Sentences with phrase «question about fossil»

And to answer your question about fossil energy.

IN 1856, geologist Charles Lyell wrote to Charles Darwin with a question about fossils.

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Discovering Shale Gas: An Investor's Guide to Hydraulic Fracturing of Shale Plays explores in detail the environmental and social impacts of shale gas development in the United States, identifying key questions for investors and also broader issues about shale gas development's implications for extending the era of fossil fuel dominance.

But that's irrelevant to the spirit of the question, since (1) Democratic politicians in fossil fuel states pretty much do the same thing (See West Virginia's Democrat Manchin); and (2) Such behavior is really industry agnostic, and every politician of every party whose constituents are over-represented in a particular industry will of course behave the same way about competing disruptive industry; and (3) The main opposition is not on alternative energy per se, but on measures to tax / disrupt fossil fuel one.

«He also refused to embrace the scientific view that climate change is now overwhelmingly driven by the burning of fossil fuels and failed to answer legitimate questions about Exxon's support for climate denial groups during his tenure.»

Some scientists are shaking up the dinosaur family tree and raising questions about which features define the ancient reptiles, Carolyn Gramling reported in «New fossils are redefining what makes a dinosaur» (SN: 3/3/18, p. 18).

And so the microbial world was delegated to an invisible world in the 18th century — as natural philosophers turned to questions about the evolution of plants and animals, and the geologic structures that contained fossil remains of extinct organisms.

For a long time, scientists believed that the early marine reptiles that came about after the mass extinction evolved slowly, but the recent discovery of a strange new fossil brings that view into question.

Senator Jeff Merkley (D — OR) repeatedly questioned Pruitt about his connections to fossil fuel industries.

H. naledi fossils in a nearby cave may be as young as 236,000 years old, raising questions about how human evolution occurred.

«Fossils from classic areas in North America and Europe have been studied for over a century, but there are long - standing questions about how different animal groups dispersed to other areas that we can't answer using just those fossils,» said AngiFossils from classic areas in North America and Europe have been studied for over a century, but there are long - standing questions about how different animal groups dispersed to other areas that we can't answer using just those fossils,» said Angifossils,» said Angielczyk.

With previous teams having only strongly flattened fossils to analyze, he notes, «some really basic questions about how the body of anomalocaridids is arranged have had us chasing our tails for years.»

When people hear about «ancient DNA» in fossils, Shapiro began, the first question always is «Can we clone a dinosaur?»

In addition to answering the longstanding question of where on life originated on this planet, the discovery also has implications for the search for ancient fossils on Mars, which may have had hot springs on its surface about three billion years ago.

The nonentities increasingly populating the Rotten Tomatoes movie review site have complained about the theme of Cars 2, a cartoon that dares to question the fossil - fuel - industrial complex.

Recycling is high on the agenda for the schools - which both belong to Focus - Trust, a charitable multi-academy trust based in the North West of England — with Thornhill receiving a shout out from local MP Paula Sherriff during Prime Minister's Question Time after she received a letter from students concerned about the UK's reliance on Fossil Fuels; an issue the MP said that, if tackled, would support the sustainable future of the green economy.

It's really too bad that you haven't seen fit to give even a fraction of the attention to the very real, very serious question of who broke into the computer system and stole the emails that you have given to legitimizing the baseless, slanderous and inflammatory charges that various fossil fuel corporation stooges made about the emails.

The general point made when talking about people like Singer and so on is that they recieved major funding from fossil fuel interests — but isn't that also true of the New York Times, and doesn't it raise similar questions about the quality of their coverage?

Yet the fossil fuel is undergoing an unexpected renaissance in Asia, buoyed by technical breakthroughs and looming questions about squaring development with energy security.

I have one question though about your figures for fossil fuel subsidies.

Currently, some bloggers and mainstream media sources are reviving decade - long questions about the funding of a scientist named Willie Soon, that he received funding from fossil fuel sources.

In the Q & A session after a 2012 presentation, a question was posed to him about fossil fuel industry leaders balking at alternative energy sources, and he offered the following at the 42:14 point about wind energy:

A big question for us Texans is whether Texas is about fossil fuel, and thus at its peak, or about energy in general, which makes it the nexus of the future.

But the play's «questioning» is not about why our politicians won't provide leadership, why much of the public is so apathetic, or why the fossil fuel lobby has been so successful.

The former secretary of state was first asked a «yes or no» question about banning the extraction of fossil fuels from public grounds.

A better question, however, would be to ask exactly how the questioners came to know the detailed information about the skeptics» associations with anything related to the fossil fuel industry.

On the question of whether observed changes in climate can be attributed to human activities such as burning fossil fuels, Bolin noted that «The global mean temperature has increased by 0.3 - 0.6 degrees C since the late 19th century, and about 0.3 degrees over the last 40 years.»

And the larger question is, why do no others corroborate his accusation that skeptic scientists were paid to lie to the public by fossil fuel interests about the global warming issue?

«All it would've taken is for one prominent fossil fuel CEO to know this was about more than just shareholder profits, and a question about our legacy,» he said.

Following is a second set of answers from Carol E. Murphy, who is taking questions from City Room readers about alternative energy choices for consumers, what New York City is doing to decrease its reliance on fossil fuels and how city dwellers can decrease their «carbon footprint.»

Steve, I agree that there are still plenty of questions left about what is really going to happen: — RRB - IMO, there are plenty of ethical, economic, political and environmental reasons for trying to minimise our overall environmental footprint, including fossil fuel consumption as a significant component of that.

This also raises questions about what other fossil fuel projects Ex-Im is considering financing.

Cohen told the Wall Street Journal that while questions remain about the degree to which fossil fuels are contributing to warming, the computer modelling on what the future may hold has gotten better.

Exxon says important questions remain about the degree to which fossil - fuel emissions are contributing to global warming.

By raising questions about his «funding» from «fossil - fuel interests».

There are benefits to fossil fuel use, increasing CO2, and increased planetary warmth, up to a point about which there are lots of questions.

This week, through Friday, Carol E. Murphy will be taking questions about alternative energy choices for consumers, what New York City is doing to decrease its reliance on fossil fuels and how city dwellers can decrease their «carbon footprint.»

In my opinion, the question is not whether human industry increases atmospheric CO2 or not (it does), but whether this will increase the earth's temperature significantly, knowing that fossil fuels reserves are limited and our infatuation with them will end in about 50 years.

When I wrote about the fossil fuel industry looking worried, some commenters questioned my focus on divestment.

ie «The question really should be, no matter what the weather is today or tomorrow, what are we going to do now about reducing the amount of GHGs, CO2 from fossil fuels especially, that we are putting into the atmosphere each and every day?»

I would suggest that we need to question humans motives on every level about ACC as there are lots of methods of reducing fossil fuels impact on the earth systems but presently there are few ways to combat it.

But what I want to ask is a bigger question, which is only briefly mentioned in the original and one that is all to often not addressed in pieces like this: What aren't we pricing when we talk about grid parity and the price of energy generated by fossil fuels?Way down in the original, is the start of the critical question:

At his hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, Pruitt faced a series of questions about his private meetings with major fossil fuel companies while chair of the Republican Attorneys General Association and fundraising for the Rule of Law Defense Fund.

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