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August 2, 2002 – Crispin Tickell editorialises

Twenty four years ago, on this day, August 2nd, 2002,

2002 Communicating Climate Change, Tickell editorial

The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 374ppm. As of 2026, when this post was published, it is 430ppm. This matters because the more carbon dioxide in the air, the more heat gets trapped. The more heat, the more extreme weather events. You can make it more complicated than that if you want, but really, it’s not. Fwiw, I have a tattoo of the Keeling Curve on my left forearm.

The broader context was that Crispin Tickell had been switched on to the problem of carbon dioxide build up while at Harvard on a sabbatical in 1975-76. In 1976 his paper was circulating around Whitehall, and this was a good year for it, given the drought, but ultimately it came to nothing. Tickell was, by 79-80,  working for the European Commission and had tried to get a more detailed paper on carbon dioxide to be discussed at the Venice G7. He had failed and he had kept plugging away through the 80s and had eventually convinced Margaret Thatcher, who was impressed by Tickell and his sang froid, to take up the issue. But the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change had hit the rocks, and by 2002 the fact that the president selected by the Supreme Court, President George W. Bush, had pulled out of Kyoto meant that the entire concept of international agreements around emissions reductions was on life support.

What I think we can learn from this is that Tickell had spent a very long time trying to get this issue on the agenda, poor sod, and had seen it beaten back many times. 

What happened next The UNFCCC process staggered on. The Russians ratified Kyoto, making it international law. That’s L A W, rather than LORE, though the latter applies, and then the last chance to save the world conference in Copenhagen ended in failure, so they held another last chance to save the world conference in Paris in 2015 and that ended in glorious success, as we all know. 

On this topic, you might like these other posts on All Our Yesterdays

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Also on this day: 

August 2, 1970 – LA Times runs #climate change front page story 

August 2, 1972, Paul Goodman dies

August 2, 1991- Pledge and Review…

August 2, 1992 – Canberra Times reporting that Jastrow idiot #RelevanceDeprivationSyndrome 

August 2, 1994 – Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating says greenies should ignore “amorphous issue of greenhouse” 

August 2, 2000 – BHP shows its true colours

August 2, 2007 – Russia plants a flag on the Arctic sea-bed.

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Activism United Kingdom

July 31, 2008 – “Climate caravan”

Eighteen years ago, on this day, July  31st, 2008,

Some (Trot-inspired/’led’) activists held a “Climate caravan” thing in the UK. Gaia help us.

The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was xxxppm. As of 2026, when this post was published, it is 430ppm. This matters because the more carbon dioxide in the air, the more heat gets trapped. The more heat, the more extreme weather events. You can make it more complicated than that if you want, but really, it’s not. Fwiw, I have a tattoo of the Keeling Curve on my left forearm.

The broader context was by 2008 exhaustion was setting in among climate activists. They’d been rallying, camping, marching for a couple of years (longer for some) and although there was the promise of a Climate Change Act (yay), nobody held out much hope for the sort of fundamental transformational change that was needed.

What I think we can learn from this – most upsurges in activity/ concern last two or three years (less if a pandemic gets in the way).

What happened next – after Copenhagen the movement was basically gone like a fist when you open your palm, give or take a couple of dead-cat bounces. 

You can see the chronological list of All Our Yesterdays “on this day” posts here.

What do you think? Does this pass the ‘so what?’ threshold? Have I got facts wrong? Interpretation wrong? Please do comment on this post, unless you are a denialist, obvs.

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If you want to invite me on your podcast, that would boost my ego and probably improve the currently pitiful hit-rate on this site (the two are not-unrelated).

Also on this day: 

July 31, 1981 – US politicians hold “carbon dioxide and climate” hearings. 

July 31, 1981 – Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect

July 31, 2008 – another day, another “Strategic Review” 

July 31, 2014 Ark hits rocks with forestry tie-in

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 July 29, 1949 – Weather charts appear again on television

Seventy seven years ago, on this day, July  29th, 1949,

Meanwhile, television (TV) broadcasting had recommenced after the war. On 29 July 1949, weather charts appeared again on TV, the first of them at the end of that evening’s programmes, broadcast from a BBC studio in London. Two captioned charts were displayed, one showing isobars ‘today’, the other the distribution of isobars forecast for ‘tomorrow’. The BBC’s duty announcer, out of vision, read a forecast prepared and supplied by the Office.

 Malcolm Walker History of Meteorological Office

The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 311ppm. As of 2026, when this post was published, it is 430ppm. This matters because the more carbon dioxide in the air, the more heat gets trapped. The more heat, the more extreme weather events. You can make it more complicated than that if you want, but really, it’s not. Fwiw, I have a tattoo of the Keeling Curve on my left forearm.

The broader context was that there’d been a war, so television and weather charts for public consumption were not “a thing” as the young people used to say.

The specific context was the history of the Met Office is crucial in all this (understanding UK understandings and misunderstandings of climate change).

What I think we can learn from this – well, I will confess this is one for the trainspotters, like me.

What happened next – questions about carbon dioxide build-up were there, in the background, through the 1950s and 1960s.  They only finally turned from problem to issue in 1988.

On this topic, you might like these other posts on All Our Yesterdays

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Also on this day: 

July 29, 1974 – the World (will be heating) according to GARP 

July 29, 2009 – Climate for Innovation: Technology and IP for Global Climate Solutions” wins the climate bingo award 

July 29, 2013 – unreadable denialist screed published. 

July 29, 2023 – Sunak all in on oil and gas drilling 

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Private Eye letter: “Emission Omission”

The latest issue of Private Eye (to which you should subscribe, or have a very kind mother-in-law who gets you a gift subscription) has a letter from, er, me.

Your excellent Sunny Jim (“Electric Avenues,” Eye 1679, p.16) begins his report by stating that “emissions have halved since 1990.” Would that it were so. It all depends what gets counted and what doesn’t. If Lord Gnome would allow me to quote from an August 2025 report by Owen et al “The UK’s hidden carbon footprint” for the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence.

“The consumption-based emissions account (CBA) was developed to fill gaps in emissions reporting. It includes aviation, shipping and UK-registered businesses located overseas, adds emissions associated with imports and removes emissions associated with exports. This helps to reveal whether the UK’s apparent progress is due to real change, or simply the result of shifting our production (and emissions) to other countries.  The Climate Change Committee’s Seventh Carbon Budget recommends continuing to report these consumption-based figures.”  
They have a handy graph that shows while UK emissions have gone down a bit (though – worryingly – climbing from a dip), it’s nowhere near half.  It’s also nowhere near enough to be our fair share, given historical emissions.

I would get out more, but the weather is so damn hot, for reasons which entirely escape my understanding.

More power to your mighty organ
I remain etc etc

Dr Marc Hudson

And here’s a letter from 2024 they didn’t publish

Lord Gnome’s always astute correspondent Aphra may have missed a trick in her Eye Pod column (Eye, 1633). She ponders why the decade-long decline of stigma about mental health challenges is rarely acknowledged. She suggests that if it were then “we might have to acknowledge that the problem is … ‘money the health service  doesn’t have’?”

Partly, yes. But beyond the dosh, perhaps keeping “oh the stigma” narratives helps us dodge a deeper reason: the world has always been objectively ‘crazy-making’ and is getting worse?

We are beset on all sides by evidence that the institutions and organisations we were taught to rely on were never that good or have been progressively hollowed out. There is a cumulative effect of reading about scandals such as, oh I don’t know – Horizon, NHS Blood, Grenfell, the VIP fast lane for PPE – passim ad nauseam – all covered so superficially and sporadically in your mighty organ.

And behind all those? The remorseless rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and those ‘1 in a 1000 year’ events which seem to be happening pretty much weekly now.

The problem might not be stigma, or sourcing heallth services but our “slow” societal suicide.

I remain your humble servant,  who would get out more, but there are so many arslikhan letters to be written.

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Activism United Kingdom

July 20, 1979 – Little Green Book gets a shout out…

Forty seven years ago, on this day, July  11st, 1997, the Little Green Book (review here) got a shout out.

Birmingham Post 1979 07 20 p04 Little Green Book

“One of its great virtues is that it is only just over five inches by four and, though it is packed with information, it slips easily into the pocket or hand-bag. 

It is sub-titled “An owner’s manual to the planet” and it has been produced by the editors of Vole magazine for The Green Alliance, formed last year by a group of environmentalists with the aim of ensuring “that the political priorities of the UK are determined with an ecological perspective.”

The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was xxxppm. As of 2026, when this post was published, it is 430ppm. This matters because the more carbon dioxide in the air, the more heat gets trapped. The more heat, the more extreme weather events. You can make it more complicated than that if you want, but really, it’s not. Fwiw, I have a tattoo of the Keeling Curve on my left forearm.

The broader context was that there had been various groups and publications forming in the late 1960s early 1970s (The Ecologist, Our Environment, Friends of the Earth etc etc).

Vole was kinda interesting, and Ted Hughes, the poet, was heavily involved. You can see copies in the British Library.

What I think we can learn from this – “environmentalism’ has been with us for fifty years. It has not been able to do terribly much to slow down the race to extinction, either of other animals or of the hairless murder apes.

What happened next – Vole folded quite soon after this (1980?)

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Also on this day: 

July 20, 1989 – New “Ambassador for the Environment” role makes greenies happy 

July 20, 1989 – Bob Hawke fumbles the green football… 

July 20, 1995 – Patrick Moore at the National Press Club 

July 20, 2014- the “Green Blob” blamed 

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 July 19, 2006 – David Miliband gives a speech

Twenty years ago, on this day, July  11st, 2006, newly-appointed Climate minister David Miliband gives a speech

“Furthermore, if we wait until the problem is at crisis point, it will be too late to put right.“

D. Miliband, The Great Stink: Towards an Environmental Contract, Audit Commission Annual Lecture, Wednesday, 19 July

https://www.darkoptimism.org/DavidMiliband.pdf

2006, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20061209022624/http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/ministers/

The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 382ppm. As of 2026, when this post was published, it is 430ppm. This matters because the more carbon dioxide in the air, the more heat gets trapped. The more heat, the more extreme weather events. You can make it more complicated than that if you want, but really, it’s not. Fwiw, I have a tattoo of the Keeling Curve on my left forearm.

The broader context was that after a flurry of announcements and pronouncements from 1988 to 1992 or so, the climate issue had slipped down the agenda, wheeled out for election point-scoring (swing voters etc etc).  However, from about 2005, with the EUETS, the ratification of Kyoto and Blair’s desperation that the G7 meeting he was hosting not be about the Iraq War, climate moved back centre(ish) stage. Much as Kevin Rudd in Australia would use climate as a stick to wield, so young David Cameron, new leader of the Conservatives, would do.

The specific context was some of us were neck-deep in making Climate Camp happen. What fools.

What I think we can learn from this Talk is cheap.

What happened next.  Oh, lots of stuff, including a possible carbon rationing scheme. Then Miliband lost the leadership contest to his brother Ed, and the rest is history.

On this topic, you might like these other posts on All Our Yesterdays

 November 19, 2009 – Ed Miliband on “The Politics of Climate Change”

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What do you think? Does this pass the ‘so what?’ threshold? Have I got facts wrong? Interpretation wrong? Please do comment on this post, unless you are a denialist, obvs.

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Also on this day: 

July 19, 1968 – “man has already rendered the temperature equilibrium of the globe more unstable.” 

July 19, 1976 – , Scientist warns “ “If we’re still rolling along on fossil fuels by the end of the century, then we’ve had it.” 

July 19, 1977 – American public hears from a climate scientist 

July 19, 1979 – “a political view on C02” 

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Coal United Kingdom

July 18, 1991  – “Clean Coal” says Commons Energy Select Committee. 

Thirty five years ago, on this day, July  11st, 1991, the House of Commons Energy Select Committee produces a report calling for – in the light of ‘the greenhouse effect’ – “clean coal.”

Guardian

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sr3-V4fIY8IZTvM_QIv2DA-dnOAEhjn6/view?usp=drive_link

The Times

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VWimV0nX9i33Ijg6wEl6QkFL6E4Dm8Ez/view?usp=drive_link

The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 355ppm. As of 2026, when this post was published, it is 430ppm. This matters because the more carbon dioxide in the air, the more heat gets trapped. The more heat, the more extreme weather events. You can make it more complicated than that if you want, but really, it’s not. Fwiw, I have a tattoo of the Keeling Curve on my left forearm.

The broader context was that the environmental consequences of coal burning were, shall we say, well known, from the 19th century especially (not that 1661 had been a quiet year).


From the mid-1950s onwards, the climate implications had been spoken off here and there, but it was only in the mid-1970s on that this became a common feature of discussions.  Various people had done their best to silence the issue (looking at you, John Mason).

The specific context was in 1988 everyone had started to get het up about the Greenhouse Effect (as climate change from carbon dioxide build-up was then called). Panels and committees were established etc etc.

What I think we can learn from this We knew plenty. Clean coal is a joke, at least as far as carbon dioxide is concerned.

What happened next The British coal industry got privatised.  What expertise there was was scattered to the four winds.  The emissions kept climbing. Coal was finally kicked out of the electricity generation mix in the 2010s.

On this topic, you might like these other posts on All Our Yesterdays

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Also on this day: 

July 18, 1979 – US Senators ask for synthetic fuel implications for greenhouse warming. Told. 

July 18, 1996 – Australian Prime Minister snubs #climate talks 

July 18, 1996 – Geneva Ministerial Declaration noted but not adopted 

July 18, 2005 – inconvenient energy targets scrapped 

July 18, 2012: Climate Justice poem – “Tell Them” by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner – hits the internet 

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Activism United Kingdom

 July 17, 2022 – in case of emergency, break glass

Four years ago, on this day, July  17th, 2022

On 17th July 2022 local activist and general practitioner, Dr David McKelvey joined other healthcare professionals to carefully and symbolically crack panes of glass at JP Morgan in London. The action was shortly before the hottest day ever record in the UK; JP Morgan is the largest funder of fossil fuels in the world. The group had signs which read “In medical climate emergency break glass.”

The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 419ppm. As of 2026, when this post was published, it is 430ppm. This matters because the more carbon dioxide in the air, the more heat gets trapped. The more heat, the more extreme weather events. You can make it more complicated than that if you want, but really, it’s not. Fwiw, I have a tattoo of the Keeling Curve on my left forearm.

The broader context was that there have been urgent warnings, broadly publicised, about climate change caused by carbon dioxide build-up, since 1988.  Let that sink in. People have been born, educated, had children and those children have had children in that time.

The specific context was XR had turned up in 2018 and was going to save the world. By late 2019 it was pretty obvious that they were not, in fact, going to save the world.  The pandemic saved their blushes, but reality does continue…

What I think we can learn from this – we are stuck in the emotacycle, and we “memory wand” ourselves all the time.

What happened next

The jury would not convict.

17 Feb 26 Share: 

Six members of Health for XR unanimously acquitted of criminal damage by a jury, despite legal defences being withdrawn

Six medical professionals (doctors and nurses), all members of Health for XR, have been unanimously acquitted of criminal damage, having been charged following a protest in 2022. Health for XR is aligned with Extinction Rebellion, “a socio-political movement which utilises nonviolent resistance to avert climate breakdown, halt biodiversity loss and minimise the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse”.

In July 2022, the six medical professionals cracked windows at the European Headquarters of JP Morgan in Canary Wharf, the world’s largest financier of fossil fuels, as an intervention to try to save lives in the face of an unprecedented heatwave and the climate and ecological emergency.

All six were charged with criminal damage and first tried at Snaresbrook Crown Court in 2024. The jury, however, were unable to reach a verdict, despite all available legal defences having been withdrawn prior to trial.

The retrial commenced on 4th February 2026 and, following a nine-day trial, the jury unanimously acquitted all six defendants under four hours on 16th February 2026.

https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/six-members-health-xr-unanimously-acquitted-criminal-damage-jury-despite-legal-defences-being

This is of course entirely unrelated to the government wanting to restrict jury trials.

On this topic, you might like these other posts on All Our Yesterdays

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Also on this day: 

July 17, 1912 – Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal on climate change 

July 17, 1968 – Scoop Jackson’s colloquium 

July 17, 1991 – G7 DOESN’T talk about climate… 

July 17, 2006 – Australian Prime Minister shits on renewables, blah blah “realistic” 

July 17, 2014 – Australian elected idiot is highly visibly idiotic 

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July 14, 1967 – “The rights of man and the rape of his environment: a blueprint for a peaceful revolution”

Fifty-nine years ago, on this day, July  14th, 1967, Edward Mishan, had a long article in the Spectator (back when it was still a serious publication).

The rights of man and the rape of his environment: a blueprint for a peaceful revolution

Mishan, Edward J The Spectator; Jul 14, 1967;

“Of course, it happens innocently enough. Machines that are employed to produce services for some simultaneously produce ‘dis- services for others. The recipients of the services acknowledge their value by a willingness to pay for these services. Symmetrical reasoning would require that the recipients of the disservices should receive payment for absorbing these disservices. Things have not worked out this way, however. It is true that such nice calculations would not matter much in a society with only rudimentary technology and an abundance of land relative to its population but this is not the condition of Britain today. 

“With the postwar growth of technology and population these disservices or ‘spillover effects the noise, smell, smoke pollution or other noxious by-products of the operation of industry or their products have become too conspicuous to be ignored any longer by civilised countries.

They range from the strangulation by traffic of cities, resorts and once-quiet hamlets to the extermination of wild life by the indis- criminate use of pesticides; from ubiquitous jets to the spreading plague of beach transistors; from the destruction by mass tourism. of the world’s dwindling resources of natural beauty to the neighbour’s petrol lawn-mower. Indeed, together these spillover effects represent the most outstanding example of postwar growth yet recorded.”

The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 321ppm. As of 2026, when this post was published, it is 430ppm. This matters because the more carbon dioxide in the air, the more heat gets trapped. The more heat, the more extreme weather events. You can make it more complicated than that if you want, but really, it’s not. Fwiw, I have a tattoo of the Keeling Curve on my left forearm.

The broader context was that the ‘diseconomies’ were steadily growing, with the coming of motorways, airport expansion etc. Yes, some things (visible air pollution in cities) seemed to be improving, but overall, the trajectory was not great. In 1961 Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring had been published. In 1966 the Conservation Society had been founded/

The specific context was a couple of months before this (but after the book had been written), the Torrey Canyon oil spill had been perpetrated….

In 1965, while at the LSE, he wrote his seminal work The Costs of Economic Growth,[2] but was unable to find a publisher until 1967.[3] In this work he expanded on his original 1960 thesis[4] which stated that the “precondition of sustained growth is sustained discontent”, warning developing nations that “the thorny path to industrialisation leads, after all, only to the waste land of Subtopia”.[5]  

What I think we can learn from this – the roots of the upsurge of environmental concern were there in the mid-1960s, in publications conservative and liberal…

What happened next

The Spectator went off a cliff. Is now edited by Michael Gove.

On this topic, you might like these other posts on All Our Yesterdays

November 26, 1966 – Conservation Society first meeting

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Also on this day: 

July 14, 1996 – Australian Medical Association and Greenpeace 

July 14, 2000 – Miners versus the ALP/ and climate action 

July 14, 2000 – Wind power providers want carbon labelling… 

July 14, 2011 – “Four Degrees or More: Australia in a Hot World” conference closes 

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July 12, 1982 – Thatcher briefing for meeting about British Antarctic Survey

Forty four years ago, on this day, July  11st, 1982, Margaret Thatcher gets a briefing for a meeting with the British Antarctic Survey bosses. It casually mentions climatic change…

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13OYbbNL2uRDAsE9kqMZAcC40UbZFmmCb/view?usp=sharing

The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 340ppm. As of 2026, when this post was published, it is 430ppm. This matters because the more carbon dioxide in the air, the more heat gets trapped. The more heat, the more extreme weather events. You can make it more complicated than that if you want, but really, it’s not. Fwiw, I have a tattoo of the Keeling Curve on my left forearm.

The broader context was folks at the Met Office were present in late 1953 when Gilbert Plass gave another presentation about his carbon dioxide theory of climatic change. The theory was pretty well known in any case (having been pooh-poohed by CEP Brooks). Through the 50s and 60s it became better known. The trouble was, the Met Office’s boss from 1965 on, John Mason, was adamantly opposed to it.  In the late 1970s there had been a civil service effort to get the issue under politician’s noses….

The specific context was that shortly after becoming Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher was briefed on the carbon dioxide threat by her chief scientific adviser. Her response was to look at him with incredulity and say “you want me to worry about the weather?” Nonetheless, international work continued, and the problem (not yet an issue) would not go away.

What I think we can learn from this  Another reason to despise Thatcher.

What happened next

Mason retired as Met Office boss, and was replaced by John Houghton, who accepted physical reality (having first written on carbon dioxide build-up in 1965).

In late September 1988, to get ahead of an inevitable trend, Margaret Thatcher gave her speech at the Royal Society.

On this topic, you might like these other posts on All Our Yesterdays

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Also on this day: 

July 12, 1953 – “The Weather is Really Changing” says New York Times

July 12, 1978 – US Climate Research Board meeting

July 12, 1996 – medics slam energy companies for outright denial and obstruction

July 12, 2007 – #Australia gets swindled on #climate change…

July 12, 2009 – NGO vs NGO – Al Gore asked to be umpire

July 12, 2011 – Tony Abbott and the The Australia Institute