Humans, since the industrial revolution have been producing these greenhouse gasses that play a major part in the greenhouse effect. Since the industrial revolution there has been a huge spike in the amount of greenhouse gasses that are being released into the atmosphere (as seen in graph 1). ... Since the Industrial Revolution huge amounts of gasses such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and halocarbons. ... The huge abundance of methane gas also came from the industrial revolution. ... Over millions of years before the industrial revolution the earth's climate has changed countl...

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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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This shows that people were careless about this problem since the beginning of the new industrial age. ... People think that the Industrial Revolution was part of the great achievements of the human species. They know little how industrial revolution has increased the risks of our lives. ... In the article, "Causes and Effects of Industrial Pollution," the author talks about how industries contaminate the drinking water, fresh air and the soil. Factories contaminate the environment by the use of outdated technology, insufficient waste disposal, use of natural resources, and unplanned industria...

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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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The increase of these toxins are because of human activity, and they have seen the biggest increase since the industrial revolution in the 18th and 19th century. "The industrial activities that our modern civilization depends upon have raised atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from 280 parts per million to 379 parts per million in the last 150 years....

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Since the industrial revolution, the atmosphere has been altered adversely, an action that has brought about climate change. ... Another proof that the green house effect will come about as a result if human interference is the fact that the concentration of greenhouse gases has increased tremendously since the industrial revolution. ...

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The predominant belief behind the idea is that human activity and toxic gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide, have increased exponentially since the Industrial Revolution. ... Oddly enough, the temperatures recorded during this time period surpassed even present day records by a wide margin, but occurred thousands of years earlier, long before the Industrial Revolution or the human emission of carbon dioxide had even begun. ...

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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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Under Water Sea life is one of the most beautiful and natural creations our Earth has to offer. Our oceans are the source of connection to all countries in this world. What we don't know about our oceans is that our beautiful sea life is being reduced and extinct by the human population. All the pol...

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Later on, McKibben started talking about the Industrial Revolution and the negative impacts on our ecosystem; the concentration of carbon dioxide that was once 275 parts per million is now 380 parts per million, meaning that there is already more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there has been for twenty million years. ...

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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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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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