Sentences with phrase «humans burn hydrocarbons»
When humans burn hydrocarbons, or fossil fuels, the carbon reacts with oxygen.
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The available data is ambiguous, Singer said: global temperatures, for example, rose between 1900 and 1940, well before humans began to burn the enormous quantities of hydrocarbons they do today.
I guess what I am really saying (perhaps badly) is that I don't think humans are going to be applying our warming forcing for 41,000 years — because we won't be able to dig up and burn hydrocarbons for 41,000 years.
There is no reason to believe that we humans will be able to keep the CO2 pump going for very long because we are going to run out of hydrocarbons to burn shortly (like maybe 80 years).
If CO2 is increasing, that's OK because there is an upper limit to how much hydrocarbons that humans can burn!
Humans emit gigatons of water vapor, by burning hydrocarbons, and it doesn't affect atmospheric H2O, because it's condensable.