History is about people (and classes, creatures, objects, organisations etc). And so as part of the “make All Our Yesterdays more navigable/relatable/useful” push (late 2023 onwards), I am going to create individual pages for people who pop up repeatedly in past and future posts. There will be politicians (Prime Ministers – both Australian and British) […]
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Forty six years ago, on this day, October 14, 1977, the head of the United Nations Environment Program mentions climate at an UNESCO conference on environmental education. Tolba at Tblisi UNESCO conference on environmental education 14 Oct 1977 https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000032763 The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was roughly 333.7ppm. As of 2023 it is […]
Twenty seven years ago, on this day, May 30, 1996, Fred Seitz, energetic and lunatic denialist, tries to smear the IPCC, focussing on one particular scientist, Ben Santer “This controversial issue also resulted in two letters (dated 30 May and 26 June), being sent to me, one from the Global Climate Coalition (John Schlaes) and […]
Twenty two years ago, on this day, May 11, 2001, George “Supreme Court got me this gig” Bush did his masters’ bidding. President Bush signs Executive Order 13211. It is a verbatim copy of a “suggested” order sent in March by American Petroleum Institute official James Ford (see March 20, 2001). The executive order, enigmatically […]
Forty five years ago, on this day, February 21 1978, a workshop took place at the Cold War lek known as IIASA, in Austria. Carbon dioxide, climate and society – Proceedings of a IIASA workshop co-sponsored by WMO, UNEP and SCOPE, (Laxenburg, Austria) 21-24 Feb 1978. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was […]
The Australian documentary maker Russell Porter kindly agreed to an interview about two of his films for the CSIRO, “the Coal Question” (1982) and “What to do about C02” (1984). The short version (though you really would benefit from reading the whole thing) is this – we knew. We really did. Skilled communicators got hold […]
December 1, 1976 – Met Office boss still saying carbon dioxide build-up a non-issue December 1, 2005 – David Cameron says “low carbon living should not be a weird or worthy obligation” December 2, 1991 – “Ecologically Sustainable Development” bites the dust… December 2, 1964 – Mario Savio’s “bodies on the gears” speech at Berkeley.. […]
On this day in 1980 an international gathering of scientists took place in Villlach, Austria. “The first major initiative to result from the establishment of the WCP was an international conference on climate change, held in Villach, Austria, from 17 to 22 November 1980. Under the chairmanship of Professor Bert Bolin of the University of […]
On this day, November 15, in 1958 one of the first papers about, well, our current problem, was submitted for publication. 1958 Bolin and Eriksson’s classic paper “Changes in the Carbon Dioxide Content of the Atmosphere and Sea Due to Fossil Fuel Combustion” submitted. [The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere […]
On this day, July 29 1974 a World Meteorological Organisation conference on climate modelling began, running until 10 August. As Bert Bolin (one of THE key figures) wrote in the foreword- At the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in June 1972, it was emphasized that the earth’s climate is of […]