Two Steps Forward One Step Back

A paper I have found particularly interesting in the subject of the US and climate change has been this one. As part of the paper they include several dates of events and whilst reading it I found myself being able to piece together quite a nice timeline of events that does seem to summarise political skeptisism of global warming in the States reasonably well. This week is going kick off with the promising start that was made for the US, and only dables breifly in some of the backlash towards global warming - whereas next week will be more representative of the denial of global warming that the paper and the idea for this blog rests on. For the sake of this blog I'm going to use this paper to create that timeline myself right here.


(Apologies for my poor computer skills, at least it's handmade and authentic)

 



The timeline show's a progression towards the acceptance of human actions as the main factor in global warming, with the White House's support shown clearly in the quote from George H. W. Bush. The end of this timeline show's where political lobbying has taken an effect and the caution mentioned in the IPCC report shows a significant step backwards especially with the backlash that follows in US politics. This IPCC report is where I'll kick off next week with an in depth look the backtrack in support from the US government and where this all really starts to go wrong!