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Either you abandon fossil fuels, or you find a way to get that carbon back.

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

By burning fossil fuels, we are already dumping 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, which has a profound effect on the climate. So, like it or not, we're already messing with a system we don't understand.

Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world is still as addicted to fossil fuels as ever.

Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.

The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.

There is a majority of scientists that say that global carbon emissions by humans causes some changes in the climate.

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.

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.