncing them because they're 9th best (which they are).

  Dale Jamieson

  Political, Regulation, Fuel Economy

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Here's the problem - carbon dioxide doesn't contribute to smog and isn't a health threat. All of this is being done because some people believe carbon dioxide is causing global warming, and that preventing carbon dioxide from entering the air is the only answer. Never mind that there is still an ongoing scientific debate about global warming itself, and that some respected climate scientists believe that methane is a better target, California legislators have locked their sites on carbon dioxide.

  Kenneth P. Green

  Believe, California, Air

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• Soils could also be giving up their carbon stores: evidence emerged in 2005 that a vast expanse of western Siberia was undergoing an unprecedented thaw. The region, the largest frozen peat bog in the world, had begun to melt for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago. Scientists believe the bog could begin to release billions of tonnes of methane locked up in the soils, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The World Meteorological Organisation recently reported the largest annual rise of methane levels in the atmosphere for a decade.

  David Adam

  Giving Up, Believe, Years

  "Too late? Why scientists say we should expect the worst" by David Adam, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2008.

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• Y "todo lo anterior" [como llama el Presidente Barack Obama a su política de fomento de todas las formas de energía nacional], comparado con "perfora, nene, perfora", si se observa realmente el historial, hemos aumentado masivamente las emisiones de metano y dióxido de carbono.

  Jill Stein

  Baby, Track, President

  Fuente: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Para mí, los dos temas más importantes son el cambio climático y el bienestar de los animales. Y curiosamente la agricultura animal contribuye tanto al cambio climático. Según las Naciones Unidas, el 25% del cambio climático proviene de la agricultura animal, por lo que cada coche, autobús, barco, camión, avión combinados tienen menos emisiones de CO2 y metano que la agricultura animal.

  Moby

  Avión, Animal, Dos

  "Hablan los campeones del clima: Moby on Climate Change". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• People from the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles are starting to return home today. A natural gas well leak in the neighborhood has been permanently sealed. It had been releasing methane and other pollutants into the air for four months. Thousands of people have complained of respiratory illnesses and other problems.

  Ari Shapiro

  Home, Air, People

  "Residents Return Home After Workers Cap Leaking Gas Well In Los Angeles". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

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• When you frack a well, you're exploding methane up into the atmosphere. So, Barack Obama, by supporting natural gas, and also talking about climate change is literally burning his own inaugural address. And he's doing it with natural gas.

  Josh Fox

  Talking, Atmosphere, Climate

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• The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: "lane" rhymes with "pain", but it also rhymes with "urbane" since the last syllable of "urbane" is stressed. "Lane" does not rhyme with "methane".

  James Fenton

  Pain, Stressed, Doe

  "Slave to the rhythm" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.

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• Porque la verdad es mucho más maravillosa de lo que la imaginaron los artistas del pasado. ¿Por qué los poetas del presente no hablan de ella? ¿Qué hombres son poetas que pueden hablar de Júpiter si fuera un hombre, pero si es una inmensa esfera giratoria de metano y amoníaco deben callar?

  Richard P. Feynman

  Artista, Pasado, Hombres

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). "The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat", p.119, Basic Books

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• I am shocked, truly shocked. I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I am now just back in from the field in Alaska. The permafrost is melting fast all over the Arctic, lakes are forming everywhere and methane is bubbling up out of them.

  Katey Walter

  Lakes, Alaska, Melting

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• There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail right through it. It is the point at which anthropogenic (human-caused) warming triggers huge releases of carbon dioxide from warming oceans, or similar releases of both carbon dioxide and methane from melting permafrost, or both. Most climate scientists think that point lies not far beyond 2 degrees C hotter (3.6 degrees F).

  Gwynne Dyer

  Lying, Ocean, Thinking

  "Four harsh truths about climate change" by Gwynne Dyerer, www.woodstocksentinelreview.com. December 4, 2008.

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• El vertido repentino de cinco millones de barriles de petróleo, enormes cantidades de metano y dos millones de galones de dispersantes tóxicos en un Golfo de México ya muy afectado alterará de forma permanente la naturaleza de la zona.

  Sylvia Earle

  Enormes Cantidades, Dos, Petróleo

  "Sylvia Earle habla de los efectos del vertido de petróleo en el Golfo en una entrevista exclusiva". Entrevista con Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. 13 de enero de 2011.

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