In 2002 the average temperature of the Earth's surface was 0.63 °C above the 1951–1980 average, the highest since reliable global records began in 1880. Each new record shows how much the planet has warmed since the industrial era, mainly because of greenhouse gases released by burning coal, oil and gas. It took place in 2002.
Before and after
- 2002Creation of Fedora Linux
- 2002Release of OpenOffice.org
- January 2002Release of Azerbaijani Wikipedia
- 2002Release of Mozilla Firefox
- 20022002 becomes the warmest year on record
- 16 January 2002Release of Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia
- 25 January 2002Release of MediaWiki
- 1 February 2002Discovery of 153P/Ikeya–Zhang
- 1 February 2002Release of Danish Wikipedia
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- 1970Establishment of Salonga National Park
- 2001Establishment of Phong Nha–Ke Bang National Park
- 26 December 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake
- 11 March 20112011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
- 11 March 2020The WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic
- 6 February 20232023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes
The era
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