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The list of periods and events in climate history includes some notable climate events known to paleoclimatology. Knowledge of precise climatic events decreases as the record goes further back in time.
NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) has reported growing numbers of weather and climate-related events costing at least a billion dollars, [1] exceeding the 1980–2019 inflation-adjusted average of 6.6 such events. [2] This list of United States natural disasters is a list of notable natural disasters that occurred in ...
The following is a list of major snow and ice events in the United States that have caused noteworthy damage and destruction in their wake. The categories presented below are not used to measure the strength of a storm, but are rather indicators of how severely the snowfall affected the population in the storm's path.
US president Barack Obama briefs several European leaders during the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference. US Secretary of State John Kerry speaking at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. President Donald Trump announcing U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement in 2017.
This timeline lists events in the external environment that have influenced events in human history. This timeline is for use with the article on environmental determinism. For the history of humanity's influence on the environment, and humanity's perspective on this influence, see timeline of history of environmentalism.
You were working on a different book when you read about Roger Revelle’s 1956 research proving climate change and the work confirming it in the 1970s. You write, “Everyone had known. You write ...
[29] [30] [31] Possibly a change in climate, but evidence for this is weak. [32] This event may actually be a slow decline over 20 Ma. [33] Carboniferous: Carboniferous rainforest collapse: 305 Ma: Possiblities include a series of rapid changes in climate, or volcanism of the Skagerrak-Centered Large Igneous Province [34] Serpukhovian ...
For people on Maui and across the US, climate change is making the affordable housing crunch even worse. ... Between 1980 and 2022 the average number of events of that magnitude each year was ...