dimecres, 18 de gener del 2017

The first time!

The Rodnen & Otamatea Times
WAITEMATA & KAIPARA GAZETTE.
PRICE-10s per annum in advance
WARKWORTH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1912.
3 per Copy.


Coal consumption affecting climate (1912)

Science Notes & News
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COAL COMSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE
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The furnaces of the world are now
burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of 
coal a year. When this is burned,
uniting with oxygen, it adds about
7,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide
to the atmosphere yearly. This tends
to make the air more effective blan-
ket for the earth and to raise its
temperature. The effect may be con-
siderable en a few centuries.
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