Years and years

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

1759

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

1768

March 21, 1768 – Joseph Fourier born

1824

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.

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

1882

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

1893

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

1895

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

1906

October 28, 1906 – the birth of the Press Release

1912

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

1927

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!! 

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

1947

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

1948

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

1950

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

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

1952

July 2, 1952 – Rachel Carson says Arctic warming

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 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”

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

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

1955

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

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

1956

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

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

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

June 29, 1956 – Just DRIVE, she said…

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

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

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

1957

January 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

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

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

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

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

Feb 12, 1958- the Unchained Goddess is unchained…

March 18, 1958 – Military man spots carbon dioxide problem

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

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

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

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

1959

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

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

November 1, 1959 – M1 motorway section opened

1960

Keeling’s first paper

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

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

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

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

1961

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

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

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

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

1962

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

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

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

1963

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

November 23, 1963 – Doctor Who begins

1964

1964, Jan 11: The Merchants of Doubt have work to do

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

April 14, 1964 – RIP Rachel Carson

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

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

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

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

1967

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 13, 1967 – Sweden begins to save the world…

1968

January 19, 1968 – Engineers are not ecologists…

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

March 18, 1968 – Bobby Kennedy vs Gross National Product

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

September 30, 1969 -US activist publication mentions climate change

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

October 22, 1969 – Edmund Muskie mentions CO2 build up 

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

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

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

1970

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

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

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 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 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…

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”

May 11, 1971 – U Thant gets The Message

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

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

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

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

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

1972

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

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

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

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

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

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’)

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

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

1973

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

July 5, 1973 – The Predicament of Mankind discussed

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

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

September 11, 1973 – CIA coup topples Chilean democracy

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

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

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

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

November 29, 1973 – Australian politician warns of climate change

December 13, 1973 – Edward Heath announces Three Day Week

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1975

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

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

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 18, 1976 – US congress begins hearings on #climate

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

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

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

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

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

November 28, 1976 – climate modelling workshop in USA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

July 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1978

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

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

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

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

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

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

July 12, 1978 – US Climate Research Board meeting

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

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

1979

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

March 26, 1979 – Exxon meets a climate scientist

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 

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

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

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

1980

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 24, 1980 – the climate models are sound…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1981

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

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

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

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…

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

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 

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

1987

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!

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

1988

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

November 11, 1988 – IPCC finishes its first meeting

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

1989

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 20, 1989 – Bob Hawke fumbles the green football…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

December 4, 1989 – Greenhouse tax urged…

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

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

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

1990

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

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

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

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

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

March 19, 1990 – Bob Hawke gives #climate speech

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

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

May 4, 1990 – coal industry sweats over greenie influence

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

May 25, 1990 – Thatcher opens Hadley Centre

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”

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

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

August 6, 1990 – another climate documentary shown…

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

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 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 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

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”

December 24, 1990 – Australia as renewable energy superpower

1991

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

April 3, 1991- Does coal have a future?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1992

Jan 3, 1992 Greenpeace vs POTUS on Climate Change

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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

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

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.

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”

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

April 24, 1994 – a carbon tax for Australia?

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

June 3, 1994 – Greenpeace warns of climate time bomb

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

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

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 13, 1992/1994- Scientists traduced, ignored

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

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

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

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

1995

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

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

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

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)

February 6, 1995 – Australian business versus a carbon tax

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

March 16, 1995 – Victorian government plans brown coal exports

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

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

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

November 16, 1995 – another skirmish in the IPCC war

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

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

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

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

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

November 26, 1996 – Australian climate modelling is ridiculed

1997

March 2nd, 1997- RIP Judi Bari

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

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

May 10, 1997 – Murdoch rag in denialist shocker 

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

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

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

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

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

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

June 23, 1997 – RIP Hermann Flohn

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

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

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

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

December 26, 1997 – #climate denial machine exposed again and again

December 31, 1997 – Government slags off Australian Conservation Foundation

1998

Feb 26, 1998 – Australian “clean coal” is on the way (again).

March 4, 1998 – The Australian Greenhouse Office gets a boss…

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 26, 1998 – “National Greenhouse Strategy” (re)-launched

November 30, 1998 – Exxon and Mobil merge

December 9, 1998 – Canberra bullshit about environment

1999

March 19, 1999 – industry cautiously welcoming emissions trading…

November 12, 1999 – John Howard and mates say “nope” to renewables

2000

Feb 22, 2000 – Japanese coal-burning to be dealt with by Australian trees?

April 3, 2000 – Australian diplomats spread bullshit about climate. Again

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

August 22, 2000 – Minchin kills an Australian Emissions Trading Scheme

September 4, 2000 – industry says sky will fall if there’s a carbon tax

September 6, 2000 – Emission scheme defeated, it’s time for a gloating press release… #Climate #auspol

September 28, 2000 – Liberal MP goes full cooker on Kyoto as threat to sovereignty.

September 29, 2000 – On campaign trail, George Bush says power plants will require carbon dioxide cuts

October 7, 2010 – Julia Gillard scraps the “Climate Assembly” idea

October 25, 2000 – local authorities in England make #climate promises. Well, that went well… #NottinghamDeclaration

October 25, 2000 – James Hansen writes a letter

November 3, 2000 – Australian denialists get American scientist to testify about Kyoto Protocol, smear IPCC

November 7, 2000 – Australian “The Heat is on” report released

November 9, 2000 – Tyndall Centre launched

November 22, 2000 – protests at COP6 at The Hague

November 25, 2000 – CoP meeting ends in official disarray…

2001

January 17, 2001 – Enron engineers energy “blackouts” to gouge consumers

January 29, 2001 – President Bush announces “energy taskforce” #TaskforceAnnouncementGrift

February 6, 2001: ExxonMobil Lobbyist Calls on White House to Remove Certain Government Climate Scientists

March 7, 2001 – CNN unintentionally reveals deep societal norms around democracy

March 13, 2001 – Bush breaks election promise to regulate C02 emissions…

April 1, 2001 – John Howard sucks up to George Bush on climate wrecking

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 27, 2001 – Minerals Council of Australia versus the Kyoto Protocol

August 9, 2001 – OECD calls on Australia to introduce a carbon tax. Told to… go away…

October 26, 2001 – BioEnergy Carbon Capture and Storage mooted

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…

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 5, 2002 – John Howard says Australia won’t ratify Kyoto Protocol

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

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.

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…

2003

January 8, 2003 –  Energy firms plan to “bury carbon emissions”…

January 16, 2003 – Chicago Climate Exchange names founding members

February 17, 2003 – Bob Carr says John Howard showing poor leadership (too generous!)

February 19, 2003 – “CCS to be studied by IPCC”

February 24, 2003 – UK Energy White Paper kinda changes the game (a bit).

Feb 27, 2003 – the “FutureGen” farce begins…

Feb 28, 2003- Australian business lobby switches from opposition to “no position” on Kyoto ratification #auspol

March 4, 2003 – Republicans urged to question the scientific consensus

March 4, 2003 – “Luntz memo” exposes Bush climate strategy 

June 11, 2003 – US and Australian think tanks conspire vs (pluralist) democracy 

June 25, 2003 – the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum is created

June 25, 2002, 2003 and 2008 – CCS’s first hype cycle builds

July 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

May 6, 2004 – Australian Prime Minister John Howard meets business, to kill renewables

July 4, 2004 – @WWF_Australia try to shame John Howard into #climate action…

September 14, 2004 – Blair “shocked” by scientists warnings – “time is running out for tackling climate change”

September 21, 2014 – big #climate march in New York. World saved.

October 3, 2004 – John Howard revealed to have asked for fossil fuel CEOs to kill renewables. #auspol

October 29, 2004 – Aussie environmentalists win a court case…

December 16, 2004 – “2 degrees of warming to be a catastrophe”

2005

2005, January 13: UN Secretary-General calls for “decisive measures” on climate change

Feb 16, 2005- The Kyoto Protocol shambles into futile existence, despite Uncle Sam’s best efforts

March 9, 2005- Albanese says “ecological decline is accelerating and many of the world’s ecosystems are reaching dangerous thresholds.” #auspol

March 30, 2005 – The Millennium Ecosystems  Report is launched.

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 31, 2005 – “Stop Climate Chaos” launched

September 5, 2005 – Anthony Albanese introduced “Avoiding Dangerous Climate #Change” private member’s bill

September 7, 2005 – “rule out nuclear” say Aussie green outfits.

October 6, 2005 – carbon capture is doable…

October 13, 2005 – “Climate Change: Turning up the Heat” published

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”

Jan 29, 2006 – Attempts to gag James Hansen revealed

Feb 20, 2006 – Clive Hamilton names a “Dirty Dozen”

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.

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 24, 2006 – “Plane Stupid” holds first action, with “Sermon on the Taxiway” at East Midlands Airport

October 5, 2006 – Greenpeace sues Blair Government over shonky energy “consultation”

October 11, 2006 – “Climate Institute” begins tour of rural Victoria

October 30, 2006 – Stern Review publshed.

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 30, 2006 – “Industry snubs climate strategy”

2007

Jan 1 2007, – “If we fail to act, we end up with a different planet”

Feb 1, 2007- Jeremy Grantham slams Bush on #climate

February 5, 2007 – Australian Prime Minister trolled by senior journalist

February 13, 2007- Industry is defo allowed to silence scientists…

February 16, 2007 – Liberals say climate is a “mass panic”

Feb 25, 2007 – “Clean Coal Initiative” as move in game of one-dimensional electoral chess #auspol

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 30, 2007 – Climate as “the great moral challenge of our generation” #auspol

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 22, 2007 – “Clean coal” power station by 2014, honest…

May 24, 2007 – James Hansen ponders whether scientists can be too cautious and quiet (or, indeed “reticent”)

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

September 6, 2007 – “The Future of Coal under Cap and Trade” hearings…

September 10, 2007 – shiny #climate promises versus grim reality

October 12, 2007 – Judge grants mining licence, doubts climate change

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

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 20, 2007 – UK opposition leader David Cameron gives clean coal speech in Beijing…

December 30, 2007 – Bert Bolin dies.

2008

January 2, 2008 – tiresome (but sound) “Green Fatigue” warning is made.

January 12, 2008 – Australian mining lobby group ups its “sustainability” rhetoric #PerceptionManagement #Propaganda   

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 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 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

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

April 23, 2009 – denialists caught denying their own scientists…

May 2, 2009 – Australian Liberals warned of wipe-out if seen as “anti-climate action” #auspol

May 9, 2009 – Another white flag goes up on the “Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme”

The Guardian holds a climate summit. We. Are. Saved. June 15, 2009.

June 17, 2009 –  Blistering speech about how “The Climate Nightmare is Upon Us” by Christine Milne

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

June 19, 2009 – Liberals warn ‘woke’ companies…

June 24, 2009 – Scottish Parliament passes insufficient climate legislation; claims ‘leadership’ anyway

September 30, 2009 – Tony Abbott says #climate science is “absolute crap”

October 17, 2009 – Maldives cabinet meets underwater

November 2, 2009 – , Australian opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull seals own doom by not bending knee to shock jock

November 6, 2009 – Kevin Rudd playing politics with the climate

November 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 23, 2009 – Kevin Rudd told to call double-dissolution #climate election… (spoiler – he didn’t)

December 27, 2009 – Art exhibition in Copenhagen saves the world

2010

January 11, 2010 – Bad news study about trees and the warming Arctic… 

January 14, 2010 – Investors hold UN summit on #climate risk

Jan 21, 2010 – The flub that sank a thousand policies #auspol

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 18, 2010 – “Solar” by Ian McEwan released.

March 24, 2010 – Scientists explain another bad thing on the horizon, this time on soil.

March 28, 2010 – protestors block Newcastle coal terminal #auspol

April 10th, 2010 – activists hold “party at the pumps”

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…

August 5, 2010 – academics call for insurance industry to get involved in climate fight

August 11, 2010 – @TheOnion reports “Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental Catastrophe”

August 15, 2010 – Russia halts grain exports because of droughts and heatwaves

August 15, 2010 – a walk against warming fails to catch fire. #RepertoireRot

August 16, 2010 – Polar Bears going through the motions

August 12, 2010 – BZE launches energy plan for Australia

October 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 18, 2011 – Scientist quits advisor role (because ignored on climate?)

Feb 19, 2011 – defunding the IPCC

March 5, 2011 – Australian “wingnuts are coming out of the woodwork”

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”

2012

March 10, 2012- RIP Sherry Rowland

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

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 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 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 21, 2013 – “Cut the Green Crap” said UK Prime Minister

2014

Jan 2 2014: “This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop”

Feb 9, 2014 –  A Farage-o of nonsense about climate change

February 26, 2014 – Advanced Propaganda for Morons

March 20, 2014 – industry groups monster reef defenders

July 20, 2014- the “Green Blob” blamed

September 8, 2014 – Lobster boat blockaders have charges dropped.

October 2, 2014 – Low emission technologies on their way, says Minerals Council of Australia

November 14, 2013, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s 50th #climate speech

2015

Jan 19, 2015 -Four utilities pull out of an EU CCS programme…

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

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

May 9, 2016 – South Australia’s last coal-plant shuts down 

2017

Jan 24, 2017 – Climate activist is court in the act

March 28, 2017 – Heartland Institute spamming science teachers

2018

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

2019

March 15, 2019 – New Zealand school strike launched, called off.

April 9, 2019- brutal book review “a script for a West Wing episode about climate change, only with less repartee.”

May 2, 2019 – Committee on Climate change report on net zero by 2050

2020

2021

 January 13, 2021 – New Scientist reports on types of intelligence required to deal with #climate change    

November 16, 2021 – Chancellor cuddles up to oil bosses, of course.

2022

November 7, 2022 – journalist covering JSO protest arrested 

December 31, 2022 – FT publishes letter about Thatcher and Just Stop Oil

2023

2023, Jan 4: can green groups survive abeyance?

March 4, 2023 –Letter in FT: Global carbon price call is a classic delaying tactic