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We don't need these pipelines to meet our energy needs, so it makes no sense to lock us into generations of dependence on dirty fossil fuels. – Joan Walker	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We need to be looking at ... more renewable generation and potentially storage to replace our aging fossil fuel generators, as well as energy efficiency initiatives to better manage demand. – James Shaw	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Based on the unlikely discovery of this near-complete fossil cranium, we now recognize a new, cosmopolitan group of early mammal relatives. – Adam Huttenlocker	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This is the only fossil dandruff known, until now we’ve had no evidence for how dinosaurs shed their skin. – Maria McNamara	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It may have taken on the order of 100 years for the' fern spike' to begin, and about 1,000 years for forest communities to rebound, once forests were back, the ancestors of today's modern tree-dwelling birds could -- and did -- move into the trees. By a couple of millions of years after the asteroid impact, we have direct evidence of arboreal fossil birds. – Daniel Field	Found on CNN 5 years ago
That means companies are going to have trouble selling new fossil-fuel plants. – Mark Dyson	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This fossil bat is tiny, it is only made up of tiny isolated teeth, fragments of the jaw and some small bones, some species survive a few thousand years or one or two million years but not like here 33 million years. – Thierry Smith	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The danger to children is real and is already witnessed by physicians in the US, children suffer more heat impacts because they spend more time outside. They are more vulnerable to the heat-related increases in air pollution that come from fossil fuel exhaust, because their lungs are still developing. Outdoor play also makes them more prey to insect vectors carrying dangerous infections. – Mona Sarfaty	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Children suffer more heat impacts because they spend more time outside. They are more vulnerable to the heat-related increases in air pollution that come from fossil fuel exhaust, because their lungs are still developing. Outdoor play also makes them more prey to insect vectors carrying dangerous infections, the doctors in our societies are seeing these problems today, and they will undoubtedly get worse if we don't decisively address climate change. – Mona Sarfaty	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The rise is a direct consequence of the large releases of CO2 from fossil-fuel burning. – Ralph Keeling	Found on CNN 6 years ago
What this evidence does is for the first time shows us how they might have tackled one of these big beasts and the fact that they were almost certainly doing it routinely is important, getting two sets of fossil footprints that interact, that show you the behavioral ecology, is very, very rare. – Matthew Bennett	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Getting two sets of fossil footprints that interact, that show you the behavioral ecology, is very, very rare. – Matthew Bennett	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We looked at the entire fossil record for 65 million years, in million-year increments, and we asked the question, ‘ Is it ever bad to be big ? ’ . – Elliott Smith	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This is now, I think, the tenth lawsuit of the sort that has been filed in the United States against fossil fuel companies seeking damages for costs associated with climate change impacts. – Michael Burger	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
There was a declared war on coal, a war on fossil fuels, the EPA was weaponized against certain sectors of our economy and that’s not the role of a regulator. Renewables need to be part of our energy mix, but to think that will be the dominant fuel is simply fanciful. – Scott Pruitt	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It's an absolute dream come true for me, it's the one fossil you always want to find in your career. – Paleontologist Ashley Leger	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Not only is Africa the storehouse of the ancient fossil heritage for people the world over, it was also the wellspring of everything that makes us human, including our technological prowess, our artistic ability and our supreme intellect. – Robert Blumenschine	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It may be younger (than some other fossil pieces) but it is the only one where you have a face, you have the base of a skull, you have the inside of the skull, so you can see what a representative of them might have looked like. – Isaiah Nengo	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
In the long run, [population] is probably the most significant factor, if we’re looking at short-term gains, getting out of fossil fuel is the fastest way of reducing the surplus. – Mathis Wackernagel	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Even if we would stop burning fossil fuels today, then the Earth would continue to warm slowly, it is this committed warming that we estimate. – Thorsten Mauritsen	Found on CNN 6 years ago
This addresses a somewhat different question, namely how much warming should we expect if fossil fuel emissions were to suddenly cease, in contrast, our study tries to assess how much warming we should expect given realistic future trajectories of emissions. Thus the other study provides a lower bound on expected emissions and warming, and this is indeed lower than the likely range we find, as we would expect. – Adrian Raftery	Found on CNN 6 years ago
China promised to stick to our commitments and fulfill our responsibility on addressing climate change. We have confidence on our policies already made, if US steps back, the Chinese government still will fulfill its (climate pledges to the Paris Agreement). But there would be different voices within the country, especially form the fossil fuel industries. – Chai Qimin	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The war on coal is over; the war on fossil fuels is over. – Scott Pruitt	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Pruitt justifies reconsideration by suggesting that industry did not have an adequate opportunity to comment on the inclusion of low-producing wells or the process for requesting an alternative means of emission limitation, those justifications are a sham, and the reconsideration and stay are just another giveaway to the fossil fuel industry. – Joanne Spalding	Found on CNN 7 years ago

We don't need these pipelines to meet our energy needs, so it makes no sense to lock us into generations of dependence on dirty fossil fuels.

– Joan Walker

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We need to be looking at ... more renewable generation and potentially storage to replace our aging fossil fuel generators, as well as energy efficiency initiatives to better manage demand.

– James Shaw

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Based on the unlikely discovery of this near-complete fossil cranium, we now recognize a new, cosmopolitan group of early mammal relatives.

– Adam Huttenlocker

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This is the only fossil dandruff known, until now we’ve had no evidence for how dinosaurs shed their skin.

– Maria McNamara

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It may have taken on the order of 100 years for the' fern spike' to begin, and about 1,000 years for forest communities to rebound, once forests were back, the ancestors of today's modern tree-dwelling birds could -- and did -- move into the trees. By a couple of millions of years after the asteroid impact, we have direct evidence of arboreal fossil birds.

– Daniel Field

Found on CNN
5 years ago

That means companies are going to have trouble selling new fossil-fuel plants.

– Mark Dyson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This fossil bat is tiny, it is only made up of tiny isolated teeth, fragments of the jaw and some small bones, some species survive a few thousand years or one or two million years but not like here 33 million years.

– Thierry Smith

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The danger to children is real and is already witnessed by physicians in the US, children suffer more heat impacts because they spend more time outside. They are more vulnerable to the heat-related increases in air pollution that come from fossil fuel exhaust, because their lungs are still developing. Outdoor play also makes them more prey to insect vectors carrying dangerous infections.

– Mona Sarfaty

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Children suffer more heat impacts because they spend more time outside. They are more vulnerable to the heat-related increases in air pollution that come from fossil fuel exhaust, because their lungs are still developing. Outdoor play also makes them more prey to insect vectors carrying dangerous infections, the doctors in our societies are seeing these problems today, and they will undoubtedly get worse if we don't decisively address climate change.

– Mona Sarfaty

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The rise is a direct consequence of the large releases of CO2 from fossil-fuel burning.

– Ralph Keeling

Found on CNN
6 years ago

What this evidence does is for the first time shows us how they might have tackled one of these big beasts and the fact that they were almost certainly doing it routinely is important, getting two sets of fossil footprints that interact, that show you the behavioral ecology, is very, very rare.

– Matthew Bennett

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Getting two sets of fossil footprints that interact, that show you the behavioral ecology, is very, very rare.

– Matthew Bennett

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We looked at the entire fossil record for 65 million years, in million-year increments, and we asked the question, ‘ Is it ever bad to be big ? ’ .

– Elliott Smith

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This is now, I think, the tenth lawsuit of the sort that has been filed in the United States against fossil fuel companies seeking damages for costs associated with climate change impacts.

– Michael Burger

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

There was a declared war on coal, a war on fossil fuels, the EPA was weaponized against certain sectors of our economy and that’s not the role of a regulator. Renewables need to be part of our energy mix, but to think that will be the dominant fuel is simply fanciful.

– Scott Pruitt

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It's an absolute dream come true for me, it's the one fossil you always want to find in your career.

– Paleontologist Ashley Leger

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Not only is Africa the storehouse of the ancient fossil heritage for people the world over, it was also the wellspring of everything that makes us human, including our technological prowess, our artistic ability and our supreme intellect.

– Robert Blumenschine

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It may be younger (than some other fossil pieces) but it is the only one where you have a face, you have the base of a skull, you have the inside of the skull, so you can see what a representative of them might have looked like.

– Isaiah Nengo

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

In the long run, [population] is probably the most significant factor, if we’re looking at short-term gains, getting out of fossil fuel is the fastest way of reducing the surplus.

– Mathis Wackernagel

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Even if we would stop burning fossil fuels today, then the Earth would continue to warm slowly, it is this committed warming that we estimate.

– Thorsten Mauritsen

Found on CNN
6 years ago

This addresses a somewhat different question, namely how much warming should we expect if fossil fuel emissions were to suddenly cease, in contrast, our study tries to assess how much warming we should expect given realistic future trajectories of emissions. Thus the other study provides a lower bound on expected emissions and warming, and this is indeed lower than the likely range we find, as we would expect.

– Adrian Raftery

Found on CNN
6 years ago

China promised to stick to our commitments and fulfill our responsibility on addressing climate change. We have confidence on our policies already made, if US steps back, the Chinese government still will fulfill its (climate pledges to the Paris Agreement). But there would be different voices within the country, especially form the fossil fuel industries.

– Chai Qimin

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The war on coal is over; the war on fossil fuels is over.

– Scott Pruitt

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Pruitt justifies reconsideration by suggesting that industry did not have an adequate opportunity to comment on the inclusion of low-producing wells or the process for requesting an alternative means of emission limitation, those justifications are a sham, and the reconsideration and stay are just another giveaway to the fossil fuel industry.

– Joanne Spalding

Found on CNN
7 years ago

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