On this day forty nine (!) years ago, as the Carter administration was about to begin, a US politician introduced legislation to boost climate research fundings. This wasn’t the first time – legislation usually fails the first time round…
January 4, 1977 – US politician introduces #climate research legislation
The Global 2000 report, another Carter-era report, had been released to some fan-fare (and pushback) in 1980. Here an update was published…
January 4, 1982 – Global 2000 Report updated
The denial machine ground into gear in the late 1980s. By the early 2000s it was in very high gear, spewing out any amount of rubbish, to comfort fossil fuel executives, pusillanimous politicians and old white people who didn’t want to accept they had backed the wrong horse.
January 4, 2005 – Senator James Inhofe exemplifies denialist bullshit
On this day in 2015 Christine Milne laid it out (again). But she was only a shrill hysterical housewife – so, safely ignored…
January 4, 2015 – Christine Milne warns about extreme weather events, knackered infrastructure etc.
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