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=By Nate Holmy= =2010= =__ Fossil Fuels and Climate Change __ = ==Overview of Fossil Fuels ==

​ What are Fossil Fuels?
A Fossil Fuel is found in the earth. It is made from decaying animals and plants. Different Fossil fuels that you would see in your everyday life are Coal, Gas, Oil. When you burn a Fossil fuel you are putting into the envirment 6 different green house gasses. The main one is CO2 or carbon dioxide. These fossil fuels started to be used during the industrial revolution; just about 150 years ago. Other things that get put into the atmoshpere are different acids such as sulfuric acid and carbonic acid. This makes air pollution.

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when the industrial revolution started people were starting to use more machines that burn different substances other than wood. People started to burn coal, and oil to help steam engines to run the factories. This caused a increase of gasses going into the atmoshpere. in that 150 years there has been a twenty-five percent increase of carbon dioxide. Also the worlds climate (everyones on earth) has risen over a degree (in F) in the past 150 years. People first started to realize that releasing co2 into the atomsphere was a cause of global warming in 1896. This was first discovered by Arrhenius. In 1920 we realized we can get cheap energy by taking oil from the texas and persian gulf. During WWII it is hard to control the oil fields. More gas and oil is being burned due to the transportation of troops and factories need to produce more at a faster rate. in 1945 the Navy starts to fund climate change issue research. This is to broden the awarness of people and what they are doing to the enviroment. In 1957 Revelle says that co2 made by people will not be absorbed by the oceans.=====

Green House Effect
The Green House effect is not related to global warming. However it is related to the increase of the earths Climate. The green House effect takes place mainly in the stratosphere or the second layer of the earths atmosphere. The Sun brings light energy into the earth. The earth turns that light energy into heat energy. The heat is then contained in the earth by the Ozone layer. The ozone layer traps the earths gasses of H2O, CO2, CH4, N20. These are the main gasses that cause the earth to have heat. Then the heat goes down to the earths surface in the troposhpere. It is a cycle that goes back up to the stratosphere. The earth stays at a average of 58 degrees F.

You would be surprised that the largest cause is H20 or water. Most people think that CO2 is the main cause in climate change. When you burn a Fossil fuel you get two things that come out of it. You get H20 and CO2. That is how this relates to Fossil fuels. Fossil fuels and anything else we burn will slowly heeat up the earth. from 1910-2010 the earth has increased on a average of 2 degrees F. CO2 is increased over time naturally and not naturally. The earth has cylces of warm and cold. When the earth is warm like in summer time then you have less CO2 becasue the trees can preform Photosynthesis. In the winter it is cold and it is harded for the trees to perform Photosynthesis. So the CO2 will climb.

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