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Would that change your views on global warming? It should, because climate change theory says increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere raises the temperature. Yet the hot 1930s was hardly a decade of carbon-spewing industrial growth.
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Actually, I'm pretty sure it was. The late 1800's to early 1900's was the era of the coal burning locomotive, the coal burning power plant, coal burning factories, even steam powered boats that burned coal - none of which had any scrubber technology or reduced emissions. This was also known as the 'Industrial Revolution.' They were basically putting unfiltered C02 into the air at any given time. But that's only half of the problem, really. It's not just C02 contributing to climate change. Methane, fluxuations with the Ozone layer over the years, deforestation, even the rising temperature of the oceans has more to do with what we're seeing these days, as it's not so much "global warming" in that we're all going to have hot temperatures, as it is more about "climate change," in that were going to have more and more natural disasters, droughts, forest fires, etc.. Add in a volcano here or there going off, and it really messes things up for all of us.