How is burning of fossil fuels related to global climate change?

Question

How is burning of fossil fuels related to global climate change?

Answer 1

Theories

Answer 2

The burning of coal: Coal factories are the biggest air polluters out there. Not only do they contribute to urban smog and asthma, but they spill out CO2 and other particulates that contribute to global climate change. Some of the molecules are light and stay in the atmosphere, making the sun's rays turn into infrared turning the earth into a hot box.

Answer 3

It's not!

Answer 4

make up any reason you want, fact's are not important here

Answer 5

Well there is a lot of debate about that.  

Fossil fuels are now called hydrocarbon fuels because they cover virtually anything that can be burned, so what is causing global warming is what happens when humans burn x amount of fossil fuels which produces y amount of Carbon dioxide and Carbon monoxide.

All the plants in the world can only capture 1/2 y or half of all the greenhouse gases produced each year.  So the rest accumulates in the atmosphere.

These gases are said to have a greenhouse affect, like a greenhouse keeps the inside warmer than the outside, Carbon dioxide and Carbon monoxide act like a green house for the whole Earth and the Earth is slowly warming because greenhouse gases keep heat from escaping out to space.

The above is the answer to your question.

The problem is during the 1800s a volcano called Krakatoa blew up and spewed hundreds of billions of tons of Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere, far more of both gases than mankind has ever produced.

It caused Global cooling and the next two years were called the two years when summer didn't come.  It remained too cold to produce crops in many places of the world.  

I just mention it is because some environmental scientists believe that Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide keeps heat from the Sun from reaching the Earth, the heat bounces off it and goes back out into space.

That is what we were told during the last energy crisis during the 1970's, when oil and gas prices went through the roof the first time.  The Earth was going to become a giant ice cube.  So rising oil prices were saving us from ourselves.

It seems environmentalists look upon every oil and gas crisis to push their nutty agenda.

Fool me once shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me.

Answer 6

Some gases ("greenhouse gases") let sunlight in, which warms the Earth, and then block that heat from leaving. That's the "greenhouse effect", and it's a natural thing, mostly caused by water vapor.  It's like putting a blanket on the Earth.

Man is making excessive amounts of greenhouse gases, mostly by burning fossil fuels, and making carbon dioxide, another greenhouse gas. That causes the delicate natural balance to go out of whack and the Earth warms. That's global warming.

Answer 7

"then block that heat from leaving. "

Infrared radiation isn't the same thing as heat.

"It's like putting a blanket on the Earth."

No, it isn't, and this is an analogy that people need to stop using.

"That causes the delicate natural balance to go out of whack and the Earth warms."

The Earth's climate isn't in a "natural balance"....ever. And it certainly isn't "delicate".