Sentences with phrase «said about fossil»

The charging cradle for the Watch 2 isn't as svelte as the pucks that charge watches like the Apple Watch, and it's cheaply built out of flimsy plastic, but the magnetic connection does a great job holding the watch down — much more than I can say about the Fossil Q I reviewed last week.

Not exact matches

Trudeau's about - face is rooted in the Liberal vision of a global economy at the beginning of a decades - long transition from fossil fuels to clean energy technology, says Jim Carr, minister of natural resources.

Einstein wanted to find a simple harmonious truth about how the universe works and Musk wants to save our species by weaning us off of fossil fuels and establishing a colony on Mars,» she says.

«This case represents an unprecedented first step in the absolutely critical work of forcing coal and other fossil fuel companies to start being honest about the damage they are doing to our planet,» Schneiderman said in a prepared statement.

seven system, I found about 10 articles debunking polystrate fossils for every article saying they are evidence of a flood.

To say, as Joe says, that «God making evolution appear undirected is similar to the idea that he planted dinosaur fossils and created geological strata to fool us into thinking the earth has been around more than 6,000 years,» is in my view completely to misunderstand what scientists and ordinary people mean when they speak about random processes.

To illustrate the fossil problem, here is what a particularly vigorous advocate of Darwinism, Oxford Zoology Professor (and popular author) Richard Dawkins, says in The Blind Watchmaker about the «Cambrian explosion,» i.e., the apparently sudden appearance of the major animal forms at the beginning of the Cambrian era:

I have said nothing about the fossils.

works both ways bro I can't count the number of times I've had scripture quoted at me as if it would convert me or the number of times people have said inane things like «why are there still apes if we evolved from them» or any BS about missing links or transitional fossils.

We need a manager who can improve some of the players we have... Guardiola has done that with delph sterling sane ottomendi walker fernandinho and even komoany... That's quality management and that can't be said about one player under the fossils last decade in charge

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Long Island with reporters on Wednesday said he wanted to back up the rhetoric about renewable energy with a push toward divesting the state's pension fund from fossil fuel companies.

Organizer 350Vermont says the campaign is about coming up with solutions to get the state off fossil fuels and make a fair and equitable transition toward renewable energy, electric vehicles and improved public transportation.

That said, in general - in the United States, at least - the issue isn't so much about denying global warming as much as it is about protecting and favoring the major fossil fuel industries:

«This is about «bridge energy»,» Fahy said, referring to the transitional or intermittent use of fossil fuels such as natural gas to reach renewable energy goals.

Regardless of the age, Berger said earlier this year, before publishing the H. naledi discovery, the fossils will force paleoanthropology to rethink long - held theories about human evolution.

«How color is imparted and how we characterize it in fossils are important, because they inform us about a very specific aspect of the history of life on our planet,» Summons said.

«As the fossil record improves it's becoming more the case that the major dinosaur groups were just about everywhere,» says Rich.

«Fossils have richer stories to tell — about the lub - dub of dinosaur life — than we have been willing to listen to,» says Robert T. Bakker, curator of paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

It's one thing when environmentalists say that fossil fuel companies» positions on climate change are similar to Big Tobacco's past deflections about the hazards of smoking.

«As a whole, still in 2030 [under the 450 - ppm scenario] dependency on fossil fuels is about 67 percent,» Tanaka says.

«We apply really high standards, especially about geological context, for papers from North America, but for some reason, we drop those standards for fossils from Morocco and to some extent China,» Ibrahim says.

A United Nations report released Sunday said that governments must act faster to keep global warming in check and that a radical shift from fossil fuels to low - carbon energy such as wind, solar or nuclear power would shave only about 0.06 of a percentage point a year off world economic growth.

Now we have a complete skeleton, and we know about the skin and the fur, says Burkart Engesser, a paleontologist at the Museum of Natural History in Basel, Switzerland, who helped identify the fossil.

«The small fossil reptile thus provides the explanation as to how the vital adaptation of the breathing apparatus could come about in turtle evolution,» says the UZH paleontologist.

«If the natural concentration had been a factor of two or more lower, the climate impacts of fossil fuel carbon dioxide release would have occurred about 50 or more years sooner, making it much more challenging for the developing human society to scientifically understand the phenomenon of humanmade climate change in time to prevent it,» he says.

Amalgamated, a left - leaning bank with roots in the labor movement that manages more than $ 40 billion in assets under management, said it would adopt new policies about lowering its exposure to the fossil fuel industry in its own investments and its loans.

«The few Lepidoptera fossils we have are from about 15 million years ago,» Breinholt said.

Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.

Oceans play a key role in mitigating climate change, in part because they absorb about 25 % of global carbon - dioxide emissions from fossil - fuel burning and deforestation, he said.

The fossil also «has all the hallmarks of current - day sea spiders,» Siveter says, suggesting that sea spiders emerged as a distinct group about 450 million years ago.

Small fossils about 220 million years old found along steep red slopes in Colorado represent a near - relative of modern animals called caecilians, says vertebrate paleontologist Adam Huttenlocker of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Judging from fossil remains, scientists say the Boskops were similar to modern humans but had small, childlike faces and huge melon heads that held brains about 30 percent larger than our own.

«This is astonishingly young for a species that still displays primitive characteristics found in fossils about 2 million years old,» says paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London.

Currently, about 95 percent of hydrogen production worldwide comes from converting fossil fuels such as natural gas into hydrogen — a process that releases large quantities of carbon dioxide into the air, said Maher El - Kady, a UCLA postdoctoral researcher and a co-author of the research.

«We're doing this research for commonsense reasons — as a potential solution to the challenges posed by the exhaustion of fossil fuels and global warming,» says Hiroaki Suzuki of JAXA's Advanced Mission Research Center, one of about 180 scientists at major Japanese research institutes working on the scheme.

From a climate perspective, there is some good news about the likely decline in the growth of fossil fuel production discussed by others at the panel, Tans said.

For many fossils, he says, «we are still scratching our heads about what they are.»

«We described a fossil sea turtle from Colombia that is about 25 million years older,» said Dr. Edwin Cadena, a scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation at the Senckenberg Research Institute.

«It's very mysterious at this point in time, we don't really know what's contemplated there,» Fulton says, «If you piece together the different things that have been said by the president - elect about fossil fuels, and encouraging fossil fuel development, you'd expect this would have something to do with that.»

Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, said he's also expecting to see «a lot more litigation about fossil fuel extraction, especially on federal lands and waters,» as the Trump administration seeks to expand domestic energy production.

«We now know a great deal about the harm from the emissions from fossil fuels,» said Frederica Perera, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health.

More optimistic Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, said he was more optimistic than the panel about the move away from fossil fuel.

«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.

«These spectacular fossils reveal that Agathis is old and had a huge range that no one knew about — from Australia to South America across Antarctica,» said Peter Wilf, professor of geoscience, Penn State.

The oily shale that entombs those fossils was laid down as lake sediments about 47 million years ago, says Walter Joyce, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

Luis Porras, who helped make the discovery while still a student at the University of Bristol, said: «Pseudooides fossils may not tell us about how complex animals evolved, but they provide insights into the how embryology of animals itself has evolved.

Rosenthal says that if carbon dioxide emissions become taxed in the future due to continuing concerns about global warming, his solar - driven catalyst for making synthetic fuel will compete even better economically with fossil fuels.

If we were to find a flying sloth, it would be about as unexpected as this, says Greg McDonald, a paleontologist at the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument in Idaho.

«Normally, we look at a variety of thick, dense objects at Los Alamos for defense programs, but the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science was interested in imaging a very large fossil to learn about what's inside,» said Ron Nelson, of the Laboratory's Physics Division.

It's difficult to estimate how much I. avatar weighed, the researchers say, but the fossils recovered so far hint that adults may have had a wingspan of about 1.5 meters.