Sentences with phrase «dawn of the industrial age»

Chevron, Exxon and BP among companies most responsible for climate change since dawn of industrial age, figures show

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.

Scientists scrambling to understand current climate and pollution trends are peering centuries into the past, long before the dawn of the industrial age.

Since the dawn of the industrial age, we have been exposed to heavy metal toxins at increasing rates.

Developed at Ubisoft Blue Byte, Studio Mainz, ANNO 1800 brings players to the dawn of the industrial age, a time of industrialisation, diplomacy and discovery.

According to the United Nations, some climate change is already inevitable because of emissions that have occurred since the dawn of the Industrial Age.

«MOST people are under the impression global warming has risen by about 0.8 degrees C since the dawn of the industrial age.

The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two - thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the industrial age, new research suggests.

By contrast current climate change is caused by the thermal effects of CO2 emissions from burning of some 300 billion tons of fossil fuel since the dawn of the industrial age, with consequent increase of CO2 to 380 parts per million, 36 percent above maximum levels (about 280 parts per million) which pertained over the last one million years (The Pleistocene).