Global warming with earlier industrialization

The same old story, folks.

The Arctic Circle is melting, and nations seek to use the newfound Northwest Passage for trading purposes. Storms are worsening ,sea levels are rising, the weather's changing...

Except the culprit isn't the modern world, but the culmination of several centuries of Chinese *industrialization [1].

(Yes, Charles Stross's new book inspired this).

Thoughts?



[1] Coal mines like in OTL Song, steamships on the grand canal, and so forth. Possibly Europe copied them .

If you don't believe that global warming is due to industrialization... go start a thread elsewhere. Or pretend that the emission of enormous amounts of carbon dioxide are merely coincedental with the warming of the planet in the ATL.
 
Can you give me the details and name of Charles Stross's new book?

The Clan Corporate.

Basically, its' about a family in an ATL who can wal between worlds, and have been using their ability for various purposes. One of the worlds that the protagonist comes across is one where the americas are reuled by Hanoverians after the Stuarts kicked them out of Britain.

Industrialization has been slower, but more even; and everyone uses coal. As a result, recently harvests have been poor, which the climate changing, and nobody there knows why.

(And this is just a minor plot detail. Man, that guy can write).
 
Global warning is not due to Industrialization, Industrialization is due to Global warming,
The warming started in the early 14th century, due to the Great Clearing.
Course I agree that industialization has speeded it up a lot.

Delay the Chinese retreat from their pre industrialization in the 1400's, and allow the Europeans to be exposed to the Ideas.
The Ancien' Regime gets a stake in the early industrialization, but as the political system starts changing, both the political and Industrial systems get caught in the drive to maintain the Status Quo, and innovation gets slowed way down.

The coming climate change, will of couse break this dead lock allowing Innovation to florish.
 
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