Merchants of Doubt Timeline
Category: Outro
Atualizado: 25 set 2017
Autores
Created bySarah Salzman
Attachments
Eventos
American scientists warned our
political leaders that the greenhouse
effect could be a real problemJasons 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 CongressRobert M. White headed a committee
for the National Research Council that
warned of the serious impacts of
unimpeded climate changeNational Climate Change Act had established
a national climate research program, plans to
introduce an amendment to fund closer look
at CO2Schelling focuses on social and
political aspect of global warmingNierenberg joined the Board of
Directors of the George C.
Marshall InstituteCreation 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
scienceRevelle presents paper entitled,
“What Can We Do About Climate
Change?” at the American Association
for the Advancement of Science
meeting in New OrleansIPCC 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 centuryIPCC 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 bold108 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 emissionsSanter presents findings of Chapter 8:
“Detection of Cliimate Change and
Attribution of Causes” which are
immediately opposed by oil-rich Saudi
Arabian and Kuwaiti delegatesFred Sietz publishes letter in the Wall Street
Journal accusing Ben Santer of fraudIPCC concluded human activities
were affecting global climateCongressman 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 IPCCIPCC's Third Assessment Report
stated that the evidence was strong
and gettingIPCC's Fourth Assessment states
global warming is unequivocalSenator 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 warmingRichard 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
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