Carbon emissions since industrial revolution

Figure 4 Vertical profiles of total dissolved inorganic carbon (TIC) in the ocean. Curve A corresponds to a theoretical profile that would have been obtained prior to the Industrial Revolution with an atmospheric CO2 concentration of 280 ixmol mol The curve is derived from the solubility coefficients for CO2 in seawater, using a typical thermal and salinity profile from the central Pacific Ocean, and assumes that when surface water cools and sinks to become deep water it has equilibrated with atmospheric CO2. Curve B corresponds to the same calculated solubility profile of TIC, but in the year 1995, with an atmospheric CO2 concentration of 360 xmol moPk The difference between these two curves is the integrated oceanic uptake of CO2 from anthropogenic emissions since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, with the assumption that biological processes have been in steady state (and hence have not materially affected the net influx of CO2). Curve C is a representative profile of measured TIC from the central Pacific Ocean. The difference between curve C and B is the contribution of biological processes to the uptake of CO2 in the steady state (i.e. the contribution of the biological pump to the TIC pool.) (courtesy of Doug Wallace and the World Ocean Circulation Experiment).

Second, for several thousand years preceding 1850 (approximately the start of the industrial revolution), the concentration of CO2 varied by less than lOppmv (Etheridge et al., 1996) (Figure 2(b)). Since 1850, concentrations have increased by 85 ppmv (—30%). The timing of the increase is coincident with the annual emissions of carbon from combustion of fossil fuels and the net emissions from land-use change (Figure 3). 

Global warming is one of the most serious present-day issues for the human to overcome. The enhanced greenhouse effect was mainly caused by the rapid increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution. To resolve the problems about carbon dioxide emissions, several new methods to recover and utilize carbon dioxide have recently been developed. ... 

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