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Depletion of fossil fuels and anthropogenic climate change—A review

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  • Höök, Mikael
  • Tang, Xu

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Future scenarios with significant anthropogenic climate change also display large increases in world production of fossil fuels, the principal CO2 emission source. Meanwhile, fossil fuel depletion has also been identified as a future challenge. This chapter reviews the connection between these two issues and concludes that limits to availability of fossil fuels will set a limit for mankind's ability to affect the climate. However, this limit is unclear as various studies have reached quite different conclusions regarding future atmospheric CO2 concentrations caused by fossil fuel limitations.

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  • Höök, Mikael & Tang, Xu, 2013. "Depletion of fossil fuels and anthropogenic climate change—A review," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 797-809.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:enepol:v:52:y:2013:i:c:p:797-809
    DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.046
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