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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The Industrial Revolution brought about the dawn of the technological age we now thrive in. ... As long as cheap emission credits are available, the major industrial polluters have no financial incentives to invest in new, c! ... U.S. negotiators are doing the opposite, proposing that the United States be allowed to obtain all of its emission credits by building low-pollution energy and industrial plants in other countries. ...

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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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