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Man's role in climate change was globally acknowledged but the issue was little understood.
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The Exxon Valdez oil tanker strikes a reef in Alaska, spilling 10.8 million gallons of oil.
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The Kyoto Protocol was signed at the UN, placing emission reduction targets on developed countries. Not to be effective until February 2005.
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Oil giant Exxonmobil lobbied against the Kyoto protocol calling it expensive and questioning the science of climate change
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in 2001 Bush declined to send the Kyoto Protocol to congress to be ratified, shortly after Canada also pulled out.
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The Kyoto Protocol went into effect but with withdrawal of major countries, it had little affect.
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Exxonmobil acknowledges the problem of carbon emissions and supports a carbon tax.
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The company BP causes a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, garnering massive media attention.
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In an attempt to protect climate change laws from being so easily revoked by Mr. Trump, President Obama calls for a permanent ban of drilling along the Arctic and Atlantic seaboard.
