While it's not quite Industrial Revolution the late 19th C saw China & South America get hit by El Nino floods. & drought. > Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño

While it's not quite Industrial Revolution the late 19th C saw China & South America get hit by El Nino floods. & drought. > Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World is a book by Mike Davis about the connection between political economy and global climate patterns, particularly El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). 50m Chinese & Indian starved to death from drought. 25m South Americans got wiped out by floods. "All we had left was our slaves", one Brazilian wrote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Victorian_Holocausts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Victorian_Holocausts