How does our use of fossil fuels cause global warming?
Fossil fuels are composed almost entirely of carbon, and in the case of oil also composed of a lot of toxic materials that when burned or when the fumes are inhaled are known to cause cancer in humans, and the way they cause global warming is that when you burn them, such as we burn coal for electricity or oil in the form of gasoline and deiesel fuel for trasportation energy, when we burn those things they release that carbon back into the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide, which is a global warming gas, greenhouse gas as it’s called, because the CO2 and other kinds of global warming gases from these products act like a blanket over the earth’s atmosphere and they trap more heat than would otherwise be trapped in the atmosphere. Of course we want some heat to be trapped in the atmosphere to keep us warm and to be able to inhabit the planet, but if we trap too much then things happen like melting of the Polar ice caps, which results in sea level rise, the oceans become warmer, an
