Sentences with phrase «since dawn of industrial age»

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).

It's «equivalent to half the amount of carbon that has been released into the atmosphere 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.

You know, looking at trends since the dawn of the industrial age, seeing if they were consistent with his models, and finding that both those and the modern data (however limited) were consistent, he made a prediction.

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

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.

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.