Article from 17.09.2009 | Last changed: 22.07.2020
Climate and greenhouse effect
… both natural (e.g. vulcanism) and anthropogenic (= man-made) origins. In the pre-industrial age the impact of human intervention was limited to a local or regional scale. Since the onset of industrialisation, however, it has become clear that transboundary and global … (CH 4 ) increased by 148 percent, and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) by 18 percent over pre-industrial age levels. There are numerous reasons for this and range from the sharp …