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Global Warming Tmln

177 events in this timeline

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  1. 1998-04-23 April 23, 1998: Study Concludes That Last Few Decades Were the Warmest in the Last 1,000 Years
  2. 2000-10-05 October 5, 2000: ExxonMobil-Supported Organization Files Suit against US Government over Report on Climate Change
  3. 2001-01-22 January 22, 2001: UN Panel Says Global Warming Caused by Humans and is Happening Faster than Previously Thought
  4. 2001-01-25 January 25, 2001: NOAA Public Affairs Officer Instructs Scientist to Redirect Media Requests for Interviews to Public Affairs Office
  5. 2001-02-06 February 6, 2001: ExxonMobil Lobbyist Calls on White House to Remove Certain Government Climate Scientists
  6. 2001-03-08 March 8, 2001: White House Team Urges Bush to Abandon Campaign Promise to Limit CO2 Emissions from Power Plants
  7. 2001-03-27 March 27, 2001: Bush Administration Announces It Will Not Implement Kyoto Protocol
  8. 2001-04-13 After April 13, 2001: Press Conference on Global Warming Paper Canceled
  9. 2001-04-13 April 13, 2001: Study Drawing on Historical Data Suggests Anthropogenic Causes for Rising Sea Temperatures
  10. 2001-07-20 July 20, 2001: EPA Prevented from Distributing Brochures on Climate Change
  11. 2001-10-01 October 1, 2001: IPCC Report Concludes Human Activity is Major Causal Factor of Global Climate Change
  12. 2002-02-14 February 14, 2002: Bush Announces Administration’s Alternative to Kyoto and ‘Clear Skies’ Initiative
  13. 2002-04-20 April 20, 2002: Indian Engineer and Economist Elected IPCC Chairman
  14. 2002-06-03 June 3, 2002: Email Reveals White House Efforts to Punish EPA Officials For Acknowledging Human Role in Rising Temperatures
  15. 2002-06-04 June 4, 2002: Bush Plays Down EPA Report on Global Warming; Reaffirms Rejection of Kyoto Protocol
  16. 2002-06-05 June 5, 2002: NOAA Requires that All Media Interviews be Cleared by Public Affairs Office
  17. 2002-09-26 September 26, 2002: Email Exchange between NOAA Employees Shows Concern That White House Is Suppressing Global Warming News
  18. 2002-10-04 October 4, 2002: State Department Official Instructs Head of Climate Change Science Program to Remove Text from Report
  19. 2002-10-05 October 5, 2002: Study Suggests Global Warming Could Cause Hydrologic Changes
  20. 2003-01-31 After January 31, 2003: Scientist Who Wrote Article Skeptical of Global Warming Recruited by ExxonMobil-Funded Organizations
  21. 2003-01-31 January 31, 2003: Astrophysicists Publish Heavily Criticized Paper Skeptical of Global Warming
  22. 2003-04-29 April 29, 2003: EPA Staffers Complain That White House Edits to Report Have Made It Inaccurate
  23. 2003-06-23 June 23, 2003: EPA Report Concludes Environment is Better Protected than 30 Years Ago; Section on Global Warming Removed by White House
  24. 2003-07-24 July 24, 2003: Bush Administration Global Warming Plan Calls for More Research
  25. 2003-07-28 July 28, 2003: Senator Calls Global Warming ‘Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on the American People’
  26. 2003-08-28 August 28, 2003: EPA Rules that Carbon Dioxide is Not a Pollutant
  27. 2003-10-07 October 7, 2003: Bush Official Suggests that Princeton University and NOAA Coordinate Press Releases on Bush Initiative
  28. 2003-12-03 Early December 3, 2003: NOAA Redirects Media Inquiries about Article Written by Government Climate Scientists to Political Appointee
  29. 2003-12-07 December 7, 2003: Government’s Top Atmospheric Scientists Say Global Warming Is Caused by Greenhouse Gases
  30. 2004-03-29 March 29, 2004: NOAA Administrator Reminds Employees that All Communications to Congress Must Go through the Commerce Department
  31. 2004-04-23 April 23, 2004: NOAA Official Urges Minding of Media Interviews with Scientists
  32. 2004-06-03 (June 3, 2004): Bush Wants to Reduce Budget for Climate Change Research by $9.2 million
  33. 2004-06-20 June 20, 2004: Scientist Advised to Remove Words ‘Global Warming’ from Title of Presentation
  34. 2004-06-28 After June 28, 2004: NOAA Issues Updated Policy for Vetting Agency Communications with Congress
  35. 2004-06-28 June 28, 2004: New Media Policy at NOAA Restricts Scientists’ Access to Media
  36. 2004-08-25 August 25, 2004: US Government Report: Global Warming Caused by Humans
  37. 2004-09-02 September 2, 2004: NOAA Public Affairs Officer Quizzes Scientist on What He Might Tell Journalist if Interview Request is Approved
  38. 2004-09-25 September 25, 2004: Study Finds That Antarctica May Warm Rapidly over Next 50 Years
  39. 2004-09-28 Before September 28, 2004: Press Release on Study Linking Increased Carbon Dioxide Levels to Hurricane Intensity Rejected by Bush Officials
  40. 2004-09-28 September 28, 2004: Study Predicts That Rising Sea Temperatures Will Spawn More Destructive Hurricanes
  41. 2004-10-26 October 26, 2004: NASA Scientist Says Bush Administration Suppressing Evidence of Global Warming
  42. 2004-11-08 November 8, 2004: Report Concludes that Arctic Temperatures Rising Twice as Fast as Other Parts of World
  43. 2004-11-08 After November 8, 2004: ExxonMobil-Funded Groups Attack Report on Global Warming
  44. 2004-12-03 December 3, 2004-May 2005: Science Historian Finds Little Evidence of Uncertainty over Anthropogenic Global Warming in Science Journals
  45. 2005-01-28 January 28, 2005: NOAA Email Indicates that Agency is Telling Scientists What They Can and Cannot Talk about with Reporters
  46. 2005-03-15 March 15, 2005: Bush Official Questions Science on Global Warming
  47. 2005-03-24 October 2004-March 24, 2005: NOAA Requires Presence of Minder at Media Interview with Scientist
  48. 2005-04-15 April 15, 2005: NOAA Memo Gives Agency’s Public Affairs Office Final Say on Scientists’ Communications with Congress
  49. 2005-04-28 April 28, 2005: Language in NASA Press Release Downplays Conclusions of NASA Climate Scientist
  50. 2005-05-12 May 12, 2005: Bush Official Asserts There Is Still ‘a Lot to be Known’ about Global Warming