Climate Change is Bigger Than We Thought

By jennieess

  • First Earth Day

    First Earth Day
    Environment spreads concern about global degradation. This starts a tradition that every year everywhere in the world will celebrate Earth Day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEmARFci__I

  • OPEC was formed

    OPEC was formed
    The OPEC was an organization that brought in religious efforts to try and stop pollution and global warming.

  • Major Floods

    Major Floods
    Major floods have lead to the lack of crop growth in the area. Many people have struggled from the crops being delayed and had to find a Plan B.

  • Oil Shock

    Oil Shock
    Many people were outraged at the raise in gas prices and were protesting. There were long lines at the gas station waiting to get gas. The cars that they had drove only went 10 miles per gallon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdJubUNZ3ps

  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan
    At this time, Ronald Reagan was the president. He had been backlashing all of the environmental issues. This is important because many people had debated over it, meaning that it is a serious enough topic.

  • Soviet Union Explosion

    Soviet Union Explosion
    At this time, the Chernobyl Power Plant was very big. In February, an explosion had occurred, spilling toxic fumes into the air. Firefighters had arrived at the scene and tried to help many of the people who had gotten toxins on them.

  • GCC

    GCC
    The Global Climate Coalition was founded to tell politicians about the climate changes happening They didn't support the pollution of methane, tar or any other pollutant.

  • Major Books

    Major Books
    2004 was a big year because that was when the major books, magazines, and art work about global warming came out. The books provided good background information and helped people understand the causes and how to help prevent it. The magazines showed stories. And the art work showed what they were doing to their environment.

  • Rapidly approaching

    Rapidly approaching
    In 2009, meteorologist and scientists discovered that global warming increasing at a tremendous speed. The cause of all of that was humans. Humans let out bad toxins(not on purpose) into the environment, causing a chain of bad toxins to go into the air. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWpkWBX04E

  • Record Breaking Heat

    Record Breaking Heat
    The summer of 2015 was a hot one. So hot that it is considered the hottest summer on record. The global temperature had raised by around 1.5 degrees farenheight and the ocean temperature did as well. It was just the summer though. Moths after that as well the weather was very weird. Precipitation percentages had went down by half.