Before revision: Increasing fossil-fuel carbon emissions are a primary inertial driver of change to Earth's climate during recent decades, and vary based on the collective socioeconomic inertia of its over 8 billion human inhabitants.
After revision: Increasing fossil-fuel carbon emissions are a primary inertial driver of change to Earth's climate during recent decades, and have risen along with the collective socioeconomic inertia of its 8 billion human inhabitants.