pre-Industrial

Bringing up anything pre-Industrial Revolution is a joke.

Scientology versus the Wikipedia 2009

When you have very old cities with pre-Industrial Revolution streets that barely allowed slow-moving horse carts to pass each other, it's not hard to get used to cars having to slow down and yield to other modes in some pretty high demand areas.

Dragging Seattle Into The Transportation Future « PubliCola 2010

These have all been plotted simultaneously so you can see the range of estimates for incremental change in temperature driven by greenhouse gases and below we show for a quadrupling of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas relative to pre-Industrial Revolution levels.

A Q&A Relevant to Catastrophyism 2010

For those keeping score at home, that would be fiscal liberals in the 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 10 spots, with the other three positions being manned by pre-Industrial Revolution icons.

Daniel Cluchey: Hoover v. Roosevelt: Decision 2010 2010

The deal represents a starting point, at least, but, "ongoing greenhouse gas emissions have committed the world to at least a 1.5-degree Celsius warming from pre-Industrial levels."

Christopher Mims: Cancun Climate Talks Limp to a Compromise at Close of Hottest Year on Record Christopher Mims 2010

TL;DR version at bottom 1. Bringing up anything pre-Industrial Revolution is a joke.

Scientology versus the Wikipedia 2009

First is that, according to “protocol,” humans are forbidden from revealing themselves to less-advanced cultures as the goompahs are, having a sophisticated but pre-Industrial Revolution society for fear of drastically-inhibiting their development.

Archive 2009-08-01 adamosf 2009

On little_details and every mailing list I've ever been on, there's standard advice about how far travelers in a pre-Industrial society can go in a single day, and it's always much lower than that.

Check Your Assumptions At The Door, Please little_details 2007

At this point we have discussed the pre-Industrial Revolution developments in toxicology, that were primarily devoted to the study of such naturally-occurring toxicants as the polyaromatic compounds contained in soot and heavy metals, and such toxins as botulinum toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridum botulinus.

History of toxicology 2008

Seems that with so much microscopic soot in our skies, clouds are now full of TINY raindrops (much smaller and more prevalent than in pre-Industrial clouds).

Think Progress » Jonah Goldberg: Concerns About Climate Change Are ‘Millenarian Battiness’ 2006