“Furnaces… are burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year… it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries." - 1912
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At a pit in Hamilton Scotland my grandmother had 4 babies that died……meanwhile the Duke of Hamilton collected racehorses.