The Industrial Revolution didn’t happen in the 19th century?
Well it started, in England in the 1700s - so (a) not even a European phenomenon, let alone "global" and (b) anything you have to say about that period is eclipsed by the big bang of Krakatoa - to name but one. The whole globe was affected by a volcanic winter in the 1830s too. And before that, there seems to be conclusive evidence of some climatic catastrophe in the C6th with evidence from China to the Americas.
Which - once again - is irrelevant to the matter of "tackling" climate change. Which is much more about being more careful where we build houses, and how we manage water, and a lot less about thinking a few windmills and paper bags are going to save the species.
The bottom line - from a scientific perspective - is that life on earth will do just fine whatever. One of the less discussed trends of recent years has been the fact that wherever scientists stick their noses on earth, they have found life. Wherever. It's almost (as Prof. Brian Cox himself mused) as if life is an inevitable fact of chemistry, and an intrinsic part of planetary development.
Know how our ancestors cleared vast swathes of forest so quickly after the ice-age ? They just burned them. Thousands of square miles of thick forest going up in smoke to clear the land to plant some more cannabis and wheat (cannabis first, from archaeology). And to then continue the master plan to domesticate various Taurine and Bovine species in a quest to perfect the ultimate greenhouse gas pump - the modern cow (although I believe termites are still something to aspire too).
If you're going down the path of blaming mankind for climate change, then have the courage of your convictions, and admit it probably started way before the "evils of industrialisation" (and I note the subtext in that view ....) and begins in the idyllic pre-history when there were no British Isles, as we were physically part of Europe. Although I can just picture a small backward tribe somewhere on the South Downs praying to the God Fah-rah-gey for a tsunami of biblical proportions to cut us lose from the tyranny of beakerware.
Maybe we need to look at the Japanese (once again) for a steer in common sense. They haven't wasted the past few centuries in a fruitless debate about whether earthquakes are caused by underwater giant dinosaurs, or the will of God, or Mars conjoining with Ceres. They simply accepted them as a fact of life and in the main designed their lives - and buildings - around them.
Returning to the idiom "-denier" ... there is a quasi inquisitorial vibe to the construct. Much as "heretic" in days of yore.
You know, everybody loves to quite Godwins law (well, the first law, anyway). There really needs to be another one, for internet debates .... something along the lines of the more something is discussed, the more likely it is a Monty Python sketch needs to be referenced.
Blasphemer !!!!