| March 23, 2009 | - The Environmental Protection Agency submitted for White House approval a proposal finding that global warming endangers public health and welfare.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| March 20, 2009 | - Transcripts emerged from a March 6 radio appearance by Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele in which he discussed climate change. “We are cooling,” explained Steele. “We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about.”
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 24, 2009 | - A rocket carrying the NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory, intended to track global warming, crashed on launch.
| Source:
Sky News
|
| December 12, 2008 | - Spurred by pollution, global warming, and overfishing, massive poisonous jellyfish and tiny jellyfish-like creatures were gathering in huge swarms, disrupting fisheries and marine mines, clogging nuclear-plant intake valves, and threatening tourists around the world.
| Source 1:
Colorado Springs Gazette
Source 2:
Christian Post
Source 3:
NSF
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| September 23, 2008 | - Scientists hunted for crops that could withstand climate change.
| Source:
BBC
|
| September 1, 2008 | -
McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, 44, as his running mate. Palin, an evangelical Christian, supports the death penalty, believes that the “jury's still out” on global warming, opposes abortion, and is mother to five children: Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and five-month-old Trig, who has Down syndrome. Rumors arose that Bristol, 17, was the actual mother of Trig; in response, Palin announced that Bristol was actually five months pregnant with the child of a man named “Levi” and would soon marry him.
| Source 1:
Telegraph.co.uk
Source 2:
Washington Times
Source 3:
Washington Post
Source 4:
Independent
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| August 28, 2008 | - Satellite images revealed that global-warming-induced melting had left the North Pole an island.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| August 9, 2008 | -
Australian
scientist George Wilson called on people to eat kangaroo instead of beef to reduce global warming.
| Source:
BBC
|
| July 26, 2008 | -
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill requiring that students in the state's public schools be taught about global warming.
| Source:
San Jose Mercury News
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| July 10, 2008 | - President George W. Bush met with other world leaders at the G8 summit to discuss climate change. “Goodbye,” he said as he left, grinning and punching the air, “from the world's biggest polluter.”
| Source:
Telegraph UK
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| April 11, 2008 | - Scientists identified a group of 8,000-year-old Norway spruce trees in western Sweden, believed to be the oldest on earth. The trees, which took root after the last Ice Age, stayed at a shrublike size for most of their lives. “The past few decades we have seen a much warmer climate, which has meant that they have popped up,” said tree expert Leif Kullman.
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 8, 2008 | - Two independent studies concluded that biofuels were a threat to the planet.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 7, 2008 | - Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Wisconsin were devastated by tornadoes that killed 54 people, injured more than 150, caused millions of dollars' worth of damage, and whisked away eleven-month-old baby Kyson, depositing him face-down in mud 300 feet from his home, where he lay, unharmed, until searchers realized he was not a doll. Senator John Kerry said the tornadoes were caused by global warming.
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
Business & Media Institute
|
| September 28, 2007 | - President George W. Bush skipped all events related to the U.N. discussions on global warming, except for dinner, because he was holding his own summit later in the week; reporters covering the Bush conference received a pocket-sized handout aimed at dispelling “myths” about the administration's environmental policy, including the myths that Bush refuses to admit that humans are a factor in climate change, or that climate change is real.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Associated Press
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| August 20, 2007 | -
Melting ice in the Arctic revealed previously unknown islands that have yet to be claimed.
| Source:
Yahoo News
|
| August 10, 2007 | - In the midst of a brief thunderstorm that transfixed the New York City subway system and killed one motorist, a tornado formed over the Atlantic Ocean, grazed the north coast of Staten Island, and blew into Brooklyn, felling 292 trees, ripping roofs off dozens of buildings, and displacing 200 people from their homes.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
NY1
|
| August 10, 2007 | - In India police killed a protester at a riot of flood victims, and the monsoon death toll climbed above 2,000, with many of the fatalities blamed on snakebites. “Everyone is crammed in together,” said an expert, “and the chances of running into snakes, stepping on them, grabbing them, and sleeping on them is much, much more.”
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
IHT
|
| July 16, 2007 | - In China, where flooding has killed hundreds of people this summer, the rampant Yangtze River had caused Dongting Lake to overflow, leading two billion rats to flee to the Hunan countryside, where there are few predators to reduce their numbers, as the snakes have been eaten by southerners and the owls have been used for medicine. Besieged farmers were poisoning the rats, beating them with hammers, and sending them, live, by truckload to restaurants in Guangzhou, where diners pay 136 yuan for a kilogram of ratmeat.
| Source 1:
National Geographic
Source 2:
ABC News
Source 3:
Sydney Morning Herald
|
| July 7, 2007 | - Al Gore Jr. was arrested for possessing both pills and pot after he was pulled over for driving 100mph in his hybrid car. At Gore's father's 24-hour, seven-continent Live Earth concert for the environment, Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon addressed the crowd. “Everyone who did not arrive on a private jet,” he said, “put your hands in the air.” Le Bon then put his hand in the air.
| Source 1:
Reuters
Source 2:
NME
|
| June 21, 2007 | - A five-acre glacial lake in the Andes
vanished.
- A five-acre glacial lake in the Andes
vanished.
| Source:
AP via CNN
|
| June 20, 2007 | -
Scientists called Europe's
winter of 2006 - 2007 the warmest in 700 years.
-
Scientists called Europe's
winter of 2006 - 2007 the warmest in 700 years.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| April 19, 2007 | - One centimeter of snow accumulated on the drought-stricken Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in what China claimed to be the first artificial snowfall.
| Source:
The Guardian
|
| April 17, 2007 | - A report detailing the effects of global warming in North America predicted the end of “a reliable snowmobile season” by mid-century.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| April 2, 2007 | - The Supreme Court forbade the Environmental Protection Agency to shirk its responsibility to regulate greenhouse gases.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| March 21, 2007 | -
Al Gore returned to Capitol Hill to testify that global warming is a planetary emergency. Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts called Gore a prophet, and Rep. John Dingell of Michigan addressed him as “Mr. President.” Joe Barton of Texas, the leading Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told Gore he was “totally wrong” and that, if need be, Republican lawmakers would stay late for an “all-out cat fight” with Democrats. Ralph Hall, also of Texas, speculated that Gore's attack on the energy industry could result in war “when and if OPEC nations abandon the U.S.A.,” and Roscoe Bartlett (R., Md.) said that he thought it was “probably possible to be a conservative without appearing to be an idiot.”
| Source 1:
AP vie Breitbart
Source 2:
Huffington Post
|
| March 21, 2007 | - Czech President Vaclav Klaus said that a new “anti-greenhouse religion” had replaced Communism as the paramount threat to global freedom. “This ideology preaches earth and nature, and under the slogans of their protection--similarly to the old Marxists--wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central, now global, planning of the whole world.”
| Source:
Reuters via the San Diego Union Tribune
|
| March 3, 2007 | - The United States projected that it would emit 19 percent more greenhouse gases in 2020 than it did in 2000.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 19, 2007 | - A United Nations expert panel announced a 50 percent likelihood that widespread ice sheet loss was inevitable and could elevate sea levels by up to 19 feet in the next several hundred years.
| Source:
Guardian
|
| February 13, 2007 | -
Richard Branson offered a $25 million prize to anyone who can remove a billion tons of carbon dioxide per year from the atmosphere.
| Source:
NYT
|
| February 7, 2007 | - Al Gore accused the Bush Administration of paying bribes to scientists willing to dispute global warming.
| Source:
CNN
|
| February 7, 2007 | - A spokesperson for the Chinese government said the West bore an “unshirkable responsibility” for climate change.
| Source:
Financial Times
|
| January 29, 2007 | - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change announced that global warming was expected to heat up the atmosphere by 4 to 7 degrees within the next century.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| January 27, 2007 | - The Bush Administration suggested that scientists find ways to counteract greenhouse-gas emissions by blocking out the sun. “Possible techniques include putting a giant screen into orbit,” read one newspaper's paraphrase of the suggested U.S. recommendations. “[Or] thousands of tiny, shiny balloons.”
| Source:
Guardian
|
| January 15, 2007 | - Experts warned that Lake Chad, Africa's third largest body of water, could become a pond within two decades.
| Source:
BBC
|
| November 15, 2006 | -
Forests were expanding in Spain, Ukraine, Vietnam, and China.
| Source:
Times Online
|
| November 2, 2006 | - Channel 4, Britain's second largest television network, announced that Google's U.K. advertising revenues would outstrip the broadcaster's own by some hundred million pounds this year. “People need to wake up and realize that this is not just a cyclical issue,” said the network's chief executive. “There is deep structural change, rather like global warming.”
| Source:
Times of London
|
| October 25, 2006 | - Scientists concluded that fat people lower the fuel efficiency of automobiles.
| Source:
Local6.com
|
| September 15, 2006 | - More polar bears
drowned in the Arctic.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
|
| August 2, 2006 | - At least 25,000 chickens died in Indiana from the heat.
| Source:
CNN
|
| June 15, 2006 | -
Scientists found that the sea level in the Arctic Ocean was dropping, even as global sea levels rise.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| May 31, 2006 | - Scientists announced that the North Pole was once an ice-free area with tropical temperatures. “Basically,” explained palaeoecologist Appy Sluijs, “it looks like the earth released a gigantic fart of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.”
| Source:
BBC
|
| May 16, 2006 | - A British-Ugandan team of scientists said that the glaciers of the Rwenzori Mountains in East Africa, which the Greek geographer Ptolemy called "the mountains of the moon," could melt within the next two decades.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| May 7, 2006 | -
Chinese
scientists said that the glaciers of the Tibetan plateau were evaporating. "The melting glaciers," said Dong Guangrong, "will ultimately trigger more droughts, expand desertification, and increase sand storms." One such storm recently dumped over 300,000 tons of dust in Beijing; technicians cleaned away some of the dust by firing seven rocket shells filled with silver iodide into the air to produce four-tenths of an inch of rainfall.
| Source 1:
The Independent
Source 2:
China View
|
| April 9, 2006 | - Researchers in Connecticut said that global warming has led to a massive decline in the lobster population of the Long Island Sound; however, if the polar ice caps melt and sea levels rise 30 feet, colder water might bring the lobsters back.
| Source 1:
The Stamford Advocate
Source 2:
CTV.ca
Source 3:
Chicago Sun-Times
|
| April 9, 2006 | - Polls found that while only 36 percent of Americans worry a great deal about global warming, 90 percent were prepared to fight its effects by caulking.
| Source:
Jurnalo.com
|
| April 9, 2006 | - Many scientists said that it was too late to stop climate change and that the earth was "past the point of no return." "We are looking for the devil," said a geochemist, "and we have found ourselves."
| Source 1:
The Stamford Advocate
Source 2:
Jurnalo.com
Source 3:
The Connecticut Post
|
| March 31, 2006 | -
British scientists found that the air temperature in Antarctica was rising three times faster than in the rest of the world.
| Source:
The Times
|
| March 16, 2006 | -
UNESCO met to discuss how to preserve world heritage sites, like the Tower of London and the Great Barrier Reef, from the effects of global warming; the United States said that the organization had no brief to discuss an unproven theory.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| March 2, 2006 | - A British
astronomer named Gerry Gilmore predicted that ground-based telescopes would be useless within 40 years because of climate change and jet contrails. "You either give up your cheap trips to Majorca," he said, "or you give up astronomy."
| Source:
BBC News
|
| March 2, 2006 | -
Global warming forced the organizers of Alaska's Iditarod dogsled
race to move the race 30 miles north.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| January 29, 2006 | - James E. Hansen, a director at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said that NASA had ordered its public-affairs staff to review and possibly censor his upcoming speeches and papers after he called for reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| December 8, 2005 | - The European Sound Climate Policy Coalition, an ExxonMobil-funded lobbying group, was working to destroy Europe's support for the Kyoto treaty on climate change.
| Source:
The New Zealand Herald
|
| December 7, 2005 | - The Inuit people filed a suit against the United States over its role in global warming.
| Source:
Breitbart.com
|
| December 5, 2005 | - A conference on global warming was held in Montreal. The United States was represented by Harlan Watson, whose appointment as U.S. climate negotiator was suggested by ExxonMobil; Watson's presence led to complaints by environmentalists.
| Source:
The Washington Post
|
| November 25, 2005 | -
Scientists at Rutgers University in New Jersey said that global warming had doubled the rate of sea-level rise over the last 150 years, and there was nothing that could be done to stop it.
| Source:
The Guardian
|
| October 3, 2005 | -
Scientists agreed that an "era of super-hurricanes" had started in the 1990s in the Atlantic Ocean, but could not agree why.
| Source:
San Francisco Chronicle
|
| September 29, 2005 | - Novelist Michael Crichton was called before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works so that he could criticize the theory of global warming.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| August 14, 2005 | - A study found that the worldwide percentage of land stricken by drought has doubled within the last 30 years.
| Source:
Vail Daily
|
| August 5, 2005 | -
Wildfires were burning all across Europe.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
Climate Ark/AP
|
| July 28, 2005 | - The Boy Scout National Jamboree was held at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. The Senate passed the Support Our Scouts Act of 2005, guaranteeing the Boy Scouts the right to use federal land whether the organization discriminates against atheists and gays or not. The Senate also noted that holding the Jamboree on a military base gave U.S. soldiers the opportunity to practice the “preparation, logistics, and leadership” needed in combat. At the Jamboree four scout leaders were electrocuted while setting up a tent, and three hundred people were treated for heat-related symptoms. In California, a scoutmaster and a thirteen-year-old scout were killed by lightning.
| Source 1:
CNN.com
Source 2:
SWNebr.net
Source 3:
WBOC16
Source 4:
Thomas.loc.gov
|
| July 22, 2005 | - It was hot in most of the United States. Many U.S. cities set records for high temperatures, and huge wildfires burned in the Southwest. At least twenty people, many of them homeless, died from the heat in Phoenix, Arizona.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
Washington Post
|
| July 15, 2005 | - Concern over storms in the Gulf of Mexico led to an increase in oil prices.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| July 7, 2005 | -
Polar bears were dying in greater numbers due to global warming.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| June 28, 2005 | - The Association of British Insurers estimated that global warming will result in $27 billion worth of storm damage annually by 2080.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| February 10, 2005 | - A NASA study found that 2004 was the fourth-warmest year on record.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| January 25, 2005 | - An international task force of scientists, politicians, and business leaders warned that the world has about ten years before global warming becomes irreversible. By then, average global temperatures will have risen two degrees Celsius since the start of the Industrial Revolution, resulting in major droughts, increased disease, and the termination of the North Atlantic Gulf Stream.
| Source:
New Zealand Herald
|
| January 17, 2005 | - Sir David King, the Chief Scientific Advisor to the United Kingdom, was under attack by American lobbyists for saying that global warming is a problem.
| Source:
The Independent
|
| December 18, 2004 | - The Tenth International Convention on Climate Change ended with a resolution for all parties to meet again soon,
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| November 28, 2004 | -
Russia's Federation Council ratified the Kyoto Protocol.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 15, 2004 | - It was also observed that global warming is good for squid.
| Source:
ABC News
|
| November 11, 2004 | - Scientists noted that Arctic warming could make it easier to find oil.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| October 11, 2004 | - Carbon dioxide levels were rising faster than ever.
| Source:
Telegraph
|
| October 1, 2004 | -
Russia's cabinet approved the Kyoto Protocol, and
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 25, 2004 | -
California regulators announced that car makers must cut carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent by 2016.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| September 25, 2004 | - A group of Australian scientists developed a vaccine to cut down on the methane emitted by sheep when they belch and fart.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| September 24, 2004 | - Scientists said that over the last 15 years several glaciers in Antarctica have increased the rate at which they are sliding into the sea.
| Source:
Wired News
|
| September 21, 2004 | - The discovery that methane and water vapor are concentrated together on Mars suggested that methane-producing bacteria may be present on the planet.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| August 27, 2004 | - A Bush Administration report on global climate change admitted that human activity is responsible for global warming.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| August 18, 2004 | - The European Environment Agency said that winters on the continent could disappear by 2080.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| July 28, 2004 | - The Bush Administration was making plans to harvest methane gas.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| July 7, 2004 | - Peat bogs around the world were releasing carbon dioxide, which is speeding up global warming.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| April 25, 2004 | - Scientists at NASA were ordered not to speak to reporters about The Day After Tomorrow, a disaster movie in which global warming triggers an ice age, because officials were worried about political damage to the president, who has refused to take the threat of climate change seriously.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 8, 2004 | - A new study concluded that Greenland's ice sheet could melt within a thousand years, which would raise sea level 23 feet.
| Source:
National Geographic
|
| March 24, 2004 | - It was reported that the permafrost is disappearing from the bogs of subarctic Sweden because of climate changes, resulting in large emissions of methane, which as a greenhouse gas is 25 times worse than carbon dioxide.
| Source:
Geophysical Research Letters
|
| March 21, 2004 | - The atmospheric carbon dioxide level appeared to be rising faster than usual, scientists said.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| March 3, 2004 | - Swiss Re, the world's second largest reinsurance company, warned that the costs of climate change could be $150 billion a year before long, with insurers facing $30-40 billion in annual claims. "There is a danger," the company said in a report, "that human intervention will accelerate and intensify natural climate changes to such a point that it will become impossible to adapt our socio-economic system in time."
| Source:
Reuters
|
| February 22, 2004 | - An internal Pentagon report warned that global climate change will soon lead to drought, famine, and widespread warfare as countries begin to fight over scarce water, food, and energy supplies. Climate change, the report argues, "should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a U.S. national security concern."
| Source:
Observer
|
| January 7, 2004 | - A large new study found that up to half of all plant and animal species on land could face extinction by 2050 because of global warming.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| December 11, 2003 | - Spanish and American scientists were searching the sky for signs of megacryometeors, huge chunks of ice, weighing up to 440 pounds, that form in the atmosphere and fall to Earth. The strange ice meteors have been linked to global warming.
| Source:
Chicago Sun-Times
|
| December 11, 2003 | - A new theory was put forth that global warming began 8,000 years ago, when farmers began clearing forests for agriculture and grazing large herds of livestock, which increased carbon dioxide and methane levels; by AD 1700, according to the theory, human activity had increased the global temperature by 0.8 degrees Celsius, an increase roughly equal to that caused by industrial activity since then.
| Source:
Climatic Change, Nature.com, New Scientist
|
| December 10, 2003 | -
David Lynch let it be known that he is helping the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi raise $1 billion to build 100 "peace palaces" around the world. "When you do [transcendental meditation]," Lynch declared, "this level of unity can be enlivening the world consciousness and it can go into the atmosphere."
| Source:
Guardian
|
| December 5, 2003 | - A Kremlin official announced that Russia will not ratify the Kyoto Protocol; the next day another official contradicted that pronouncement, which was followed on the third day by a negation of the denial that President Putin had in fact decided against the global-warming treaty.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 14, 2003 | - Spencer Abraham, the secretary of energy, suggested that synthetic microbes might someday remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 14, 2003 | - Thirteen million trees were damaged in a freak
snowstorm in Beijing.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
|
| October 24, 2003 | - New satellite observations revealed that Arctic warming is much more severe than was previously thought and that the amount of Arctic sea ice was at a record low.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| October 1, 2003 | - A new study estimated that 160,000 people die as a result of global warming every year; President Vladimir Putin suggested that global warming could be good for Russians because they "would spend less money on fur coats and other warm things."
| Source:
Reuters
|
| September 22, 2003 | -
Scientists announced that the 3,000-year-old Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has broken up; it formerly covered 150 square miles and was the largest ice shelf in the Arctic.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| September 12, 2003 | -
Wildfires were out of control in Portugal.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 8, 2003 | - and an astronomer argued that Venus once had a climate similar to Earth's, prior to its transformation by the greenhouse effect.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| August 30, 2003 | -
France's health ministry concluded that 11,435 people died of the heat in early August.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 24, 2003 | -
French winemakers were enjoying a very good harvest.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 23, 2003 | - The European Commission reported that the August heat wave was consistent with predictions about the pattern of global climate change and warned that many farming areas in Europe and North America may soon be unable to support agriculture.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| August 15, 2003 | - Up to 3,000 people were estimated to have died in the French heat wave.
| Source:
Canada.com
|
| August 10, 2003 | - It was hot in Europe.
| Source:
Chicago Sun-Times
|
| July 2, 2003 | - The World Meteorological Organization said that the extreme weather conditions observed this spring across the globe (very high temperatures in parts of Europe, 562 tornadoes in one month in the United States, a heat wave in India that killed at least 1,400 people) were strong evidence that global climate change is happening now and that the number of such extreme weather events can be expected to increase.
| Source:
WMO Press Release
|
| June 24, 2003 | - The Environmental Protection Agency issued its first comprehensive report on the American environment but failed to give much attention to global warming; it was reported last week that White House officials edited the passages that had originally focused on the subject.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| December 11, 2001 | - New data suggested that Mars was undergoing global warming.
| |
| November 20, 2001 | - There were floods in Texas and Algeria, and wildfires were burning in southern Appalachia.
| |
| August 7, 2001 | -
Wildfires were burning in Wyoming.
| |
| June 19, 2001 | - A group of NASA engineers and American astronomers proposed solving the problem of global warming by moving the entire Earth into another orbit, which they say would add another 6 billion years to the planet's working life. “The technology is not at all far-fetched,” Dr. Greg Laughlin said. “We don't need raw power to move Earth, we just require delicacy of planning and maneuvering.”
| |
| June 12, 2001 | - After the National Academy of Sciences, in a report requested by President Bush, confirmed that global warming is in fact real, the White House was forced to disappoint its stockholders in the petroleum industry and acknowledge that climate change is an “issue that nations do need to deal with—all nations, industrialized nations, the United States, developing nations, as well.”
| |
| June 12, 2001 | -
Australia was vaccinating
sheep and cattle to prevent farting, which emits methane, a potent gas that contributes to global warming.
| |
| April 3, 2001 | - The United States withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change; Christie Whitman, the administrator of the EPA, announced that “we have no interest in implementing that treaty.” President Bush told German chancellor Gerhard Schröder that “We will not do anything that harms our economy, because first things first are the people who live in America.” North Korea's dear leader Kim Jong Il sent a large floral wreath to the funeral of Chung Ju Yung, the founder of the Hyundai group, in a further display of goodwill toward the south by the ruler of the Hermit Kingdom.
| |
| March 20, 2001 | - After a heavy lobbying campaign by the electric industry, President George W. Bush broke a campaign promise and decided not to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, humiliating Christie Whitman, his EPA administrator, and effectively killing the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change. The President said that he was worried about an energy crisis and that he wasn't entirely convinced that global warming was real.
| |
| January 2, 2001 | - There were wildfires in Florida and California and on the Alaskan tundra.
| |
| November 21, 2000 | - Representatives of many different countries were attending talks at the Hague on the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, a global warming treaty signed by over 100 countries yet ratified by none.
| |
| October 3, 2000 | -
British prime minister Tony Blair attended a Labor party conference; “Let's Work Together,” by Canned Heat, was the theme song.
| |
| September 26, 2000 | - A study found that replanted forests absorb much less carbon dioxide than do natural forests, which complicates plans by countries such as the United States to meet the goals of a global warming treaty by planting trees, rather than by cutting back on carbon dioxide emissions.
| |
| September 5, 2000 | - A bipartisan congressional report concluded that logging on public land contributed to the causes of the wildfires burning across the American West by removing the large trees that tend to resist fire and leaving smaller, more combustible vegetation behind.
| |
| August 1, 2000 | - Atmospheric scientists discovered that some 4,000 tons of a new synthetic greenhouse gas have been released into the atmosphere; the gas, which takes 1,000 years to degrade, may be a by-product of weapons production.
| |
| June 0, 2000 | - Most Alaskan
glaciers were retreating.
| Source:
Science Daily
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