Over millions of years, as plants and animals died and decayed, a huge amount of energy was locked in. This is what we call “fossil fuel”. These products (coal, oil and gas) have given us cheap energy which we use for transport, heating etc, but they are not replaceable. Unfortunately we have used so much in such a short time (approximately 150 years) that we have literally heated our atmosphere. This means that the earth’s atmospheric temperature is rising and the ice is melting. The rise in temperature creates more water in gas as well as liquid form which produces more clouds and therefore more rain. The energy released in burning fossil fuel also creates more atmospheric energy and therefore more storms. This is one of the key reasons it is necessary to stop fossil fuel use as fast as possible.
Recent flooding in Norwich (from Eastern Daily Press website)
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