Years and years

Right now this is just a listing. When I have time/skills I will do something a little more imaginative, visually attractive/user-friendly…

1600s

1661


September 13, 1661 – Fumifugium!

1700s

December 22, 1759 – “What have ye done?”

March 21, 1768 – Joseph Fourier born

1800s

1824


October 21, 1824 – Cement patent granted –

Will have to write something about Fourier, citing Fleming, J. (1999) Joseph Fourier, the ‘greenhouse effect’ and the quest for a universal theory of terrestrial temperatures. Endeavour, Vol 23, 2, 72-5.

1848


September 20, 1848 – the AAAS is born… –

1853

August 23, 1853 – first International Meteorological Conference

1856

August 23, 1856 –  Eunice Foote identifies carbon dioxide as greenhouse gas

1859

August 27, 1859 – The Oil Age begins. UPDATED TO BE a) accurate b) less Eurocentric

1861

Feb 7, 1861- 161 years ago, a scientist identifies carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas

1869


November 17, 1869 – Suez Canal opens –

1882

August 13, 1882 – William “Coal Question” Jevons dies

1893

September 20, 1893 – first American-made gasoline-powered car hits the road.

1883

January 6, 1883 – The New York Times reports on the Atmosphere

1895

December 11, 1895 – Arrhenius reads his “Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air” paper to Swedish Academy of Science…


December 24, 1895 – Arrhenius explains the work that went in… –

1900s

1906

October 28, 1906 – the birth of the Press Release

1909


January 11, 1909 – Boundary Object(ions). –

1912

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

1915


April 22, 1915 – First gas attack in World War 1 –


1916

November 3, 1916 -measurement of ice flow shows climate change –

1919

January 16, 1919 – banning things that people like turns out not to work

1920


June 12, 1920 – “The Mad Planet” published –

1926


June 13, 1926 – Tony Mazzocchi born –

1927


September 7, 1927 – television, the drug of a nation, first cultivated –

October 2, 1927/64 – Svante Arrhenius and Guy Callendar die.

1928

December 7, 1928 – Noam Chomsky born

1930

November 20, 1930 – the Fox is born!! 

1931


May 10, 1931 – Daily Oregonian mentioning greenhouse…. –

1932


May 15, 1932 – great deluge forecast by science, reports New York Times… –

1933


August 25, 1933 – South Coast Bulletin reports “Carbon dioxide: climatic influence” –


October 21, 1933 – Melbourne Age newspaper tells readers about… carbon dioxide –

1936

September 7, 1936 – The Anthropocene does for the Thylacine…

1937

May 19, 1937 – Guy Callendar’s carbon dioxide warning lands on someone’s desk

1942

October 2, 1942 – Spaceflight!!

1943

April 19, 1943 – the Warsaw Ghetto uprising began.

November 19, 1943 – FIDO used for the first time

1945


August 6, 1945 – Hiroshima –

1946


November 13, 1946 – first human-made snowstorm –

1947


June 15, 1947 – Control the rain and you will reign!! –

September 9, 1947 – The Daily Worker talks about melting the ice-caps

1948

March 30, 1948 – The Conservation Foundation founded

September 15, 1948 – Biologist Evelyn Hutchinson mentions carbon dioxide build-up at an AAAS symposium.

1950

March 5, 1950 – first computer simulation of the weather…


May 15, 1950 – Getting Warmer? Asks Time Magazine… –

July 1, 1950 – “Is the World Getting Warmer?” asks Saturday Evening Post

1952

July 2, 1952 – Rachel Carson says Arctic warming


August 15, 1952 – flash flood – caused by Weather Modification experiment? –

December 5, 1952 & 2009 London sees climatic pollution events

1953

May 5, 1953 – Western Australian newspaper carries “climate and carbon dioxide” article

May 5, 1953 – Gilbert Plass launches the carbon dioxide theory globally

May 18, 1953 – Newsweek covers climate change. Yes, 1953.


May 24, 1953 – NYT on “How industry may change climate” –

May 25, 1953 – “I read about them in Time Magazine” (Gilbert Plass’s greenhouse warning

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

November 18, 1953 – Macmillan tells the truth about committees

1954

March 1, 1954 – Lucky Dragon incident gives the world the word “fall out”

March 2, 1954 – UK newspaper readers get Greenhouse lesson from Ritchie-Calder

April 23, 1954 – Irish Times runs carbon dioxide/climate story. Yes, 1954.

May 28, 1954 – Will we control the weather?!


June 21, 1954 – Manchester Evening News explains climate change –


September 17, 1954 – nuclear electricity will be too cheap to meter –

1955

January 2, 1955 – Commie newspaper covers climate

June 9, 1955 – Royal Society misses the point (tbf, easily done)


June 16 1955 – Man’s Role in Changing Face of Earth conference begins


August 9, 1955 – Canadian physicist Gilbert Plass submits his paper

October 23, 1955 – LA Times article says “our weather is changing”

1956


February 8, 1956 – Roger Revelle sexes up the dossier to House Committee on Appropriations –

February 9, 1956 – Scientists puzzle over where the carbon dioxide is going….


March 2, 1956 – IGY oceanography meeting on “clearer understanding” –

March 15, 1956 – scientist explains climate change to US senators

March 19, 1956 – Washington Post reports Revelle’s statements

May 28, 1956 – Time Magazine reports on “One Big Greenhouse”

June 29, 1956 – Just DRIVE, she said…

October 16, 1956 – will H-bombs knock the world off balance!?

October 28, 1956 – New York Times reports “Warmer Climate on the Earth May Be Due To More Carbon Dioxide in the Air”

November 27, 1956 – New York Times science writer who covered C02 build-up dies.

1957

January 9, 1957- Daily Worker ponders climate change

January 23, 1957 – New Zealand scientist warns about consequences of carbon dioxide build-up  

April 4, 1957 – New Scientist runs story on carbon dioxide build-up


May 13, 1957 – Guy Callendar to Gilbert Plass on how easy it is to criticise, how hard to build theories –


May 19, 1957 – LA Times asks “Is your smoke helping to melt polar icecaps?” –


June 17, 1957 – Guy Callendar writes more truth bombs – “On the Amount of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere” –

July 1, 1957- A key “year” in climate science begins…

4 July, 1957 – popular UK magazine The  Listener mentions carbon dioxide build-up


September 10, 1957 – The Times covers the International Geodesy Conference… –

October 1, 1957 – US Oil company ponders carbon dioxide build-up…


October 4, 1957 – see, see – SPUTNIK!! –


November 2, 1957 – “Our Coal Fires are melting the poles” Birmingham Post –

December 30, 1957 – a letter from Gilbert Plass to Guy Callendar

1958

Jan 1 1958 – Control the weather before the Commies do…

Jan 8 , 1958 “The masters of infinity… could control the world’s weather”, says LBJ

January 26, 1958 – “Mystery of the Warming World” in Washington Star

Feb 12, 1958- the Unchained Goddess is unchained…

March 18, 1958 – Military man spots carbon dioxide problem


June 8, 1958 – Australian Sunday Telegraph on climate and weather –

June 21, 1958 – Washington Post reports ‘world turning into a ‘greenhouse’

August 3, 1958 – under the pole goes the Nautilus –

September 12, 1958 – Letter in The Times about … carbon dioxide build-up


September 21, 1958, LA Times runs a Greenhouse Cartoon –


October 8, 1958 – “CO2 has begun to come home, hasn’t it?” –

November 15, 1958 – Academic Paper on “Changes in Carbon Dioxide Content of Atmosphere and Sea Due to Fossil Fuel Combustion” submitted

November 19, 1958 – doctor warns of long-term problem of carbon dioxide build-up

1959

March 11, 1959 – Warmer Arctic Raising World’s Sea Level…


April 28, 1959 – the Chadwick lecture offers a (brief) carbon dioxide warning –


May 9, 1959 – “Science News” predicts 25% increase of C02 by end of century (Bert Bolin’s guesstimate) –


May 20, 1959 Times of India letter about Teller and CO2 –

June 7, 1959 – another letter about carbon dioxide build up in the Times of India

October 8, 1959 – Shell says “nothing to see here” on carbon dioxide build-up

November 1, 1959 – M1 motorway section opened

1960

Keeling’s first paper

January 21, 1960 – at least 435 coal miners killed in apartheid South Africa incident #BusinessAsUsual   #Racism   #Profiteering   #GlobalApartheid

March 22, 1960 – US Television warning of carbon dioxide build up, courtesy Athelstan Spilhaus…

May 20, 1960 – Spengler suggests decline of the … whole shebang

November 19, 1960 – Guy Callendar gives advice on unpopularity of C02 theory

1961

January 30, 1961 – New York Times reports world is cooling

August 21, 1961 – The UN holds a “new sources of energy” conference.

September 11, 1961 – New York Times reports “Air Found Gaining in Carbon Dioxide”

November 23, 1961 – “The Day the Earth Caught Fire” (in Denmark)


December 20, 1961 – UNGA resolution on outer space and weather modification –

1962

January 14, 1962 – As much truth as one can bear, James Baldwin

July 8, 1962 – New York Times  on ‘Glasshouse Effect”

July 9, 1962 – rainbow bomb parties as hydrogen bomb explodes


August 27, 1962 – Mariner 2 sets off for Venus –

September 27, 1962 – “Silent Spring” published as a book

1963

February 4, 1963 – A UN conference on technology for “less developed areas” starts

March 12, 1963 – first scientific meeting about C02 build-up

March 12, 1963 – first ever carbon dioxide build-up conference

June 13 1963 – Revelle, Von Braun and Teller talk futures

October 23, 1963 – JKF warns of actionswhich can irreversibly alter our biological and physical environment on a global scale.” 

November 11, 1963 – “Is man upsetting the weather?”

November 13, 1963 –  Ritchie Calder warns of trouble ahead because of carbon dioxide…

November 23, 1963 – Doctor Who begins

1964

January 11, 1964 – The Merchants of Doubt have work to do

January 18, 1964 – Nature mentions atmospheric carbon dioxide build-up

April 4, 1964 –  President Johnson’s Domestic Council on climate…

April 14, 1964 – RIP Rachel Carson


October 1, 1964 – The Free Speech Movement kicks off in Berkeley –

October 2, 1927/64 – Svante Arrhenius and Guy Callendar die.


October 8, 1964 – Party X and Party Y (techno and eco) – seminal article in New Scientist –

December 2, 1964 – Mario Savio’s “bodies on the gears” speech at Berkeley..

1965


January 13, 1965 – President Lyndon Johnson gets a memo about carbon dioxide build-up and climate change –

Feb 8, 1965- All the way with LBJ – first President to say “carbon dioxide is building up”

April 15, 1965 – Murray Bookchin warns about carbon dioxide build-up

June 1, 1965 – Tom Lehrer warns “don’t drink the water and don’t breathe the air”

July 9, 1965 – “Spaceship Earth” is launched, trying to get us to see our fragility (didn’t work)

1966

February 20, 1966 – US Senators told about carbon build-up by physicist

March 8, 1966 – Spaceship Earth blasts off…

March 27, 1966 – The “Conservation Society” to be launched

May 7, 1966 – scientist warns public about carbon dioxide build-up…


June 1, 1966 – Barry Commoner’s Science and Survival released –

July 22, 1966 – “The Conservation Society” holds launch event


November 26, 1966 – Conservation Society first meeting –

1967


January 13, 1967 – crucial editorial in Science – “Man is changing the earth’s atmosphere…” –

January 24, 1967 – Senior British scientist says “by no means can (C02) report be dismissed as science fiction”…

January 27, 1967 – James Lovelock told to keep schtum about climate change by Shell science boss


January 27, 1967 – Time Magazine talks carbon dioxide build-up –

February 14,1967 – John Mason (Met Office boss) dismisses carbon dioxide problem

March 1, 1967 – Carbon dioxide as important waste problem

March 20, 1967 – Solar Energy advocate warns of carbon dioxide build-up


May 18, 1967 – NA Leslie at Institute of Petroleum, citing Barry Commoner on C02 build up –

July 26, 1967 – Allen Ginsberg tells Gary Snyder it’s “a general lemming situation”

October 24, 1967 – editor of Science warns about C02 build-up

October 27, 1967 – “the Swedish environmental turn” picks up speed


November 27 1967 – Newsweek wrings its hands about future ecological problems, including carbon dioxide –

December 7, 1967 – Swedish “Monitor” program talks environmental crisis


December 7, 1967: Towards Tomorrow “Assault on Life” –

December 13, 1967 – Sweden begins to save the world…

1968

January 8, 1968 – LaMont Cole to AAAS about running outta oxygen, build-up of C02 etJanuary 19, 1968 – Engineers are not ecologists…

January 21, 1968 – Ultima Fule on Ultima Thule


January 23, 1968 – US federal bureaucrat flags carbon dioxide build-up as “rapidly accelerating and alarming” –

February 12 1968 – The Motherfuckers do their motherfucking thing, with garbage in New York.

March 18, 1968 – Bobby Kennedy vs Gross National Product

March 31, 1968 – Can the world be saved?

April 13, 1968 – the New Yorker glosses air pollution, mentions carbon dioxide


May 10, 1968 – “The Age of Effluence” says Time Magazine. C02 build-up mentioned… –

May 17, 1968 – “Some prophets of darkness warn of polar icecaps melting…”

May 29, 1968 – UN body says “let’s have a conference, maybe?”- 


July 11, 1968 – The UN Secretary-General, U Thant, delivers report on Human Environment that mentions carbon dioxide and climate change. –

July 15, 1968 – first(?) UK government attention to the possibility of climate change

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

July 22, 1968 – Gordon Macdonald tries to warn about carbon dioxide build-up…


July 22, 1968 – Andrei Sakharov’s manifesto mentions carbon dioxide build up as one to watch… –

July 30, 1968 – the UN says yes to an environment conference

August 19, 1968 – Is Man Spoiling the Weather? (yes)


September 1, 1968 – UNESCO Biosphere Conference begins in Paris –

November 17, 1968 – UK national newspaper flags carbon dioxide danger…


November 17, 1968 -The Observer covers carbon dioxide pollution… –

November 23, 1968 – “Hell upon Earth” warning about environmental destruction,inc. climate


November 25, 1968 – First atmospheric layers collection of carbon dioxide… –

December 3, 1968 – UN General Assembly says yes to a conference about environment. C02 mentioned.

December 24, 1968 – “Earthrise” photo

December 26, 1968 – “Global Effects of Environmental Pollution” symposium

1969

January 28, 1969 – Santa Barbara Oil spill


February 6, 1969 – Senate Select Committee warned about CO2 build up by Professor Harry Bloom –

March 11, 1969 – NASA explains need to monitor C02 build-up to politicians


March 23, 1969 – US TV network CBS asks “What are we doing to our World?” –


April 10, 1969 – Nixon tries to go green to North Atlantic Council –

April 25, 1969 –  Keeling says pressured not to talk bluntly about “what is to be done?”

May 28, 1969 “Ecology and Politics in America” teach-in, Berkeley,

May 29, 1969 – “A Chemist Thinks about the Future” #Keeling #KeelingCurve

June 10, 1969 – pro-nukers mention carbon dioxide in a New York Times article


June 1, 1969 – “The Future is a Cruel Hoax” Commencement address –


July 7, 1969 – Newsweek writes about the “good earth,” mentions carbon dioxide build-up –


September 4, 1969 – Ivory Tower types tell the truth at ANU –

September 16, 1969 – Nobel-prize winning Australian scientist warns about carbon dioxide build-up. Yes, 1969


September 16, 1969 – Aussies warned about carbon dioxide build-up by top scientist –

September 17, 1969 – trying to spin Vietnam, Moynihan starts warning about #climate change


September 26, 1969 – Death on All Fronts, says Allen Ginsberg –

September 29, 1969 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson blah blah “second industrial revolution” blah blah pollution blah blah

September 30, 1969 -US activist publication mentions climate change

October 4, 1969 – “If we melt the Antarctic, our problems are solved because all of the ports of the world would vanish and the ocean will rise 200 feet.”

October 22, 1969 – Edmund Muskie mentions CO2 build up 


October 22, 1969 – American Meteorological Society symposium on the Future of the Atmosphere, Madison, Wisconsin –

November 5, 1969 – House of Lords question about the greenhouse effect


November 21, 1969 – the first permanent ARPANET link –

November 27, 1969 – Canberra Times runs pollution article, mentions melting ice-caps


December 4, 1969 – Black Panther Fred Hampton assassinated by FBI, Chicago cops –


December 11, 1969 – Harold Wilson says “let’s have a Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution” –


December 20, 1969 – AGU on climate change… –

December 29, 1969 – AAAS symposium on “Climate and Man”

1970

January 1970 – Yale biologist muses on science, politics, pollution, warming.


January 1, 1970 – President Nixon says 1970s is the critical environmental decade – “It is literally now or never.”

January 7, 1970 – “Ecology Action East” is “intersectional”

January 11, 1970 – A new Ice Age on its way?

January 17, 1970 – The Bulletin reprints crucial environment/climate article

January 26, 1970 – US science bureaucrat writes “what’s going on?” memo about #climate

January 26, 1970 – British PM offers US a “new special relationship” on pollution. (Conservative then tries to outflank him.)

Feb 2, 1970 – For once, “Time is on our side”


February 9, 1970 – HRH Prince of Netherlands points to carbon dioxide build-up –

February 11, 1970 – Prince Phillip, Prince Charles and the Shell/BP “Environment in the Balance” film…


Feb 11, 1970 – Prince Charles attends “Environment in the Balance” film premiere –

February 16, 1970 – Sports Illustrated readers appreciate eco-warning


February 20, 1970 – South Australian premier sets up an Environment Committee –


March 1, 1970 – so many tribes, so few common interests –

March 4, 1970 – American scientist vs ice age fears in Melbourne


March 4, 1970 – “Variations of the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere” submitted –


March 18, 1970 – Ministry of Transport says “exhaust emission is a minor pollution problem not warranting public expenditure“ –


March 19, 1970 – first warning in Australian parliament about carbon dioxide build-up –


April 1, 1970 – Eco-documentary shown on Melbourne TV, carbon dioxide build-up mentioned –

April 8, 1970 – Australian National University students told about C02 build-up…

April 29, 1970 – Washington DC symposium talks about carbon dioxide

April 23, 1970 – book review nails coming #climate problems…


June 3, 1970 – US Senator suggests World Ecology Unit –

June 22, 1970 – US Congressman talks about ‘the Imperilled Environment,’ including C02 build-up

July 7, 1970 – an Australian banker goes “Full Extinction Rebellion”, 50 years early…


July 8, 1970 – Environmental Protection Agency formed –


July 21, 1970 – Conservative MP talks about #climate –

July 28, 1970 – American journalist warns about melting the icecaps…

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

August 3, 1970 – Nixon warned about climate change and icecaps melting

August 12, 1970 – US Senate warned about climate change

August 25, 1970 – Margaret Mead and James Baldwin rap on race…


August 26, 1970 The Alkali Inspector’s report… –


September 1, 1970 – Environmentalism is an elite-diversion tactic, says American Maoist –


October 3, 1970 & 2008: Nixon creates EPA, Brown creates DECC –

December 18, 1970 – Science article about “Man-Made Climatic Changes”

1971

1971, Jan 6: the whiff of sulphur (taxes) and 20 more years of #PredatoryDelay

Jan 15, 1971 – greenwash before it was called greenwash #propaganda

April 5, 1971-  a UK scientist explains “pollution in context”

February 19, 1971 – Nature editorial on “The Great Greenhouse Scare

February 24, 1971 – aims of the Department of the Environment


March 8, 1971 – The Future cancelled for lack of interest… –

March 13, 1971 – Club of Rome guy’s ethics are clubbed


March 27, 1971 – Norwegian Tabloid talks about the climate threat –


May 1, 1971 – May Day anti-war actions in Washington DC –

May 11, 1971 – U Thant gets The Message


May 12, 1971 – Swedish protest against the culling of Stockholm trees (the “Elm Conflict”) –

May 21, 1971 – Marvin Gaye asks “What’s Going On?”


May 27, 1971 – Australia gets a Minister of the Environment –

June 7, 1971 – Australians warned, on television, about ecological breakdown. #ABC


June 9, 1971 – Carroll Wilson talks C02 build up at at Electricity Industry conference –

June 16, 1971 – “Ecology Action” formed in Sydney.

June 29, 1971 – American Coal Association prez says greenies might pose national security threat –

July 13, 1971 – Stephen Schneider “predicts” an ice age (so the myth goes)


August 5, 1971 – First “South Pacific Forum” happens –

August 14, 1971 – Stanford Prison Study begins…

August 23, 1971- the Powell Memorandum

August 23, 1971 – nuggets of ecological wisdom from Nugget Coombs.

August 28, 1971 – snarky opinion piece in New York Times. Stephen Schneider rebuts days later.

August 30, 1971 – Bob Carr (ex- NSW premier) ‘gets’ climate change

September 9, 1971 – of Australian Prime Ministers and American scientists…

September 22, 1971 – Australian communist talks about climate change

October 8, 1971 – Lord Kennet pushes back against Nature’s “John Maddox” on the greenhouse effect.

October 15, 1971 – “Man’s Impact on the Climate” published


November 24, 1971 – I’ve seen the future baby, it is murder (Meadows explaining Limits to Growth at US Embassy) –


December 3, 1970 – Olof Palme looks to the future… –

1972

Jan 14, 1972 – “A Blueprint for Survival” hits the headlines


January 18, 1972 – Plastic is in your blood.. –


January 26, 1972 – “Enhance Oil Recovery” with carbon dioxide kicks off. –


February 14, 1972 – the Lorax is animated… –

February 16, 1972 – Dept of Env boss “we can’t be complacent”

February 21, 1972 – Horizon and the backlash against “selling doomsday”

May 8, 1972 – “Teach-in for Survival” in London


May 15, 1972 – Clean Air Conference in Melbourne –

May 17, 1972 – New York Times reports carbon dioxide build-up worries…


May 22, 1972 – Horizon doco “Do you Dig National Parks?” –


June 12, 1972 – At Stockholm “development” is challenged –

June 16, 1972 – David Bowie and (Five Years until) the End of the World. Also, Stockholm


June 18, 1972 – Patrick White becomes a reluctant greenie activist –

July 6, 1972 – “Workers and the Environment” conference in London…

July 15, 1972 – Soviet Weekly on how man affects the weather… –

August 21, 1972 – Nature editor John Maddox says C02-temperature fear “found wanting”

September 1, 1972 – “Man-Made Carbon Dioxide and the “Greenhouse Effect” published in Nature

September 2, 1972 – Adelaide FOE asks “is technology a blueprint for destruction?” (Spoiler – ‘yes’)


September 2,1972 – BBC Radio speaks of “A Finite Earth” –


September 8, 1972 – Green activist vanishes off face of Earth… –


October 30, 1972 – Carroll Wilson writes to Maurice Strong, pondering networks –

November 2, 1972 – “Eco-pornography … Advertising owns Ecology”…

December 3, 1972 – #climate scientists write “gizza grant” letter to President Nixon


December 29, 1972 – Schneider meets Sullivan –

1973

February 8, 1973 –  American ecologist explains carbon build-up to politicians

March 16, 1973 –  North Sea Oil for the people?! (Nope)

March 31, 1973 – Protest in Piccadilly Circus

April 19, 1973 – first film to mention global warming released (Soylent Green)

May 5, 1973 – Miners advertise for a greenie to join them


May 16, 1973 Energy and how we live. UNESCO seminar at Flinders –

May 27, 1973 – World Council of Churches wrings its hands

June 8, 1973 – Australian Treasury dismisses carbon dioxide build-up. Yes, 1973. 

June 8, 1973 – Australian Treasury forced to acknowledge carbon dioxide…

June 14, 1973 – Education for the Future? Meh.

July 5, 1973 – The Predicament of Mankind discussed

August 26, 1973 – Sir Kingsley Dunham points out the C02 problem

September 10, 1973- Ozone concerns on display in Kyoto…

September 11, 1973 – CIA coup topples Chilean democracy

October 17, 1973 – the coup at the Australian Conservation Foundation

October 18, 1973 – “how on earth do you stop using fossil fuels?”

November 7, 1973 – Energy security avant la Ukraine: Nixon announces “Project Independence”

November 20, 1973 – “Is the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Disintegrating?”

November 29, 1973 – Australian politician warns of climate change

December 13, 1973 – Edward Heath announces Three Day Week

December 17, 1973 – “Global warming will make nuclear war look like a fire cracker in your backyard.”


December 23, 1973 – Solar Patent issued.. –

1974

January 5, 1973 –  An academic article about the Arctic emerges from the Met Office

January 9, 1974  –   The UK sets up a “Department of Energy”

Jan 10 1974, -: Clean Air call for #Manchester

Feb 5, 1974 – Energy security, meet anti-Arab sentiment #propaganda

February 23, 1974 – CSIRO Solar energy conference

March 12, 1974 – Clean Coal advert in the Wall Street Journal

April 15, 1974 – Kissinger cites climate concerns…

April 15, 1974 – war criminal Henry Kissinger gives climate danger speech

April 25th, 1974 – Swedish prime minister briefed on carbon dioxide build-up


June 5, 1974 – “Food, the Next Crisis” –


June 8, 1974 – People get together, in Coventry –


June 24, 1974 – Conference on “Science and Technology for Human Development” opens in Bucharest


July 13, 1974 – Adelaide hears about carbon dioxide build-up

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


August 10, 1974 – Stockholm conference on climate modelling ends

October 14, 1974 – UK Chief Scientific Advisor is warned about carbon dioxide build-up.


October 18, 1974 – Weinberg’s “Global Effects of Man’s Production of Energy” published

November 1, 1974 – UK civil servants writing to each other on “Climatology”

November 20, 1974 – BBC airs “The Weather Machine”


November 20, 1974 – “The Weather Machine” is broadcast


November 27, 1974 – “The Fear of Climatic Change” – presentation to Australian Royal Meteorological Society

November 29, 1974 – Swedish Prime Minister says “risk of a changed climate due to human activities … [is] of utter importance”

December 9, 1974 – UK Department of Energy launches “energy efficiency” programme

1975


Feb 14, 1975 – “Some recent thinking on the future carbonate system of the sea” published.

April 22, 1975 – UK Civil Service scratches its head on #climate

April 28, 1975- Newsweek’s “The Cooling World” story.



June 26, 1975 – Denialist Richard Scorer being stupid

August 8, 1975 – first academic paper to use term “global warming” published

August 18, 1975 – it’s gonna get hotter, not cooler, say scientists

August 30, 1975 – The Science Show does climate change…

October 3, 1975 – Three members of Congress introduce first bill for a national #climate program.

October 26, 1975 – “The Endangered Atmosphere” conference begins…

November 1, 1975 – Stephen Schneider tries to clear up the “Carbon Dioxide Climate Confusion.”

November 13, 1975 – climate testimony to House of Reps committee

December 11, 1975 – German scientist gives stark climate warning in Melbourne

December 22, 1975 – “Scientist Warns of Great Floods if Earth’s Heat Rises” (surely “when”?)

1976

January 19, 1976 – The carbon consequences of cement get an early discussion.

March 17, 1976 – UK Weather boss dismisses climate change as “grossly exaggerated”


May 20, 1976 – UK World Trends committee chair worries about the weather… –

May 18, 1976 – US congress begins hearings on #climate

June 9, 1976 – ABC Perspectives shows “A change of climate” documentary

June 18, 1976- UK Meteorological Office explains things to Cabinet Office


June 22, 1976 – climate truth reaches the provinces (i. Adelaide.)

June 22, 1976 – Times reports “World’s temperature likely to rise”

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.”

September 13, 1976 – US news broadcast on ozone and climate.

October 12, 1976 – Jule Charney throws (private) shade on fellow climatologists…


November 12,1976 – “Greenhouse Effects due to Man-Made Perturbations of Trace Gases” in Science –

November 28, 1976 – climate modelling workshop in USA

December 1, 1976 – Met Office boss still saying carbon dioxide build-up a non-issue


December 8, 1976 – IIASA holds a workshop on climate and solar energy conversion –

December 30, 1976 – President Jimmy Carter is lobbied about #climate change

1977

January 4, 1977 – US politician introduces #climate research legislation

February 23, 1977 – UK Chief Scientific Advisor worries about carbon dioxide build-up. 

March 27, 1977- what we can learn from Dutch arrogance and aviation disasters?


May 6, 1977 – Bert Bolin article in Science about increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations owing to forestry and agriculture


May 13, 1977 – UK energy experts gather at Sunningdale

May 20, 1977 – Australian Prime Minister says “coal, not solar” is the future

May 23, 1977 – President Carter announces Global 2000 report… or “Let’s all meet up in the Global2000”

May 31, 1977 – “4 degrees Fahrenheit temperature rise by 2027” predicts #climate scientist Wally Broecker

June 6, 1977 – German scientist Hermann Flohn asks “Whither the Atmosphere and the Earth’s climate?”

June 20, 1977- “Alternative Three” – An early Climate Hoax 

July 15, 1977 – “Heavy Use of Coal May Bring Adverse Shift in Climate”


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


July 21, 1977 – Washington Post reports that it’s getting warmer… –

July 24, 1977 –  Climate change as red light? “No, but flashing yellow.”

July 25, 1977 – New York Times front page story “scientists foresee serious climate changes”

July 26, 1977 – Australians warned about cities being flooded #CanberraTimes

July 27, 1977 – Pro-nuclear professor cites #climate concerns at Adelaide speech


August 28, 1977 – First Australian “Greenpeace” action, against whaling –

September 7, 1977 – #climate scientist Stephen Schneider on Carson for the last time…


September 28, 1977 – John Mason being an idiot again.


September 30, 1977 – “Carbon Dioxide and climate: carbon budget still unbalanced”


October 1, 1977 – Worldwatch on “Redefining National Security” –

October 10, 1977 – famous scientist Solly Zuckerman writes to top UK Civil Servant, warning about climate change

October 14, 1977 – a UNESCO education conference mentions climate change…

October 20, 1977 – Australian petition on solar energy and carbon dioxide build-up…

November 14, 1977 – Met Office boss forced to think about #climate change – first interdepartmental meeting…

November 24, 1977 – Canberra Times reports “all coal” plan would “flood US cities”

December 12, 1977 – UK Government launches energy efficiency scheme, because Jimmy Carter had visited…

1978


January 10, 1978 – World Meteorological Organisation outlines World Climate Programme… –

January 26, 1978: “West Antarctic ice sheet and C02 greenhouse effect: a threat of disaster” article in Nature…

February 1, 1978 – US TV show MacNeill Lehrer hosts discussion about climate change

Feb 18, 1978 – “#Climate Experts see a Warming Trend”

Feb 21, 1978 – “Carbon dioxide, climate and society” workshop


March 8, 1978 – Minister for Science speaks proudly of Australia’s carbon dioxide monitoring… –

April 4, 1978 – UK Chief Scientific Advisor worries about atmospheric C02 build-up


April 4, 1978 – the Australian Financial Review boosts the neoliberal nonsense.


April 21, 1978 – solar power is unfeasible (cartoon) –

May 3, 1978 – First and last “Sun Day”

May 10, 1978 – Women told that by 2000 “we will be frantically searching for alternatives to coal.”

June 6, 1978 – Exxon presentation about carbon dioxide build-up


June 14, 1978 – Man’s Impact on Climate is batted about in Berlin –

July 12, 1978 – US Climate Research Board meeting


August 10, 1978 – Ford Pinto deaths spark class action lawsuit –

October 4, 1978 – the Interdepartmental group on Climatology meets for the first time…

October 8, 1978 – The Times runs an “ice caps melting” story


November 17, 1978 – British Wind Energy Association launches


November 21, 1978 – Sydney Channel Ten news on Carbon Dioxide build-up and trouble ahead –

November 27, 1978 – “Impacts of climate on Australian Society and Economy” begins…

November 30, 1978 – House of Lords debate on Atmospheric Changes…

December 10, 1978 – Academic workshop on “Climate/Society Interface” begins in Toronto…


December 13, 1978 – BBC Radio talks about climate change “One Degree Over” –

December 22, 1978 – UK Energy Department chief scientist worries about CO2 levels and pressure to reduce them…

December 28, 1978 – fly the plane. Don’t keep tapping the fuel light.

1979

January 31, 1979 – Alvin Weinberg’s “nukes to fix climate change” speech reported

February 7, 1979 – Met Office boss bullshits about his carbon dioxide stance

February 12, 1979 – First World Climate Conference opens

March 26, 1979 – Exxon meets a climate scientist

March 29, 1979 – Health impacts of carbon dioxide discussed…

April 1, 1979 – JASONs have their two cents on the greenhouse effect

April 2, 1979 – AAAS workshop in Anaheim begins…

April 27, 1979 – Ecology Party first TV broadcast ahead 


May 14, 1979 – The greenhouse effect is … “almost common knowledge”


May 17, 1979 – Martin Holdgate’s A Perspective on Environmental Pollution” published –


June 4, 1979 – Daily Mail reports on climate change without losing its mind –

June 14, 1979 – the messy inclusion of climate change in energy politics

June 20, 1979 – Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House

June 29, 1979 – Thatcher uses carbon dioxide build-up to shill for nuclear power

June 29, 1979 – G7 says climate change matters. Yes, 1979.

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

July 23, 1979 – Charney Report people meet – will conclude “yep, global warming is ‘A Thing’.”

July 27, 1979 – Thatcher’s Cabinet ponders burying climate report

July 30, 1979 – scientists warn US Senators about synfuels and carbon dioxide build-up


July 30, 1979 – synfuels would be sinful…


August 7, 1979 – Cabinet Office wonk hopes to pacify greenies –

October 9, 1979 – Hermann Flohn warns Irish of “possible consequences of a man-made warming”


October 16, 1979 – Exxon memo on the potential impact of fossil fuel combustion


November 18, 1979 – leaked Cabinet Papers reveal effort to “reduce oversensitivity to environmental consideration”


November 26, 1979 – CCS first glimmerings, by Albanese and Steinberg

December 11, 1979 – conference on “Environmental Effects of utilising more coal” in London

1980


January 29, 1980 -Exxon HQ tells its Vice-Presidents that CO2 build-up is “a potentially serious problem” –

February 4, 1980 – IIASA taskforce on Climate and Society

Feb 11, 1980 – First UK Government climate report released.

February 29, 1980 – Texaco and Exxon talk about setting up a greenhouse taskforce…


March 3, 1980 – International Workshop on the energy climate Interactions in Germany –


March 21, 1980 – chair of Statoil board acknowledges the “social cost” of the “CO2 problem” –

April 3, 1980 – US news anchorman Walter Cronkite on the greenhouse effect

April 7, 1980 – C02 problem is most important issue…”another decade will slip by” warns Wally Broecker to Senator Tsongas

April 8, 1980 – UK civil servant Crispin Tickell warns Times readers…

April 16, 1980 – “a risk averse society might prefer nuclear power generation to fossil fuel burning”

April 16, 1980 – Melbourne Age reports “world ecology endangered”

April 24, 1980 – the climate models are sound…

May 1, 1980 – ABC talks about atmospheric carbon dioxide measurement

May 8, 1980 – Nature article “CO2 could increase global tensions.” Exxon discussed underneath. Delicious ironies abound. –

May 23, 1980 – Aussie senator alerts colleagues to #climate threat. Shoulder shrugs all round. #auspol


June 10, 1980 – Redemption Song unleashed on the world (“If you know your history…”) –


June 23, 1980 – G7 in Venice aims to sink Venice… –

July 24, 1980 – “Global 2000” report released.

August 1, 1980 – Wall Street Journal does excellent #climate reporting

August 10, 1980 – “Energy, Climate and the Future” seminar in Melbourne

September 15, 1980 – Australian scientists hold “Carbon Dioxide and Climate” symposium in Canberra


September 25, 1980 -Reagan turns out to be an ignorant fool. Who knew?


October 14, 1980 – Barry Commoner’s “bullshit” advert…


October 21 1980 – Conference on “Climate and Offshore Energy Resources” in London –

October 25, 1980 – Australian radio’s The Science Show talks about climate change…

November 17, 1980 – International meeting about carbon dioxide build up.

1981

January 1, 1981- “Climate Change And Society” published

January 15, 1981 – US calls for effort to combat global environmental problems


January 15, 1981 – US calls for efforts to combat global environmental problems –


February 19, 1981 – Nature article “Greenhouse Effect: Act Now, Not Later” –


February 19, 1981 – Ecology Party meeting in Wells warns of carbon dioxide build-up –

February 25, 1981 – National Party senator nails the climate problem

Feb 26, 1981 – Science writer warns readers about the greenhouse in the Guardian….


May 1, 1981 – scorching editorial about Energy and Climate received at Climatic Change –


May 31, 1981 – RIP Barbara Ward –


June 4, 1981 – Sydney Morning Herald reprints CSIRO material about carbon dioxide build-up –

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

August 22, 1981 – New York Times front page story costs #climate scientists their jobs.

December 2, 1981 – “Is the world getting warmer?” (YES)

December 8, 1981 – Thames TV shows “Warming Warning” documentary

1982

January 4, 1982 – Global 2000 Report updated

March 25, 1982 – congressional hearings and CBS Evening News report


March 25, 1982 – CBS Evening News runs 3 minute story on the greenhouse effect.


May 28, 1982 – “International Conference on Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Plant Productivity” –

June 28, 1982 – Secretary of State for Energy justifies flogging off public assets

August 17, 1982 – Crispin Tickell sounds the alarm bell

September 15, 1982/1990 – “Environmental Justice” is born. And so is Captain Planet…


September 20, 1982 – “Carbon Dioxide, Science and Consensus” event –

October 25, 1982 – Exxon and “Climate Processes & Climate Sensitivity” symposium


November 16, 1982 – development aid and the greenhouse effect… –

1983

1983, Jan 12: RIP to the “master organizer in the world of science”, Carroll Wilson

March 30, 1983-  EPA sea level rise conference

May 13, 1983 – idiots get their retaliation in first…

July 1, 1983 – Australian High Court “saves” Franklin River (it woz the activists wot won it)

September 1, 1983- #climate change is all in the game, you feel me?

October 18, 1983- US news networks tell the truth about #climate. Yes, 1983.

October 18, 1983 – All US news networks run “greenhouse effect” stories

October 20, 1983 – The Australian says “‘Dire consequences’ in global warm-up”. 

October 21, 1983 – “Changing Climate” report released

October 24, 1983 – EPA releases study on sea-level rise

October 30, 1983 – Carl Sagan hosts ‘nuking ourselves would be bad’ conference.

November 15, 1983 – “Energy Futures and Carbon Dioxide” report…

December 20, 1983 – Documentary on “the Climate Crisis” shown

1984

January 3, 1984 – US report on energy transition to combat climate released

January 24, 1984 – Canadian TV documentary and discussion about #climate 

February 28, 1984 – Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect hearings


March 5, 1984 – presentation on “Global Climate Change Due to Human Activities”


March 12, 1984 – A Conservative MP worries about carbon dioxide build-up

June 7, 1984 – UK diplomat pushes for more environmental action


September 13, 1984 – unsettling Seattle workshop on sea level rise –


December 1, 1984 – they’re talking about CCS already… –

December 13, 1984 – Christian Science Monitor monitors the #climate science – ooops.

1985

April 30, 1985 – New York Times reports C02 not the only greenhouse problem


June 18, 1984- OECD holds conference on “environment and economics” –

June 24, 1985 – Climate change rears its head at a development meeting…


July 1, 1984 – CSIRO film “What to do about C02?” –

July 10, 1985 – French state commits terrorist act

October 15, 1985 – Villach meeting supercharges greenhouse concerns…

December 10, 1985 – Carl Sagan testified to US Senators on #climate danger

1986

January 27, 1986 – Engineers try to stop NASA launching the (doomed) Challenger Space Shuttle


February 5, 1986 – Thomas Sankara Imperialism is the arsonist of our forests and savannas –


April 26, 1986 – Chernobyl

June 10, 1986 – scientist tells US senators “global warming is inevitable. It is only a question of the magnitude and the timing.”


June 11, 1986 – Washington Post sees a “Dire Forecast for ‘Greenhouse Earth’”

June 24, 1986 – New Yorkers get to watch a documentary on “The Climate Crisis”

June 26, 1986 – “our children will grow old  in a world that fragmenting and disintegrating.”


June 26, 1986 – Australian Environment Council schooled on climate –

July 3, 1986 – House of Lords debate about the atmosphere and fuel use…


August 30, 1986 – Adelaide warned about climate change by Environment Minister Don Hopgood –

September 5, 1986 – a “Safe Energy” rally, in London

September 23, 1986 -Joe Biden suggests urgent #climate action…


October 12, 1986 – Ockham’s Razor and the Greenhouse Effect (ABC radio programme) –

1987


January 9, 1987 – another stupid letter in the Guardian


January 28, 1987 – Scientists warn politicians #01: United States

March 20, 1987 – The “sustainable development” Brundtland Report was released

April 11th, 1987 – A matter of… Primo Levi’s death

April 27, 1987 – “Our Common Future” released.

July 9, 1987 – “Unpleasant surprises in the greenhouse” warns Broecker

July 23, 1987 – Calvin (and Hobbes) versus climate change!


August 22, 1987 – “Civilisation and Rapid Climate Change” – a short book… –

September 17, 1987 – report on “The Greenhouse Project” launch


October 17, 1987 – CHOGM meeting at which Margaret Thatcher has climate “brought home to her” –

1988

January 1, 1988 – President Reagan reluctantly signs “Global Climate Protection Act” #CreditClaiming


January 3, 1988 – The Sea and Summer, early Australian cli-fi, is reviewed. –

February 8, 1988 – BBC Horizon on The Greenhouse Effect

February 26, 1988 – Australian climate scientist Graeme Pearman warns of “Dramatic Warming”

February 27, 1988 – Canberra “Global Change” conference ends

March 7, 1988 – “We are ratcheting ourselves to a new warmer climate” 

March 10, 1988 – Congressional staff (go on a) retreat on Climate


March 14, 1988 – Reagan mouths pieties about international scientific cooperation –

March 25, 1988- World Meteorological Organisation sends IPCC invites.

May 11, 1988 – “Greenhouse Glasnost” USA and USSR to co-operate on climate

June 2, 1986 – US Senators get going on climate


June 6, 1988 – Scientists say we are entering a new phase

June 13, 1988 – “‘Greenhouse Effect’ Could Trigger Flooding, Crop Losses, Scientists Say”

June 22 ,1988 – Roger Rabbit on forced consumption (and so on to #climate apocalypse)

June 23, 1988 – it’s time to stop waffling and say the greenhouse effect is here

June 26, 1988 – it’s SHOWTIME for climate…

June 28, 1988 – Greenies want deep emissions cuts. Doesn’t happen. #TorontoTarget


July 2, 1988 – Scientists warn of devastation…


July 3, 1988 – US Navy kills hundreds of Iranian civilians…


July 6, 1988 – Piper Alpha blows up

July 7, 1988 – foolish “Jumping the greenhouse gun” editorial in Nature.


July 15, 1988 – “Racing on Capitol Hill for Title of “Mr Greenhouse”

July 26, 1988, – Australian uranium sellers foresee boom times…

August 3, 1988 – Exxon tries to downplay “the greenhouse effect.” Again.

August 4, 1988 – Hawke Cabinet asks for “what can we do?” report on climate.


August 20, 1988 – Hansen’s model released –

August 22, 1988 – scientists say “Australia, expect #climate refugees”

August 31, 1998 – Green dollar growing on trees?

September 3, 1988 – Ann Landers is Greta Thunberg avant la lettre…


September 7, 1988 – media looking for more alarmist scientists… – [compare Robyn Williams anecdote]

September 27, 1988 – Margaret Thatcher comes out as a lentil-eating greenie…

September 27, 1988 – UNEP should become world eco-regime

October 5, 1988 – Vice Presidential Debate and ‘the Greenhouse Effect’

October 6, 1988 – coal lobby says greenhouse effect “greatly exaggerated”

October 8, 1988 – Aussie poet and activist Judith Wright in final speech, warns of environmental problems ahead…

November 1988 – Australian Mining Journal says C02 is a Good Thing

November 4, 1988 – no quick fix on climate, warns Australian Environment Minister

November 6, 1988 – Australian cartoonist nails response to #climate change

November 9, 1988 – Tolba gives “Warming Warning” speech at first IPCC meeting

November 10, 1988 – Activists demand even steeper emissions cuts than “Toronto.” Ignored, obvs. But were right…

November 11, 1988 – IPCC finishes its first meeting


November 11, 1988 – Gore blames Reagan and Reaganites for loss of US leadership


November 20, 1988 – Will Thatcher pick up the Green Gauntlet?
(spoiler: no, no she won’t) –

November 23, 1988 – Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke gives greenhouse speech

November 29, 1988 – Australian parliamentarians taught climate

December 14, 1988 – Greenhouse Glasnost gets going…

December 19, 1988 – the launch of “Ark”


December 22, 1988 – Chico Mendes murdered –

December 25, 1988 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands says “the earth is slowly dying”

1989

January 5,1989 – National Academy of Science tries to chivvy Bush.


January 6, 1989 – “Cloud-Radiative Forcing and Climate: Results from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment” –


January 24, 1989 – Minister for Resources tell the truth – ““The greenhouse effect is an environmental issue of global dimensions….

Jan 27, 1989 – UN General Assembly starts talking #climate

January 30, 1989 – “Hawkie” flies off to flog coal

Jan 30, 1989 – Je ne fais rein pour regretter… #climate jargon

February 27, 1989 – Barron’s “Climate of Fear” shame…

March 11, 1989 – warm words at The Hague, where the climate criminals should be sent…

March 13, 1989  – UK Energy Department shits all over everyone’s future by dissing Toronto Target

March 23, 1989 – cold fusion!!

March 24, 1989 – Exxon Valdez vs Alaska. (EV wins)

April 11, 1989 – “Ark” sinks its cred

April 14th, 1989 – 24 US senators call for immediate unilateral climate action

April 18, 1989 – begging letter to world leaders sent


April 29, 1989 – Australian Science Minister takes to the airwaves on the Greenhouse Effect. –


May 3, 1989 “Exploration Access and Political Power” speech by Hugh Morgan –

May 12, 1989 – USA says it will, after all, support the idea of a #climate treaty

June 2, 1989 – “James Hansen versus the World” – good article on actual #climate consensus let down by title

June 3, 1989 – Liberal Party to outflank Labor on #climate?!

June 4 , 1989, 1992, 1996 – from frantic concern to contempt for everyone’s future…


June 7, 1989 – Money to be made from the Greenhouse, says the Fin –

June 9, 1989 – the Australian Labor Party versus the unions versus the planet #climate


June 13, 1989 – Engineers want greenhouse plan, immediate action required… #auspol –


July 4, 1989 – UK Energy Committee ponders greenhouse implications –

July 5, 1989 – Nuclear tries to regain some credibility, latching on to greenhouse

July 11, 1989 – Australia says “sure, we’ll take #climate refugees.” Yeah, nah.


July 16, 1989 – Paris agreement on climate… –

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


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

July 25, 1989 – Australian Environment Minister admits was blocked by Treasurer on emissions reduction target

July 30, 1989 – UK Conservative politician warns “we have at most 25 years to take action.”

August 14, 1989 – South Australia creates “interdepartmental committee on #climate change”…

August 15, 1989 – Queenslander mayor says the greenhouse effect is like“a bird urinating in the Tweed River while in flight”

August 17, 1989 – Space shields to save the earth…

August 23, 1989 – Space Mirrors proposed to combat global warming. I am not making this up. –

August 24, 1989 – a Sydney council takes greenhouse suggestions on-board (or says it will).

August 30, 1989 – A global tax on emissions?!


September 11, 1989 – Bill McKibben’s “The End of Nature” published –

September 24, 1989 – Petra Kelly disses the Australian Prime Minister

September 26, 1989 – Australian Union body tries to add green to red…


October 5, 1989 – Enviro minister “Richo” warns Hawkie to save “Kakadu” –

October 6, 1989 – Hawke Government given climate heads up by top scientist

October 7, 1989 – Alexander Downer says mining lobby”weak and gutless”,  too soft on greenies

October 21, 1989 – Langkawi Declaration on environmental sustainability…


October 23, 1989 – Republican Governor of New Jersey issues climate executive order –

November 1, 1989 – “Greenhouse Action Australia” launches…

November 1, 1989 – Senior Australian politician talks on “Industry and Environment”

November 6, 1989 – Noordwijk conference – “alright, we will keep talking”

November 8, 1989 – ALP Minister says environmentalism a “middle-class fad” – “greenies” respond…


November 8, 1989 – Thatcher gives climate speech to UN General Assembly –

November 18, 1989 – Small Island States say “er, we gotta do something before the waves close over our heads”

December 4, 1989 – first anti-climate action economic “modelling” released in Australia

December 4, 1989 – Greenhouse tax urged…

December 17, 1989 – a big #climate conference in Egypt begins…

December 25, 1989 – business press pushback about Global Warning “panic” begins…

December 27, 1989 – Greenhouse effect = “socialist hokum”

1990

January 15, 1990 – A political lunch with enormous #climate consequences for Australia #PathDependency #Denial  

Jan 31, 1990 – Environmental Racism – then and now… Guest post by @SakshiAravind

February 1, 1990 – Australian Financial Review ponders carbon tax… (via FT)

Feb 5 1990 – A president says what he is told…

Feb 9, 1990 – Carl Sagan on military spending vs. climate spending –

March 3, 1990 –  “A greenhouse energy strategy : sustainable energy development for Australia” launched … ignored #auspol

March 3, 1990 – The Science Show on the “backlash to Greenhouse warnings”

March 3, 1990 – Energy efficiency could save billions a year, Australian government told (says ‘whatevs’).

March 19, 1990 – Bob Hawke gives #climate speech


March 24, 1990 – Labor politician has dummy spit on election night about needing small g-green votes –

April 9, 1990 – Australian business launches “we’re green!” campaign


May 2, 1990 – Nairobi Declaration on Climatic Change –

May 3, 1990 – From Washington to Canberra, the “greenhouse effect” has elites promising…

May 4, 1990 – coal industry sweats over greenie influence


May 11, 1990 – the Financial Times on good intentions not cutting it

May 20, 1990 – “Ironing out the Greenhouse Effect”


May 21, 1990 – “The Big Heat” documentary –

May 25, 1990 – Thatcher opens Hadley Centre


May 26, 1990 – Times front page about Thatcher going for stabilisation target –

May 30, 1990 – Midnight Oil do a gig outside Exxon’s HQ in New York

June 5, 1990 – The Australian Capital Territory adopts the “Toronto Target”


June 25, 1990 – Ecologically Sustainable Development paper released

July 16, 1990 – Canberra Times gives denialist tosh a platform

July 28, 1990 – American #climate denial comes to London


July 28, 1990 – science writer John Gribbin explains why caution is wrong on global warming –

August 6, 1990 – another climate documentary shown…

August 8, 1990 – Ministers meet, argue for Toronto Target


August 8, 1990 – ANZEC says “adopt Toronto target” of sharp carbon cuts. –

August 12, 1990 – Channel 4 shows crackpot documentary “The Greenhouse Conspiracy”

August 29, 1990 – The Australian mining and forestry industries threaten to spit the dummy

August 30, 1990 -Australian diplomats (probably) tried to water down IPCC recommendations


September 3, 1990 – Greenies meet Prime Minister, a cautious dance ensues –

September 4, 1990 – Industry whines about environment minister’s speech

September 5, 1990 – Australian Environment Minister promises deep carbon cuts – “easy”…

September 8, 1990 – Australian #climate denialist spouting his nonsense…



September 9, 1990 – classic (?) film Mindwalk released –

September 15, 1982/1990 – “Environmental Justice” is born. And so is Captain Planet…

September 21, 1990 – Ministers call for Toronto Target to be federal policy …

October 11, 1990 – Australian Federal Government makes climate promise, with fingers crossed

October 13, 1990/97 – Ros Kelly defends the Interim Planning Target vs Australia does nothing

October 16, 1990 – Green groups say yes to “Ecologically Sustainable Development”

October 27, 1990 – The Economist admits nobody is gonna seriously cut C02 emissions


October 27, 1990 – denialist letter published (demolished days later)


October 29, 1990 – the Joint Council of Energy and Environment Ministers of the European Community decide to save the world. –

November 3, 1990 – money for independent climate scientists? Yeah, nah

November 3, 1990 – more smears about the IPCC, in the Financial Times

November 6, 1990 – Second World Climate Conference underway 

November 19, 1990 – “The US should agree to stabilising CO2 levels”


November 29, 1990 and 1994 – Australian denial fools (Fred Singer and Brian Tucker)


December 12, 1990 – Paul Keating refers greenhouse issue to Industry Commission –

December 24, 1990 – Australia as renewable energy superpower

1991

January 10, 1991 – “Separate studies rank 1990 as world’s warmest year”  #ShiftingBaseline


February 18, 1991 – Governor Bill Clinton says would give “serious consideration” to cuts of 20-30 per cent by 2004. –

February 22, 1991 – Denialist gloating about influence on Bush


March 7, 1991 – Australian Labor Party bragging about its green credentials… –

April 3, 1991- Does coal have a future?


April 9, 1991 – another dummy-spit by tired old man –


May 7 1991 & 1992: From Hawke to Hewson, or “the year Australia’s political elite stopped bothering about #climate change” –

May 13, 1991 – UK Energy minister fanboys nuclear as climate solution. Obvs.


June 8,1991 – UK environment minister Heseltine visits USA, his climate compromise rebuffed –

June 26, 1991 – “environment is not flavor of the month any more”

July 8, 1991 – UK Prime Minister chides US on #climate change

July 15, 1991 – RIP Roger Revelle

July 21, 1991 – “Greenhouse Action for the 90s” conference leads to “The Melbourne Declaration”

July 22, 1991 – two #climate idiots on the Science Show

August 2, 1991- Pledge and Review…

August 13,1991 – clouds and silver linings


August 18, 1991- Business Council of Australia says “fuck you, future generations,” rejects energy efficiency measures


September 6, 1991 – Titan has a greenhouse effect…

September 22, 1991 – ESD RIP. Australia’s chance of a different future… squashed flat.

September 24, 1991 – Australian denialist gives “Greenhouse Myths” seminar.

September 25, 1991-  European Commission proposes a carbon tax…

October 9, 1991 – Greens get labeled religious fanatics, don’t like it.


October 10, 1991 – “United greens attack Hawke” for gross betrayal”


October 22, 1991 – Denialist says “no more than 1 degree of warming by end of 21st century”.


October 24, 1991 – Australian Minerals and Energy Environment Foundation launched –

October 29, 1991 – Australia told to pay more than poor countries to help save planet. Does it? Of course it doesn’t.

November 4, 1989 – UK Government launches first of many blame-shifting publicity campaigns on #climate

November 9, 1991 – Australian TV station SBS shows demented ‘”Greenhouse Conspiracy” ‘documentary’

December 2, 1991 – “Ecologically Sustainable Development” bites the dust…


December 10, 1991 – denialist hosted by the “Tasman Institute”


December 16, 1991 – European Energy Charter becomes a Thing.

December 19, 1991- Will UN negotiations go as usual and “commit us to global catastrophe”?

1992

January 3, 1992 – Greenpeace vs POTUS on Climate Change


January 16, 1992 – ACT draft Greenhouse Strategy released –

January 19,1992 – they gambled, we lost

January 20, 1992 – Gambling on climate… and losing #auspol

January 22, 1992 – “Greenhouse action will send Australia to the poorhouse”

January 23, 1992 – denialist bullshit in the Fin

January 28, 1992 – Ros Kelly versus Industry Commission on greenhouse plans

Feb 2, 1992- that “sarcastic” memo about exporting pollution…

February 5, 1992 – Liberal leader Hewson snubs the Australian Conservation Foundation


February 12, 1992 – John Hewson plots to cut the green crap –

Feb 25 1992- business groups predict economic chaos if action is taken on #climate

February 27, 1992 – climate denialists continue their effective and, ah, well EVIL, work

March 6, 1992 – #survival emissions versus outright denial

March 13, 1992 – Australian climate advocates try to get government to see sense… (fail, obvs).

March 30, 1992 – Thelma and Louise could teach humans a thing or three….

April 12, 1992 – seminar asks “How sustainable is Australian Energy?” (proposes switch to gas)

April 13, 1992 – Denialist tosh – “The origins of the alleged scientific consensus”


April 18, 1992 – The Australian carries page one headline “Global Warming May Lower Sea Levels” –

April 21, 1992 – President Bush again threatens to boycott Earth Summit


May 7 1991 & 1992: From Hawke to Hewson, or “the year Australia’s political elite stopped bothering about #climate change” –

May 8, 1992 – UNFCCC text agreed. World basically doomed.

May 13, 1992 – Australian business predicts economic armageddon if any greenhouse gas cuts made


May 25, 1992 Keating Cabinet discusses Rio –

June 1, 1992 – “environmental extremists” want to shut down the United States, says President Bush

June 4 , 1989, 1992, 1996 – from frantic concern to contempt for everyone’s future…

June 12, 1992 – Australia refuses to put a tax on carbon: “It’s a question of who starts the ball rolling. We won’t.”

July 16, 1992 – American scientist claims “no firm evidence” of #climate change Australian National Press Club #denial


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

August  6, 1992 – Australian environmentalists and businesses united… in disgust at Federal bureaucrats  #auspol #climate


August 24, 1992 – Bureaucrats kill greenie-business consensus on climate action


August 31, 1992 – “Community Energy Audit” in Canberra

September 13, 1992/1994- Scientists traduced, ignored

October 5, 1992 – Ignoreland hits the airwaves. #Neoliberalism

November 5, 1992 – Jeremy Leggett calls Australian petrol price cuts “insane”


November 9, 1992 – Ark sails on, Downunder


November 24, 1992 – I’ve seen the future baby, it is murder (Cohen’s “The Future” released)

December 14, 1992 – UK “releases “National programme on carbon dioxide emissions”


December 21, 1992 – Keating in Adelaide –

1993

January 18, 1993 – Australian unions and greenies launch first “Green Jobs” campaign

Jan 18, 1993 – Job’s not a good un. “Green Jobs in Industry Plan” achieves … nothing. #auspol

January 28, 1993 – Parliament protest – “Wake Up, the World is Dying” – Guest Post by Hugh Warwick

February 4, 1993 – Australian business versus the future (spoiler: business wins)


February 5, 1993 – Space Based Energy experiment takes place –

February 11, 1993 – Liberal Party plans would not meet climate goals, says expert

February 17, 1993 – President Clinton proposes an Energy Tax.


February 23, 1993 – Peter Walsh spouting his tosh again –


March 16, 1993 – VAT to be imposed on domestic energy, called a “climate measure” –

March 23, 1993 – UK “The Prospects for Coal” White Paper published.

March 26, 1993 – UK government to ratify climate treaty

March 29, 1993 – C02 Disposal symposium takes place in Oxford

April 12, 1993 – “environmental economics” gets a puff piece

April 17, 1993 –  Paul Keating versus the idea of a carbon tax…

April 21, 1993 – Bill Clinton says US will tackle carbon emissions.

April 22, 1993 – Clinton’s announcement used by anti-carbon pricing Aussies

April 28, 1993 – Australia to monitor carbon tax experience


April 30, 1993 – HTML –

May 19, 1993 – President Clinton begins to lose the BTU battle…

May 26, 1993 – more “green jobs” mush

June 5, 1993 and 2011- let’s have a march for #climate… It will make us feel good.

June 8, 1993 – Clinton defeated on his “BTU” tax.

June 16, 1993 – Oooh, an international conference….

July 2, 1993. Denialists versus the facts, again.

July 6, 1993 – Australian bipartisanship on climate? Not really…

August 27, 1993 – international negotiations edge forward

September 14, 1993 – scientists suffer backlash (not outa thin air though)

September 21, 1993 – Manchester says “no, not hot air”. Yeah, right.


September 24, 1993 – A museum exhibition travels to Pittsburgh


October 4, 1993 – Coal chief wringing his hands about “greenhouse,” promises new tech


October 13, 1993 – IIASA and the IAMs – Gaia help us all –

November 25, 1993 – House of Commons briefing on carbon taxes

December 21, 1993 – European Union agrees to ratify UNFCCC

1994

January 25, 1994: UK government releases “Sustainable Development Strategy”

February 3, 1994 – Greenhouse burden “unfair” on Australia

Feb 11, 1994 – President Clinton proclaims the end of environmental racism.  Yeah, right.

Feb 15, 1994 – Isaac Newton versus the Global Forum #Manchester

Feb 24 1994 – the death of Abbey Pond

March 2, 1994 – A green budget needed in Australia…

March 16, 1994 – “We could bail from Rio” says former Environment Minister

March 21, 1994 – Yes to UNFCCC, yes to more coal-fired plants. Obviously. #auspol

March 21, 1994 – Singleton Council approves Redbank power station


April 15, 1994 – Greenpeace sues to stop a coal-fired power station being built –

April 24, 1994 – a carbon tax for Australia?

May 26, 1994 – Australian #climate stance “will become increasingly devoid of substance” says Liberal politician. Oh yes

June 3, 1994 – Greenpeace warns of climate time bomb

June 15, 1994 – Canberra Times soils itself by publishing denialist claptrap


June 20, 1994 – MunichRe is worried about its business model


June 21, 1994 – “National Greenhouse Advisory Panel” established. Hilarity ensues.


June 27, 1994 – Good free advice to Australian Environment Minister


June 28, 1994 – Australian Foreign Minister says “then again, maybe we won’t” on carbon cuts

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


July 11, 1994 – Australian Environment Minister admits not clear if Australia hitting targets (spoilers, it wasn’t) –

August 24, 1994 – first signs of a split in the anti-climate action business coalition…

September 2, 1994 – International Negotiating Committee 10th meeting ends


September 12, 1994 – Greenpeace lays into Keating government over climate failure –

September 13, 1992/1994- Scientists traduced, ignored


September 14, 1994 – Business told to brace for climate regulation/tax (which it then handily defeats)


October 2, 1994 – twenty years of boredom, for trying to change the system from within (Phillip Toyne becomes civil servant)


October 28, 1994 – UK agriculture and climate change workshop –

October 31, 1994 – Four Corners reports on Greenhouse Mafia activity


November 2, 1994 – Greenpeace vs climate risk for corporates…


November 10, 1994 – “profit or planet – choose one” (Victorian electricity) –

November 16, 1994 – Industry lobbyists trot out “sky will fall” argument against emissions cuts. Again. Of course. As ever.


November 17, 1994 – “When consumption is no longer sustainable”…

November 21, 1994 – Skeptic invited to engage with IPCC (Spoiler, he doesn’t)


November 29, 1990 and 1994 – Australian denial fools (Fred Singer and Brian Tucker)


November 30, 1994 – Another denialist dolt – “Global warming a clouded issue”


December 5, 1994 – Taxing times for Australia, maybe…

December 28, 1994 – Australian Financial Review says “say yes to Tradeable Emissions Quotas”

1995


January 5, 1995 – Victorian premier comes out against carbon tax –

January 6, 1995 –  Australian business interests battle a carbon tax with “nobody else is acting” argument

Jan 9, 1995,: “Efficiency” promises vs hated and feared regulation/taxation #Predatory Delay #auspol

January 12, 1995 – Australian carbon tax coming??

Jan 16, 1995: There’s power in a (corporate) union #auspol


January 20, 1995 – ACF says a carbon tax would be really helpful –

January 22, 1995 – UK Prime Minister John Major told to implement green taxes on #climate

Jan 23, 1995 – The Larsen B starts to break up with us.. (Ice, Ice, baby)

January 25, 1995 – Australian electricity reforms mean more greenhouse gases…


February 3, 1995 – Senator McMullan sows the CEDA of our doom.. –

February 6, 1995 – Australian business versus a carbon tax

February 7, 1995 – Business Council of Australia vs a carbon tax. Of course


February 7, 1995 – Australian Treasurer claims UNFCCC treaty contains loopholes and get-out clauses –

February 10, 1995 – Faulkner folds on carbon tax – doesn’t have the numbers in Cabinet


February 13, 1995 – Federal Environment Minister John Faulkner runs up the white flag on a carbon tax.


February 15, 1995 – Australian Financial Review editorial, gloating in the aftermath of the defeat of a small carbon tax proposal, groks Jevons Paradox –

Feb 21, 1995 – an invitation to engage in the IPCC is declined, again…

March 16, 1995 – Victorian government plans brown coal exports


March 25, 1995 – “Women and the Environment” conference in Melbourne –


March 27, 1995 – former Nature editor John Maddox admits was wrong on Greenhouse, without, er, admitting it. –

March 29, 1995- Kuwaiti scientist says if global warming happening, it’s not fossil fuels. #MRDA


March 29, 1995 – “a transparent attempt to promote the Australian coal industry” –

April 7, 1995 – First “COP” meeting ends with industrialised nations making promises…

April 8, 1995 – Australian environment minister says happy with “Berlin Mandate”

May 12, 1995 – Another bet between cornucopians and realists


May 31, 1995 – newly-minted MCA meets with Keating… –

August 7, 1995 – decent Australian journo reports on utter bullshit #climate economic “modelling”


September 27, 1995 – Greenhouse progress in Australia? None. Zip. Zero.

November 10, 1995 – Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni executed

November 10, 1995 – moronic “Leipzig Declaration” by moronic denialists


November 13, 1995 – no Aussie savings of greenhouse gases so far

November 16, 1995 – another skirmish in the IPCC war


December 1, 1995 – bullshit modelling put out by Keating Government


December 14, 1995 – Monbiot nails it with “it’s happening” article

December 29, 1995 – Sydney Morning Herald points out year has been hottest yet…

1996

February 2, 1996 – denialist sprays #climate science with his bullshit

March 7, 1996 – Australia hauled over coals for its definition of “equity” #auspol

April 25, 1996 – Greenpeace slams Australian government on #climate obstructionism

May 1, 1996 – US Congressman says climate research money is “money down a rat hole”

May 27, 1996 – Not just a river in Egypt – denial in #Australia, organised, ramifying…

May 30, 1996 – Denialist goons smear scientist

May 31 1996 – Rocket Scientist Charlie Sheen uncovers warmist alien conspiracy!!

June 4 , 1989, 1992, 1996 – from frantic concern to contempt for everyone’s future…

July 4, 1996 – article in Nature saying ‘it’s partly us’


July 10, 1996 – National Greenhouse Advisory Panel cops a serve –

July 11, 1996 – Celebrity Death Match: Australian fossil fuels industry versus The World (Spoiler: world lost)


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


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

July 25, 1996 – Australian PM John Howard as fossil-fuel puppet

August 18, 1996 – Ex-CSIRO #climate boss shows he has lost the plot


September 15, 1996 – A CCS posterchild is born: Sleipner Field comes online. –

November 26, 1996 – Australian climate modelling is ridiculed


December 18, 1996 – Australian greenhouse emissions sharply UP. –

1997

March 2nd, 1997- RIP Judi Bari

March 14, 1997 – Australian senator predicts climate issue will be gone in ten years…

May 6, 1997 – The so-called “Cooler Heads” coalition created

May 10, 1997 – Murdoch rag in denialist shocker 

May 19, 1997 – BP boss says “If we are to take responsibility for the future of our planet, then it falls to us to begin to take precautionary action now.”

May 19, 1997 – an oil company defects from the denialists. Sort of.

June 8, 1997 – US oil and gas versus Kyoto Protocol, planet

June 11, 1997 – US ambassador says Australia should stop being so awful on #climate

June 19, 1997/2009 – children of colour used as propaganda tools by #climate wreckers/greens do “motherhood”

June 23, 1997 – Australian Prime Minister skips climate meeting to fanboy Thatcher #auspol

June 23, 1997 – RIP Hermann Flohn


July 23, 1997 – US climate envoy wonders what Australian leaders are smoking… –

July 25, 1997 – US says, in effect, “screw our promises, screw the planet”

August 5, 1997 – Australian politician calls for “official figures” on #climate to be suspended because they are rubbery af


August 17, 1997 – Paper etc industries want “greenhouse minister” –

August 19 1997 – “The denialists take Canberra” with “Countdown to Kyoto” conference

August 20, 1997 – Australian Mining Industry operative misrepresents the #climate science. Obvs.

September 19, 1997 – John Howard condemns the South Pacific to hell. Again.

September 28, 1997 – Australian denialist spouting tosh to his US mates.

October 1, 1997 – Global greens gather in Melbourne, diss Australian #climate policy


October 3, 1997 – CNN pretends to grow a spine (Spoiler, stays jellyfish) –


October 6, 1997 – Australia says nope to uniform emissions 5% cut. Assholes. –

October 10, 1997 – Australian businesses say ‘yes’ to a decent Kyoto deal

October 13, 1990/97 – Ros Kelly defends the Interim Planning Target vs Australia does nothing

October 16, 1997 – Australian businessman declares climate change “no longer an issue”

October 20, 1997 – Greenpeace tries to give John Howard solar panels…

October 22, 1997 – US and Australian enemies of #climate action plot and gloat

November 5, 1997 – Global Climate Coalition co-ordinates an anti-Kyoto conference


November 7, 1997 – Australian governments bang heads in pre-Kyoto bash –

December 26, 1997 – #climate denial machine exposed again and again

December 30, 1997 – “How seriously should we take the greenhouse effect?” asks deeply unserious economics hack –

December 31, 1997 – Government slags off Australian Conservation Foundation

1998


February 4, 1998 – Ombudsman on ABARE and its dodgy af #climate modelling –

Feb 26, 1998 – Australian “clean coal” is on the way (again).

March 4, 1998 – The Australian Greenhouse Office gets a boss…


March 9, 1998 – First head of Australian Greenhouse Office announced – (Or “Infamous long AGO”) –

March 31, 1998 – another report about #climate and business in the UK

March 31, 1998 – two business-friendly climate events in UK and Australia

April 20, 1998 – National Academy of Sciences vs “Oregon petition” fraud

April 23, 1998 – Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick paper published.

April 26, 1998 – “Industrial Group Plans to Battle Climate Treaty”

April 26, 1998 – New York Times front page expose on anti-climate action by industry

April 29, 1998 – Australia signs the Kyoto Protocol

May 21, 1998 – “Emissions Trading: Harnessing the Power of the Market”

June 4, 1998 – A New South Wales premier signs a carbon credit trade…

June 27, 1998 – we’ll trade our way outa trouble (not)

July 23, 1998 – denialists stopping climate action. Again.

August 17, 1998 – Emissions Trading considered (again)

September 1, 1998 – Sydney Futures Exchange foresees a bright future. Ooops.

September 19, 1998 – Public Health Association calls for “life-saving green taxes”

September 26, 1998 – Howard decision only to ratify Kyoto if US does leaks.

November 18, 1998 – coal guy becomes Australian environment ambassador


November 19, 1998 – John Howard trolls Australia by appointing Mr Coal as Environment Ambassador –

November 26, 1998 – “National Greenhouse Strategy” (re)-launched

November 30, 1998 – Exxon and Mobil merge

December 9, 1998 – Canberra bullshit about environment

1999

March 8, 1999 – Direct Air Capture of C02 mooted for the first time

March 19, 1999 – industry cautiously welcoming emissions trading…


October 15, 1999- Australian economy headed for trouble because of carbon dioxide emissions, admits government through gritted teeth. –


November 4, 1999 – Australians have highest per capita emissions –

November 12, 1999 – John Howard and mates say “nope” to renewables


December 22, 1999 – Australian population growth and carbon reductions – not so easy… –


December 29, 1999 – Russian sub commander turned eco-whistleblower is acquitted. –

2000

Feb 22, 2000 – Japanese coal-burning to be dealt with by Australian trees?

April 3, 2000 – Australian diplomats spread bullshit about climate. Again


April 17, 2000 – Labor tries to get the green vote… –


April 25, 2000 – “Beyond Kyoto” more meaningless blather by Australian politicians –


May 5, 2000 – Business Council of Australia boss on “Strategic Greenhouse Issues” –


May 23, 2000 – Deputy Prime Minister versus Greenhouse Trigger –

May 24, 2000- Australian denialist nutjobs have nutjob jamboree

June 20, 2000 – Australian business writes the rules.

June 27, 2000 – crazy but well-connected #climate denialists schmooze politicians

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


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

August 22, 2000 – Minchin kills an Australian Emissions Trading Scheme

September 4, 2000 – industry says sky will fall if there’s a carbon tax

September 6, 2000 – Emission scheme defeated, it’s time for a gloating press release… #Climate #auspol

September 28, 2000 – Liberal MP goes full cooker on Kyoto as threat to sovereignty.

September 29, 2000 – On campaign trail, George Bush says power plants will require carbon dioxide cuts

October 7, 2010 – Julia Gillard scraps the “Climate Assembly” idea

October 25, 2000 – local authorities in England make #climate promises. Well, that went well… #NottinghamDeclaration

October 25, 2000 – James Hansen writes a letter

November 3, 2000 – Australian denialists get American scientist to testify about Kyoto Protocol, smear IPCC

November 7, 2000 – Australian “The Heat is on” report released

November 9, 2000 – Tyndall Centre launched

November 22, 2000 – protests at COP6 at The Hague

November 25, 2000 – CoP meeting ends in official disarray…

2001

January 17, 2001 – Enron engineers energy “blackouts” to gouge consumers

January 29, 2001 – President Bush announces “energy taskforce” #TaskforceAnnouncementGrift

February 6, 2001: ExxonMobil Lobbyist Calls on White House to Remove Certain Government Climate Scientists

March 7, 2001 – CNN unintentionally reveals deep societal norms around democracy

March 13, 2001 – Bush breaks election promise to regulate C02 emissions…


March 15, 2001 – “First, Direct Observational Evidence Of A Change In The Earth’s Greenhouse Effect Between 1970 And 1997” –


March 19, 2001 – US Secretary of Energy boasts about all the coal plants he will build (doesn’t). –


March 28, 2001 – (Vice) President George Bush nixes Kyoto –

April 1, 2001 – John Howard sucks up to George Bush on climate wrecking


April 6, 2001 – “EU takes Kyoto fight to Moscow” –


April 19, 2001 – Greenpeace Australia does some push-polling on climate –


April 24, 2001 – Early Blair blather about dodgy policies on climate –


April 27, 2001 – only Australia cheering Bush’s Kyoto pull out. –

April 30, 2001 – Dick Cheney predicts 1000 new power plants

May 7, 2001 – The American way of life is non-negotiable. Again.

May 11, 2001 –  Bush Signs Oil Lobbying Organization’s Executive Order

July 21, 2001 – Sleeping protestors beaten by Italian Police


July 24, 2001 – Running from the Storm? Nah, we’re slouching towards it –


July 25, 2001 – Australian Environment Minister says the quiet part out loud about Kyoto –

July 27, 2001 – Minerals Council of Australia versus the Kyoto Protocol


July 27, 2001 – COP6-bis ends – the show is back on the road

August 9, 2001 – OECD calls on Australia to introduce a carbon tax. Told to… go away…


October 20, 2001 – Greenpeace nails Howard government over Kyoto and general climate assholery –

October 26, 2001 – BioEnergy Carbon Capture and Storage mooted


November 6, 2001 – Howard plays the jobs-card vs Kyoto in Hunter Valley –


November 28, 2001 – “Stellar team for sun-powered debate” in Adelaide –

2002

Jan 22, 2002 – Exxon and on and on

January 31, 2002 – Antarctic ice shelf “Larsen B” begins to break up.

Feb 4, 2002- Global Climate Coalition calls it a day (“Mission accomplished”)

Feb 14, 2002 – George Bush promises “Clean Skies” to distract from Kyoto-trashing…


February 27, 2002 – an embarrassing “technology partnership” is launched (as Kyoto spoiler attempt) –

March 6, 2002 – ABARE cheerleads Bush. Blecch.

March 15, 2002 – GM bails from Global Climate Coalition

April 19, 2002 – Exxon got a top #climate scientist sacked.

May 14, 2002 – well-connected denialists gather in Washington DC to spout #climate nonsense


June 2, 2002 – Low carbon spaces, eh… SDC RIP –

June 5, 2002 – John Howard says Australia won’t ratify Kyoto Protocol


June 20, 2002 – BECCS is billed as a “real option” by IIASA –

June 25, 2002, 2003 and 2008 – CCS’s first hype cycle builds

August 14, 2002 – Australian economists urge Kyoto Protocol ratification

August 16, 2002 – “Oil Lobby Urges Bush to Keep Climate Change Off the Table at Earth Summit”

August  17, 2002 – Pacific states urge Australia to sign Kyoto Protocol


August 19, 2002 – Pacific Islands make unreasonable demands about continuing to live –

September 2, 2002- Peter Garrett argues “community action” vs #climate change

September 3, 2002 – “Kyoto cuts too small, so we’re not going to bother”. 

September 17, 2002 – UK Government announces feasibility study into Carbon Capture and Storage

October 19, 2002 – Doctors for the Environment Australia, becomes a thing.


October 27, 2002 – International CCS study tour begins –

November 22, 2002 – private business battles on #climate become public in Australia

December 5, 2002 – Australian Government CCS support begins…

December 16, 2002 – another knee-capping for renewable energy in Australia…


December 28, 2002 – Renewable Energy vs John Howard, round 55ish… –

2003

January 8, 2003 –  Energy firms plan to “bury carbon emissions”…


January 14, 2003 – WWF Australia raises the alarm –

January 16, 2003 – Chicago Climate Exchange names founding members

February 17, 2003 – Bob Carr says John Howard showing poor leadership (too generous!)


February 17, 2003 – “please ratify Kyoto Protocol” advisory group begs John Howard –

February 19, 2003 – “CCS to be studied by IPCC”

February 24, 2003 – UK Energy White Paper kinda changes the game (a bit).


February 25, 2003 – Australian Treasury says “carbon pricing. It’s not rocket science” –

Feb 27, 2003 – the “FutureGen” farce begins…

Feb 28, 2003- Australian business lobby switches from opposition to “no position” on Kyoto ratification #auspol

March 4, 2003 – Republicans urged to question the scientific consensus

March 4, 2003 – “Luntz memo” exposes Bush climate strategy 

June 11, 2003 – US and Australian think tanks conspire vs (pluralist) democracy 

June 25, 2003 – the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum is created

June 25, 2002, 2003 and 2008 – CCS’s first hype cycle builds


July 3,2003 and 2023 – it’s getting warmer.

July 28, 2003 – James Inhofe shares his genius

August 7, 2003 – John Howard meets with business buddies to kill climate action

August 10, 2003 – a UK temperature record tumbles…

August 26, 2003 – Australian “plan” to save biodiversity

August 28, 2003 – EPA says Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant

September 25, 2003 – Bob Carr “strikes greenhouse deal” with European investors

October 24, 2003 – Last flight of the Concorde

December 8, 2003 – Chief Scientific Advisor under microscope for Rio Tinto role

December 23, 2003 – Vestas opens Tasmanian wind turbine factory

2004

January 7, 2004 – geoengineering our way outa trouble?

January 9, 2004 – UK Chief Scientific Advisor lays into President over climate inaction

January 13, 2004 – Bob Carr rallies states for emissions trading

January 29, 2004 – John Daly, Australian skeptic, dies

Feb 17, 2004 – Zero Emissions Technology Conference in Australia. At peak excitement of tech solutions

February 18, 2004 – “An Investigation into the Bush Administration’s Misuse of Science”


February 21, 2004 – “Turning coal clean and green.” Sure. Any day now. –

March 4, 2004 – The Australian National Audit Office skewers the Australian Greenhouse Office

March 24, 2004 – Launch of Coal21 National Plan


April 16, 2004 – Iron filings will save us all (actually, not). –

May 6, 2004 – Australian Prime Minister John Howard meets business, to kill renewables


May 24, 2004 – “The Day After Tomorrow” released –


June 24, 2004 – UN Global Compact Summit in New York, launches ESG in “Who Cares Wins” report –

July 4, 2004 – @WWF_Australia try to shame John Howard into #climate action…


July 9, 2004 – David Bellamy jumps the shark on climate change. –


August 4, 2004 – Australian farmers nervous about climate change. Ignored –


August 21, 2004 – The Australian reports on Howard cabinet split over ETS –


September 5, 2004 – John Howard gloats about cooking the planet –

September 14, 2004 – Blair “shocked” by scientists warnings – “time is running out for tackling climate change”


September 18, 2004 – Australian States back ETS plan –

October 3, 2004 – John Howard revealed to have asked for fossil fuel CEOs to kill renewables. #auspol

October 29, 2004 – Aussie environmentalists win a court case…


November 1, 2004 – Brilliant “Balance as Bias” article published –


November 15, 2004 – Bob Carr on Lateline- “no other developed country will be as severely affected by global warming as Australia.” –


November 22, 2004 – another denialist screed foisted upon the world –


December 9, 2004 – “Real Climate” hits the web, bless it. –

December 16, 2004 – “2 degrees of warming to be a catastrophe”


December 27, 2004 – ACF boss says “cough up” –

2005


January 1, 2005 – the EU Emissions Trading Scheme begins.


January 4, 2005 – Senator James Inhofe exemplifies denialist bullshit –

January 13, 2005 – UN Secretary-General calls for “decisive measures” on climate change


February 1, 2005 – “Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change” conference begins –

Feb 16, 2005- The Kyoto Protocol shambles into futile existence, despite Uncle Sam’s best efforts

March 9, 2005- Albanese says “ecological decline is accelerating and many of the world’s ecosystems are reaching dangerous thresholds.” #auspol

March 30, 2005 – The Millennium Ecosystems  Report is launched.


April 4 – 2005 – APEC conference at Parliament House “Managing Climate Change: Practicalities and Realities in a post-Kyoto future”. –


April 5, 2005 – Clean Coal conference begins in Sydney –

May 16, 2005 – Anthony Albanese says critical action on #climate being delayed by 20 years… #auspol

May 16, 2005 – Anthony Albanese, eco-warrior…

July 15, 2005 – The “Stern Review” into #climate is announced…

July 18, 2005 – inconvenient energy targets scrapped

August 11, 2005 – Greenpeace protest Hazelwood power station


August 29, 2005 – Hurricane Katrina –

August 31, 2005 – “Stop Climate Chaos” launched

September 5, 2005 – Anthony Albanese introduced “Avoiding Dangerous Climate #Change” private member’s bill

September 7, 2005 – “rule out nuclear” say Aussie green outfits.

October 6, 2005 – carbon capture is doable…

October 13, 2005 – “Climate Change: Turning up the Heat” published


November 14, 2005 – Downing St blocked with coal –

December 1, 2005 – David Cameron says “low carbon living should not be a weird or worthy obligation”

December 6, 2005 – CCS is our only hope, says Chief Scientist….

 December 15, 2005 – James Hansen versus Bush again…

December 21, 2005 – US activist William Rodgers commits suicide

2006

Jan 5, 2006- strategic hand-wringing about “Our Drowning Neighbours”


January 7, 2006 – Bureau of Meteorology with another climate warning –


January 12, 2006 – the nuclear option, yet again –

Jan 29, 2006 – Attempts to gag James Hansen revealed


February 10, 2006 – The Australian Conservation Foundation tries to get governments to take climate seriously… –

February 13, 2006 – Four Corners reveals the “Greenhouse Mafia”

Feb 20, 2006 – Clive Hamilton names a “Dirty Dozen”


March 17, 2006 – Rio Tinto says “CCS is key to cutting greenhouse gases.”

April 6, 2006 – the anti-climate dam of John Howard begins to crack…

 April 6, 2006 –  Canadian “experts” (not) keep culture wars going.

April 20, 2006 – David Cameron does “hug-a-husky” to detoxify the Conservative “brand”

May 15, 2006 – Australian Prime Minister John Howard spouting “nuclear to fix climate” nonsense

May 16, 2006 – UK Prime Minister Tony Blair goes nuclear…

May 18, 2006-  Denialist nutjobs do denialist nutjobbery. Again.


June 29, 2006 – “Wind farms don’t live up to the hype” –


June 30, 2006 – Australian CCS inquiry launched –

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

August 26, 2006 – First “Climate Camp” begins

September 4, 2006 – Royal Society to Exxon: “Knock it off with the funding to #climate deniers”


September 11, 2006 – Australian climate concern hits tipping point (maybe) –

September 24, 2006 – “Plane Stupid” holds first action, with “Sermon on the Taxiway” at East Midlands Airport

October 5, 2006 – Greenpeace sues Blair Government over shonky energy “consultation”


October 9, 2006 – @AlboMP calls for International Coalition to accept #Climate Refugees –


October 9, 2006 – “Australia Responds” report about climate aid and refugees released (Spoiler, Australia didn’t in fact respond). –

October 11, 2006 – “Climate Institute” begins tour of rural Victoria


October 25, 2006 – David Cameron launches “Can I have the Bill?” campaign for a Climate Act –

October 30, 2006 – Stern Review publshed.


October 31, 2006 – Stern Review “pure speculation” according to John Howard –

November 2, 2006 – “RIP C02” says New Scientist

November 4, 2006 – Australians “Walk against Warming”

December 6, 2006-  Turns out 0.1% of a Very BIG NUMBER is … quite a lot…

December 10, 2006 – Shergold Group announced


December 17, 2006 – Sulphur for reducing heat becomes canonical –

December 30, 2006 – “Industry snubs climate strategy”

2007

January 1, 2007 – “If we fail to act, we end up with a different planet”

January 3, 2007 – Smoke, Mirrors and Hot Air, says Union of Concerned Scientists


January 25, 2007 – John Howard proclaims himself as a “climate realist” –

Feb 1, 2007- Jeremy Grantham slams Bush on #climate

February 5, 2007 – Australian Prime Minister trolled by senior journalist

February 6, 2007 – Rudd taunts Howard on 2003 ETS decision

February 9, 2007 – Virgin on the ridiculous

February 13, 2007- Industry is defo allowed to silence scientists…

February 16, 2007 – Liberals say climate is a “mass panic”


February 19, 2007 – Australian gas lobby hard at work… –

Feb 25, 2007 – “Clean Coal Initiative” as move in game of one-dimensional electoral chess #auspol


February 26, 2007 – ABC’s Four Corners tackles climate (again) –


February 28, 2007 – Australian denialists release idiotic regurgitated pamphlet, as part of attempted spoiler operation –

March 5, 2007 – Nick Minchin versus reality, again


March 13, 2007 – ACTU talks up “clean coal” –

March 14, 2007 – Australian Treasury eyeroll about politicians on #climate, (scoop by Laura Tingle).

March 14, 2007 – Top Australian bureaucrat admits “frankly bad” #climate and water policies

March 17, 2007 – Edinburgh #climate action gathering says ‘Now’ the time to act

March 22, 2007 – Unions talk good game on climate


March 22, 2007 – Fairfax tells its staff to Be Green, for an hour. –

March 26, 2007 – Lavoisier Group lay into CCS

March 30, 2007 – Climate as “the great moral challenge of our generation” #auspol


March 30, 2007 – economist Nick Stern in Australia –


March 31, 2007 – Earth Hour (the most putrid kind of virtue signalling) –


April 2, 2007 -Massachusetts (etc) get Supreme Court to tell the EPA that carbon dioxide is a pollutant –


April 13, 2007 – smart meters are gonna save us… –

April 17, 2007 – UN Security Council finally discusses the most important security issue of all…

April 27, 2007 – Coal-bashing campaign by gas company ends


May 14, 2007 – another C40 large cities summit –

May 22, 2007 – “Clean coal” power station by 2014, honest…

May 24, 2007 – James Hansen ponders whether scientists can be too cautious and quiet (or, indeed “reticent”)


May 29, 2007 “Climate Clever” ad campaign in attempt to save John Howard –


May 30, 2007 – Kevin Rudd pledges to ratify Kyoto, set emissions target and create an ETS –

June 21, 2007 – ABC unleashes “Carbon Cops” on the world. ACAB – All Climate Activists Barf…

July 2, 2007 – Australia learns it has been left “High & Dry” on #climate change

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

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

August 13, 2007 –  Newsweek nails denialists


August 14, 2007 – CCS report in Australia “between a rock and a hard place” –

September 6, 2007 – “The Future of Coal under Cap and Trade” hearings…

September 10, 2007 – shiny #climate promises versus grim reality


September 26, 2007 – GetUp spoof Howard’s climate greenwash –


September 28, 2007 – Bush invokes “technology” to fix climate.


September 29, 2007 – World’s first nuclear power station is demolished –

October 12, 2007 – Judge grants mining licence, doubts climate change

November 19, 2007 – Gordon Brown announces first Carbon Capture and Storage competition at WWF event

December 12, 2007 – Canada leaves Kyoto Protocol as Australia joins

December 12, 2007 – RIP William Kellogg


December 15, 2007 – Bali COP closes with “Road Map to Copenhagen” –

December 20, 2007 – UK opposition leader David Cameron gives clean coal speech in Beijing…

December 30, 2007 – Bert Bolin dies.

2008

January 2, 2008 – tiresome (but sound) “Green Fatigue” warning is made.

January 12, 2008 – Australian mining lobby group ups its “sustainability” rhetoric #PerceptionManagement #Propaganda   


March 11, 2008 – Australia’s ratification of Kyoto Protocol comes into effect

March 27, 2008 – James Hansen writes a letter to Kevin Rudd

April 2, 2008 – Senator Barack Obama blathers about coal

April 5, 2008 – Charlton Heston dies, star of first movie to mention the greenhouse effect

April 9, 2008 – US school student vs dodgy (lying) text books

April 16, 2008 – Aussie trades unions, greenies, companies tried to get CCS ‘moving.’

June 13, 2008 – activists stop coal train, throw coal off. Convictions eventually quashed…

Carbon Capture? Far from ready… June 17, 2008

June 18, 2008 – Carbon Capture and Storage is going to save Australia. Oh yes.

June 25, 2002, 2003 and 2008 – CCS’s first hype cycle builds

June 30, 2008 – Judge stops a coal-burning power plant getting built.

July 3, 2008 – Greenpeace activists enter New South Wales coal power station

July 3, 2008 – Greenpeace occupies an Australian coal plant.

July 7, 2008 – Liberals start back-tracking on climate promises.

July 9, 2008 – President Bush operating at his peak intellectual capacity

July 10, 2008 – first Australian #Climate Camp begins, near Newcastle


July 13, 2008 – Activists blockade coal port


July 26, 2008 – Reggae festival for climate protection in New York

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

August 4, 2008 – Police pepper spray #climate campers

August 29, 2008 – business tells Labor to go softly (Labor then does, obvs).

September 10, 2008 – Greenpeace Kingsnorth protesters acquitted

September 15, 2008- business splits over what to extort from Rudd…

September 28, 2008 – “Wake Up Freak Out” posted online


October 3, 1970 & 2008: Nixon creates EPA, Brown creates DECC –

October 30, 2008 – a worker-greenie coalition? Maybe…

November 20, 2008 – Green capitalism flexes a (weak) BICEP

November 26, 2008 – pre-CPRS meeting (yawn)

November 26, 2008 – Climate Change Act becomes law

November 28, 2008 – somebody shuts down a coal plant, solo

December 1, 2008 – Climate Change Committee fanboys carbon capture

 December 16, 2008 – “The Australian” attacks on climate change

December 17, 2008 – European Parliament says yes to funding CCS

December 18, 2008 – Tim DeChristopher does his auction action

2009


January 13, 2009 – Medical Journal of Australia warns about climate impacts –


January 31, 2009 – Climate Action Summit –

Feb 3, 2009 –  Physical encirclement of parliament easier than ideological or political. #auspol

Feb 23, 2009 Penny Wong flubs the CSPR… The CPSR..  THE PCRS. Oh, hell. #auspol

March 2, 2009 –  Washington DC coal plant gets blockaded

March 6, 2009 – the UK gets its first “low carbon industrial strategy”

March 9, 2009 – Scientist tries to separate fact from denialist fiction


March 6, 2009 – first “Low Carbon Industrial Strategy” announced –

March 9, 2009 – Carbon price being weakened by lobbying…


April 14, 2009 – Penny Wong meets the Business Council of Australia, white flag in hand… –

April 23, 2009 – denialists caught denying their own scientists…


April 23, 2009 – the EU Parliament says yes to CCS –

May 2, 2009 – Australian Liberals warned of wipe-out if seen as “anti-climate action” #auspol

May 9, 2009 – Another white flag goes up on the “Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme”

The Guardian holds a climate summit. We. Are. Saved. June 15, 2009.

June 17, 2009 –  Blistering speech about how “The Climate Nightmare is Upon Us” by Christine Milne

June 19, 1997/2009 – children of colour used as propaganda tools by #climate wreckers/greens do “motherhood”

June 19, 2009 – Liberals warn ‘woke’ companies…

June 24, 2009 – Scottish Parliament passes insufficient climate legislation; claims ‘leadership’ anyway


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


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


August 11, 2009 – Kevin Rudd is actually shut up (by a power cut)


August 12, 2009 – Deutsche bank enters modelling war in Australia

September 30, 2009 – Tony Abbott says #climate science is “absolute crap”

October 17, 2009 – Maldives cabinet meets underwater

November 2, 2009 – , Australian opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull seals own doom by not bending knee to shock jock

November 6, 2009 – Kevin Rudd playing politics with the climate


November 9, 2009 – Senior Liberal says CCS won’t work


November 23, 2009 – Global Warming Policy Foundation launched

November 24, 2009 – the Climate War in Australia goes kinetic…

December 5, 1952 & 2009 London sees climatic pollution events

December 15, 2009 – Daily Express expresses its irresponsibly idiocy…

December 15, 2009 – Monbiot versus Plimer on Lateline


December 18, 2009 – the worthless “Copenhagen Accord”

December 23, 2009 – Kevin Rudd told to call double-dissolution #climate election… (spoiler – he didn’t)

December 27, 2009 – Art exhibition in Copenhagen saves the world

2010

January 11, 2010 – Bad news study about trees and the warming Arctic… 

January 14, 2010 – Investors hold UN summit on #climate risk

Jan 21, 2010 – The flub that sank a thousand policies #auspol

February 2, 2010- Abbott on Direct Action, CPRS for 3rd failure…

Feb 10, 2010 – Dutch scientists try to plug denialists’ holes in the dike

February 28, 2010 – Australian Prime Minister says won’t walk away from climate. (Then does, obvs.)

March 1st 2010 – scientist grilled over nothing burger…

March 10, 2010 – ABC chairman gives stupid speech to staff

March 13, 2010 – first UNEP Emissions Gap report

March 18, 2010 – “Solar” by Ian McEwan released.

March 24, 2010 – Scientists explain another bad thing on the horizon, this time on soil.


March 26, 2010 – How many Aussie Government types were at Nopenhagen?

March 28, 2010 – protestors block Newcastle coal terminal #auspol

April 10th, 2010 – activists hold “party at the pumps”


April 11, 2010- Rudd fails to make a decision about the CPRS

May 15, 2010 – another pointless overnight vigil.

May 20, 2010 – climategate keeps delivering for denialists

June 3, 2010 – Merchants of Doubt published

June 30, 2010 – CCS will be at 5GW by 2020. (nope).

July 10, 2010 – Rio Tinto amplifies the message…


July 22, 2010 – Obama’s climate bill dies –

August 5, 2010 – academics call for insurance industry to get involved in climate fight

August 11, 2010 – @TheOnion reports “Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental Catastrophe”

August 15, 2010 – Russia halts grain exports because of droughts and heatwaves

August 15, 2010 – a walk against warming fails to catch fire. #RepertoireRot

August 16, 2010 – Polar Bears going through the motions

August 12, 2010 – BZE launches energy plan for Australia


October 7, 2010 – Gillard scraps assembly, goes for “MPCCC” –

October 19, 2010 – Greenpeace trolls ANZ Bank

November 13, 2008 – Coal industry tries to get some ‘love’

December 19, 2010 – CCS dies in Queensland

2011

January 20, 2011 – Shell tries to change the subject from its own emissions   

February 10, 2011 – Australia gets a “Climate Commission”

February 15, 2011 – Lenore Taylor’s truth bombs

February 18, 2011 – Scientist quits advisor role (because ignored on climate?)

Feb 19, 2011 – defunding the IPCC


February 24, 2011 – the fateful press conference of Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the Greens Bob Brown… –

February 25, 2011 – Alan Jones versus sanity

February 27, 2011 – “Metamorphosis” statement by Climate Camp

March 5, 2011 – Australian “wingnuts are coming out of the woodwork”

March 23, 2011 – Ditch the Witch rally in Canberra


April 7, 2011 – More empty CCS pledges… –

May 14, 2011 – a day of action/mourning on climate

May 25, 2011 – Aussie #climate scientist smeared rather than engaged. Plus ca change…

June 1, 2011 – Japanese office workers into short sleeves to save the planet

June 5, 1993 and 2011- let’s have a march for #climate… It will make us feel good.

June 12, 2011 – Nazi smears used by denialists, obvs

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

August 22, 2011 – anti-carbon pricing rally flops

August 31, 2011 – anti-carbon tax protesters call Anthony Albanese a “maggot”


October 19, 2011 – First UK CCS competition fizzles out


December 7, 2011 – a CCS network is launched

2012


February 22, 2012 – “Campaign to Repeal the Climate Change Act” holds a meeting… –

March 10, 2012- RIP Sherry Rowland

March 7, 2012 – George Christensen and his culture war hijinks.

March 22, 2012 – flash mobs and repertoire exhaustion

May 2, 2012 – CCS is gonna save us all. Oh yes.

May 4, 2012 – The Heartland Institute tries the Unabomber smear. It, er, blows up in their face…

May 23, 2012 – wicked problems and super-wicked problems all around…

May 31, 2012, an Australian climate minister makes a song and dance


June 19 2012 – Abbott is more pro-climate than his kn,ucklehead backbenchers –

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

August 16, 2012  – Tony Windsor calls Tony Abbott an “absolute disgrace” on carbon tax/climate

November 12, 2012 – Greenpeace smeared by Queensland extractors, of course

December 31, 2012 – Murdoch employee throws predictable inaccurate shite at Greens…

2013

Jan 7 2013 – Paper (briefly) wraps rock. But coal wins in the end… #auspol

January 7, 2013 – Australian climate activist pretends to be ANZ bank, with spectacular results  

January 8, 2013 –  Australian Prime Minister connects bush fires and #climate change


January 21, 2013 – 5 Ways President Obama Could Fight Climate Change Now –

January 25, 2013 – Lord Stern admits #climate “worse than I thought”

January 28, 2013 – Doomed “Green Deal” home insulation scheme launched in the UK

February 15, 2013 – the carbon bubble, will it burst?

February 17, 2013 – celebrities arrested at Whitehouse, protesting Keystone XL

Feb 17, 2013 – Scientists, activists, actors, arrested outside Whitehouse, protesting #Keystone

February 22, 2013 – Idiotic “Damage” astroturf attempted by miners

March 25, 2013 – Australian Department of Climate Change axed

April 8, 2013 – Margaret Thatcher died

April 10, 2013 –  US companies pretend they care, make “Climate Declaration”

April 18, 2013, Liberal Party bullshit about “soil carbon” revealed to be bullshit

May 8, 2013 – we pass 400 parts per million.  Trouble ahead.

June 18, 2013 – Feeble ’Wind Fraud’ rally in Canberra

July 2, 2013 – Ignorant man who became prime minister disses wind farms

July 2, 2013 – Boris Johnson, expert on energy systems, attacks windfarms


July 5, 2013 – that turd Michael Gove …drops plans to drop climate from curriculum –

July 11, 2013- “don’t be evil” my fat arse….

July 13, 2013 – future Australian PM ridiculed for #climate idiocy

July 29, 2013 – unreadable denialist screed published.

August 9, 2013 – BP writes the rules (de facto)

August 25, 2013 – The IPA loses support, for being stupid climate deniers.

August 27, 2013 – absurd claim of Nobel-prize winners’ support for Liberal non-policy is debunked.

 September 12, 2003 – Newcastle Herald thinks the future of coal looks ‘cleaner’…

September 18, 2013 – Feeble denialists launch feeble denialist “report”

September 18, 2013 – Greenpeace try to occupy the “Arctic Sunrise.”

September 20, 2013 – CCS project mothballed/killed.

September 23, 2013 – Media Watch versus climate denialists …

November 8, 2013 – “One religion is enough” says John Howard

November 14, 2013, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s 50th #climate speech

November 21, 2013 – “Cut the Green Crap” said UK Prime Minister

2014

Jan 2 2014: “This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop”

January 20, 2014 – Gummer sledges “green extremists”

Feb 9, 2014 –  A Farage-o of nonsense about climate change

February 4, 2014 – CCSA and TUC release Economic Benefits of CCS report


February 16, 2014 – US climate envoy John Kerry denounces “shoddy scientists and extreme ideologues” –

February 26, 2014 – Advanced Propaganda for Morons

March 17, 2014 – Carbon Bus sets off to the North

March 20, 2014 – industry groups monster reef defenders


March 20, 2014 – Australian Senate votes against killing off ARENA, CEFC etc –


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

July 20, 2014- the “Green Blob” blamed


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

September 8, 2014 – Lobster boat blockaders have charges dropped.

September 21, 2014 – big #climate march in New York. World saved.


September 22, 2014 – “We Mean Business” coalition formed –


September 23, 2014 – Obama gives a wonderful speech about climate change.


September 30, 2014 – a big CCS demonstration project opens. –

October 2, 2014 – Low emission technologies on their way, says Minerals Council of Australia


November 5, 2014 – Vince Cable and the Energy Trilemma


November 14, 2014 – US and China sign climate deal, in part to troll Australian Prime Minister –


November 30, 2014 – US TV show The Newsroom tackles climate change –

2015


January 4, 2015 – Christine Milne warns about extreme weather events, knackered infrastructure etc. –


January 17, 2015 – David Pope’s brilliant “You are now leaving the Holocene” cartoon is published –

Jan 19, 2015 -Four utilities pull out of an EU CCS programme…


January 22, 2015 – Fossil interests dominating renewable energy associations –

February 3, 2015 – UK tries to puzzle out industrial decarbonisation

Feb 13, 2015 – We refuse to divest ourselves of illusions

February 14, 2015  – No love for coal from UK politicians


March 10, 2015 – Florida governor denies banning words “climate change” –


April 8, 2015 – Australian Energy White Paper “devoid of vision” –

May 8, 2015 – denialist denies in delusional denialist newspaper

August 1, 2015 – World Coal Association tries to say coal is lifting people out of poverty.

September 16, 2015 – Turns out big companies are ‘climate hypocrites’?

2016



January 2, 2016 – Australian environmental NGOs write another wish list…


January 19, 2016 – Australian Chief Scientific Advisor advises…

May 4, 2016 – South Australian Premier preening at Emissions Reduction Summit –

May 9, 2016 – South Australia’s last coal-plant shuts down 


August 1, 2016 – Anti-wind idiots step on their own rake –


August 20, 2016 – Exxon’s gonna get sued? –


October 11, 2016 – Five activists do a shutdown on a tar sands pipeline –

2017

Jan 24, 2017 – Climate activist is court in the act

February 20, 2017 “Clean Coal” money being spent on PR

March 28, 2017 – Heartland Institute spamming science teachers

March 28, 2017 – Trump “brings back coal”


December 19, 2017 – BHP exits World Coal Association. –

2018


January 8, 2018 – Joe Root doesn’t come back to bat –

August 20, 2018 – Greta Thunberg’s first protest

October 31, 2018 – Extinction Rebellion makes its declaration of rebellion

November 17, 2018 – XR occupy five bridges in London


December 6, 2018 – Macron scraps a fuel tax because of protests –

2019

March 15, 2019 – New Zealand school strike launched, called off.

April 9, 2019- brutal book review “a script for a West Wing episode about climate change, only with less repartee.”

May 2, 2019 – Committee on Climate change report on net zero by 2050


October 11, 2019 – London Protocol amended to allow cross border C02 transport and storage –


December 26, 2019 – Antarctic journeys… –

2020


January 28, 2020 – Scientists warn politicians #02: United Kingdom –

February 22, 2020 – CO2 pipeline accident – “Like something out of a zombie movie”


April 3, 2020 – Kwasi Kwarteng sends a letter…. –

2021

 January 13, 2021 – New Scientist reports on types of intelligence required to deal with #climate change    

November 16, 2021 – Chancellor cuddles up to oil bosses, of course.

2022


March 18, 2022 – Antarctic has a day 38.5 degrees above seasonal average. –


April 12, 2022 – Big beasts put money into carbon removal –

November 7, 2022 – journalist covering JSO protest arrested 

December 31, 2022 – FT publishes letter about Thatcher and Just Stop Oil


December 31, 2022 – We Quit, says some group everyone has forgotten about. –

2023

January 4 2023 – can green groups survive abeyance?

January 10, 2023 Labour launches a Climate and Environment Forum

March 4, 2023 –Letter in FT: Global carbon price call is a classic delaying tactic


March 12, 2023 – the opera ain’t over, but the fat lady is warming up….


April 20, 2023 – tabloid smear job of climate activist – Hypocrite-Zealot Trap


July 3, 2003 and 2023 – it’s getting warmer.


October 26, 2023 – Happy One Year birthday, Energy Act –


November 17, 2023 – two degrees warmer, for the first time… –


November 21 2023 – EU: CDR AOK


December 2, 2023 – Exxon’s boss vs IEA, planet

2024


January 30, 2024 – Climate Committee counsels action –

No specific year


February 2nd is Groundhog Day! –


December 25, – the White Christmas myth… –