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'''Fossil fuels''' - coal, oil and natural gas, are sources of energy that are generally believed to have been formed from the remains of plants and animals that lived long ago<ref>Up to 300 million years ago according to secular geology, or during the [[Great Flood]] according to [[Flood Geology]]</ref> and are thus essentially non-renewable.

'''Fossil fuels''' - coal, oil and natural gas, are sources of energy that are generally believed to have been formed from the remains of plants and animals that lived long ago<ref>Up to 300 million years ago according to secular geology, or during the [[Great Flood]] according to [[Flood Geology]]</ref> and are thus essentially non-renewable.

There are, however, some scientists who claim that these fuels are found in deposits beneath the earth created through ongoing [[abiotic oil|abiotic]] processes.<ref>J. R. Nyquist, [http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2006/0508.html Debunking Peak Oil], May 8, 2006 [[Geopolitical]].</ref> Currently, people are discovering through such mediums as Nobel peace prize winner Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, that burning fossil fuels releases excess CO2 into the atmosphere, trapping heat and ultimately raising the planet's temperature in a phenomenon called Global Warming.  If the temperature continues to rise, polar ice caps could melt, raising the sea level to such an extent that entire cities could be submerged in as little as a few decades.  Global warming has been put under attack by conservatives, possibly because conservative figures such as Dick Cheney have connections to oil companies like Haliburton.

There are, however, some scientists who claim that these fuels are found in deposits beneath the earth created through ongoing [[abiotic oil|abiotic]] processes.<ref>J. R. Nyquist, [http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2006/0508.html Debunking Peak Oil], May 8, 2006 [[Geopolitical]].</ref>

 

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