SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Question
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The fossil fuel reserves will be quickly resupplied and so humans will never run out.
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The fossil fuel reserves will be completely depleted, or totally used up.
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The fossil fuel reserves will stay underground.
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The fossil fuel reserves will definitely NOT turn into carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere.
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Detailed explanation-1: -It is predicted that we will run out of fossil fuels in this century. Oil can last up to 50 years, natural gas up to 53 years, and coal up to 114 years. Yet, renewable energy is not popular enough, so emptying our reserves can speed up.
Detailed explanation-2: -Burning all known reserves of oil, gas and coal would inject about five trillion tonnes of heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere, mainly in the form of carbon dioxide, a team wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Detailed explanation-3: -After ten thousand years, the planet would still be something like fourteen degrees Fahrenheit hotter than it is today. All of the world’s mountain glaciers and the Greenland ice sheet would melt away; Antarctica, too, would eventually become pretty much ice free. Sea levels would rise by hundreds of feet.