1977-1990
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| Year | Locale | Event | Social Effects | Source |
| 1990 | USA/USSR/China | Bumper wheat (potato) crops | Prices fall globally/Soviet potatoes rot/field | Trager |
| 1990 | Chile-westward | Jack mackerel blooms | Begin Coastal/westward expansion /Tasman Sea | Serra |
| 1990-94 | Western Pacific | Tropical tuna fishing flourishes | Local Shoaling due to Kelvin waves | G.D. Sharp |
| 1990-94 | Northwest Atlantic | Cod fails/herring bloom | Bottom temps warm/coastal species bloom | G.D. Sharp |
| 1990 | North Sea | Herring in bloom phase | Spawning strong Scotch/North Sea banks | G.D. Sharp |
| 1990 | Iran - Province of Gilan | Earthquake |
Massive earthquake - 40,000 die. |
News |
| 1990 | Maine | Lobster catches peak | 28 million pounds/high since 1889 | Trager |
| 1990 | Gulf of Alaska | Halibut/salmon biomass up | Decadal trends reversing/rare vs abundance | G.D. Sharp |
| 1990 | Britain/Continent | Hurricane force winds | Devastate buildings/kill>140 | Trager |
| 1989 | Virgin Islands/Puerto Rico/Carolinas | Hurricane "Hugo" | >70 die/thousands homeless | Trager |
| 1989 | Japan/Chile | Peak Sardine catches | Sardinops in collapse/anchoveta rising | G.D. Sharp |
| 1989 | Central California | Loma
Prieta Earthquake SFO Version SANTA CRUZ VERSION |
Hollister, Santa Cruz, north to San Francisco and Oakland devastated, Bridges down, and travel disrupted for many years. Only 68 die | G.D. Sharp & News |
| 1988 | USA. midlands | Drought/crop failures | US forced to import grains/1st time | Trager |
| 1988 | Bangladesh | Floods/worst in 70 years | 1000s die/millions homeless | Trager |
| 1988 | East China coast | Floods | Thousands die/hundreds thousands homeless | Trager |
| 1988 | California/SW USA | Droughts | Predators die back/presage rodent blooms | Epstein |
| 1988 | Kattegat-Skagerak | Pinneped die off | Growing population/mild weather/virus | Dietz et al. |
| 1988 | NW Armenia | Earthquake R=6.9 | Claims up to 25,000 lives | News |
| 1988 | Brazil | Floods/mud slides | 117 die | Trager |
| 1988-89 | Eastern Tropical Pacific | ENSO cool event | Upper ocean low heat content | Sharp and McLain |
| 1987-88 | Lake Baikal | Baikal seal dieoff | Virus | Dietz et al. |
| 1986-87 | North Carolina | Gymnodinium breve bloom | Toxic/irritation causing coastal emergence | Tester |
| 1987 | North Sea/NE USA | Seals/Marine mammal die off | Associated with warm event/toxins/diseases | Epstein |
| 1987 | Caribbean/So. Florida coast | Coral bleaching/sea grass dies | Algal blooms/bleaching, cool freshwater leaks | G.D. Sharp |
| 1987 | Prince Edward Island | 1st Amnesic shellfish poisoning | Toxin domoic acid/also California/Scandinavia | Epstein |
| 1987 | So./central India | Very Dry monsoon | Strong negative rainfall anomalies/-SOI | Kalidas/Sinha |
| 1986 | USA | Recession continues | 60,000 farms are sold/foreclosed | Trager |
| 1986 | Chile/Peru | Coastal upwelling pulses | Sardine begins decline/anchoveta outbursts | G.D. Sharp |
| 1986-87 | Pacific wide | ENSO warm event | Substantial records of climate anomalies | G.D. Sharp |
| 1986 | Cameroon | Underwater volcano erupts | Toxic gas released kills 1,524 | Trager |
| 1986 | Sahel | 1970-85 Drought ends | Hundreds of thousands die | NOAA |
| 1985 | Colombia | Volcano erupts | 25,000 die | Trager |
| 1985 | Eastern Tropical Pacific | ENSO cool event | Upper ocean low heat content | G.D. Sharp |
| 1985 | Mexico City | Earthquake | Claims 10,000 lives | News |
| 1984 | Ethiopia | Famine | 300,000 die/500,000 more die | Trager |
| 1983 | USA | Worst drought since 1936 | Crops down | Trager |
| 1984-85 | Eastern Pacific | Tropical tuna catches peak | Due to shoaling of habitat after 25 yr warm trend | G.D. Sharp |
| 1983-84 | Pacific wide | Upper ocean heat loss | Reversal of east Pacific heating trend | G.D. Sharp |
| 1983-85 | Zimbabwe | Moderate Rodent infestations | Rainfalls follow drought period | Chikwenhere |
| 1983 | USSR | Harvests Better | Ý | G.D. Sharp |
| 1982 | Mexico | El Chichon erupts | Massive atmospheric aerosol event | G.D. Sharp |
| 1982-1994 | Global Ocean | Red Tides/algal blooms | Trend/more frequent widespread occurrences | Epstein |
| 1982-83 | Chile/Peru | Tropical species Outbursts | Tropical clams/scallops/fishes bloom locally | Arntz/IFOP |
| 1983-86 | British Isles | westerly circulation returns | Ocean production increases | Colebrook |
| 1982-83 | Pacific-wide/Global | Great El Niño floods/droughts | Apex of eastern Pacific warming since 1968 - Timeline of 82-83 Event |
Sharp/McLain NPS team |
| 1982-83 | So./central India | Very Dry monsoon | Strong negative rainfall anomalies/-SOI | Kalidas/Sinha |
| 1982 | USSR | Crops in 4th year failure | Grain reserves drawn/livestock feed/imports | Trager |
| 1981 | Eastern Tropical Pacific | ENSO cool event | Upper ocean low heat content | Sharp/McLain |
| 1980 | Global | AIDS epidemic | Bodily fluids exchanged via sex/needles vector | Trager |
| 1980 | Caribbean | Hurricane "David' | Dominican Rep./600 die/150k homeless | Trager |
| 1980 | Brazil | Subsidized colonization | Devastation of forest/epidemics kill indigents | Trager |
| 1980 | North Sea | Zoo./Phytoplankton minimum | 35 year trend reverses/warming begins | Colebrook |
| 1980 | Western Alaska | King crab fishery peaks | Precipitous decline begins in 1981 | Glantz |
| 1980 | Washington State | Mt. St. Helens erupts | Many die/streams/atmosphere ashed | Glantz |
| 1979-80 | New England | Harbor seal dieoff | Warm/large population/virus | Geraci et al. |
| 1979 | North Sea | Herring catches at low | Populations return/recolonize old grounds | ICES |
| 1979 | USSR | Crops begin 4 year failure | Grain purchases minimize famine | Trager |
| 1978 | Central California | Major Flood/Coastal Valleys | Salinas River Floods | News |
| 1978 | Alaska | Walrus dieoff | Large population/no known disease | Fay&Kelly |
| 1978 | Global | Recession | Unemployment rate rises/money market boom | Trager |
| 1977 | Somalia | World's last case smallpox | Virtual eradication of a disease/vaccination | Trager |
| 1977 | Arab States | Cholera epidemic | Trager | |
| 1977 | Pacific basin | Low SOI/ little evidence of El Niño | COADS | |
| 1977 | Northern hemisphere | Climate Regime Step Raise Global temperatures | Likely an Ocean-based heating phenomenon | P. Michaels |
| 1977 | North Pacific basin | More than 40 ocean and ecosystem trends change sign | Patterns of species distributions/abundances shift in response to warming | C. Ebbesmeyer |
1967 - 1976; or Home:
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