Home / Topics / Greenhouses Quotes

Greenhouses Quotes

Browse 185 quotes about Greenhouses.

Greenhouses Quotes

“If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.”

Ifs Should Action Accepting Mark Climate Climate Change Taking Action Emissions Greenhouses Bolshevism

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.”

Ifs Running Moving Wind Infinite Fuel Finite Fossils Fossil Fuel Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Burning Fossil Fuels

Author:Ted Turner

“Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.”

Giving Home Bigs Wanted Opportunity Felt Labels Retirement Sixty Bothered Greenhouses Landmarks

Author:Julie Walters

“The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or — if they think there is not — at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.”

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw.”

Doors Cat Blow Scent Jace Greenhouses Paws

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run.”

Source: The secret of the universe

“In March several of the Mandrakes threw a loud and raucous party in greenhouse three. This made Professor Sprout very happy. “The moment they start trying to move into each other’s pots, we’ll know they’re fully mature,” she told Harry.”

Knows Trying Made Moments Moving Three Party Loud March Mature Pot Professors Very Happy Greenhouses Sprouts

Book:Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.”

Garden Fellows Stakes Trust Me Tomatoes Greenhouses

Book:Fire

Source: Fire

“It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snows greenhouse. I grab the vase, stumble down to the kitchen, and throw its contents into the embers. As the flowers flare up, a burst of blue flame envelops the rose and devours it. Fire beats roses again.”

White Fire Flower Beats Perfection Blue Rose Snow Flames Kitchen Fragile Holding On Unnatural Greenhouses Vases Flare Embers Flare Up White Rose

Author:Suzanne Collins

“The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.”

Giving Years Humans Science Race Air Produce Likes Human Race Greenhouses Volcanoes Greenhouse Gases

Author:Ray Bradbury

“We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.”

People Reality Change Results Accepting Environment Subjects Aspect Climate Environmental Climate Change Debate Gas Emissions Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Author:Tony Blair

“I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.”

Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

“I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.”

Long Nature Flower Plant Spontaneous Preference Bricks Thumbs Greenhouses Blossoming Wildflowers Flower Blossom Plants And Life Wild Free

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere.”

Source: The Assault on Reason: Our Information Ecosystem, from the Age of Print to the Era of Trump

“If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity”

People Ifs Needs Kind Hands Form Opportunity Pay Please Garden Murder Raises Plant Weed Fragile Greenhouses Dandelions

Author:Robert Fulghum

“That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than highway full of hummers.”

Source Diversity Highways Herds Cattle Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Belching

Book:Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

Source: Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

“Is there some thought being given to subsidizing the clearing of rainforests in order for some countries to eliminate that production of greenhouse gases?”

Country Political Order Given Productions Witty Greenhouses Clearing Greenhouse Gases Rainforest

Author:Dana Rohrabacher

“It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it. Biodiesel and ethanol are better for the environment and for the air we breathe. The use of biodiesel is a positive step toward minimizing pollutive emissions and greenhouse gases. By focusing on school buses, we can affect the health and wellbeing of the people most susceptible to that pollution - our children - today.”

“Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket… Because I’m capping greenhouse gasses, coal power plants, natural gas…you name it…whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retro-fit their operations. That will cost money…they will pass that money on to the consumers.”

Names Energy Natural Plans Industry Cost Trade Plant Rate Consumers Operations Gas Electricity Coal Caps Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Natural Gas Power Plants

Author:Barack Obama

“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.”

Ifs Want Energy Huge Trade Plant Gas Coal Caps Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Author:Barack Obama

“Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.”

Looks Energy Cutting Bears Cost Trade Mood Consumers Expensive Caps Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Author:Robert Reich

“...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.”

Energy Environment Accounts Climate Climate Change Surface Gas Greenhouses Whiteness Greenhouse Gases

Author:James Hansen

“...the contribution of greenhouse gases to the Vostok temperature changes can be...between a lower estimate of 40% and a higher estimate of 65%.”

Energy Environment Higher Climate Change Contribution Temperature Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Author:Claude Lorius

“The US is responsible for 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. It should take responsibility for leading the way.”

World Way Should Energy Responsibility Environment Percent Responsible Climate Change Gas Pollution Taking Responsibility Emissions Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Leading The Way

Author:Tony Juniper

“...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.”

World Humans Made Energy Environment Degrees Percent Climate Change Dues Probability Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Author:James Hansen

“Warming of the climate system is unequivocal...most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases.”

Years Past Energy Environment Increase Climate Climate Change Average Dues Over The Past Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Unequivocal

Author:Rajendra K. Pachauri

“Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable.”

World Energy Growth Challenges Environment Economic Climate Environmental Rate Climate Change Global Warming Economic Growth Emissions Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Industrialization Environmental Challenges

Author:Tony Blair

“India was a late comer to industrialization, and as such, we have contributed very little to the accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. But we are determined to be part of the solution to the problem.”

Littles Problem Energy Causes Environment Late Solutions India Climate Change Determined Global Warming Gas Accumulation Emissions Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Industrialization

Author:Manmohan Singh

“...it is quite obvious that the temperature change during the last 100 years or so includes significant natural changes, both the linear change and fluctuations. It is very puzzling that the IPCC reports state that it is mostly due to the greenhouse effect.”

Years States Lasts Energy Natural Environment Effects Climate Change Obvious Dues Significant Reports Temperature Linear Greenhouses Fluctuation Puzzling

Author:Syun-Ichi Akasofu

“I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has a 95 percent and CO2 a 3.6 percent contribution to the 'greenhouse effect.' Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide each year total 3.2 billion tons. That equals about 0.0168 percent of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration of about 19 trillion tons. This results in a 0.00064 percent increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number.”

“Are global temperatures rising? Surely, they were rising from the late 1970s to 1998, but 'there has been no net global warming since 1998.' Indeed, the more recent numbers show that there is now evidence of significant cooling [...] Mankind is responsible for just a fraction of one percent of the effect from greenhouse gases, and greenhouse gases are not responsible for most of what causes warming (e.g., the Sun).”

Has Beens Shows Causes Numbers Sun Mankind Effects Late Percent Evidence Responsible Significant Rising Global Warming Temperature Fractions Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Cooling

Author:John R. Lott Jr.

“CO2 is a minor player in the total system, and human CO2 emissions are insignificant compared to total natural greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, lowering human CO2 emissions will have no measurable effect on climate, and continued CO2 emissions will have little or no effect on future temperature....While controlling CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels may have some beneficial effects on air quality, it will have no measurable effect on climate, but great detrimental effects on the economy and our standard of living.”

“Geologists and paleo-climatologists know that in the past the Earth's temperature has been substantially warmer than it is today, and that this warming has occurred under purely natural circumstances. Until we can say precisely how much of the current global warming and greenhouse gas increase is the result of this normal temperature cycle, we will not be able to measure how much human activity has added to this natural trend, nor will we be able to predict whether there will be any lasting negative effects.”

“'Scientific' computer simulations predict global warming based on increased greenhouse gas emissions over time. However, without water's contribution taken into account they omit the largest greenhouse gas from their equations. How can such egregious calculation errors be so blatantly ignored? This is why man-made global warming is 'junk' science.”

Men Made Water Taken Computer Accounts Errors Contribution Global Warming Gas Ignored Equations Junk Calculations Emissions Greenhouses Simulation Greenhouse Gases

Author:Michael Myers

“Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy - almost throughout the last century - growth in its intensity.”

Lasts Growth Levels Results Century Atmosphere Global Warming Intensity Radiation Emissions High Level Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Lengthy

Author:Khabibullo Abdusamatov

“Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy - almost throughout the last century - growth in its intensity. It is no secret that when they go up, temperatures in the world's oceans trigger the emission of large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. So the common view that man's industrial activity is a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a misinterpretation of cause and effect relations.”

“It is a simple fact of life on earth that there is going to be no successful mitigation of the climate change problem without a truly global effort. All developing companies or all major developing countries have to be part of that and accept substantial constraints on greenhouse gas emissions.”

“The international equity question arises from the costs of climate change itself and mitigation varying greatly across countries. It is affected by the historical responsibility for current greenhouse gas emissions, which countries which were not responsible for what's in the atmosphere now think are very important. Currently rich countries don't think those issues are very important.”

“Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised”

Cost Climate Climate Change Concentration Adaptation Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Book:The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review

Source: The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review

“Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels”

Levels Climate Change Currents Gas Emissions Annuals Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Author:Nicholas Stern

“Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to a level of food price volatility we haven't seen since the oil crisisof 40 years ago. Unfortunately, this could be just a taste of things to come because in the next few decades the build-up of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere could greatly increase the risk of droughts, flooding, pest infestation and water scarcity for agriculture systems already under tremendous stress.”

“Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.”

Years Light Environment Effects Car Environmental Billions Gas Roof Eleven Emissions Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Switching

Author:Steven Chu

“CAFE standards have little impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and the environmental benefits of increasing CAFE standards are frequently overstated. Their impact on human health is more certain: CAFE standards have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths since their adoption.”

Humans Littles Certain Environment Benefits Standards Impact Environmental Gas Adoption Emissions Greenhouses Cafes Greenhouse Gases Human Health

Author:Amy Ridenour

“There is not going to be, we can be quite certain, there's not going to be any action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by China or India or Indonesia or Brazil unless all developed countries are making a major effort. It will still be a big job to get them in, even if we are all making the effort. But our making the effort is a necessary condition.”

Ifs Stills Country Bigs Action Jobs Certain Effort Responsibility Conditions Majors India China Chinese Gas Indonesia Reducing Emissions Brazil Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Developed Country

Author:Ross Garnaut

“The greenhouse scene! It was just so fun to have the romance and the action.”

Action Romance Fun Scene Greenhouses

Author:Lily Collins

“Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.”

Ifs Years May Littles Done School Five Summer Climate Change Disappear Ice Five Years Gas Pollution Caps Emissions Researchers Greenhouses Curb Arctic Naval Graduate School Greenhouse Gases

Author:Al Gore

“There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent a significant portion of infrared radiation from escaping into space.”

Earth Natural Space Effects Climate Change Warm Significant Heat Proportion Radiation Traps Escaping Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Infrared

Author:George W. Bush

“Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity.”

Humans Revolution Activity Increase Climate Change Dues Concentration Academy Human Activity Greenhouses Industrial Revolution Greenhouse Gases Co2

Book:The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary

Source: The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary

“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”

Garden Gardening Greenhouses Garden Love Gardening And God

Book:The Task: A Poem. In Six Books

Source: The Task: A Poem. In Six Books

“Al Gore likes to say that mankind puts 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. What he probably doesn't know is that mother nature puts 24,000 times that amount of our main greenhouse gas-water vapor-into the atmosphere every day and removes about the same amount every day. While this does not 'prove' that global warming is not man-made, it shows that weather systems have by far the greatest control over the Earth's greenhouse effect, which is dominated by water vapor and clouds.”