2006

In 2006, Al Gore’s climate change film "An Inconvenient Truth," was a box office hit. Carbon dioxide emissions were found to be rising faster than in the previous decade, and new evidence bolstered the iconic hockey stick graph.

The Stern Report, commissioned by the UK government, concluded that climate change could damage global GDP by up to 20% if left unchecked, but curbing it would cost about 1% of global GDP. 

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.

In California, 2006 saw the beginning of a multi-year drought.

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