April 2024

April 1, 1960 – TIROS satellite launched – All Our Yesterdays

April 1, 1970 – “And on the Eighth Day” shown in Melbourne – including climate warning – All Our Yesterdays

April 2, 1968 – Oz Senate debates Air Pollution Select Committee – All Our Yesterdays

April 3, 1995 and 2001 – Australia’s international trajectory – from bullshit to batshit delusion (but honest) – All Our Yesterdays

April 4, 1979 – DOE and AAAS meet on social science and climate – All Our Yesterdays

April 4, 1964 – Revelle’s PSAC Working Group Five – All Our Yesterdays

April 5, 2005 – Coal21 holds first conference – All Our Yesterdays

April 6, 2012 – Genetically-modified humans? – All Our Yesterdays

April 7, 2010 – Ziggie tries to sprinkle Stardust – 50 nuclear reactors by 2050 – All Our Yesterdays

April 8, 1995 – Journo points out the gamble on climate – All Our Yesterdays

April 9, 1991 – Peter Walsh goes nuts, urges BHP to sue Greenpeace – All Our Yesterdays

April 10, 1969 – Nixon schmoozes North Atlantic Council on environment – All Our Yesterdays

April 10, 2006 – “Business warms to change” (Westpac, Immelt) – All Our Yesterdays

April 11, 2014 – Greenpeace China releases coal report – All Our Yesterdays

April 12, 1955 – Coventry Evening Telegraph – “Melting Ice Could Menace the World” – All Our Yesterdays

April 13, 2011 – GE and others say Gillard is on right track – All Our Yesterdays

 April 14, 1980 – Carter’s scientist, Frank Press, pushes back against CEQ report – All Our Yesterdays

April 15, 1969-  Coventry lecture – Mellanby says Air Pollution could cause flood… – All Our Yesterdays

April 16 2006 – Ian Macfarlane says renewable support schemes are “Mickey Mouse” – All Our Yesterdays

April 17, 1981 – David Burns writes in New York Times about trouble ahead – All Our Yesterdays

April 18, 1970 – Harold Wilson in York, bigging up UN, rights/obligations – All Our Yesterdays

April 18, 1980 – Ad Hoc Panel on Economic and Social Aspects of C02 increase reports back – All Our Yesterdays

April 19 1996 – Ark hits the world wide web.. – All Our Yesterdays

April 19, 2010 -World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth – All Our Yesterdays

April 20, 2010 – Deep Water Horizon – All Our Yesterdays

April 20, 2009 – World has Six Years to Act, says Penny Sackett – All Our Yesterdays

April 21, 1977 – Australian Parliament debate on Uranium – C02 build up mentioned – All Our Yesterdays

April 22, 1965 – Manchester Evening News article on C02 and global warming – All Our Yesterdays

April 23, 2013 – Power Companies want Abbott to rethink Direct Action – All Our Yesterdays

April 24, 2004 – Launch of the Climate Group – All Our Yesterdays

April 24, 2004 – Launch of the Climate Group – All Our Yesterdays

April 25, 1989 – The Greenhouse Effect – is the world dying? (Why yes, yes it is) – All Our Yesterdays

April 26, 1992 – Ros Kelly abjures a carbon tax – All Our Yesterdays

April 27, 1999 – 2% increase in use of renewables report received – All Our Yesterdays

April 27, 2010 – Rudd says no CPRS until 2012 at earliest. Seals fate – All Our Yesterdays

April 28, 1997 – John Howard says Australia should not have signed climate treaty (UNFCCC) – All Our Yesterdays

April 29, 1939 – Whitestone bridge across East River opens (infrastructure foreclosing) – All Our Yesterdays

April 29, 1967 – Canberra Times reviews Science and Survival – All Our Yesterdays

April 30, 2007 – Rudd hires Garnaut – All Our Yesterdays