How will fossil fuels affect the future?
How will fossil fuels affect the future? Fossil fuels will still provide 60% of energy in 2040, compared to 85% today, but the pattern of use will change, away from coal and towards gas, and increasingly concentrated in industry. Fossil fuel prices would be lower in a 2˚C scenario, with less need to mobilise high-cost reserves to meet demand. What will happen if we keep using fossil fuels at the same rate? A new study published today in Science Advances finds that if we burn all of the remaining fossil fuels on Earth, almost all of the ice in Antarctica...