Sentences with phrase «beginning of the industrial revolution»

The term «Luddites» comes from the early 19th - century English textile workers who smashed newly introduced automated weaving machinery that signaled the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.

Stinchcomb and his colleagues have dated the carbon in the layer to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 1820s.

But since 1800, the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the pH of the ocean has dropped by 0.1 unit.

On average, researchers estimate that surface waters, where key players in the ocean food chain live, have seen a 0.1 decrease in pH since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution; that's an extraordinarily rapid 30 % increase in acidity.

Representing biodiversity at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the obsolete glass menagerie has taken on new relevance under her watch: The models have become a benchmark for assessing the loss of sea life in the current Anthropocene epoch.

The first is that the Earth's great ice ages are bookmarked by a clear fluctuation in carbon dioxide levels: 180 parts per million (ppm) in the glacial periods, 280 ppm in the warmer periods (the level at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution about 150 years ago).

The book's subsidiary title is «A History of the Stationary Steam Engine» and its scope runs from the early beam engines from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to modern steam turbines.

The rise of 2.1 millimeters per year during that period corresponds to rising temperatures following the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1700s.

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the oceans have absorbed about a third of human - caused carbon dioxide emissions.

Virtual water trade has enabled rapid population growth and urbanisation since the beginning of the industrial revolution.

This would represent a 150 percent increase in ocean acidity since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

And since the beginning of the industrial revolution more than 200 years ago, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has been increasing quickly.

The pH of the surface ocean has fallen by 0.1 pH units since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, about one third of the CO2 released in the atmosphere by anthropogenic activities has been absorbed by the world's oceans, which play a key role in moderating climate change.

It was around the beginning of the industrial revolution that the idea that human beings were like machines came into being.

This secular trend for increased sugar consumption in the United States in the past 30 y reflects a much larger worldwide trend that has occurred in Western nations since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution some 200 y ago (37).

The loom stood at the beginning of the industrial revolution; the punch card for mechanical looms was the first form of digital image storage.

Experience hours upon hours of SHEER ENJOYMENT imagining how, during the second coming of Christ, Ann Lee, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, realized that «heterosexual marriage had produced a multitude of starving children whose cheap labor was exploited by factory workers.»

Just over half that amount has already been emitted since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and at current rates of energy consumption, the trillionth ton will be released around 2040, according to calculations by Myles R. Allen, a scientist at the University of Oxford and one of the authors of the new report.

Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution.

Although «Anthropocene» is a tongue twister it correctly names the new geologic time frame the world entered at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

The loss of energy to space, measured by Wielicki e.a. in the past 15 years, is of near the same magnitude as what the theoretical increase in greenhouse effect is from the extra greenhouse gases since the beginning of the industrial revolution.

As we look at CO2 in the atmosphere, we know it has risen from about 280 ppm to about 380 ppm since the beginning of the industrial revolution, and it is reasonable to assume that it is going to continue upward, at least for now.

Mercury levels in the upper layers of the ocean are up 3.4 x since the beginning of the industrial revolution, according to the first study to have done truly global measurements of marine mercury levels by taking thousands of samples around the world over half a decade.

This research shows that we've experienced almost the same range of temperature change since the beginning of the industrial revolution as over the previous 11,000 years of Earth history — but this change happened a lot more quickly.

Global climate change has risen temperatures by approximately 0.8 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit) since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution due to greenhouse gas emissions.

Whether the cause is human activity or natural variability — and the preponderance of evidence says it's humans — thermometer readings all around the world have risen steadily since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

IPCC AR5 summarizes the scientific literature and estimates that cumulative carbon dioxide emissions related to human activities need to be limited to 1 trillion tonnes C (1000 PgC) since the beginning of the industrial revolution if we are to have a likely chance of limiting warming to 2 °C.

In a paper published June 5 in Science, the group traces the source of nitrates to nitric oxides released through fossil fuel burning that parallels the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

While changes in solar output have slightly increased global average temperature since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the planet - warming effect of man - made greenhouse gases is about 20 times larger -LRB-

The report also highlights the fact that carbon dioxide concentration has increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution from about 290 parts per million to about 340 today (1981) and that it is expected to double over the next century.

The early Anthropocene hypothesis goes against strong evidence, provided by Crutzen, Will Steffen and other researchers, that only with the beginning of the industrial revolution can we detect a human influence on the functioning of the Earth system as a whole.

«The key element is the activity of humans who, since the beginning of the industrial revolution (around 1750), started to affect the natural environment on global scale.