Sentences with phrase «controversy about fossil»
The studies may also help settle a longstanding controversy about fossil snakes, some of which have legs to varying degrees.
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This is not only because he wrote excellent popular books and gave inspirational radio broadcasts, but also because of a wilful determination to court controversy, pronouncing on viruses from space, or airing allegations about faked fossils.
As a result there is really no controversy about the cause of the declining pH. The decline in pH of 0.1 units since the 1800s and the present rate of decline of -0.0017 units per year bear the clear stamp of the hand of man, i.e. the burning of fossil fuels.
Before the show had even gone to air, the program was causing controversy with commentators — myself and others including Clive Hamilton, Stephan Lewandowsky and Michael Ashley — pointing out its format gave the false impression of there being a legitimate scientific debate about fossil fuel burning causing climate change.