Chevron, Exxon and BP among companies most responsible for climate change since dawn of industrial age, figures show (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000. (scientificamerican.com)
Scientists scrambling to understand current climate and pollution trends are peering centuries into the past, long before the dawn of the industrial age. (scientificamerican.com)