Stuff: An 8C rise would occur if we kept burning fossil fuels, which would change the face of the planet, a climate scientist says.
Q: What would happen to the atmosphere if we burned all our fossil fuels?
A: Professor James Renwick, school of geography, environment and earth sciences, Victoria University says:
If we were to use up all of our planet's fossil-fuel resources, we'd increase the global average temperature by about 8 degrees Celsius globally by 2300, Canadian scientists report in Nature...