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The science of anthropogenic climate change: what every doctor should know

BMJ 2014; 349 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g5178 (Published 09 September 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g5178
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There exist business interests against using Earth's huge fossil fuel reserves.
Alternative multi-trillion dollar energy production investments are proposed instead, without any guarantee of sufficient output, long term sustainability, worldwide distribution of electricity produced, etc.
The German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources has published recently an extensive study describing the vast energy reserves and resources still existing in all Continents.
Our civilization needs fossil fuels, and the solution for global warming is not to ban hydrocarbons but to use available safe methods of utilising them efficiently.
References
http://www.bgr.bund.de/EN/Themen/Energie/Downloads/energiestudie_2014_en...
http://www.bgr.bund.de/EN/Themen/Energie/Downloads/energiestudie_2015_en...

Competing interests: No competing interests

11 June 2017
Stavros Saripanidis
Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece