1999 Satellite data suggests this was the year that CO2 induced global greening tipped to global browning as a result of falling moisture availability
2003 European heat wave kills 35,000 to 70,000 people
2010 A marine heatwave kills 100 km of kelp along off of SW Australia
2010 Pakistan suffers its worst-ever floods, with 2,000 deaths, 20,000 cattle dead, $500 million worth of crops destroyed
2012 Greenland ice sheet melt unparalleled in last 6,800-7,800 years
2014-2015 Marine heat-wave off the PNW may have been most significant event ever seen
2015 A heat wave in the Middle East drove temperatures in parts of Iran to the edge of lethal with a wet bulb temperature of 34.6o C
2015 Hurricane Patricia, with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour, was most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Pacific
2015 MET Office announces global temperature has increased by 1o C over 1850-1900 average
2015 The Sierra Nevada snowpack reaches its lowest level in 500 years
2016-2017 large sections of Great Barrier reef wiped out by coral bleaching events
2016 A world-wide coral bleaching event did extensive damage, killing more than 90% of corals in the Southern Arabian Gulf.
2016 Many of the Antarctic ice shelves were reported to reach or exceed 0o C, setting the stage for melt
2016 Mumbai in India experiences record 51o C temperature
2017 Hurricane Harvey eerily similar to a hypothetical hurricane included as a 3o C impact in the first edition of Six Degrees.
2017 Hurricane Harvey is wettest hurricane in U.S. history, dumping 50-60 inches of rain in places
2017 Hurricane Harvey results in 300,000 flooded buildings, 500,000 flooded cars, and 30,000 water rescues
2017 Hurricane Ophelia is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the East Atlantic
2017 The 27 named Atlantic storms encompassed 245% the cyclone energy of a typical year
2018 Heat waves around the world surpassed all kinds of records
2018 Paradise, CA burns after no rain for 221 days, and surrounded by trees that died in the 2017 drought
2018 Scientists report that die-off of oldest Baobab trees in Africa - often 1,000 years old or more, is unprecedented and appears to be the result of droughts
2019 Amazon fires were up 84% in a single year
2019 Australian Bramble Cay (rat-like) becomes first mammal declared extinct as a result of climate change
2019 Botswana’s first private sector coal mine opens - the country has 200 billion tons of reserves
2019 Delhi recorded an all-time record temperature of 48o C
2019 Greenland’s contribution to global sea level rise may have been 1.5mm, 5 times the level just a decade ago
2019 Scientists conclude that rate of WAIS ice loss has increased 500% in just a few decades
2019 Scientists record 65,000 lakes on the surface of Antarctica
2019 Scientists report that U.S. bird populations are down by a third, probably as a result of falling insect populations
2020s - The first ice-free Arctic may occur in the late 2020’s