Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, energy consumption per person in the U.S. has crept ahead at 3% per year.

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Since the start of the industrial revolution, that concentration is now up to 390 parts per million.

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If the growth line continues downward you get right back to 0.2% per annum we had prior to the Industrial Revolution.

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It is said that atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentrations have increased from about 280 parts per million to around 370 parts per million since the start of the Industrial Revolution.

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It is believed that atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentrations have increased from about 280 parts per million to around 370 parts per million since the start of the Industrial Revolution.

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Before the 19th-century Industrial Revolution, the average carbon dioxide concentration worldwide was about 280 parts per million.

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Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 equivalent (carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases) reached 430 parts per million last year, compared with 280ppm before the industrial revolution.

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The Iranian revolution of 1979 created a modest shortfall in oil deliveries of approximately one million barrels per day (mbd).

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The human genome project itself, which was the enabling factor of this revolution, was perfectly exponential with the number of base pairs being sequenced doubling every year and the cost per base pair coming down by half every year.

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