In All Probability...

...any history of the world, written in the late twenty-first century, by one of the few survivors of global warming, and intended to be enshrined in a time capsule for whoever comes in the future to read, will begin:

"When, after the 'election' of George Bush in the US in the year 2000, it became evident that the US would not participate to limit global warming, China also turned away from Kyoto Treaty goals, and carbon emissions shot upwards..."