Burning fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide. And carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere. There is no debate about that. The link is as certain as the link between smoking and cancer.
Interpretation
Burning fossil fuels releases harmful gases that contribute to global warming.
This quote emphasizes the undeniable link between burning fossil fuels and the emission of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. It draws a parallel to the well-established relationship between smoking and cancer, highlighting the certainty and urgency of the environmental crisis caused by fossil fuel consumption.
In practice
In a climate change seminar discussing the impacts of fossil fuels on global warming.
It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.
Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.
I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
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