The WDCS says one problem is the expansion of oil and gas exploration into the deep seas and the resulting growth in seismic testing to find fossil fuel deposits.

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To find any dinosaur fossil at all is a challenge.

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"Land plants have existed for about 400 million years and if you know where to look, you can find remains of fossil plant material from each of the ancient periods, " said Jahren.

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As a result, companies and governments need to find a way to bridge the current fossil fuels era to the next era, where clean energy will become a key energy source.

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If climate change continues to happen after we have gotten rid of the fossil fuel addiction, then we will have to find other ways to change and adapt to the new climate.

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"The amazing thing about the geologic record and the fossil record is that sooner or later some piece of research, some amazing find, sheds light on things that you think are absolutely unanswerable, and really changes the whole picture, " said Professor Sereno.

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Assuming that humans will find something better to power the world with than carbon dioxide-emitting fossil fuels in the next one or two hundred years, that total warming back then was greater or equal to what we are likely to inflict on Greenland.

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That means industry is going to have to find ways to reduce energy use, because most greenhouse gases come from burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels.

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