April 2025

April 1, 1970 – Eco-documentary shown on Melbourne TV, carbon dioxide build-up mentioned – All Our Yesterdays

April 2, 2007 -Massachusetts (etc) get Supreme Court to tell the EPA that carbon dioxide is a pollutant – All Our Yesterdays

April 3, 2020 – Kwasi Kwarteng sends a letter…. – All Our Yesterdays

April 4, 1978 – the Australian Financial Review boosts the neoliberal nonsense. – All Our Yesterdays

April 4 –  2005 – APEC conference at Parliament House “Managing Climate Change: Practicalities and Realities in a post-Kyoto future”.  – All Our Yesterdays

April 5, 2005 – Clean Coal conference begins in Sydney – All Our Yesterdays

April 6, 2001 – “EU takes Kyoto fight to Moscow” – All Our Yesterdays

April 7, 2011 – More empty CCS pledges… – All Our Yesterdays

April 8, 2015 – Australian Energy White Paper “devoid of vision” – All Our Yesterdays

“Snowballs and morons and coal lumps, oh my”: on the hysterical materiality of old white men – All Our Yesterdays

April 9, 1991 – another dummy-spit by tired old man – All Our Yesterdays

April 10, 1969 – Nixon tries to go green to North Atlantic Council – All Our Yesterdays

April 11, 2010- Rudd fails to make a decision about the CPRS – All Our Yesterdays

April 12, 2022 – Big beasts put money into carbon removal – All Our Yesterdays

April 13, 2007 – smart meters are gonna save us… – All Our Yesterdays

April 14, 2009 – Penny Wong meets the Business Council of Australia, white flag in hand… – All Our Yesterdays

 April 15, 1994 – Greenpeace sues to stop a coal-fired power station being built – All Our Yesterdays

April 16, 2004 – Iron filings will save us all (actually, not).  – All Our Yesterdays

April 17, 2000 – Labor tries to get the green vote… – All Our Yesterdays

April 18, 1992 – The Australian carries page one headline “Global Warming May Lower Sea Levels” – All Our Yesterdays

April 19, 2001 – Greenpeace Australia does some push-polling on climate – All Our Yesterdays

April 20, 2023 – tabloid smear job of climate activist – Hypocrite-Zealot Trap – All Our Yesterdays

April 21, 1978  – solar power is unfeasible (cartoon) – All Our Yesterdays

April 22, 1915 – First gas attack in World War 1 – All Our Yesterdays

April 23, 2009 – the EU Parliament says yes to CCS – All Our Yesterdays

 April 24, 2001 –  Early Blair blather about dodgy policies on climate – All Our Yesterdays

 April 25, 2000 – “Beyond Kyoto”  more meaningless blather by Australian politicians – All Our Yesterdays

 April 26, 1986 – Chernobyl – All Our Yesterdays

 April 27, 2001 – only Australia cheering Bush’s Kyoto pull out. – All Our Yesterdays

April 28, 1959 – the Chadwick lecture offers a (brief) carbon dioxide warning – All Our Yesterdays

April 29, 1989 – Australian Science Minister takes to the airwaves on the Greenhouse Effect. – All Our Yesterdays

“If I did a sequel it would probably involve a scientist swearing a great deal” – interview with cartoonist Jon Kudelka – All Our Yesterdays

April 30, 1993 – HTML – All Our Yesterdays

Tony Blair and climate change – a long sordid history – All Our Yesterdays