Fifty five years ago, on January 19, 1968, the American publication Science reported on the (typical) capture of an advisory group on pollution by engineers and technocrats…
January 19, 1968 – Engineers are not ecologists…
Forty seven years ago, on this day, January 19,1976, people were talking about the carbon footprint of cement.
January 19, 1976 – The carbon consequences of cement get an early discussion.
“One of the CSIRO’s top scientists says doubters of the greenhouse effect are gambling with the future of the world. Dr Graeme Pearman, coordinator of the CSIRO’s climate change research program, said yesterday there was little doubt global warming was a reality according to all the best scientific models.”
Anon, 1992. Greenhouse cynics gambling with future. Canberra Times, January 20
January 19, 1992 – they gambled, we lost
On this day, Jan 19, in 2015 “four of Europe’s biggest power utilities, represented in Brussels by Eurelectric, have decided to leave the European Commission’s CCS Technology Platform ZEP.”
January 19, 2015 -Four utilities pull out of an EU CCS programme…