Sentences with phrase «what about the fossil»

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House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.

Evolution makes predictions about what we would expect to see in the fossil record, comparative anatomy, genetic sequences, geographical distribution of species, etc., and these predictions have been verified many times over.

There is almost no fossil evidence (which should be in abundance if true) and that what we scientifically know about life is that it reproduces according to its kind (which is all we have observed) and its highly complex.

The current rate of burning fossil fuels adds about 2 ppm per year to the atmosphere, so that getting from the current level to 1000 ppm would take about 300 years — and 1000 ppm is still less than what most plants would prefer, and much less than either the nasa or the Navy limit for human beings.

I was in my early twenties when I first encountered a fossil record that didn't match what I'd been taught in Sunday school about the «myth» of evolutionary theory.

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.

• Conceits about «fossil fuel» divestment aside, what comes through loud and clear is moral self - congratulation.

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:

They all yell «what about the missing link!?!» Then we show them a fossil showing a link between one species and and another.

Creationist «well, what about the origin of the universe, the fact that the universe obeys laws, the origins of life on this earth, the fact that the largest «gaps» in the fossil record correspond exactly with the organisms identified in the bible as being created by God, namely fish, birds, land animals and humans»

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).

Fossils from terrestrial species from this region and time period are relatively rare, thus the find helps paleontologists fill in important missing pieces about what prehistoric life was like on North American's East Coast.

And it gave us an opportunity to talk about how the planet changes and evolves and [how] what is the driest place on Earth today hasn't always been the driest place on Earth and that those high desert lakes were remnants of when the sea is used to be there, marine fossils and coral in that high desert.

Fossil fuels cost a lot of money and [have] a lot of climate impact; that's something we haven't covered either, but this plan will also reduce carbon dioxide emissions to about a third of what they are now [by] 2050, assuming some level of growth as well.

But University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno is ecstatic about what he is finding as he sifts through the 20 tons of fossils recovered there.

Part by part, Bramble and Lieberman have reinterpreted the hominid physique by juxtaposing bits of fossil evidence with what's known about the physiology and biomechanics of jogging.

While McCrea's work focuses on what footprint fossils reveal about behavior, researchers like Julia Day at the University of Cambridge in England have used print data to flesh out the big picture of dinosaur biomechanics.

Unfortunately, the earliest fossils are just spores and don't reveal much about what sort of plants they came from.

The editors respond: We thought the numbers in Dukes's study were fascinating for what they reveal about the amount of raw biomass needed to create a gallon of gasoline; however, due to space constraints, we could not go into greater detail about fossil - fuel production and energy usage.

When Reich entered college, in 1992, most of what scientists knew about human evolution came from fossils.

«These documents are breathtaking, and they reveal what many of us have long suspected: That there is a campaign afoot by groups directly funded by the fossil fuel industry and right - wing foundations such as Koch Industries to mislead the public about climate change,» Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael Mann wrote in an email to LiveScience.

About two dozen or so fossils of the creature have been recovered, all of them from 240 - million - year - old rocks deposited as sediment on the floor of a shallow, 5 - kilometer - long lake in what is now southern Germany.

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

«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.»

But fossil flowers are scarce, and botanists have long speculated about what the first blooms might have looked like.

What is known about Denisovan ancestry comes from a single set of archaic human fossils found in the Altai mountains in Siberia.

You've probably heard of Ethiopia's famous fossil hominin Lucy, but what about South Africa's equally important Little Foot?

«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.

What's interesting is that they went back in the frozen fossil record, I was telling [you] about, they found exactly where this change happened, and it appeared that the citrate eaters started becoming more common and then rare and then more common again and then they took off, which suggests that there are a lot of mutations that took place to make this happen.

One of the chapters in the book is about this recent finding in the Arctic by Neil Shubin and Ted Daeschler and Farish Jenkins; this spectacular transition from fish to four - legged land animal, exactly right, filling part of sort of the periodic table, of the fossil record and knowing where to look, what age rock to look in, and of course, a pretty big element of luck.

This week we have stories on strange dimming at a not - so - distant star, sending sperm to the International Space Station, and what the fossil record tells us about how baleen whales got so ginormous with Online News Editor David Grimm.

MEACHEM: We would really love to discover some more mammal fossils down there and what we're really hoping to get out of these mammal fossils is some good ancient DNA, that will tell us about the conditions that these animals lived in and how DNA or genes changed with climate.

I am looking at fossil reptiles — specifically, lizards, crocodylians, and turtles — that lived in the Western Interior of what is now the United States from about 66 to 23 million years ago.

In addition to providing evidence about what early life was like on our own planet, the fossils had important implications for life elsewhere in the solar system.

These fossils are enlightening because they reveal something about how prehistoric animals moved and what they ate.

What can fossil evidence tell us about the way extinct animals lived their lives?

What can the fossil record tell us about how seals and sea lions evolved into the animals they are today?

As a Creationist, what about all the other radioisotope methods for dating the rock surrounding the fossils?

Learn about carbon dating and find out what the carbon Fossils are the remains of once - living things.

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«I teach them about what they are looking for in advance, and they can take home as many fossils as they can carry.»

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«I was reading somewhere — I can't remember where — about what the fossil record of this particular time will be,» Fox said.

Updates below InsideClimate News, showing the value of focused and sustained investigative reporting, has published the first piece in an illuminating review of what Exxon Mobil Corp. (and its earlier incarnations) learned through its own research from the 1970s onward about the potential climate impacts of rising emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel use.

Feed - in tariffs on fossil energy imports to the United States would surely end up reducing demand for fossil fuels as more and more renewable capacity became available — which is exactly what you would want to see happen if you are serious about slowing the rate of global warming.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

What is more important is that the fossil - fuel industry knew about the danger in the 1970s, perhaps even the 1960s, and what they did about it was to fund a massive campaign of denWhat is more important is that the fossil - fuel industry knew about the danger in the 1970s, perhaps even the 1960s, and what they did about it was to fund a massive campaign of denwhat they did about it was to fund a massive campaign of denial.

As for The Oil Drum, with all due respect, I have observed that most commenters there are rather myopically focused on fossil fuels and hold opinions about solar and wind that seem to be not well informed by knowledge of what is actually happening with those industries today.

What that sciencey - sounding gibberish about «unproved variables» means is that you don't want to see trillions of dollars in wealth shift from the fossil fuel corporations to other sectors of the industrial economy, therefore, anthropogenic global warming can not be true.

What about hydropower, which is billed as a sustainable form of electricity generation because it produces far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than fossil fuels?