How to Use preindustrial in a Sentence

preindustrial

adjective

• So far, the globe has warmed by about 1.1 degrees C since preindustrial times.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2021
• The show opens with a film of a preindustrial construction site.
  — Curbed, 17 Feb. 2022
• The planet as a whole has warmed by about 2.2 degrees F (1.2 degrees C) since preindustrial times.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 25 July 2023
• Ali was born Virginia Rollins in 1933, and in many ways, her formative years were preindustrial.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• The planet has already warmed by about 1.2 degrees C, or 2.2 degrees F, since the preindustrial era.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2023
• Nearly half the days last year reached at least 2.7 degrees over preindustrial levels, Burgess said.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
• The planet was on track to warm by well over two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
  — Arunabha Ghosh, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
• So a heat wave was 10 times more probable on this warming planet than in preindustrial times.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2023
• The world has already warmed 2 degrees Fahrenheit since preindustrial time, so this is really about a few tenths of a degree more.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2021
• The products of the preindustrial tradition and its modern revival set British cheese apart from those made elsewhere.
  — Charlotte Druckman, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021
• Twenty years later, the survivors are eking out a preindustrial life amid the ruins.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2021
• But that would still put Earth on track to heat up roughly 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels by the century’s end, the report found.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• This is to try to meet the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C, compared to preindustrial levels.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2022
• That day was the first that the average air temperature near the surface of the Earth was 2 degrees Celsius warmer than preindustrial levels.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2023
• Restoring methane to preindustrial levels would save 0.5°C of warming and could happen in your lifetime—and mine.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
• The planet has now warmed at least 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) compared with preindustrial levels, and nearly every year in the past decade ranks near the top.
  — Naema Ahmed, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
• That’s the increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, comparing this year’s measurements to the preindustrial era, according to a new report.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
• Cajal, who grew up in the preindustrial countryside, saw in the nervous system the natural images of his childhood.
  — Benjamin Ehrlich, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2022
• For years, there’s been a consensus in the climate movement: no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
  — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2023
• The lawn next to the university’s basilica became a preindustrial work site.
  — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
• The planet already has warmed 1.1 degrees Celsius over preindustrial times.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
• The Paris Agreement’s goal is to limit warming to 2 degrees above preindustrial levels, or ideally just 1.5 degrees.
  — WIRED, 6 Mar. 2023
• Global temperatures are already a little more than one degree C warmer now than in preindustrial times.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2023
• The Earth’s average temperature is on the brink of rising 1.5 Celsius over the preindustrial average.
  — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• The climate is swiftly moving closer to the most stringent warming limit under the Paris climate agreement, which aimed to hold climate change to under 1.5°C above preindustrial levels.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 24 July 2024
• And with the increase in global average temperatures now more than 2 degrees over preindustrial times, research has shown that the increase in water vapor is leading to more extreme downpours in many parts of the world.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• Greenhouse gas emissions, mainly driven by the burning of fossil fuels, have now warmed the planet by about 1.2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
  — David Gelles, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Extreme temperatures are no longer an outlier on a planet warmed by 1.2 degrees Celsius since the preindustrial age.
  — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2023
• Thirteen of the past 14 months have seen global average surface temperatures that exceeded 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, which is a key warming target under the Paris Agreement.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024
• Recent assessments by the UN Environment Program conclude that by 2100 the planet will reach three degrees above preindustrial levels unless current policies are strengthened.
  — Karen Florini, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024