In 1700, in 1800, in 1900, no one cared.

1720 Urgency and safeguard duties

It was cooling down until about 1900 or so.

1900s maybe one percent.

In 1900, he left England, and he never returned.

In 1900 he left England, never to return.

Here is GDP per capita from 1900 to 1929.

Most people in rural North America owned some land by 1900.

For one thing, Germany had surpassed Britain in industrial strength by 1900.

This chart shows the decline in ocean wildlife from 1900 to 2000.

Nineteen million hectares of rainforest are lost every year to create new arable land.

Human life expectancy barely changed before the late eighteenth century. Yet it is difficult to overstate the magnitude of the gain since 1900 in that year, life expectancy worldwide was 32 years, compared to 69 now (and a projection of 76 years in 2050).

If you had based your prediction, your forecast on 1900 to 1929 you'd have predicted something like this.

It took us three years to double our price performance of computing in 1900, two years in the middle we're now doubling it every one year.

1900 the U.S. Indian population reached its low point less than 250,000, compared to an estimated eight million in 1492.

Circular 1900 2001 TT TCDC by Department of Land Office guide procedures to offer the right to land use without any discrimination against sex of land users.

His name was Sven Arrhenius. He was Swedish, and he said, if you double the CO2 level in the atmosphere, which he thought might this is in 1900 the temperature ought to go up about 5.5 degrees, he calculated.

This is a nuclear waste storage and encapsulation facility at Hanford site in Washington State, where there are over 1,900 stainless steel capsules containing nuclear waste submerged in water.

Germany had surpassed Britain in industrial production by 1900. Even at its current high rates of growth, China s economy is unlikely to equal that of the US for at least two more decades.

Even taking into account that someone has to do unpaid housework and the increased costs of female education, the loss was at least 17 of global GDP in 1900. Today, with higher female participation and lower wage differentials, the loss is 7 and projected to fall to 4 by 2050.

In Article 4.2, the parties agree to delimit and demarcate the colonial treaty border, by a neutral Boundary Commission, on the basis of pertinent colonial treaties (1900, 1902 and 1908) and applicable international law .

It will probably come as a big surprise that climate change is expected to be mostly an increasing net benefit rising to about 1.5 of GDP per year in the period from 1900 to 2025. This is because global warming has mixed effects for moderate warming, the benefits prevail.

According to the same study, which was based on 323 cases of armed and unarmed opposition campaigns between 1900 and 2006, the likelihood of democratic transition within five years following a successful armed opposition campaign is only 3 , compared to 51 when campaigns were unarmed.

In 1750, Asia had three fifths of the world population and three fifths of the world s economic output. By 1900, after the industrial revolution in Europe and America, Asia accounted for just one fifth of world output.

The United Kingdom maintained a current account surplus for the century before World War I, and the US did the same for about 80 years before 1980. But neither country, apparently, did so by manipulating its exchange rate.

The technologies on which many of us depend today arose from a parallel convergence of discoveries in physics and engineering in the early twentieth century. In 1900, the world did not have ready access to electricity, automobiles and aviation, or telecommunications.

When the Industrial Revolution began, Asia s share of the global economy began to decline from more than 50 to just 20 by 1900. By the second half of this century, Asia is expected to recover its former economic dominance that is, account for 50 of global output while lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

In 1900, when the global human population was 1.5 billion, almost three million people roughly one in 500 died each year from air pollution, mostly from wretched indoor air. Today, the risk has receded to one death per 2,000 people.

VENICE The run up in gold prices in recent years from 800 per ounce in early 2009 to above 1,900 in the fall of 2011 had all the features of a bubble. And now, like all asset price surges that are divorced from the fundamentals of supply and demand, the gold bubble is deflating.

Things have improved immensely in both the developing and developed worlds. In the last 100 years, scientists have won many of the most important battles against infectious diseases, to the extent that poverty is now the main reason for a lack of treatment.

Yet, to put matters in perspective, the scorecard also shows us that the world s biggest environmental problem by far is indoor air pollution. Today, indoor pollution from cooking and heating with bad fuels kills more than three million people annually, or the equivalent of a loss of 3 of global GDP.

MADRID This month, the International Energy Agency will publish its annual report, the internationally definitive World Energy Outlook, which will confirm that we are not on the right track to reduce global warming. If the current trend in energy production continues, the earth s average temperature will be more than 2ºC higher in 2100 than it was in 1990, irreversibly harming the planet and conditions for human life.

Suppose you had placed a long term bet on financial equities in 1900, along with a short bet on general equities in effect a gamble on whether the UK financial sector would outperform the market. For the first 85 years, this would have been a very uninteresting gamble, generating an average return of only around 2 a year.

In the last 100 years, scientists have won many of the most important battles against infectious diseases, to the extent that poverty is now the main reason for a lack of treatment. Global average life expectancy in 1900 was 30 years today, it is 68 years.

In the prosperous West, rapid increases in literacy were achieved early in the twentieth century. In developing countries, similarly large (and continuing) gains were made from 1970 to 2000, with China recording the biggest improvement.

It is remarkable to consider that we could cancel out this century s global warming with 1,900 unmanned ships spraying seawater mist into the air to thicken clouds. The total cost would be about 9 billion, and the benefits of preventing the temperature increase would add up to about 20 trillion.

Evangelicalism is the fastest growing world religion by conversion a trend that underlies the strong expansion of Protestantism in traditionally Roman Catholic Latin America. Protestants in Latin America accounted for only 2.2 of the population in 1900, but 16.4 in 2010, with growth coming mainly at the expense of Catholics, whose population share fell from 90.4 to 82.3 .

Using classic economic valuations of everything from lost lives, bad health, and illiteracy to wetlands destruction and increased hurricane damage from global warming, the economists show how much each problem costs. To estimate the magnitude of the problem, it is compared to the total resources available to fix it.

By 1900, the industrial revolution in Europe and North America drove down Asia s share of global output to 20 . By the middle of this century, Asia should again represent half the world s population and GDP.

In the last decade, those displaced by conflicts alone rose from 19 million to 26 million, with millions more displaced by disasters. The plight of these victims long went unrecognized, as governments and the international community alike failed to acknowledge their rights to protection and assistance.

It may be helpful to look back, in particular, to Japanese actions at the time of the Boxer Rebellion (1900), as well as during World War I. Of course, there are huge differences between the situation then and what Japan faces now. But those historic contexts shed light on Japan's response to events in Iraq and the wider world today.

Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton wrote in their book Triumph of the Optimists that of 15 countries that have advanced economies today, the US stock market ranked fourth in its rate of return between 1900 and 2000, behind Australia, Sweden, and South Africa. The geometric average real return of the US stock market was 6.7 , but the median geometric real return for the other countries was only 4.7 .

As temperatures have increased, the sea level s rise has accelerated from one centimeter per decade in the early twentieth century to more than three centimeters in each of the last two decades an overall increase of nearly 20 centimeters since 1900. While the numbers may seem small, the rise significantly increases the likelihood of severe flooding along vulnerable coasts worldwide.

In 1800, Asia represented more than half of global population and output. By 1900, it represented only 20 of world output not because something bad happened in Asia, but rather because the Industrial Revolution had transformed Europe and North America into the world s workshop.

That will put more pressure on the country s already limited stock of agricultural land. Educating young Malawians, especially girls, and making contraceptives widely available, would do much more to slow population growth than a few inter country adoptions.