Re: Iceberg story ....
Posted by
hanna on 11/24/2009, 6:40 pm
If I remember correctly, I read massive use of coal which began in the 1700's is considered the beginning of global warming.
A portion of the article below tells when coal was massively used.
In the early days, the methods of burning coal were so inefficient that smoke and bad odor filled the air. But the English eventually solved these problems. The industrial revolution, which dates from the 1700s, was largely dependent on coal as the chief source of power to drive steam engines.
With the growing industrialization after 1850, coal was increasingly used in the United States. The growth of railroads gave the coal industry one of its largest customers and also stimulated the iron and steel industry, another large user of coal.
In the late 1890s, the development of steam driven electric generators sparked the growth of the electric power industry, the modern coal industry's largest customer.
Coal supplies the fuel used to generate over half the electric power in the U.S. today. Coal is burned under boilers containing water and steam from the boiling water spins turbines that turn generators to produce electricity.
http://www.youaskandy.com/questions-answers/28-articles-series-1990/2540-when-was-coal-first-used.html
Yes I realize this only addresses the use of coal.
I do agree mother nature/Earth will make changes as needed.
jack ruby, Today, 9:19 am. https://canetalk.com/2009/11/1259075986.shtml
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