1960s-1970s:

Understanding the Science of Climate Change

1978:

Creating the National Climate Program Act and the US Global Change Research Program

1980s:

Assessing and Evaluating Climate and Energy

1988:

Creating the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

1990:

Preparing the First IPCC Report

1992:

Negotiating the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

1997:

Negotiating the Kyoto Climate Protocol

2000-2010:

Fighting the Climate Wars

2007:

Regulating CO₂ as a Pollutant: The Supreme Court Decision

2010s:

Responding to Extreme Events, the 2013 IPCC Assessment Report, and the 2014 US Climate Report