Sentences with phrase «beginning of the industrial age»

Since the beginning of the Industrial Age, humans have been perturbing the natural world in ways that bring us closer to the pathogens that kill us.

Since the beginning of the industrial age in the 19th century, CO2 levels in the atmosphere have increased from 280 parts per million to 380 ppm.

The movie is set right at the beginning of the industrial age, so tractors had just been introduced.

At the beginning of the Industrial age, coal was the chief fossil fuel.

Since the beginning of the industrial age, 30 % to 60 % of the coral reefs on the planet have disappeared because of human activity and warming oceans.

Concentrations, which are measured in parts per million, have been rising steadily since the beginning of the industrial age some two centuries ago.

Since the temperature increase dates from the beginning of the industrial age and the warming apparently accelerates as greenhouse gasses accumulate in the atmosphere (picture below this), it is used as strong evidence of cause and effect and projected into the future (which I'll write about later).

Man has been cutting down forests and burning fossil fuels since 1750, the beginning of the Industrial Age.

About 50 % of global warming may be attributed to water vapor, about 25 % clouds, and trace gases are the last 25 %, which we have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial age.

Since the beginning of the industrial age, the concentration of CO2 has increased by about 25 %, from about 280 parts per million to over 370 parts per million.

This has been going on since the beginning of the Industrial Age, and the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased in that time by more than 35 per cent, from the long - term range of 260 - 280 parts per million (ppm) to the present level of over 380 ppm.

However, humans have been seriously releasing CO2 into the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Age, when we began burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas).

From thermal equilibrium (radiative forcing relatively zero including natural variation) for the past 10,000 years (Holocene), since the beginning of the Industrial age, the earth climate system is currently estimated to be 3.6 W / m2 positively charged (GHG's, and -2.0 W / m2 negatively charged (aerosols).

«We are being told that a temperature increase of more than 2 degrees C [elsius] by comparison with the beginning of the industrial age would have dramatic consequences and absolutely has to be prevented.

Completely wrong, the trend started with the beginning of the industrial age.

HANOVER, N.H. — December 19, 2017 — Snowfall on a major summit in North America's highest mountain range has more than doubled since the beginning of the Industrial Age, according to a study from Dartmouth College, the University of Maine, and the University of New Hampshire.