January 2025

January 1, 1970 – President Nixon says 1970s is the critical environmental decade – “It is literally now or never.”

January 1, 2005 – the EU Emissions Trading Scheme begins. – All Our Yesterdays

January 2, 2016 – Australian environmental NGOs write another wish list… – All Our Yesterdays

January 3, 1988 – The Sea and Summer, early Australian cli-fi, is reviewed. – All Our Yesterdays

January 4, 2005 – Senator James Inhofe exemplifies denialist bullshit – All Our Yesterdays

January 4, 2015 – Christine Milne warns about extreme weather events, knackered infrastructure etc. – All Our Yesterdays

January 5, 1995 – Victorian premier comes out against carbon tax – All Our Yesterdays

January 6, 1989 – “Cloud-Radiative Forcing and Climate: Results from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment”  – All Our Yesterdays

January 7, 2006 – Bureau of Meteorology with another climate warning – All Our Yesterdays

January 8, 2018 – Joe Root doesn’t come back to bat – All Our Yesterdays

January 9, 1987 – another stupid letter in the Guardian – All Our Yesterdays

January 10, 1978 – World Meteorological Organisation outlines World Climate Programme… – All Our Yesterdays

January 11, 1909 – Boundary Object(ions). – All Our Yesterdays

January 12, 2006 – the nuclear option, yet again – All Our Yesterdays

January 13, 2009 – Medical Journal of Australia warns about climate impacts – All Our Yesterdays

January 13, 1965 – President Lyndon Johnson gets a memo about carbon dioxide build-up and climate change – All Our Yesterdays

January 13, 1967 – crucial editorial in Science – “Man is changing the earth’s atmosphere…” – All Our Yesterdays

January 14, 2003 – WWF Australia raises the alarm – All Our Yesterdays

January 15, 1981 – US calls for efforts to combat global environmental problems – All Our Yesterdays

January 16, 1992 – ACT draft Greenhouse Strategy released – All Our Yesterdays

January 17, 2015 – David Pope’s brilliant “You are now leaving the Holocene” cartoon is published – All Our Yesterdays

January 18, 1972 – Plastic is in your blood.. – All Our Yesterdays

January 19, 2016 – Australian Chief Scientific Advisor advises… – All Our Yesterdays

January 20, 1995 – ACF says a carbon tax would be really helpful – All Our Yesterdays

January 21, 2013 –  5 Ways President Obama Could Fight Climate Change Now – All Our Yesterdays

January 22, 2015 – Fossil interests dominating renewable energy associations – All Our Yesterdays

January 23, 1968 – US federal bureaucrat flags carbon dioxide build-up as “rapidly accelerating and alarming” – All Our Yesterdays

January 24, 1989 – Minister for Resources tell the truth – ““The greenhouse effect is an environmental issue of global dimensions…. It is not simply an energy issue.” – All Our Yesterdays

 January 25, 2007 – John Howard proclaims himself as a “climate realist” – All Our Yesterdays

January 26, 1972 – “Enhance Oil Recovery” with carbon dioxide kicks off. – All Our Yesterdays

January 27, 1967 –  Time Magazine talks carbon dioxide build-up – All Our Yesterdays

January 28, 1987 –  Scientists warn politicians #01: United States – All Our Yesterdays

January 28, 2020 –  Scientists warn politicians #02: United Kingdom – All Our Yesterdays

January 29, 1980 -Exxon HQ tells its Vice-Presidents that CO2 build-up is “a potentially serious problem” – All Our Yesterdays

Podcast review: Rebecca John, Deceptive PR Strategy Pioneered in 1950s California to Hide Climate Change Risk – All Our Yesterdays

January 30, 2024 – Climate Committee counsels action – All Our Yesterdays

January 31, 2009 – Climate Action Summit – All Our Yesterdays