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Fossil Quotes by James Hansen
- The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would be irreversible, if…
- Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.
- CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion, these…
- ...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively…
- Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels.
- What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
- The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.
- It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.
- Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop using…
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- I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they… — Arthur C. Clarke
- Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that… — Jimmy Carter
- It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we… — Georges Cuvier
- Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears… — Jacques Monod
- We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in… — Oliver Goldsmith
- Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and… — Ernst Mayr
- Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket.… — Lynn Margulis
- The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to… — Stephen Jay Gould
- On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of… — Simon Conway Morris
- In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve… — Earnest Hooton
- Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could… — Richard Dawkins