RE: Global Warming: Long term observations yield unsurprising results
March 5, 2015 at 9:09 pm
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2015 at 9:20 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 5, 2015 at 4:59 pm)Void Wrote: I'm just wondering... Since fossil fuel is the remnants of past animals and plants. If we burn it all, and let all the gasses out, wouldn't we be resetting the atmosphere to a state which it has previously been?
I doubt it. Fire is in itself a chemical reaction, and the atoms themselves would be returned to the atmosphere, but it's highly unlikely that the same compounds in similar proportions would be returned.
CapnAwesome Wrote:What is the estimation for running out? When I was a child they said that it could very well happen within my lifetime. Now I never hear it discussed at all.
depends on what you're talking about. I'd imagine coal is more plentiful than oil. That last estimates I've heard on oil were anywhere from 50 to 100 years, but I can't speak to the accuracy of those numbers.
