On this day in 1990, while up for re-election Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke spoke to scientists at the opening the CSIRO Atmospheric Research Building, Aspendale Victoria. As Maria Taylor notes in her excellent “Global Warming and Climate Change: what Australia knew and buried” “In the late 1980s, political leaders (Jones, Hawke and Richardson) publicly … Continue reading March 19, 1990 – Bob Hawke gives #climate speech