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Do fossil fuels really come from fossils?
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bituminous coal
Piles of bituminous coal, a fossil fuel.
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Coal is burned to fuel this electric power plant in Rock Springs, Wyoming, U.S.
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oil well
An oil well pumpjack.
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internal-combustion engine: four-stroke cycle
An internal-combustion engine goes through four strokes: intake, compression, combustion...
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Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve, named after American climate scientist Charles David Keeling,...
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greenhouse gas emissions
Factories that burn fossil fuels help to cause global warming.
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global warming scenarios
Graph of the predicted increase in Earth's average surface temperature according...
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carbon cycle
The generalized carbon cycle.
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