Global Warming Events in the Final Second of Time. How long do humans live in reference to the time scale of the universe? The bible was written 12 seconds before midnight, by which time chemical and biological evolution had been going on day and night for well over 4 billion years. US blocks call for serious action.1993 – Greenland ice cores suggest major climate change can occur in a single decade.1997 – Kyoto Protocol agreed. This opens the ‘modern’ chapter in the history of Earth.1776 – James Watt introduces his new steam engine. Photo: © Africahunting, History of Earth: Billions of Years Ago (BYA), History of Earth: Millions of Years Ago (MYA), History of Earth: Thousands of Years Ago (TYA), Global Warming Events in the Final Second of Time, U.N. Naturalist Sir Isaac Newton used a similar thought experiment to calculate the age of earth and, as it was a quite smaller sphere, earth needed just 50.000 years to cool down and become habitable. © 2020 Scientific American, a Division of Nature America, Inc. Support our award-winning coverage of advances in science & technology. Asian brown cloud first detected.2000 – Oil lobby convinces US administration to deny problem of climate change.2001 – US President GW Bush removes the US from the Kyoto Protocol agreement.2001 – US National Academy sees a “paradigm shift” in scientific recognition of climate change.2002 – Studies find strong “global dimming,” due to pollution.2003 – Effects of global warming on the oceans stoke fears of sea level rise due to West Antarctic ice melt2003 – Deadly summer heat wave in Europe stokes fears of global warming2005 – Kyoto treaty goes live, all major industrial nations sign up except USA.2005 – Hurricane Katrina and other storms sharpens debate over influence of global warming2006 – The documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth” publicizes and politicizes climate change2007 – IPCC says it is 90% sure climate change caused by human greenhouse gas emissions2007 – IPCC also says cost of reducing emissions far less than the financial damage they will cause2008 – Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and Arctic Ocean sea-ice cover found to be shrinking faster than expected.2008 – The Keeling project on Hawaii shows CO2 concentrations are now 380 ppm2009 – China’s carbon footprint overtakes America’s. Naturalist Sir Isaac Newton used a similar thought experiment to … picture 3 blogspot.co, 3406 views age of universe. FEBRUARY 11, 2016 BY THREEPOINTEIGHTBILLIONYEARS.COM, On his calendar (dates here are from the Wikipedia version), the Big Bang takes place on January 1, the Milky Way takes shape around March 11, our Sun appears on September 2 with its planets soon after. Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor first full-time editor 1899.1896 – Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius says coal burning will boost the greenhouse effect.1900 – Swedish scientist Knut Angstrom finds that CO2 absorbs heat1908 – Oil discovered at Masjid-i-Sulaiman in north-western Persia by Anglo-Persian Oil Company1908 – First Ford Model-T comes off the assembly line – the first affordable car for the middle classes1911 – World’s first commercial geothermal power station is built in Larderello, Italy.1920s – Opening of Persian Gulf oil fields inaugurates era of cheap energy.1927 – Man-made global CO2 emissions reach one billion tonnes per year.1930 – Human population reaches 2 billion.1938 – Saudi Arabian oil first discovered in quantity by the Americans in modern day Dhahran.1940s – First major advances in pipeline technology opens up natural gas market.1945 – First atomic bomb explodes, in New Mexico, USA.1951 – First electricity produced, in Idaho, USA.1958 – US geochemist Keeling proves CO2 concentrations (then 315 ppm) are rising.1960 – Human population reaches 3 billion. Life begins on September 21. Scientists predict global warming will reassert itself1985 – Broecker speculates weakening thermohaline circulation in Atlantic will cause climate change1986 – Chernobyl nuclear meltdown torpedoes plans to replace fossil fuels with nuclear power.1987 – Human population reaches 5 billion.1987 – Montreal Protocol of the Vienna Convention restricts CFCs and other ozone-destroying gases.1987 – Rainforest Alliance founded in New York by Daniel Katz.1989 – Man-made global CO2 emissions reach six billion tonnes per year1989 – At the UN, Margaret Thatcher calls for a global treaty on climate change.1988 – UN endorses setting up of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).1989 – Fossil-fuel companies form Global Climate Coalition to downplay global warming1990s – Popular Internet is established. So far, modern humans have survived 200,000 years. In 1920 it was discovered that also galaxies move away from each other and based on the supposed average distance and a supposed expansion rate an age of 1.800 to 3.400 million years for the observable universe was calculated. (eds.) Did earth (like some fundamental creationists believed and still believe) predate the cosmos, were earth and the cosmos created at the same time or came earth later? The following events associated with the destabilization of Earth’s climate system have all happened during the final second of the cosmic year: that is, from 23:59:59 to midnight on Dec 31.. 1700 – Coal starts to displace other energies (wood, charcoal) as a source of mechanical power. Framework Convention on Climate Change, IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, Big Bang, as seen through cosmic background radiation, Great Oxygenation Event. During  the 19th century geologists realized that earth was quite older than previously believed, however this discovery posed an even greater question: what about the universe? According to Croll's calculations the last glacial period ended 80.000 years ago. Did earth (like some fundamental creationists believed and still believe) predate the cosmos, were  earth and the cosmos created at the same time or came earth later? I graduated with a project on Rock Glaciers dynamics and hydrology, this phase left a special interest for quaternary deposits and modern glacial environments. Toyota unveils the Prius – the first mass-market electric hybrid car.1999 – Population reaches 6 billion. One second corresponds to 438 years; one minute is about 26,000 years; one hour is 1.6 million years; and one day is 38 million years. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American. When Did Global Warming Start?1861 – Irish physicist John Tyndall describes the greenhouse effect.1878 – World’s first hydroelectric power scheme developed in Northumberland, UK by William Armstrong.1882 – First Electric power plant built by Thomas Edison in New York.1885 – Robert Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner opening new opportunities to use natural gas.1888 – First electricity-generating wind turbine invented by Charles F. Brush, in Ohio, USA.1888 – National Geographic Society founded in USA.