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 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
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
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!?
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 19, 1957 – LA Times asks “Is your smoke helping to melt polar icecaps?” –
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 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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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 – 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 30, 1969 -US activist publication mentions climate change
October 22, 1969 – Edmund Muskie mentions CO2 build up
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 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
Feb 2, 1970 – For once, “Time is on our side”
February 9, 1970 – HRH Prince of Netherlands points to carbon dioxide build-up –
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 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
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 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
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”
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 13, 1977 – UK energy experts gather at Sunningdale
May 20, 1977 – Australian Prime Minister says “coal, not solar” is the future
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 14, 1977 – a UNESCO education conference mentions climate change…
October 20, 1977 – Australian petition on solar energy and carbon dioxide build-up…
November 24, 1977 – Canberra Times reports “all coal” plan would “flood US cities”
1978
January 10, 1978 – World Meteorological Organisation outlines World Climate Programme… –
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 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 26, 1979 – CCS first glimmerings, by Albanese and Steinberg
December 11, 1979 – conference on “Environmental Effects of utilising more coal” in London
1980
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 8, 1980 – UK civil servant Crispin Tickell warns Times readers…
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
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.
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 –
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”
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 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.
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 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 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 17, 1989 – Space shields to save the earth…
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 –
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
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 – The Science Show on the “backlash to Greenhouse warnings”
March 19, 1990 – Bob Hawke gives #climate speech
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)
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 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 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
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 –
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 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…
August 2, 1992 – Canberra Times reporting that Jastrow idiot #RelevanceDeprivationSyndrome –
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
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?
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 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
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 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 –
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 10, 1995 – Faulkner folds on carbon tax – doesn’t have the numbers in Cabinet
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 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 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 – 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 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 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 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…
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 28, 2000 – Liberal MP goes full cooker on Kyoto as threat to sovereignty.
October 7, 2010 – Julia Gillard scraps the “Climate Assembly” idea
October 25, 2000 – James Hansen writes a letter
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
March 7, 2001 – CNN unintentionally reveals deep societal norms around democracy
March 13, 2001 – Bush breaks election promise to regulate C02 emissions…
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…
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…
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
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 18, 2004 – Australian States back ETS plan –
October 29, 2004 – Aussie environmentalists win a court case…
November 1, 2004 – Brilliant “Balance as Bias” article published –
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 30, 2005 – The Millennium Ecosystems Report is launched.
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 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 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) –
October 5, 2006 – Greenpeace sues Blair Government over shonky energy “consultation”
October 9, 2006 – @AlboMP calls for International Coalition to accept #Climate Refugees –
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) –
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 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 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.
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, 2009 – Liberals warn ‘woke’ companies…
July 12, 2009 – NGO vs NGO – Al Gore asked to be umpire…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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
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