Climate Change Headlines from 2000 to 2009
The years 2000 through 2009 are marked as the warmest ever in the history of the Earth based on data supplied by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scientists. 2009 was also the second warmest temperature recorded since such records were kept beginning in 1880. 2005 was actually warmest year ever recorded. Although 2008 was the coolest year recorded during the last decade and climate related results from this year tend to fly in the face of general global warming predictions and philosophies, the consensus remains that the effects of global warming are now manifest. The general upward trend continues of temperatures rising at a rate of over 1/3 degree Fahrenheit per decade. A little basic arithmetic creates and relates a 10° rise by centuries end. By almost every standard measurement such an increase in overall global temperature would be catastrophic.
It is important to note that climate change and global warming have been topics for discussion long before the year 2000, but the start of the new millennium seems to be a crucial point in environmental awareness and as such we have created this focused timeline for the decade.
