Sixty three years ago, questions around appropriate and possible technologies were on the agenda. Ritchie Calder, about to really get his head around the carbon dioxide problem, was present.
February 4, 1963 – A UN conference on technology for “less developed areas” starts
Forty six years ago, alongside American efforts, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis was holding another climate meeting (something they’d been doing since about 1976).
February 4, 1980 – IIASA taskforce on Climate and Society
Thirty three years ago, coal exporters and their allies/minions were making sure all this stupid “greenhouse” nonsense wouldn’t get between them and their profits…
February 4, 1993 – Australian business versus the future (spoiler: business wins)
Twenty eight years ago today, a bent state department, ABARE, got a mild rebuke for its dodgy economic modelling that was being used as an excuse not to take climate action.
February 4, 1998 – Ombudsman on ABARE and its dodgy af #climate modelling – All Our Yesterdays
Twelve years ago the Carbon Capture and Storage Association and the Trades Union Council release a report on how wonderful CCS will be for the UK economy.
February 4, 2014 – CCSA and TUC release Economic Benefits of CCS report
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