Fifty five years ago John Maddox is fulminating against the concern over carbon dioxide build-up. Yeah, Maddox, that one is gonna age like a glass of milk (30+ yrs later, he admitted he was wrong. Sort of).
February 19, 1971 – Nature editorial on “The Great Greenhouse Scare”
Exactly 10 years later? An article on, erm, acting now not later. Forty five years after this, we’re still not acting. Just pretending.
February 19, 1981 – Nature article “Greenhouse Effect: Act Now, Not Later”
On the same day (and perhaps some in the room had seen the editorial?) people in the Ecology Party, since renamed the Green Party – were talking about the climate threat. Forty five damned years.
February 19, 1981 – Ecology Party meeting in Wells warns of carbon dioxide build-up
The IPCC, ever the technocrat-dominated body, announced it would study the fantasy that is CCS. They released the report in September 2005.
February 19, 2003 – “CCS to be studied by IPCC”
As the public gets worried about climate change, the lobbyists, with many tools at their disposal, spring into action…
February 19, 2007 – Australian gas lobby hard at work…
Normally I don’t do an “on this day” post if I am putting up something new. But there were too many fearful symmetries here to be ignored.