Definition: 1. The remains of an animal or a plant which have become hard and turned into rock. 2. An old person, especially one who is unable to accept new ideas or adapt to changes.
Use 'fossil' in a sentence:
1. Close examination of those fossil deposits now reveals a somewhat different story.
2. Even Africa and the Middle East, home to economies that are heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports, have enormous potential to develop renewables.
3. Theres an energy crisis in America, and it has nothing to do with fossil fuels.
4. Oftentimes, these fossils are not made available to science at all.
5. We have fossil fuel on Earth.
6. At this distance of time it is difficult to date the fossil.
7. Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas will service our needs for some considerable time to come.
8. Natural gas and coal—also fossil fuels—have similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived.
9. You have more information from it than from any fossil you can think of.
10. In other words, a few countries are benefiting enormously from the consumption of fossil fuels.
11. Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
12. Fortunately, some recent fossil discoveries have made the picture a little bit clearer.
13. Peter Forey is curator of fossil fishes at the Natural History Museum.
14. If not corrected by the appropriate carbon price, low fossil fuel prices are not accurately signaling to markets the true social profitability of clean energy.
15. But renewable energy will have to displace fossil fuels to a much greater extent in thefuture to avoid unacceptable climate risks.
16. The current low fossil fuel price environment will thus certainly delay the energy transition from fossil fuel to clean energy sources.
17. In other words, a few countries are benefiting enormously from the consumption of fossil fuels, while at the same time contributing disproportionately to the global burden of climate change.
18. The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years—so why shouldn't we?
19. Green buildings like this aren't necessarily cost-efficient for the investor, but it does produce much less pollution than that caused by energy production through fossil fuels.
20. Fossil fuels release carbon that has been stored for years from the earth.
21. fossils over two million years old.
22. There's an energy crisis in America, and it has nothing to do with fossil fuels.
23. The country has an abundant supply of fossil fuels.
24. Earth was already in one of its warm interglacial periods when we started burning fossil fuels.
25. The extensive data sources, Combined with computer simulations, created a timeline of ocean temperature changes, including cooling from volcanic outbreaks and warming from fossil fuel emissions.
26. Fossil fuel prices are likely to stay "low for long".
27. Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels — 30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.
28. We don't use any fossil fuels.
29. The man is a fossil.
30. In fact, fossil beds containing soft-bodied animals have been known for many years.
31. Intermediated fossil forms, predicted by gradualism, are typically lacking.
32. Notwithstanding important recent progressin developing renewable fuel sources, low fossil fuel prices could discourage further innovation in, and adoption of, cleaner energy technologies.
33. There is strong evidence that both innovation and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higher fossil fuel prices.
34. Natural gas and coal — also fossil fuels — have similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived.
35. As we know, rapid deforestation combined with the massive burning of fossil fuels is an explosive recipe for an irreversible disaster.
36. Progress in the development of renewables could be fragile, however, if fossil fuel prices remain low for long.
37. Fossil hunters have unearthed the bones of an elephant believed to be 500,000 years old.
38. The same is true for new technologies for alleviating fossil fuel emissions.
39. Our use of fossil fuels is the main source of excess greenhouse gases.
40. With such a long interval, it is difficult to determine the age of this fossil.
41. The fossil fuels ( coal and oil) are finite resources.
42. The fossils had been chipped out of the rock.
43. Ross Mounce, a postdoc studying evolutionary biology at the University of Cambridge, UK, is a vocal champion of open science, partly because his fossil based research on access to others' data.
44. However, for older sequence of evolutionary development, estimates based on parts in the fossil record.
45. The fossil luckily includes a good portion of the hind legs.
46. The electricity industry consumes large amounts of fossil fuels.
47. The fossil remains of apemen can help us infer how they lived.
48. Extinct but already fully marine cetaceans are known from the fossil record.
49. Burning fossil fuels uses oxygen and produces carbon dioxide.
50. The term "fossil" often implies petrifaction, literally a transformation into stone.
51. The only clue he has is a fossil.
52. On a global scale, 77% of energy is created from fossil fuels.
