carbon dioxide

This article examines energy consumption, the transition from organic to fossil energy carriers, and the consequent CO₂ emissions over a period of almost 150 years (1861–2000) in Italy and Spain.

This book presents a rich and extensive empirical study on biophysical aspects of two hundred years of economic history for Sweden.

Agnoletti and Corona provide the background on this issue.

Burning cultivation of peatlands has been practised in peat-rich countries at one time or other throughout Western Europe. In these and other peat-rich countries, the inclusion of the emissions from burning cultivation could substantially alter historical carbon dioxide emission estimates.

Two graphs covering the last 420,000 years. One indicates the concentration of CO₂ in the earth’s atmosphere, the other fluctuation in the average temperature on earth. Both include predictions for the remainder of the twenty-first century.