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Why didn't we have global warming during the Industrial Revolution?
We didn't have global warming during the Industrial Revolution
'Why didn’t we have global warming during the Industrial Revolution? In those days you couldn’t have seen across the street for all the carbon emissions and the crap coming out of the chimneys.' (Alan Titchmarsh)
What the science says...
Global CO2 emissions during the Industrial Revolution were a fraction of the CO2 we are currently emitting now.
The Industrial Revolution spanned the 18th and early 19th Century. Over this period, global CO2 emissions were a fraction of current levels. During the 18th Century, global CO2 emissions were around 3 to 7 million tonnes per year. During the early 19th Century, CO2 emissions steadily rose reaching 54 million tonnes per year by 1850. Currently we are emitting over 8000 million tonnes per year.
Last updated on 9 July 2010 by John Cook.
The skeptic argument...