1850 ⟶ Little Ice Age Concludes
The Little Ice Age ends around this time.
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🌡️ Onset of the Medieval Warm Period
c. 950: The beginning of the Medieval Warm Period.⟶
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🧊 Height of the Little Ice Age's Impact
Peak of the Little Ice Age.⟶
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🧊 Little Ice Age Concludes
The Little Ice Age ends around this time.⟶
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🌍 IPCC Releases First Assessment Report on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases its first assessment report, linking increases in carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, and a resultant rise in global temperature, to human activities.⟶
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🌎 IPCC Releases First Part of Sixth Assessment Report on Climate Change
August 9: The Intergovernmental Panel on climate change releases the first part of its Sixth Assessment Report, which concludes that the effects of human-caused climate change are now "widespread, rapid, and intensifying".⟶
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🌡️ Hottest Year on Record
2023 is the hottest year on record.⟶
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