2000s
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<font color="#FF0000">1998 API et al game plan = doubt (admits AGW exists in secret docs?)
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<font color="#FF0000">2000 Bush2 "elected" Brooks bros</font></p>
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2001 – the Third Assessment Report (TAR)</p>
<p>
<strong>2001
</strong>Third IPCC report states baldly that global warming, unprecedented since end of last ice age, is "very likely," with possible severe surprises. Effective end of debate among all but a few scientists. <font color="#006600">=></font><a href="http://www.aip.org/history/climate/internat.htm#L_M072">International</a><b><a name="T073" id="T073"> </a></b>
Bonn meeting, with participation of most countries but not US, develops mechanisms for working towards Kyoto targets. <font color="#006600">=></font><a href="http://www.aip.org/history/climate/internat.htm#L_M073">International</a><a name="T074" id="T074"> </a>
National Academy panel sees a "paradigm shift" in scientific recognition of the risk of abrupt climate change (decade-scale). <font color="#006600">=></font><a href="http://www.aip.org/history/climate/rapid.htm#L_M074">Rapid change</a><a name="T076" id="T076"> </a>
Warming observed in ocean basins; match with computer models gives a clear signature of greenhouse effect warming. <font color="#006600">=></font><a href="http://www.aip.org/history/climate/GCM.htm#L_M076">Models (GCMs)</a><a name="T075" id="T075"> </a></p>
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2001 Luntz memo</p>
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2001: The Kyoto Protocol, still in framework form, is abandoned by the United States, then the world's biggest carbon emitter. The pact is saved by the European Union (EU), which pilots an agreement on its rulebook and mechanisms, opening the way to ratification. </p>
<p>
McCain-Liberman 2003</p>
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2005: Kyoto Protocol takes effect on February 16.</p>
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2005 Katrina</p>
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2006: China overtakes the United States as the world's No. 1 carbon emitter. Inc truth</p>
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CA 2006 AB 32 under Arnold? (prop 23 tried to reverse)
</p>
<p>
2007: 4th Assessment Report by the IPCC says evidence for global warming is "unequivocal" and forecasts warming of 1.8-4.0 degrees C (3.2-7.2 degrees F) by 2100 and an unquantifiable rise in <a id="KonaLink2" target="undefined" class="kLink" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-a-timeline-2145309.html#" style=" text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;"><font color="blue" style=" color: blue ! important; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 13px; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style=" color: blue ! important; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 13px; position: relative;">sea levels</span></font></a>. Nobel Peace Prize is awarded jointly to IPCC and former US vice president Al Gore, whose documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" raised climate change awareness. UNFCCC parties agree a "Bali Road Map" for negotiating a post-2012 climate treaty. (AR4) At the end of 2007, the IPCC released the final document in its fourth assessment (AR4): the Synthesis report.
It confirmed and built on the previous reports, saying that the warming of the Earth’s climate systems was now
‘unequivocal’.</p>
<p>
Bali, December 2007 gore saved kyoto and tried to save bali, tho stick it to US he admitted satis 13</p>
<p>
Waxman-Lieberman 2007</p>
<p>
Kerry-Lieberman 2010 Graham failure undermined Obama at COP15
?</p>
<p>
2009: UNFCCC summit in<font color="#FF0000"> Copenhagen</font>, intended to <a id="KonaLink3" target="undefined" class="kLink" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-a-timeline-2145309.html#" style=" text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;"><font color="blue" style=" color: blue ! important; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 13px; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style=" color: blue ! important; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 13px; position: relative;">seal</span></font></a> a post-2012 deal, nearly ends in disaster. To save face, a small group of leaders sets a broad goal of limiting warming to 2 C (3.6 F) and sketches financial provisions for poor countries. But it identifies no staging posts for reaching the target, nor requires emissions curbs to be binding.</p>
<p>
2010: Climate change retreats as a political priority after the trauma of Copenhagen, economic problems in rich countries and attacks on the IPCC over flaws in the 4th Assessment Report.
Nov 24: UN's World Meteorological Organisation says greenhouse-gas concentrations reached record levels in
- Higher temperatures could unleash methane emissions from the Arctic, creating a vicious circle of warming.</p>
<p>
Nov 29-Dec 10: Annual conference of the UNFCCC in Cancun sets sights on incremental approach, with progress on climate finance, technology transfer and deforestation.</p>
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<p><font color="#FF0000">1998 API et al game plan = doubt (admits AGW exists in secret docs?)
</font>
<font color="#FF0000">2000 Bush2 "elected" Brooks bros</font></p>
<p>
2001 – the Third Assessment Report (TAR)</p>
<p>
<strong>2001
</strong>Third IPCC report states baldly that global warming, unprecedented since end of last ice age, is "very likely," with possible severe surprises. Effective end of debate among all but a few scientists. <font color="#006600">=></font><a href="http://www.aip.org/history/climate/internat.htm#L_M072">International</a><b> </b>
Bonn meeting, with participation of most countries but not US, develops mechanisms for working towards Kyoto targets. <font color="#006600">=></font><a href="http://www.aip.org/history/climate/internat.htm#L_M073">International</a><a name="T074" id="T074"> </a>
National Academy panel sees a "paradigm shift" in scientific recognition of the risk of abrupt climate change (decade-scale). <font color="#006600">=></font><a href="http://www.aip.org/history/climate/rapid.htm#L_M074">Rapid change</a><a name="T076" id="T076"> </a>
Warming observed in ocean basins; match with computer models gives a clear signature of greenhouse effect warming. <font color="#006600">=></font><a href="http://www.aip.org/history/climate/GCM.htm#L_M076">Models (GCMs)</a><a name="T075" id="T075"> </a>
2001 Luntz memo
2001: The Kyoto Protocol, still in framework form, is abandoned by the United States, then the world's biggest carbon emitter. The pact is saved by the European Union (EU), which pilots an agreement on its rulebook and mechanisms, opening the way to ratification. </p>
<p>
McCain-Liberman 2003</p>
<p>
2005: Kyoto Protocol takes effect on February 16.</p>
<p>
2005 Katrina</p>
<p>
2006: China overtakes the United States as the world's No. 1 carbon emitter. Inc truth</p>
<p>
CA 2006 AB 32 under Arnold? (prop 23 tried to reverse)
</p>
<p>
2007: 4th Assessment Report by the IPCC says evidence for global warming is "unequivocal" and forecasts warming of 1.8-4.0 degrees C (3.2-7.2 degrees F) by 2100 and an unquantifiable rise in <a id="KonaLink2" target="undefined" class="kLink" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-a-timeline-2145309.html#" style="position: static;"><font color="blue" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: static; color: blue !important;"><span class="kLink" style="font-size: 13px; position: relative;">sea levels</span></font></a>. Nobel Peace Prize is awarded jointly to IPCC and former US vice president Al Gore, whose documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" raised climate change awareness. UNFCCC parties agree a "Bali Road Map" for negotiating a post-2012 climate treaty. (AR4) At the end of 2007, the IPCC released the final document in its fourth assessment (AR4): the Synthesis report.
It confirmed and built on the previous reports, saying that the warming of the Earth’s climate systems was now ‘unequivocal’.</p>
<p>
Bali, December 2007 gore saved kyoto and tried to save bali, tho stick it to US he admitted satis 13</p>
<p>
Waxman-Lieberman 2007</p>
<p>
Kerry-Lieberman 2010 Graham failure undermined Obama at COP15
?
2009: UNFCCC summit in<font color="#FF0000"> Copenhagen</font>, intended to <a id="KonaLink3" target="undefined" class="kLink" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-a-timeline-2145309.html#" style="position: static;"><font color="blue" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: static; color: blue !important;"><span class="kLink" style="font-size: 13px; position: relative;">seal</span></font></a> a post-2012 deal, nearly ends in disaster. To save face, a small group of leaders sets a broad goal of limiting warming to 2 C (3.6 F) and sketches financial provisions for poor countries. But it identifies no staging posts for reaching the target, nor requires emissions curbs to be binding.</p>
<p>
2010: Climate change retreats as a political priority after the trauma of Copenhagen, economic problems in rich countries and attacks on the IPCC over flaws in the 4th Assessment Report.
Nov 24: UN's World Meteorological Organisation says greenhouse-gas concentrations reached record levels in
- Higher temperatures could unleash methane emissions from the Arctic, creating a vicious circle of warming.
Nov 29-Dec 10: Annual conference of the UNFCCC in Cancun sets sights on incremental approach, with progress on climate finance, technology transfer and deforestation.</p></div>