Google: 2002 Year-End Zeitgeist - 2002 Year-End Zeitgeist offers a unique perspective on the year's major events and hottest trends based on more than 55 billion searches conducted over the past year by Google users from around the world.
Infoplease: Year in Review 2002 - Top headlines, People in the News, Arts & Entertainment, Sports in Review, Science & Disasters.
NOAA: Weather 2002 - Working from the world’s largest statistical weather database, NOAA scientists at the National Climatic Data Center also found that 2002 is very likely to be the second warmest year on record for the globe. The return of El Niño affected hurricanes in the Atlantic and precipitation patterns in some parts of the world.