Since the Industrial Revolution, there has been a significant increase in the emission of greenhouse gases, the majority of which is carbon dioxide. Chlorofluorocarbon and sulfur hexafluoride, other greenhouse gases, were introduced into the atmosphere for the first time following the Industrial Revolution. ... Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the carbon dioxide atmospheric concentration was about 280 ppmv, and as of 1994 it has reached 358 ppmv. ... The atmospheric concentration of methane has increased from 700 ppbv prior to the Industrial Revolution, to 1,720 ppbv in the year 1994. ... B...

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Although there is a natural cycle, the pattern is being altered due to effects of harsh chemicals exposed to the atmosphere beginning in the Industrial Revolution. ... The notion of climate change has accumulated support in recent years, but the presence of temperature heating beyond the normal cycle has been present since the time of the Industrial Revolution and only gained the political aspect years later. ... He concluded that, "...most of the CO2 released by artificial fuel combustion since the beginning of the industrial revolution must have been absorbed by the oceans. ... For the most ...

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Human lifestyles have evolved through various periods of revolutions that enhanced the standard of life. ... This was the birth of the Neolithic Revolution. Another revolution arrived a thousand years later. The Industrial Revolution involved the ability of man to develop machinery and better tools that enhanced the way of life. ... The term we associate with this change is an Environmental Revolution. ...

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EPA reports since the beginning of Industrial Revolution atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have increased 30%, methane concentration has doubled, and nitrous oxide 15%. ... Nitrous oxide is emitted during agricultural and industrial activities. ...

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Global warming happens because of the excess emission of the greenhouse gases from the industrial revolution. ... Since the industrial revolution, the increasing quantities of fossil fuels have been burnt and the carbon locked up in them is released into the atmosphere as CO2. ...

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"Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have increased nearly 30%, methane concentrations have more than doubled, and nitrous oxide concentrations have risen 15%" (U.S. ... These increases are a result of combustion of solid waste and fossil fuel, the production and transport of coal and oil, the decomposition of organic wastes, deforestation, and most significantly the through various industrial processes. ...

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Capitalism in its pure form is an economic and political system that is based on private accumualted weath and profit making by the buying and selling of goods in a free market. It is a complete separation of the producers from the means of production. But as Capitalism evolved with the changing t...

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Nitrous oxide is emitted during agricultural and industrial activities, as well as during combustion of solid waste and fossil fuels. ... Since the industrial revolution, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have risen, enhancing the heart-trapping capability of the earth's atmosphere. ... Increased agriculture, deforestation, landfills, industrial production, and mining also contribute a significant share of emissions. ...

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Increasing levels of greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide (CO2), in the atmosphere since pre-industrial times have been well documented. ... The remaining emissions are from methane from wastes in landfills, raising livestock, natural gas pipelines, and coal, as well as from industrial chemicals and other sources. ... However, during the Industrial Revolution, we began altering our climate and environment through changing agricultural and industrial practices. Before the Industrial Revolution, human activity released very few gases into the atmosphere, but now through population growth, fossi...

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Research indicates that carbon dioxide levels in the pre-industrial era were 280 parts per million; today they are 350. ... However, this concept of substitution would be severely tested by a depletion of the world's oil supply, since the structure of our modern industrial society is so dependent on the presence of oil. ... Studies of certain lakes in Scandinavia indicate that acid-sensitive species of microorganisms are present in much lower numbers than before the Industrial Revolution. ...

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More Than Just Hot Air In recent years, scientists have concluded that our planet is in a stage of global warming. While many people have heard of global warming, few realize how it may affect our planet. More importantly, they don't know what they can do to prevent it. I am going to assess the c...

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Scientists report that global warming has been escalating since the Industrial Revolution. Governments are trying to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. With the speed of destruction of Earths ecosystem, the survival of many species, including human beings, is threatened. In order to solve this danger,...

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Acid rain or acid precipitation is the rain, snow, fog hail which has pH levels below 5.6, the average acidity of rain. The pH scale is used to measure the level of acidity by measuring the hydrogen ion concentration, were pH 1 is the strongest acid and pH 14 is the strongest base. Acids and bases o...

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Global Warming There is a serious problem in every community today that many people do not pay much attention to or do not even realize it is much of a problem. In my opinion it is just as serious as any war or issue on drugs and violence. I say this because if we do not act now our future...

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After the industrial revolution, we can understand the vital role of how humans are the major cause of global warming through air pollution, since this, global warming acts directly by: increase in respiratory diseases, and water shortages and acts indirectly by: natural disasters, diseases, and diet and nutrition due to changes in agriculture production. ...

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ecology In the past decades there have been drastic and irreplaceable disappearances in earth. These include the drying out of the Aral sea, the fourth largest inland sea in the world. The reason for its disappearance is that the water that poured into it has been diverted. Another extraordinary c...

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These figures are not consistent with a natural trend, and, when one considers the tens of thousands of years in which humans have inhabited the earth, and that humans have really only started burning fossil fuels heavily since the industrial revolution, and the fact that the world's population is only going to increase, this number is dauntingly enormous. ...

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