Claim: Recent research also indicates that the quantity of fossil fuels staying in the atmosphere is much less than previously thought.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: (2007) concluded that unless energy policies changed substantially, the world would continue to depend on fossil fuels until 2025–2030.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Projections suggest that more than 80% of the world's energy will come from fossil fuels.

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Passage: While the lifetime of atmospheric methane is relatively short when compared to carbon dioxide, with a half-life of about 7 years, it is more efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere, so that a given quantity of methane has 84 times the global-warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period and 28 times over a 100-year period.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Recent research (primarily since the Montreal Protocol) shows that many humans have less than optimal vitamin D levels.

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Passage: Human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), and secondarily the clearing of land, have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide, methane, and other heat-trapping ("greenhouse") gases in the atmosphere...There is international scientific consensus that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: 4) Atmospheric O levels are decreasing in Earth's atmosphere as it reacts with the carbon in fossil fuels to form .

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: A 2011 study by noted climate research scientist, Tom Wigley, found that while carbon dioxide () emissions from fossil fuel combustion may be reduced by using natural gas rather than coal to produce energy, it also found that additional methane (CH4) from leakage adds to the radiative forcing of the climate system, offsetting the reduction in forcing that accompanies the transition from coal to gas.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Because a large share of air pollution is caused by combustion of fossil fuels such as coal and oil, the reduction of these fuels can reduce air pollution drastically.

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Passage: The US Environmental Protection Agency attributed recent decreases to a reduction in emissions from fossil fuel combustion, which was a result of multiple factors including switching from coal to natural gas consumption in the electric power sector; warmer winter conditions that reduced demand for heating fuel in the residential and commercial sectors; and a slight decrease in electricity demand.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: As of 2016, emissions of CO from burning fossil fuels had stopped increasing, but The Guardian reports they need to be "reduced to have a real impact on climate change".

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Wind power displaces coal, oil and gas to some degree, reducing running cost for fossil fuels.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Currently, about half of the carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fuels remains in the atmosphere and is not absorbed by vegetation and the oceans.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: More recently, consumption of coal has declined relative to renewable energy.