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Some historical weather events are included that mark time periods where advancements were made, or even that sparked policy change. Antiquity [ edit ] 3000 BC – Meteorology in India can be traced back to around 3000 BC, with writings such as the Upanishads , containing discussions about the processes of cloud formation and rain and the ...
500 million years of climate change Ice core data for the past 400,000 years, with the present at right. Note length of glacial cycles averages ~100,000 years. Blue curve is temperature, green curve is CO 2, and red curve is windblown glacial dust (loess). Scale: Millions of years before present, earlier dates approximate.
The following table lists the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited U.S. territories during the past two centuries, in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. [1] If two dates have the same temperature record (e.g. record low of 40 °F or 4.4 °C in 1911 in Aibonito and 1966 in San ...
Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian writing for Weather Underground, believes that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 or 2.8 °C (4 or 5 °F) too high. Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth could still be at Death Valley, but is instead 54.0 °C (129.2 °F) recorded on 30 June ...
Weather by year. The following is a list of documented weather events, sorted by year and by type. It includes tropical cyclones, tornadoes, windstorms, and snowstorms.
General. List of weather records. Large-scale events that affected Minnesota. 2007 Midwest flooding. Mid-June 1992 Tornado Outbreak. 1968 Tracy tornado. 1991 Halloween blizzard. Great Storm of 1975. 1936 North American heat wave.
According to IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, in the last 170 years, humans have caused the global temperature to increase to the highest level in the last 2,000 years. The current multi-century period is the warmest in the past 100,000 years. [3] The temperature in the years 2011-2020 was 1.09 °C higher than in 1859–1890.
The history of the scientific discovery of climate change began in the early 19th century when ice ages and other natural changes in paleoclimate were first suspected and the natural greenhouse effect was first identified. In the late 19th century, scientists first argued that human emissions of greenhouse gases could change Earth's energy ...