On this day, April 23,
The Irish Times (among others) ran a story from the UNESCO Courier about the climate and the theory of Arrhenius and others (including, most recently, Gilbert Plass) that carbon dioxide build-up was already causing warming, which would grow.
April 23, 1954 – Irish Times runs carbon dioxide/climate story. Yes, 1954.
“Ecology has become the Thing. There are ecological politics, ecological jokes, ecological bookstores, advertisements, seminars, teach-ins, buttons. The automobile, symbol of ecological abuse, has been tried, sentenced to death, and formally executed in at least two universities (replete with burial of one victim)…”
April 23, 1970 – book review nails coming #climate problems…
Michael Mann begins to land himself in a world of pain. Very UNjolly hockeysticks…
April 23, 1998 – Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick paper published.
It is leaked to climate journo Andy Revkin that – hope you are sitting down – the scumbags behind the “Global Climate Coalition” were ignoring their own scientists…
April 23, 2009 – denialists caught denying their own scientists…
With a new Australian Prime Minister in the offing, power companies try to get him to be less stupid (they fail)
April 23, 2013 – Power Companies want Abbott to rethink Direct Action – All Our Yesterdays