By Carlos Lara

Hydrocarbon fuels ( Natural gas, chiefly coal, natural oil) were used first to create energy when the Industrial Revolution, mankind started to run short of traditional fuels like whale oil and wood.

New fuels containing more more energy than previously discovered, but also dawn side came with them : carbon emissions that are unavoidable after their combustion. 

New gases build up in the atmosphere, where they become some kind of panes of glass on a greenhouse, allowing the sun's warming in but not back out. (That's what we call the greenhouse effect).

Naturally this radiation should be vanished in to space, but instead they are being reflected back to us and temperatures are rising and our planet is getting warmer.