Sentences with phrase «wrote about the fossil»
I've recently been writing about the fossil fuel divestment movement which, according to some accounts, is «sweeping» US college campuses.
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Often, when I write about fossil fuel divestment, someone will pipe up that divestment is useless — someone else will buy those stocks, and they'll be less motivated to engage the fossil fuel companies in mending their ways.
When I wrote about the fossil fuel industry looking worried, some commenters questioned my focus on divestment.
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The companies include Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips Co., BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Peabody Energy Corp. «The American people deserve answers from the fossil fuel corporations about their actions to massively deceive the public in regards to climate science,» Lieu and Welch wrote in a letter to their House colleagues asking for their support.
«Despite the tremendous increase in geological activity in every corner of the globe and despite the discovery of many strange and hitherto unknown forms, the infinitude of connecting links has still not been discovered and the fossil record is about as discontinuous as it was when Darwin was writing the Origin.»
One in particular picked up the most slack: Paradise Fossil Plant in Paradise, Ky. (Incidentally, that town is the same coal - ravaged one John Prine sings about in arguably the best song ever written.)
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.
IN 1856, geologist Charles Lyell wrote to Charles Darwin with a question about fossils.
Kate wrote the cover story for the February 2005 issue of Scientific American about the fossils of tiny humans found on the island of Flores in Indonesia.
I called and wrote his office in 2008 to find out his belief about the earth's age, as I suspected it might inform his views on climate and fossil fuels.
«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.
Written around his visits to see important fossils, Switek's book is something of a travelogue as well as a chronicle built from years of blogging about dinosaurs.
Two of the study authors wrote about their findings for The Conversation: «Our fossil find suggests humans spread to Asia way before they got to Europe.»
When scientists such as Loren Cordain examine the fossil record and written records of initial encounters with hunter - gatherers as well as other primates and how we process nutrients biochemically, it's a reasonable guess that the ranges of the combination of macro-nutrients in the average diet of our foraging ancestors were about: 22 - 40 % carbs, 19 - 35 % proteins, 28 - 47 % fats.
Toronto About Blog Milan Ilnyckyj is conducting research on pipeline resistance in the United States and Canada and writing his PhD dissertation on campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns in Canada.
Students will learn about fossils while reading comprehension passages, practicing writing skills, multiply
Toronto About Blog Milan Ilnyckyj is conducting research on pipeline resistance in the United States and Canada and writing his PhD dissertation on campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns in Canada.
None of which has anything to do with poor people in rural Africa that Gavin wrote about — people who use little or no fossil fuels, and who would therefore not pay any carbon taxes, even if someone were to impose such taxes in rural Africa, which no one has suggested doing.
As you know, the largely underplayed message of the I.P.C.C. report, which I wrote about but didn't get much coverage elsewhere, is that the atmosphere and climate won't notice the difference between a Gore - style immediate emissions freeze or a pedal - to - the - metal fossil - fuel party for more than 20 years.
Andy, thank you for writing about synthetic liquid fuels made from dirty coal and other low grade fossil fuels.
A few years ago, I wrote a song called «Liberated Carbon,» about humanity's long love affair with fossil fuels and our climb up what Loren Eiseley once called the heat ladder.
Justin Gillis has written a news article putting the paper in context with other recent research on Antarctic dynamics and sea level, as well as with policy debates about the current value of fossil fuels against the momentous costs that could attend greatly expanded use:
The companies include Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips Co., BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Peabody Energy Corp. «The American people deserve answers from the fossil fuel corporations about their actions to massively deceive the public in regards to climate science,» Lieu and Welch wrote in a letter to their House colleagues asking for their support.
Write or e-mail your elected representatives about the need to restructure taxes and eliminate fossil fuel subsidies.
He wrote, «The mean lifetime of fossil fuel CO2 is about 30 - 35 kyr.»
We recently wrote about professional clean energy critic Andrew Morriss being schooled by Center for American Progress's Kate Gordon before a friendly crowd at the fossil industry - funded CATO Institute.
Mr. Dickson wrote passionately about several areas in climate science that troubled him, including: first, the idea that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real, caused by humans, and a threat; second, the idea that government agencies had manipulated temperature records to fit a narrative of warming; and third, that China is developing its coal resources so fast that nothing short of radical population control will save us, if burning fossil fuels really does cause global warming.
The point here is not that Gelbspan appears to have put out misinformation about his collective work back in 2004, it is that his words have huge influence right up to the present time, such as the only months - old «fossil fuel industry misinformation» research paper written by an impressionable young college student, or the days - old suggestion by one of his Facebook Friends that he should get a guest appearance on CNBC's Rachel Maddow show.
I am not discounting the human contribution to atmospheric CO2, but for you to write criticism of others knowledge of the carbon cycle, and then see you write about the increase in atmospheric CO2 - «this is ALL attributable to humans burning fossil fuel.»
He has written about phasing out fossil fuels in 50 - 100 years, though I think he came up short of actually advocating that as an appropriate timeline.
I'll also write about the emerging battle between the fossil fuel industry on one side and scientists, environmentalists and the renewables industry on the other.
«Just as the concept of a «hiatus» or «pause» began to dominate the discourse in our field because of factors external to the science itself (i.e. the politically - motivated insistence by climate change deniers and fossil - fueled politicians that there was a «pause» or «hiatus» in warming), so too are some authors caught up in a «Groundhog Day» exercise of writing repeated articles about how there wasn't a pause.»
«If Nye's followers and their networks are made aware of a live event or recording in which Nye's position is shown to be unscientific (and immoral) and are exposed to a pro-human, big picture way of thinking about fossil fuels, it could create a measurable shift in how the youth view fossil fuels,» Epstein wrote in the email, shared by Robert Bradley Jr. at MasterResource.
Epstein's writing received praise from Patrick Michaels and Matt Ridley on the book's publisher's page, which describes The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels as «the best popular - market book about climate, environmental policy, and energy,» as well as an «eloquent and powerful argument for using fossil fuels on moral grounds.&Fossil Fuels as «the best popular - market book about climate, environmental policy, and energy,» as well as an «eloquent and powerful argument for using fossil fuels on moral grounds.&fossil fuels on moral grounds.»
«Some of our stakeholders are concerned about the future of our fossil fuel reserves; in particular that they may become stranded assets,» Glasenberg wrote.
Pruitt, a «close ally of the fossil fuel industry,» the Times reporters wrote... the Times selectively quoted Pruitt from a piece he authored for the National Journal in May: «Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind.
His intensely dogmatic climate writing and rage for justice stems in part from his religious beliefs about nature, and his personal conviction that American «hyper - individualism» and consumerism corrupt both the environment and humanity, exemplified by fossil fuels, industrial civilization and free market capitalism.
She writes about how old buildings were designed with techology that kept you cool without fossil fuels:
And the head of the IPCC has been «fossil fuel funded» forever - here's a half - decade old write up about it.
As I wrote, this is exactly where the fossil fuel interests want to keep climate scientists bottled up — in a never - ending pseudo-debate with pseudo-skeptics about pseudo-science.
It also chimes with something Matt Ridley wrote a few months ago about the increased use of «biomass» putting more pressure on forests and wildlife than the use of fossil fuels.
Yes, I know, that's exactly what I wrote: «Direct subsidies to fossil fuels are about $ 500 billion a year.»
Webb wrote to Davey a few days later: «[Newspaper] articles reported you backing moves that would encourage investors to think about moving their money out of «risky» fossil fuel assets, suggesting global emissions limits could make hydrocarbon reserves unburnable, therefore stranding assets and rendering them worthless.»
Toronto About Blog Milan Ilnyckyj is conducting research on pipeline resistance in the United States and Canada and writing his PhD dissertation on campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns in Canada.