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clearing forests for agriculture.
fossil fuels being burned
Oil, natural gas, and coal are examples of fossil fuels that are burned to provide energy. We use this energy to create electricity, as well as to fuel industrial activities and forms of transportation (such vehicles and airplanes).
The burning of fossil fuels has various effects on the Earth system. Some of these possibilities are:
The greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are released into the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect (the reflection of heat back into the atmosphere) and increasing the average global temperature. These greenhouse gases can remain in the atmosphere for decades to hundreds of years.
Fossil fuels form over millions of years from the burial of photosynthetic organisms, including terrestrial plants (which primarily form coal) and marine plankton (which primarily form oil and natural gas). To grow, these organisms removed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and oceans, and their burial inhibited the movement of that carbon through the carbon cycle. Burning this fossil material releases this carbon into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. Its speed is hundreds to thousands of times faster than burial and much faster than the carbon cycle can remove it. Thus, the carbon dioxide released when burning fossil fuels accumulates in the atmosphere and some of it dissolves in the ocean, causing ocean acidification.
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