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What is the positive impact on the environment from fossil fuels?
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∙ 12y ago
fossil fuels can help us by burning them to cook our food, driving us to work everyday, and other things. however, using to many of these fossil fuels can harm us as well. they can run out if they are not renewable. they also destroy the ozone layer, which protects us from the ultra violent rays from the sun. if we put a hole in the ozone layer, the whole planet will die and burn up because of the massive heat.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 9y ago- Burning fossil fuels creates pollution and pollution is bad for the environment.
- they produce harmful greenhouse gasses
- Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide emissions that add to the greenhouse effect. This is causing global warming and climate change.
- Fossil Fuels are fuels formed by Natural Resources. It harms the environment because every time we use it, carbon dioxide goes into the air.
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What is the environmental impact of the extraction, transport and use of fossil fuels?
The major fossil fuels we use are oil, natural gas and coal.
The oil spill now occurring in the Gulf of Mexico is an unintended consequence in the extraction of fossil fuels. Tanker accidents resulting in oil spillage are another way that fossil fuels impact our environment.
These impacts may harm the ecosystem, but the ecosystem may recover from spills. One of the largest oil spills occurred during the Kuwait war (see associated link), but the Persian sea (Arabian sea) has recovered.
The environmental impacts of burning fossil fuels has resulted in acid rain. The combustion process produces sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and carbon dioxide, which combined with water vapor in clouds produces various acids.
The carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels is considered by many scientific organization to add to climate change or global warming. There is considerable information and technical reports available on the internet. The impacts of acid rain and global warming may be much more long lasting as they are difficult to reverse. A number of related links are included.
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∙ 12y agoNo positive impacts on the environment are obvious. Sorry.
- Their burning emits greenhouse gases
- Their burning emits pollution and the ingredients for acid rain
- Their mines and oil wells damage the environment by their digging
- Their spills and overflows damage and poison the environment.
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∙ 10y agoFossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) when burnt release carbon dioxide that has been sequestered underground for over 300 million years. This extra carbon dioxide is causing global warming and climate change and all the problems associated with them.
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∙ 12y agoThey aren't when people uses them for fuel
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∙ 11y agoThey don't help the environment. In fact, we need to stop polluting the environment by using less fossil fuels.
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∙ 13y agoBurned fossil fuels release damaging gas. Fossil fuels can create solid waste, damaging the soil. Fossil fuels can leak in transport, damaging the water.
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoIt isn't really but they do say that it is
it is taking old fuels out from our environment and transfering them into new ones
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What is the difference between the Greenhouse Effect and fossil fuels?
Fossil fuels are non-renewable energy sources that can be burned to get energy. The Greenhouse Effect is, in part, the result of burning fossil fuels. In this example, fossil fuels would be a causative agent that creates an effect on the environment, specifically, the Earth's atmosphere.
What are the main troubles with fossil fuels?
One of the problems with fossil fuels is that they pollute the environment by adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, thereby causing global warming.
Does the decrease of fossil fuels decrease global warming?
fossil fuels are very harmful to the environment so if there were less of them there will be less pollution which means less global warming...
An energy-rich substance formed from the remains of organisms is?
Fossil Fuels =)
The human activity most likely to impact climate on a global scale is?
combustion of fossil fuels
List of positive effects of fossil fuels on the environment?
what affect does burning fossil fuels have on the environment?
What is the negative impact of fossil fuels on the environment?
Fossil fuels are bad cause they release CO2CLIMATE ChangeSurface mining scars the land
What sources of energy are most damaging to the environment?
Fossil fuels.
What statement about fossils fuels is not true?
Fossil fuels are clean burning and will not be bad for the environment. We will never run out of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are good for our health. These are a few that are not true about fossil fuels.
What impact does Geothermal Power have on environment?
it is basically eco friendly,has no emisions like this is the case with most other fossil fuels
How does human activities make a negative impact on the environment?
Pollution is just one example of how humans negatively impact the environment. Pollution can be caused by various things like burning fossil fuels.
Why is solar power better than fossil fuels?
it is better than fossil fuels because it is better for our environment and it will last way longer than fossil fuels. :)
How do you manage our use of fossil fuels?
First when you find fossil fuels they can either be bad or kinda bad, and also when we have too many fossil fuels they can harm our environment.
Why is burning fossil fuels are a bad thing?
The fossil fuels when burnt produces pollutants.The pollutants then go in the environment and pollute it.Hence fossil fuels are bad to use.
Is the role of fossil fuels in the carbon cycle?
The role of fossil fuels in the carbon cycle is to produce carbon dioxide. Fossil fuels are considered to be the highest contributors to pollution of the environment.
How are tractors bad for the environment?
They burn fossil fuels.
What is the impact of globalization on environment?
The impact of globalization on environment is quite diverse. This has resulted into more production which means more fossil fuels are being burned which pollutes the environment and development of urban trade centers causes logging and deforestation which hurts the environment significantly.
