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We are already heating the planet by burning fossil fuels, and that has the double-heating effect of emitting gases which further trap heat, mostly from the sun
by Ancalagon 4y ago
We are already heating the planet by burning fossil fuels, and that has the double-heating effect of emitting gases which further trap heat, mostly from the sun.
- taktoa 4y agoThe heat emitted by burning fossil fuels is completely irrelevant compared to the greenhouse impact. We burn about 11.7 gigatons of oil equivalent a year, which over 200 years would be 2.7 * 10^16 kWh. The greenhouse effect increase over the last 20 years leads to over 2.2 * 10^15 kWh/yr added to the planet, over 20x as much.