Sentences with phrase «revolution began»

The American industrial revolution began in Lowell.

In 1972, another practice revolution began.

The industrial revolution began around 1760, and really started getting rolling between 1800 and 1850.

«Oil wells go dry and coal seams run out, but for the first time since the Industrial Revolution began we are investing in energy sources that can last forever.»

Since the Industrial Revolution began around 1750, human activities have contributed substantially to climate change by adding CO2 and other heat - trapping gases to the atmosphere.

Today we are midway into a third great population surge, which may level off at eleven billion or so three to four hundred years after the modern scientific and industrial revolution began.

Curitiba's urban revolution began in 1971, when a young architect named Jaime Lerner was appointed mayor.

I also thought — knowing a tiny bit about history — that the industrial revolution began around 1800, and coal had been burned for centuries before that.

Atmospheric carbine dioxide, the major culprit among greenhouse gases, reached 384 ppmv (parts per million by volume) in 2007 compared to 290 in 1880, about 280 before the Industrial Revolution began, and never more than 300 during the 420,000 years before the Industrial Revolution.

Atmospheric concentrations of CO2, the principal driver of climate change, have climbed from nearly 280 parts per million (ppm) when the Industrial Revolution began around 1760 to 387 ppm in 2009.

At the start of the industrial revolution we began releasing this energy at an enormous rate to power our civilization.

Before the industrial revolution began in around 1850, the global concentration stood at 280 parts per million CO2.

And that effort meant people moving to the cities — a trend which began just about the time the LIA was ending and the Industrial Revolution began, when the world population was 1 - 1.2 billion [About.com], vs today's 6.5 billion.

The industrial revolution began with wood being replaced by coal as the primary energy source.

Even if you are a climate change skeptic, there is no question that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have been climbing steadily since shortly after the Industrial Revolution began and coal consumption started rising.

Absolutely it would cost trillions of capital investment, likewise we have invested trillions in fossil fuel energy production since the industrial revolution began.

The solar revolution began in earnest in 2008 when new installations soared to 6.7 GW from 2.5 GW the year before.

Every year since the industrial revolution began anthropogenic CO2 has been greater than the year before.

In fact, carbon dioxide levels have increased about 40 percent since the Industrial Revolution began in 1750.

This might be the first time since the Industrial Revolution began that we run out of a major resource without having a replacement.

Since the Industrial Revolution began, some people and...

«We became the Earth's infection a long and uncertain time ago, but it was not until about 200 years ago that the Industrial Revolution began: then the infection of the Earth became irreversible,» he says.

With a starting point of 1900, Callendar's 2.41 K / doubling looks pretty good but the IPCC likes to focus on 1850 as the date the Industrial Revolution began to destroy the planet.

But there is still hope, and perhaps more so than since the Industrial Revolution began to push up temperatures two centuries ago.

That's a remarkable rise over just 18 years, in comparison to the 1 °C the Earth's average surface temperatures have risen since the Industrial Revolution began.

For the first time since the Industrial Revolution began, we have an opportunity to invest in alternative sources of energy that can last as long as the Earth itself.

That growth requires increases in productivity, and, since the Industrial Revolution began, those productivity increases have come primarily from fossil fuels.

It also helps explain the initial cooling after the Industrial Revolution began (the smoke effect overwhelmed the relatively weak warming effect back then), the increase of global temperture during WW2 (shut down of industries) and decrease after WW2 (re-industrialization) and acceleration in the 1970's after the passage of the Clean Air Act.

Most of that carbon in the air * right now * was emitted by the West for the past two hundred years, ever since the Industrial Revolution began.

His masterful collages, which follow in the Spanish avant - garde tradition of Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and Juan Gris, now are reintroduced to the public at NYU's Grey Art Gallery, in the same neighborhood where the Ab - Ex revolution began (by way of the Cedar Tavern, the 9th Street Show, and the Club).

The artist was eight years old when the Cultural Revolution began, and the tumultuous narrative of his nation's recent past remains an integral part of his life today not merely as «historical fact,» but as a «psychological state.»

When the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, Zhang was eight years old.

Some artists featured in the exhibition were young children when the Cultural Revolution began, others were born during it, and one was born in its wake.

The enterprise gradually expanded, and when the smartphone revolution began, DeNA, along with its rival GREE, were quick to make use of IAP systems to collect cash.

The grumpy Poet Laureate summed up the feeling of longing and loss at missing out on life thus: «The sexual revolution began in 1963 / Too late for me...»

But the shale oil revolution began well over 5 years ago, and we all had a pretty good idea as early as a couple of years ago what the impact was going to be.

Although ebooks had existed as a futuristic dream with antecedents in the Palm Pilot, Project Gutenberg, and Doug Adams» 1979 novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it wasn't until the Kindle's launch late in 2007 that the ebook revolution began in earnest.

These same two ideas, both for and against self - publishing, have been uttered since the recent wave of indie author revolution began, to the point that they have almost become catch phrases for both the supporters and critics of the model.

The US was where the indie revolution began, so it's natural that most of us still focus primarily on the American market.

This is a topic that has headlined presentations since the digital revolution began, but interestingly, we still don't have the full picture of what reading will look like in even one year, let alone ten, fifty, or one hundred years.

This spring, the graduation rate is expected to hit 80 percent, a staggering improvement over the 63 percent figure that prevailed before the Writing Revolution began.

The cashless schools revolution began in 2004, when Croydon Council became one of the first local authorities to adopt a fully cashless system which enabled both online and cash based payments through PayPoint.

As the digital revolution began to influence how we communicate on a day - to - day basis in the early 2000s, it has also impacted the way lessons are taught in schools.

Sci - fi's green revolution began with the lyrical strains of folk singer Joan Baez, and the impressive orchestral music of her sometime arranger Peter Schickele (better known under the name of his classical novelty act «P.D.Q. Bach») with 1972's «Silent Running.»

Then, around 10,000 years ago, the agricultural revolution began.

Unfortunately, not long after the French Revolution began and the revolutionaries were all, «Hey, fuck you rich tax collector, dude, we want our money back so we can eat», and well, Lavoisier was beheaded.

The industrial revolution began with wood being replaced by coal as the primary energy source.

The Industrial Revolution began more than 200 years ago.

(The Industrial Revolution began more than 200 years ago and describes the rapid growth of industry.)

In our own era, another revolution began to unfold 15 years ago with the discovery of the accelerating universe.