283 from Aug 24, 2016 Climate Change Already Started 180 Years Ago Study Indicates Industrial Revolution Had Noticeable Impact on Global Warming

Study Indicates Industrial Revolution Had Noticeable Impact on Global Warming. ' 283/2016 from Aug 24, 2016 An international research team has now found out that climate change already began 180 years ago, much earlier than believed up to now. To determine the earliest time of global warming, the scientists studied the so-called natural climate archives of the northern and southern hemispheres, both on land and in the oceans, from the past 500 years. These natural climate archives consist of tropical corals, sediment cores, stalagmites, tree rings, and ice cores. In addition, they analyzed models on climate development covering several thousand years. "Our data indicate that the early global warming in connection with rising concentrations of greenhouse gases is already a result of the industrial revolution," says Dr. Jens Zinke, a paleontologist at Freie Universität Berlin and co-author of At the beginning of the industrial revolution, a comparatively small amount of greenhouse gases were released, but nonetheless, it can be demonstrated that they contributed to the onset of global warming, according to Zinke. The findings also indicate that volcanic eruptions, which were frequent in the early 19th century, only had a small influence on the start of global warming.