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Merchants of Doubt Timeline
Created by
Sarah Salzman
⟶ Updated 25 Sep 2017 ⟶
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American scientists warned our political leaders that the greenhouse effect could be a real problem
Jasons first gathered to advise the U.S. government on national security issues.
The President’s Science Advisory Committee Roger Revelle asked to write a summary of the potential impacts of carbon-dioxide-induced warming, made it to the Office of the President, who mentioned it in a Special Message to Congress
Robert M. White headed a committee for the National Research Council that warned of the serious impacts of unimpeded climate change
National Climate Change Act had established a national climate research program, plans to introduce an amendment to fund closer look at CO2
Schelling focuses on social and political aspect of global warming
Nierenberg joined the Board of Directors of the George C. Marshall Institute
Creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), James E. Hansen announces anthropogenic global warming had begun.
The National Global Change Research Act of 1989, showed the United States was seemingly preparing to deal with anthropogenic climate change. Bush Sr. pushed this due to political pressure.
The Marshall Institute issued its first report attacking climate science
Revelle presents paper entitled, “What Can We Do About Climate Change?” at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in New Orleans
IPCC publishes reiteration that unrestricted fossil fuel use would produce a rate of increase of global mean temperature during the next century of about .3 C per decade. Also, explicitly addressed and rejected Marshall Institute’s argument for blaming the sun.
Bill Nierenberg attacks IPCC insisting global temperatures would increase at most by 1 degree Celcius by the end of the 21st century
IPCC publishes reiteration that unrestricted fossil fuel use would produce a rate of increase of global mean temperature during the next century of about .3 C per decade. Also, explicitly addressed and rejected Marshall Institute’s argument for blaming the sun.
Hansen’s 1988 claim that warming was detectable no longer seemed bold
108 heads of state, 2,400 representatives of nongovernmental organizations, and more than 10,000 on-site journalists converged in Rio, along with 17,000 other individuals who would convene in a parallel NGO forum, to address the problem of climate change. Bush Sr. flew in and signed the U.N Framework Convention on Climate Change, which committed its signatories to preventing “dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.”
192 countries sign on the Framework Convention, which set no binding limits on emissions
Santer presents findings of Chapter 8: “Detection of Cliimate Change and Attribution of Causes” which are immediately opposed by oil-rich Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti delegates
Fred Sietz publishes letter in the Wall Street Journal accusing Ben Santer of fraud
IPCC concluded human activities were affecting global climate
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher proposed a bill to reduce climate research funding by more than a third, calling it “trendy science that is propped up by liberal/left politics rather than good science”
Singer states there is no warming at all, but slight cooling. Also listed other complaints aginst the IPCC
IPCC's Third Assessment Report stated that the evidence was strong and getting
IPCC's Fourth Assessment states global warming is unequivocal
Senator James Inhofe called global warming “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people"
Discover magazine ran article, emergence of scientific consensus over reality of global warming
Richard Cheney “where there does not appear to be a consensus, where it begins to break down, is the extent to which that’s part of a normal cycle versus the extent to which it’s caused by man, greenhouse gases, et cetera” something that Santer answered a decade before