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Simply burning fossil fuels is wonderful for keeping the winter chill at bay, but setting oil on fire in your washing machine won't get your clothes clean. Likewise, we can't put petroleum directly out of the ground into our cars and expect them to operate.
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www.umich.edu/~gs265/society/fossilfuels.htm
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World organizations, and international agencies like the IEA are concerned about the environmental impact of burning fossil fuels, and coal in particular. ...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_power_plant
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Half the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels is actually winding up the oceans, says new research published in the journal Science. And that's threatening the health of the oceans and the diverse organisms living there, say researchers.
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NEW SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS: ARCTIC IS WARMING AT UNPRECEDENTED RATE, BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS IS CULPRIT; Ice Melt to Accelerate Warming, Cause Sea Level Rise Dangerous to Coastal States; Pressure on U.S. To Act;
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The IPCC has used models to anticipate an increase in global mean surface air temperature of anywhere from 1 degree Celsius to 3.5 degrees by the year 2100. A one degree change will occur if nations decide to curb carbon dioxide output and a 3.5 degree increase will occur if fossil-fuels remain the primary source of energy.
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Burning Fossil Fuels Acidifies Oceans, Erodes Coral Reef ... BOULDER, Colorado, July 5, 2006 (ENS) - The emission of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels worldwide is making the oceans more acidic, eroding the calcium in corals and other marine organisms, the way osteoporosis thins human skeletons.
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Fossil fuel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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fossil fuels or mineral fuels are fuels formed by natural resources such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms. The age of the organisms and their resulting fossil fuels is typically ...
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Fireworks Splice HTML ... Basically, the main drawback of fossil fuels is pollution. Burning any fossil fuel produces carbon dioxide, which contributes to the "greenhouse effect", warming the Earth.
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