Since the 18th century, humans have been taking fossil fuels out of their safe storage deep underground and burning them to generate electricity or power machinery.
in the Solar System, at an average of 464°C. That's due to an atmosphere much thicker than Earth's, dense in carbon dioxide. Venus might once have had liquid oceans. But then a runaway greenhouse effect took place, trapping truly enormous quantities of heat., just the right distance from the Sun to be not too hot and not too cold. Little of the Earth's internal heat gets through to the cold crust where we live. That makes us dependent on another source of heat – the Sun.
Because Earth is much cooler than the Sun, the radiation it emits is invisible, at long infrared wavelengths. Much of this energy goes out into space – but not all. Incoming radiation from the sun is reflected or absorbed by Earth. There is a net imbalance where more energy is absorbed than emitted by the planet and this causes warming.
But now, we are at very real risk of pushing ourselves outside of the comfortable climatic conditions which allowed humans to expand, farm, build cities and create. The energy dense fuels which made industrial civilization possible come with an enormous sting in the tail. Burn now, pay later. Now the bill has become apparent.
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