Industrial Revolution Kick-Started Climate Change Much Earlier Than Previously Thought

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Aug 25, 2016, 8:09 am386 pts
By Helen McGregor, Joelle Gergis, Nerilie Abram and Steven Phipps In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, no one would have thought that their burning of fossil fuels would have an almost immediate effect on the climate . But our new study, published Wednesday in Nature , reveals that warming in some…

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