Prior to the fossil -
fueled Industrial Revolution, the share of the global population that lived in cities was small — less than 10 percent.
Pulling massive amounts of conveniently stored energy out of the ground
fueled the industrial revolution, and continues to be the primary source of our energy.
542 SecularA said, «There is no need for these societies to repeat the disaster of the western world's 19th century fossil -
fueled industrial revolution, nor is there any possibility of them doing so,»
There is no need for these societies to repeat the disaster of the western world's 19th century fossil -
fueled industrial revolution, nor is there any possibility of them doing so, given that they can afford neither the cost of the fossil fuels nor the cost of building electric grids to distribute power from large, centralized power plants.
For over two hundred years, beginning with coal and later joined by oil and gas, fossil fuels have literally
fueled the industrial revolution and have produced astonishing improvements in living standards.
For many years manganese
fueled the industrial revolution because it was found to increase the resistance of steel to impact.
Quite early, it became quite clear that the CO2 concentration had been flat, at about 280 ppm for centuries (if not millennia) prior to the growing burning of fossil carbon (coal, petroleum and natural gas) to
fuel the industrial revolution.
And we assisted with the flow of capital that
fuelled the industrial revolution.
Not exact matches
Literally the
fuel of America's
Industrial Revolution and growth, coal has fallen from providing more than half of the nation's electricity as recently as 2000 to 30 percent in 2017.
Often associated with the
Industrial Revolution, coal remains an enormously important
fuel and is the largest single source of electricity world - wide.
Since the
industrial revolution, human beings burning fossil
fuels have boosted concentrations of atmospheric carbon more than 30 percent, disrupting the ancient cycle.
The leader of the government's push into alternative energy talks about
fuel - making microbes, the next
industrial revolution and how soon his high - risk projects will reach the market
That's when a new steam engine
fueled by coal allowed for greater production of the dirty black rock that then fired ever more new steam engines and inaugurated the
industrial revolution — as well as the problem of climate change.
The study also concludes that, over a 15 - year period, cutting the black carbon produced by burning fossil
fuels, vegetation, dung and other sources could reduce the warming the Earth has experienced since the
Industrial Revolution — about 0.8 degrees Celsius — by 17 to 23 percent.
Although natural photosynthesis plays a vital role in absorbing and «fixing» carbon dioxide emitted from fossil
fuel use, it has not prevented the net increase of this gas in the atmosphere since the
Industrial Revolution.
Since the
Industrial Revolution, fossil
fuel burning has released sulfate and nitrate ions — both acid rain precursors — into the atmosphere at unprecedented levels.
Since 1751, roughly the start of the
Industrial Revolution, humans have burned the amount of fossil
fuel that would have come from all the plants on Earth for 13,300 years.
The Third
Industrial Revolution is coming, and Norway needs to abandon fossil
fuels and move towards a greener future that relies on renewable energy, shared transport and ultra-efficient housing.
He even suggests, in his characteristically unabashed way, that those companies and nations could end up igniting a second
industrial revolution — one
fueled by the need to undo the environmental consequences of the first.
Global surface temperatures in 2016 averaged 14.8 degrees Celsius (58.64 °F), or 1.3 C (2.3 F) higher than estimated before the
Industrial Revolution ushered in wide use of fossil
fuels, the EU body said.
The man - made part of the disaster, caused by burning fossil
fuels, has increased ocean temperature an average of 1.33 degrees Fahrenheit since the start of the
Industrial Revolution, according to a study in Science.
By piecing together the annual production of every major fossil
fuel company since the
Industrial Revolution, geographer Richard Heede has shown that nearly two - thirds of the major industrial greenhouse gas emissions have originated in just 90 companies around the world, which either emitted the carbon themselves or supplied carbon ultimately released by consumers and
Industrial Revolution, geographer Richard Heede has shown that nearly two - thirds of the major
industrial greenhouse gas emissions have originated in just 90 companies around the world, which either emitted the carbon themselves or supplied carbon ultimately released by consumers and
industrial greenhouse gas emissions have originated in just 90 companies around the world, which either emitted the carbon themselves or supplied carbon ultimately released by consumers and industry.
Fossil
fuels propelled the
Industrial Revolution and subsequent technological advances.
Fossil
fuels powered the
Industrial Revolution.
The increase started around 1800, when we started burning fossil
fuels (mostly coal to start) in a big way at the start of the
Industrial Revolution.
Industrial Revolution A period of time beginning around 1750 marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil
fuels as a main source of energy.
Knisely projected that unless fossil
fuel use was constrained, there would be «noticeable temperature changes» and 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air by 2010, up from about 280 ppm before the
Industrial Revolution.
Industrial Revolution A period of time in the early 1800s marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil
fuels as a main source of energy.
We know with certainty that the increase in CO2 concentrations since the
industrial revolution is caused by human activities because the isotopes of carbon show that it comes from fossil
fuel burning and the clearing of forests.
The concentration of atmospheric CO2 has increased dramatically since the
Industrial Revolution (from around 280 parts per million [ppm] in preindustrial times to 401 ppm in 2015), primarily due to human activities such as the burning of fossil
fuels and changes in land - use.
Humans did not begin using fossil
fuels as a primary energy source until the
Industrial Revolution in the 18th century.
The rapid rate of climate change since the
Industrial Revolution has resulted from changes in atmospheric chemistry, specifically increases in greenhouse gases due to increased combustion of fossil
fuels, land - use change (e.g., deforestation), and fertilizer production (Forster et al. 2007).
Greenhouse gases released by the burning of fossil
fuels have steadily risen in the world's atmosphere since the
industrial revolution, trapping heat and leading to a global increase in average temperatures.
Sakichi, who was raised in a textile - manufacturing region and was inspired by Japan's late - nineteenth - century patent law, invented the automatic loom and
fueled Japan's
industrial revolution with an unrelenting stream of textile innovations.
The exhaustion of fossil
fuels and the advent of renewable energy in tandem with the application of the Internet, and now the Internet of Things, has propagated since the late 80s a Third
Industrial Revolution.
The 1840s gallery was chosen for the protest because it houses many paintings from the time of the
industrial revolution, when the large - scale burning of fossil
fuels began in the west.
Since the start of the
industrial revolution, carbon dioxide levels are believed to have risen by about one - third, largely due to the burning of fossil
fuels.
But the burning of fossil
fuels has caused a 41 percent increase in the heat - trapping gas since the
Industrial Revolution, a mere geological instant, and scientists say the climate is beginning to react, though they expect far larger changes in the future.
Since the
industrial revolution, we have been burning fossil
fuels and clearing and burning forested land at an unprecedented rate, and these processes convert organic carbon into CO2.»
Since the
industrial revolution the combustion of fossil
fuels and deforestation have led to an increase of 26 % in carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere.
And obviously excessive staus seeking cements in a desire for continued fossil
fuel burning as this has itself made materialism and status seeking more prevalent, in a vicious kind of self reinforcing cycle particularly noticeable after the
industrial revolution.
That growth requires increases in productivity, and, since the
Industrial Revolution began, those productivity increases have come primarily from fossil
fuels.
The atmospheric CO2 level was pretty stable throughout this period, up until the
industrial revolution ignited the fossil
fuel fire.
But the
Industrial Revolution led to widespread burning of fossil
fuels for energy, which released a deluge of carbon into the atmosphere.
However we are both against highly expensive and inefficient renewables that can't begin to replace fossil
fuel and will put a brake on the economic prosperity we have enjoyed — largely due to cheap plentiful power — since the
Industrial revolution.
Caused by the burning of fossil
fuels, deforestation, agricultural practices, and other human impacts, climate change has currently raised global temperatures 0.8 degrees Celsius (1.44 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the
Industrial Revolution average.
Pretty much the same rate it was rising before man figured out how to use fossil
fuels to make his life less miserable with the
Industrial Revolution.
The English got rid of wind power in the 1600's at the start of the Great
Industrial revolution as they learnt to tame and use steam power with coal as the
fuel source.
And this same period saw the expansion of fossil
fuel burning from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the
industrial - mass production
revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.
Since the
industrial revolution humans have burned an enormous amount of fossil
fuel, causing atmospheric CO ₂ and other greenhouse gases to skyrocket.