Rough Timeline of events related to Climate Change
Steam Engine
- 1750 – Invention of the Steam Engine
Scientific Paper by Arrhenius
1896 - Scientific Paper by Svante Arrhenius predicts warming due to greenhouse gases: http://www.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf" While Arrhenius’ prediction [of warming] received great public interest, this typically waned in time but was revived as an important global mechanism by the great atmospheric physicist Carl Gustaf Rossby who initiated atmospheric CO2 measurements in Sweden in the 1950s."Tribute to Arrhenius (2008): http://warming.sdsu.edu/arrhenius_tribute_2008.pdfPrediction of AGW in 1912
Article in NZ & Australian newspapers predicts AGW http://www.snopes.com/1912-article-global-warming/
Keeling Curve Starts
Charles Keeling installs first CO2 sensor on the side of Mauna Lau.
Revelle Report
Roger Revelle - President's Science Advisory Committee report of the Environmental Pollution Panel to Lyndon B Johnson
Rio Earth Summit
Rio Earth Summit established the Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC)- First UN Meeting on Climate Change
Kyoto Protocol
Kyoto Protocol
GHGs as Pollutants
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v. EPA that green house gases (GHGs) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The EPA may regulate GHGs, if they are determined to be a danger to human health.
Climategate
"Climategate"Cap and Trade
Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade bill is voted on in the House, but loses in the Senate.
Protection of Scientific Research
University of Virginia / Michael Mann win FOIA lawsuit seeking access to their work email ATI (American Tradition Institute); Sheridan ruled that Mann’s correspondence while a professor at U.Va. qualified as public records, but they were exempt from disclosure under one particular exclusion listed in the Freedom of Information law: “Data, records or information of a proprietary nature produced or collected by or for faculty or staff of public institutions of higher education...in the conduct of or as a result of study or research on medical, scientific, technical or scholarly issues...where such data, records or information has not been publicly released, published, copyrighted or patented.”
Paris Accord Goes into Effect
Paris Climate Accord goes into effect
Pruitt Head of the EPA
President Elect Trump picks Scott Pruitt to head the EPA
Obama Article on Clean Energy
Obama publishes article in the journal Science - The Irreversible Momentum of Clean Energy
2016 Warmest Year on Record
2016 named Warmest Year on Record by NASA & NOAA and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) declares 1.1C above pre-industrial temperatures
Executive Order on Climate Change
President Trump signs executive order reversing course on Climate Change action
WMO State of The Global Climate 2016
World Meteorological Organization - State of the Global Climate - 2016 summary
Withdrawal from Paris Accord Announced
President Trump makes speech in the Rose Garden announcing US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord
