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Since the outset of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s, the carbon dioxide concentration in Earth’s atmosphere has increased by about 47%, most rapidly from about 1960 onward:

Another way to view the  “case fatality rates” (deaths/cases) for the world (2.2% and falling) and US (1.8% and falling):

 

Some of the global warming since 1850 could be a recovery from the Little Ice Age rather than a direct result of human activities. So it is important to recognize that natural variations of climate are appreciable and will modulate any future changes induced by man.