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Rio was one of the mining sectors' loudest voices predicting a "stronger for longer" commodities boom on the back of a modern-day industrial revolution that is now slowing down. To support its growth projections, Rio this year announced multi-billion-dollar expansion plans to take capacity to 220 million tonnes a year, and 320 million tonnes by 2012. (International Herald Tribune)
Views of Ireland, old and new Nov 9, 2008
The HFA notes that Boorman, who was born in London, has lived in Ireland for most of his life, and offers up this excerpt from Boorman's memoir "Adventures of a Suburban Boy," to explain his sensibility: "Although hag-ridden by priests and oppressed by the Church, I felt Catholicism was only skin deep [in Ireland], that underneath it was a pagan place. For all its sorrows and suffering, Ireland had at least escaped the brutalizing effect of the Industrial Revolution which, in England, had sucked... (Boston Globe)
In food crisis, Mexican valley offers lessons Nov 9, 2008
We applied the Industrial Revolution model to the green agricultural revolution and we went a little bit too far in that direction, and now we have to back off a bit and respect the fact that the plants and the soil are biological, he said. They are not engineering problems. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Symptoms of global warming overrun Greenland Nov 9, 2008
The company markets the water it uses as purer than what is found in other parts of the world because it comes from melted inland ice formed thousands of years before the Industrial Revolution ... But the space agency also believes that Earth has been on a one-way warming trend triggered by human activity since the Industrial Revolution began about 1850. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
An eye for nutritious consumption is a necessity Nov 8, 2008
In August 2007, the New York Times dismissed the Malthusian catastrophe with the claim that the Industrial Revolution solved the impending food crisis [In dusty archives, a theory of affluence, Nicholas Wade, 08/07/2007. It seems that, at least here in America, a surplus has been maintained. (Yale Herald, CT)
Economics can opento new realities Nov 6, 2008
Importantly, the industrial revolution was overwhelmingly based on physics and chemistry, and both radically re-shaped human society. Today, we are at the forefront of a new scientific era, a biological one. (Asia Times Online)
Dr. Anane called "Ayatollah" of Ghana's Politics Nov 5, 2008
IN ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT, the first Ghanaian born to SYMBOLICALLY run for Mayor of Los Angeles, who once bravery stood up against a (few) Political Terrorists --- "Enemies of Democracy", "Enemies of Freedom" and "Enemies of Human Rights" in America who used all available means of a Super Power to persecute and torture his life, but were morally and ethically defeated --- (Sincere thanks to the Civilized and Democratic White House government under former President Bill Clinton which once ordered... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Personalized Learning Puts Students In A Class Of Their Own Nov 5, 2008
In fact, the image of classrooms as knowledge factories has not changed much since the Industrial Revolution, despite the major advances in teaching methods that have occurred. This model holds that teachers input information, pupils process it, and out comes the learning in neat little packages. (Science Daily)
Next NPP Govt would establish a university at New Abirem - Nana Nov 4, 2008
Nana Akufo-Addo said the next NPP Government would reactivate industries in the country and establish more under an industrial revolution to process more primary products for export and create employment for the youth. He urged the electorate to avoid ethnic politics and vote massively for the NPP on December 7. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Long-term Stabilization Of Carbon Dioxide In Atmosphere Will Require Major Cuts In Emissions Nov 4, 2008
By 2100 the models suggest that carbon dioxide concentrations could be as high as 590 parts per million (ppm) more than double the level of 280ppm that persisted for thousands of years before the industrial revolution, and significantly higher than today s level, caused by the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, of 386ppm. By 2300 the worst-case scenario shows that carbon dioxide levels could be 980ppm with an accompanying rise in global temperature of 5. (Science Daily)
Letter from Europe Nov 4, 2008
By the 17th century, the world had largely forgotten Bruges; in the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, thousands of inhabitants were reduced to begging, and it is said that more than 10,000 women eked out a living selling lace. Tourism, begun by the Brits who still flock in today, came to the rescue. (International Herald Tribune)
Your views: Weighing in on local, national issues Nov 3, 2008
The Constitution was written before the Industrial Revolution. Our founders knew nothing about electricity, trains, telephones, radio, television, automobiles, airplanes, rockets, satellites, the Internet, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, derivatives, and they had no health care system. (Florida Today)
Like feeling the hand of God Nov 1, 2008
The organised team game is a product of the English industrial revolution. It developed to satisfy the leisure needs of the working population of the new cities, created in the 19th century by the rise of the factory. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
You Can't Stop These Stocks Oct 31, 2008
The Atlantic recently reported on a National Bureau of Economic Research paper by Gary Richardson titled "Brand Names Before the Industrial Revolution.". Richardson found that even in medieval markets, "Buyers were willing to pay more for goods that came from reputable outlets, and this encouraged manufacturers to fashion their products with identifying features.". (MSNBC -- Business)
Guardians of the past uncover green lessons for the present Oct 31, 2008
Studying the systems of country estates, which were often self-supporting until the industrial revolution, has triggered modern versions, backed by new technology and energy-saving equipment. "We need to relearn the old wisdom of self-sufficiency and sustainability," said Maddy Jago, chair of the Yorkshire and Humber Historic Environment Forum, which is restoring the Dales hydroelectric plant, last used in 1946. (guardian.co.uk)
Laissez-faire is not fini Oct 31, 2008
Just look at what is happening in China and India, where a dab of economic freedom has set off the greatest burst of progress since the Industrial Revolution, freeing hundreds of millions from the bondage of poverty. John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, wondered at how pure "animal spirits" can lead pioneering entrepreneurs to put aside the fear of loss "as a healthy man puts aside the expectation of death." Bill Emmott, former editor of the Economist, notes capitalism depends on a... (Globe and Mail)
A nasty blizzard Oct 30, 2008
This revolution's new paradigm is very much how most Western urban areas handled their waste issues up to the industrial revolution. In many areas of Africa, it continues to be the unfortunate and unhealthy standard operating procedure. (Asia Times Online)
Climate Change Seeps Into The Sea Oct 30, 2008
The ocean has helped slow global warming by absorbing much of the excess heat and heat-trapping carbon dioxide that has been going into the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution. All that extra carbon dioxide, however, has been a bitter pill for the ocean to swallow. (Science Daily)
Climate action must proceed: UK, China Oct 30, 2008
" Ms Liddell said there were opportunities for those industries willing to seize the initiative. "We can either see this as an opportunity to stick our heads in the sand and hope that the turmoil goes away, that climate change goes away, or we can say here is the chance for a new industrial revolution," she said. "Here is a chance to regenerate our economies in a more carbon neutral way and the companies that seize the opportunity have great benefits to them. " ? 2008 Brought to you by send... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
The Minutes of the Lazarus Club T... Oct 29, 2008 Will robots be taking your job? Oct 29, 2008 Wearable technology Oct 28, 2008 World Can Halt Fossil Fuel Use By 2090 - Green Study Oct 28, 2008 Thoreau is rediscovered as a climatologist Oct 28, 2008 Modern molecules Oct 28, 2008 Kohler: "We Need a Comprehensive Strategy for Implementing the Idea of Sustainability" Oct 27, 2008 Annual Beecher Lecture evokes Cole’s English heritage Oct 27, 2008 Rep. McGovern advocates for alternative energy Oct 26, 2008 * Sustainable development is the only way out of the worlds crisis Oct 24, 2008 Kwame Mayor Appeals to President Jimmy Carter Oct 23, 2008 Nhyiaeso CPP candidate urges opponents to debate issues Oct 23, 2008 Thomas L. Friedman: Bailout (and buildup) Oct 23, 2008 BHS graduate, author discusses ever-changing global economy with local students Oct 23, 2008 Warming Up To The Issue Oct 22, 2008 In IT, all change is growth ... Oct 21, 2008 Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough Oct 21, 2008 The History of Medicinal Herbs Oct 19, 2008 Museum hosts climate change exhibit Oct 18, 2008 Random and beautiful Oct 13, 2008 Wales Rides A Coal Renaissance Oct 13, 2008 Karl Marx and his theory of alienat... Oct 12, 2008 Technology's Education Gap Oct 11, 2008 Is AMD the next big thing? Oct 11, 2008 A very human story Oct 11, 2008 Avenue to Wonderland Oct 10, 2008 NPP to make Tema Ghana's industrial base Oct 10, 2008 Blanket of snow is a poor man's fertilizer Oct 10, 2008 Warmer World Threatens "Happy Feet" Penguins Oct 10, 2008 Action call on reefs comes from Honolulu Oct 10, 2008 Deer cull plan to boost woodland Oct 8, 2008 Nature Inspires New Products in 'Biomimic' Study Oct 8, 2008 Independent Voice: The natural world has changed, even here Oct 8, 2008 Tsongas goes down to the river Oct 8, 2008 China Grim on Prospects for Climate Pact Oct 7, 2008 Introducing Earth 3.0 Oct 4, 2008 Slackers No More Oct 3, 2008 The New Gen X Manifesto? Oct 3, 2008 Pollution makes oceans noisier Oct 3, 2008 John William 'Bill' Leinenkugel Sep 24, 2008 False economy Sep 23, 2008 Troubled waters: Did we really save the whale? Sep 22, 2008 Thomas Friedman: No laughing matter Sep 21, 2008 VIDEO: The golden rule Sep 20, 2008 Big past, robust future in industry Sep 20, 2008 Farrey: New stadium costly to Bronx neighborhood Sep 20, 2008 Dying Frogs Sign Of A Biodiversity Crisis Sep 20, 2008 A Guide for Visiting the Scottish B... Sep 19, 2008 The chip that changed the world Sep 19, 2008 Looking for Small-Town Factories to Make a Big Impact Sep 18, 2008 Physicists: U.S. could cut oil use with better houses, cars Sep 17, 2008 Sheehy: Tremendous opportunities in China Sep 17, 2008 Ice Core Studies Confirm Accuracy Of Climate Models Sep 16, 2008 Letters to the Editor (Sept. 7) Sep 16, 2008 Prop. D could put life into historic Pier 70 Sep 15, 2008 Appetite for Destruction Sep 13, 2008 Scientists race to crack the potato's genetic code Sep 13, 2008 City celebration enters home stretch Sep 12, 2008 Distraction 2008: Freedom of choice-or from it? Sep 12, 2008 HOLIDAY PERSPECTIVE: The evolution of Labor Day Sep 10, 2008 Global warming fueling hurricanes? Sep 10, 2008 Longview School District celebrates new solar panels Sep 10, 2008 Hmmm... McCain gets nice bounce Sep 8, 2008 Climate of the changing mind Sep 8, 2008 How big government helps the economy take off Sep 7, 2008
With an archaeologists eye for historical detail, Tony Pollard's debut novel offers intrigue and insight into British life at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution ... Introduced into the group by Brunel and offered a role as club secretary, Phillips meets significant players in the years leading to the Industrial Revolution including Charles Babbage, Robert Stephenson, Joseph Bazalgette, Godsworthy Gurney and Isambard Brunel ... A Historical Drama set at the Beginning of the Industrial... (Suite101.com)
Tinned treat Oct 29, 2008
"Not only did our products fill European stomachs; they also got into European hearts and minds," said historian Rene Boretto, director of the Museum of the Industrial Revolution, which is on the site of the former abattoir. "In World War I, soldiers would say 'Fray Bentos' to indicate that something was good, the same way we nowadays say OK, " Mr Boretto said. (BBC News -- Americas)
Brain presented recently at the in San Jose, where, according to Wired (see ), he claimed that unlike the industrial revolution of 150 years ago, in which similar fears of mass unemployment never materialized, the coming robotic revolution will be different. For the first time, he says, technologists could be creating a "second intelligent species" in robots. (EETimes)
Futuristic fashion gets smart - CNN.com. Futuristic fashion gets smart. (CNN -- International)
6 Fahrenheit) since before the Industrial Revolution. The report urged measures such as a phase-out of subsidies for fossil fuels and nuclear energy, "cap and trade" systems for greenhouse gas emissions, legally binging targets for renewable energies and tough efficiency standards for buildings and vehicles. (Planet Ark, United States)
Thoreau died in 1862, when the industrial revolution was just beginning to pump climate-changing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In 1851, when he started recording when and where plants flowered in Concord, he was making notes for a book on the seasons. (International Herald Tribune)
While the Industrial Revolution focused on big projects ---- steel mills, coal mines and oil fields ---- the molecular age focuses on manipulating the microscopic. By gaining fine-grained control over matter, scientists have cured diseases, invented new clothing material such as nylon, and transformed the way information is produced and stored. (North County Times)
At the presentation ceremony in the Rostock town hall today, German President Horst Kohler emphasised the necessity for a new industrial revolution in energy and resource productivity - away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy sources. Mr Kohler: "Small course corrections are no longer enough. We need a comprehensive strategy for implementing the wonderful, good idea of sustainability." Important Information for journalists: Please find long versions, photos, vitae, interviews of the... (PR Newswire)
Barringer painted a picture of Cole during his talk, one born into a low to middle-class family of Bolton le Moors (present day Bolton, Lancashire) in the booming Greater Manchester area during the Industrial Revolution. As a young boy he witnessed the dark clouds of industrial smoke and red of the furnaces slither into what was once a lush forest and natural landscape. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
Subsidies and incentives could lead to "another Industrial Revolution," McGovern said. "If in five years from now we're still talking about drilling for oil, we're in deep, deep trouble," he said. (Holliston Tab, MA)
We have experienced great economic transformations throughout history: the industrial revolution, the technology revolution and the era of globalization. We are now on the threshold of another X the age of green economics. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Kwame Mayor, who was greeted at a recent CPP rally in Accra by thousands of Ghanaians at the rally ground, and perhaps, by millions of other Ghanaians glued to their television sets who roared with amazing joy as he (Kwame Mayor) was introduced on National Television, announced that he has formed a Non-Governmental Agency (NGO) with the acronym "A VOICE" on behalf of his Constituents --- has pledged to lead "Industrial Revolution" at Nhyiaeso Constituency aimed at bringing more jobs to the youth... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Mr Boateng said he would lead industrial revolution and bring more jobs to the people and appealed to investors to establish business in the area. He pledged to provide public safety, neighbourhood police post and contribute to the eradication of conflicts in the area. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
It has to also include bridges to somewhere - targeted investments in scientific research, mass transit, domestic clean-tech manufacturing and energy efficiency that will make us a more productive and innovative society, one with more skills, more competitiveness, more productivity and better infrastructure to lead the next great industrial revolution: ET - energy technology. . (International Herald Tribune)
Throughout his life and career he has noticed drastic change - from America's industrial revolution to today's global economy. During America's period of industrial growth, the United States was right beside other first-world countries while the second world was communist and uninvolved and the third world provided raw materials to first-world nations. (Boone Today, IA)
"What we have to do is convert the ingenuity that created the Industrial Revolution and accidentally caused global climate change and use that ingenuity and apply it to finding solutions.". The show starts with a section on fossil fuels, and then looks at how the Earth has become warmer as more greenhouse gases have ended up in the atmosphere. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
" Too true. Information technology has brought about much greater choice, in just about every aspect of our lives. That extends way beyond the infotainment revolution I have just described, to manufacturing. The "any-colour-as-long-as-it's-black" production line of the late industrial revolution has been replaced with a computer-controlled system that makes individualised items virtually on demand, marrying the economies of scale of mass production with the delights of bespoke handiwork. I also... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Long before the word "sustainability" was part of the average CEO's vocabulary -- and before, as McDonough puts it, "LEED [the green building standard] was even a twinkle in somebody's eye" -- he had begun postulating a third industrial revolution, one with the potential to transform how goods are made, cities are built, and literally everything is broken down and reused. His radical cradle-to-cradle philosophy demands that every product be designed for disassembly at the end of its lifetime,... (FastCompany)
As the industrial revolution of Britain materialized and took people away from the country to the cities in search of work, old values were left behind. However, in 1931, Maude Grieve of England wrote A Modern Herbal which brought together both science and tradition, indicating the value of both. (Suite101.com)
NEW YORK - The red line starts low to the ground, showing how much carbon was in the atmosphere before the Industrial Revolution ... "What we have to do is convert the ingenuity that created the Industrial Revolution and accidentally caused global climate change and use that ingenuity and apply it to finding solutions.". (MSNBC -- Environment)
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, designers and manufacturers have tried to translate advances in science and technology into things that improve the lives of millions of people. Mostly they've done so by standardizing design and production to ensure that those things can be made to a consistent quality and sold at affordable prices. (International Herald Tribune)
Britain's Industrial Revolution drew energy and backbone from under its undulating hills _ iron ore, coal, limestone and water _ all the things needed for iron production. In the 18th century, industrialists came to the valley to dig mines, build factories and smelt iron. (CBS News -- World)
Karl Marx was prompted to form his theory of alienation by his examination of the economic, social, and political developments brought about by the industrial revolution especially in Great Britain ... Machinery and factories that resulted from the growth and the subsequent expansion of the industrial revolution allowed the capitalist classes to reduce the wages paid to industrial workers, and make them endure terrible working conditions. (Suite101.com)
Since the Industrial Revolution, America has invented its future. From the creation of the automotive and aviation industries to semiconductors and computers, technological innovation is the engine that drives our growth and prosperity. (Forbes -- Technology)
Iron and railroads and the brawn of the Industrial Revolution muscled their way to the top of the heap in the local economy, but W. Douglas McCombs, curator of history at the Albany Institute of History and Art, finds that subtler, more diffuse developments can be equally transformative. McCombs pointed to thousands of women employed in the textile industry in the late 19th- and early 20th-century in Troy shirt-collar factories and Cohoes woolen mills. (Albany Times Union)
In England, applied science and technology ruled the day, and the Industrial Revolution was born. Not so in Germany, where post-Kantian Idealists tried to overcome the divide between subject and object, between self and the world. (Globe and Mail)
"It gives the figures that fantastic link with Victoriana and the industrial revolution, especially when it oxidises.". In a sense, Alice In Wonderland is a culmination of McRae's many and varied careers, all of which have found a place in his Darlinghurst home. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Tema, Oct 9, GNA - The New Patriotic Party (NPP), would embark on a national industrial revolution, starting from Tema, if retained in power in Election 2008. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, NPP flag bearer, said Tema, would be made the industrial base of the country, which would be critical to the party's vision of industrializing the country to create more jobs for the people. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
One study I read indicated that by the 1980s the amount of nitrogen deposited in the Colorado Front Range was 30 times greater than it was before the Industrial Revolution. Another study says that this number has since doubled. (Anchorage Daily News)
6 deg C since the Industrial Revolution, mainly through the burning of fossil fuels. The report said unless nations slash carbon emissions, the world would warm by an average 2 deg C in less than 40 years. (Planet Ark, United States)
It urges lower fossil fuel emissions, because carbon dioxide absorbed into the ocean is a major factor in the increasing seawater acidity since the Industrial Revolution ... In the 650,000 years before the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere were between 200 and 280 parts per million, Salm said. (Honolulu Advertiser)
The 18th Century saw the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution and trees being felled to build ships and for the construction of sewers in London 6 ... " Fences would be used to protect seedlings in areas where new planting was required. The charity wants to revive what is known as riparian forest - trees next to water - to tackle erosion around the River Moriston but also to provide leaf litter which creates food and habitat for invertebrates. Mr Featherstone said an aim was to achieve a... (BBC News -- UK)
BARCELONA - The Alpine edelweiss flower may hold clues to making better suncreams, while oyster shells could give hints about storing greenhouse gases in an emerging industrial revolution that mimics nature ... "Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution," she said. (Planet Ark, United States)
The industrial revolution compounded the problem by encouraging huge population growth that in turn fed at the industrial table. As people ate their resources, they disregarded the fact that industrial consumption produces toxic waste. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Tsongas yesterday said the rivers give the region a common geographic identity, and have been instrumental in economic history, as one of the key sources of power at the start of the Industrial Revolution. "I think it's important I, as a member of Congress, commit to protecting them," she said. (Beacon Villager, MA)
It says despite high annual emissions, per-capita greenhouse pollution is well below that of rich peers and historically it pumped out much less than rich nations over the past two centuries since the start of the Industrial Revolution. With little over a year until the negotiators gather to seek final agreement, Yu also said he hoped the United States under a new president would take "a more constructive and positive approach to the fight against climate change". (Planet Ark, United States)
0, when the industrial revolution gave the human race the leverage to achieve unprecedented health and prosperity but at the price of wanton consumption of natural resources. Today we have unwittingly become the major drivers of potentially disastrous change. (Scientific American)
The economist who popularized--who really defined the term--was talking about the Industrial Revolution. And then you had this long period of stability once the tumultuous aspect of the Industrial Revolution sort of settled. (Forbes -- Technology)
"This happened during the Industrial Revolution," writes Chamberlain, "and it's happening again with the information/technology revolution. Creative Destruction 2.0." Generation X has proved so adaptable and resilient because it has embraced--whether knowingly or unknowingly--this creative destruction. And Xers endured lots of destruction: the first generation to graduate college with huge credit card and loan debt; who entered a workforce with meager, declining entry-level wages; who, when the... (Forbes -- Technology)
Hester and his team found that sound may already be traveling 10 percent farther than it did a few hundred years ago because of the carbon dioxide the ocean has already absorbed since the beginning of the industrial revolution. By 2050, they predict that sound could travel as much as 70 percent farther in some ocean areas (particularly the Atlantic Ocean). (Yahoo News)
He studied, traveled on and valued their importance to the industrial revolution and their possibilities for the future. He knew all the carriers, their routes, and stops throughout the United States. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Page last updated at 12:44 GMT, Monday, 22 September 2008 13:44 UK. Sacrificing Millennium Goals would be a real crisis. (BBC News -- Science)
In the ongoing battle between human history and natural history, one particular species, the sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus, the real-life model for Moby-Dick stands alone, not least because its persecution coincides with the rise of the Industrial Revolution ... But just as whales helped further the Industrial Revolution, so it hastened their destruction. (Independent)
So we can't achieve escape velocity to enter the next orbit - the next great industrial revolution, which is going to be ET, energy technology. In many ways, this election is about how we get our groove back as a country. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Wyman is fascinated by the slide rule because it figured prominently in history the Industrial Revolution depended on slide rules for mechanical calculations and for what it reveals about how people lived. Everything that was measured, from hides to whiskey, can reveal much about diet and lifestyle in particular periods of history, he said. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Until the Industrial Revolution, paper-making long had been a laborious craft, says the book, written to mark the 1995 centennial of the company. The change came in the early 19th century, when two British brothers developed a commercial paper-making machine from the hand-cranked prototype of a French inventor. (Albany Times Union)
Professional sports in the United States is by no small measure built on the foundation of the playground movement, a national effort by social reformers to give children places to play in large cities made dense by the Second Industrial Revolution with population, pollution and juvenile crime. By 1917, there were 4,000 such parks around the country, up from just a few dozen a couple of decades earlier. (ESPN -- Baseball)
It may have started after the Industrial Revolution, when the human population exploded. Or, we might be seeing the start of it right now, Wake said. (Yahoo News -- Environment & Nature)
The town of Melrose somehow managed to avoid the Industrial Revolution, and remains an unspoilt place. Melrose Abbey is well known as being the final resting place of Robert the Bruce s Heart. (Suite101.com)
The integrated circuit, better known as the semiconductor chip, has unleashed change comparable to the Industrial Revolution by making the computer revolution and the digital age possible. Today there are far more chips on earth than people. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Factory Renovations shows viewers how an elite team of 'factory over-haulers' are bringing old and idle factories from the industrial revolution to the 21st century, while giving the audience an inside look at seldom seen manufacturing techniques. Casting for Factory Renovations is currently underway. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Science has also achieved an overwhelming consensus that the increase in greenhouse gases is largely of human origin, tracing back to the Industrial Revolution and accelerating in recent years, as carbon dioxide and methane the products of fossil fuel use have entered the atmosphere in increasing quantities. Modeling the climate has proven to be a complex scientific task. (Anchorage Daily News)
I would describe it as a cross between the California gold rush, our industrial revolution and the Jetsons. What impact will the recently completed Summer Olympics in Beijing and all the publicity surrounding the Games have on the business environment in China. (Milwaukee Business Journal, WI)
In contrast to the relatively low levels of carbon dioxide in the Ice Age, the burning of fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution has led to levels of greenhouse gases that by comparison are off the charts. The level of atmospheric carbon dioxide today is about 385 parts per million, or more than double that of some of the lower levels during the Ice Age. (Science Daily)
Roscoe wrote on Sep 7, 2008 8:21 AM:" Sorry John Jones, you're wrong. CO2 and air pollution are not both the same thing and work on the sun differently. Air particle pollution causes a 'dimming' effect on the sun, making the sun seem cooler (less of it actually hits Earth's surface). At the same time CO2 levels have risen consistently, causing a warming of any rays that do meet Earth's surface. Air pollution is not only human caused but anyone can look at level since the industrial revolution to... (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
At the old Union Iron Works machine shop on San Francisco's Pier 70, laborers of the industrial revolution toiled amid roaring iron foundries and steel mills, making parts for ships that gave the city its early maritime prowess. Images. (San Francisco Chronicle)
As the Industrial Revolution took hold, Americans came to count on an ever larger economic pie to anesthetize the unruly and ameliorate tensions related to class, race, religion, and ethnicity. Money became the preferred lubricant for keeping social and political friction within tolerable limits. (The American Conservative)
"The potato isn't just important now. It has always been important -- it's what enabled the Industrial Revolution in Europe (by allowing for a population boom), but also what caused the potato famine in Ireland," she said. Copyright. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
"It brings great insight into our past and the many machines that helped form part of the Industrial Revolution that was vital to this railroad town's flourishing over the years," he said. The Southwest Mississippi Amateur Radio Club will also be on-hand at Ole Brook to use their ham radios to announce the city's birthday party internationally. (Brookhaven Daily Leader, MS)
The two-century focus on what America's founding fathers called "the pursuit of happiness" - coupled with the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century and the rise of consumerism in the 20th - has birthed a landscape of options as dizzying as it is liberating. Bed and Bath, it turns out, aren't nearly enough. (Carroll County Times)
For many average American workers, the Industrial Revolution meant 12-hour workdays, a seven-day workweek, lax child labor laws and unsafe working conditions. In the 1880s, a workers holiday, proposed (according to different accounts) by either Peter J. McGuire, a political activist and labor leader (and a cofounder of the American Federation of Labor), or Matthew Maguire, a machinist and labor leader, was adopted by the Central Labor Union and organized for the first time on Tuesday, Sept. 5,... (Hingham Journal, MA)
Remember the industrial revolution. Factories polluted the earth for years, and yet, the earth s weather patterns did not change. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
pilaf wrote on Sep 9, 2008 1:35 PM:" There is more at stake than just getting what is "cheapest" here. If our country wants to be an economic leader again and bridge some of the gaps in science and math scores when compared with Asian students, for example, we need to invest in new technologies and should be encouraging this type of project for students to be involved with. I'm sure before the industrial revolution there was talk about how candles were cheaper than those new-fangled light bulbs... (Longview Daily News, WA)
The country needs an energy policy which will encourage development and investment in the next wave of power generation - not ancient, industrial revolution era ideas that are still around because the infrastructure is still profitable, if not sustainable. Think. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
If this melts, unlocking frozen carbon dioxide, it could potentially unleash more carbon dioxide than has been added to the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution. There is no guarantee that global warming can be stabilised at two degrees and even less chance at three degrees, according to the latest thinking of climate scientists. (Sydney Morning Herald)
The tens of thousands of miles of railroad created the nationwide marketplace that made possible America's first industrial revolution. Similarly, in the 20th century, the federal government built roads, dams, bridges, and, after World War II, the interstate highway system, which were the building blocks for the huge commercial growth of postwar America. (Boston Globe)
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