Events
Tied with 2016 as the
warmest year on recordAustralian Bushfire Season
lasted for 11 months and
resulted in 180,000km² of
burned land and 34 deaths.Donald Trump files
intent for America
to withdraw from
The Paris AgreementGreta Thunberg begins
Schools Strike for
Climate which inspires
school strikes globally.Paris Agreement
goes into effect and
is adopted by
nearly 200 countries.Researchers find
collapse of West
Antarctic Ice Sheet
may be irreversible,
bringing metres of
sea level rise over
future centuries.Researchers find
that seas are
becoming more acidic
at the fastest rate in
300 million years.BP Oil Spill in the
Gulf of Mexico.
A disaster that
continues to harm
wildlife today.Polar Bear listed as
endangered speciesWarming linked by researchers
to a record Hurricane season in
the US. This is the year that
Hurricane Katrina devasted the
Gulf Coast.Europe experiences warmest
summer for 500 years, resulting in
30,000 fatalities. Experts link the
heat wave with global warming.George W Bush renounces
Kyoto Protocol because he
believes it will damage the
US economy.Kyoto Protocol agrees first
legally binding emissions
cuts for industrialised
naions.Climate change convention
signed by 154 nations and
set target to reduce emissions
by the year 2000.Researchers find that
the planet has warmed
by 0.5°c in the past
century and that only
strong measures will
prevent serious effects
of global warming.The first world conference
'to foresee and prevent
potential man-made
changes in the climate'.Scientists increase concerns
about future global warming.The first continuous
monitoring of CO² and
findings that levels in the
atmosphere are rising.
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