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December 1, 1995 – Air Pollution causing climate chaos, front page story in Sydney Morning Herald – All Our Yesterdays

December 2, 1980 – Four US nuns killed in El Salvador – All Our Yesterdays

December 2, 1994 – “Canberra fiddles as environment burns” – All Our Yesterdays

December 2, 2015 – Parliament sit-in – All Our Yesterdays

December 3, 1974 – Commons debates “The Weather Machine” – All Our Yesterdays

December 3, 2018- David Attenborough on the end of civilisation – All Our Yesterdays

December 4, 1893 – John Tyndall dies – All Our Yesterdays

Four “Quatrains” for the FAFOcene – All Our Yesterdays

December 5, 1994 – direct action against Yallourn coal power station, in Victoria – All Our Yesterdays

December 6, 2005 – James Hansen speech about imminent tipping points, at AGU – All Our Yesterdays

December 7, 1989 and 1992 – “Ecologically Sustainable Development” goes from hero to zero – All Our Yesterdays

December 7, 1975 – Climate and Australia meeting – All Our Yesterdays

December 8, 1997 – Gore and Hill at Kyoto – All Our Yesterdays

December 9, 1955 – “On a Mathematical Model of the Carbon Cycle in Nature” submitted. – All Our Yesterdays

December 9, 1955 – Tribune writes on carbon dioxide and Weather Control – All Our Yesterdays

 December 10, 1980 – the future for coal and the environment – All Our Yesterdays

 December 11, 1966- “Science and Survival” reviewed in Sydney Morning Herald – All Our Yesterdays

December 11, 1969 – Australian Prime Minister John Gorton becomes a tree-hugger – All Our Yesterdays

December 12, 2016 – Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts shares his wisdom – All Our Yesterdays

December 13, 1984 – Thatcher warned about climate change. Again. – All Our Yesterdays

December 13, 1988 – Environment Minister Graham Richardson dishing it out in Washington – All Our Yesterdays

December 14, 1973 – Canberra Times on melting ice caps – All Our Yesterdays

December 15, 2008 – police smears about Climate Camp exposed – All Our Yesterdays

December 16, 1957 – Met Office discusses Atmospheric Chemistry at RSA – CO2 build up “might be disastrous” (in a few centuries). – All Our Yesterdays

December 17, 2000 – Gas companies can get out of jail free… – All Our Yesterdays

December 18, 1953 – “Pathological Science” lecture by Irving Langmuir – All Our Yesterdays

December 19, 1982 – BBC on “the State of the Planet” – All Our Yesterdays

December 19, 1985 – “Clean Coal” in Washington DC – All Our Yesterdays

December 20, 1969 – The Economist editorialises on carbon dioxide build-up – All Our Yesterdays

December 20, 1971 – Nixon’s climate plans – All Our Yesterdays

December 21, 1990 – UNGA creates “INC” – All Our Yesterdays

December 22, 2010 – James Hansen and Bill McKibben and the loaded dice… – All Our Yesterdays

December 23, 2010 – Can Australia afford CCS? – All Our Yesterdays

December 24, 1894 – Arrhenius starts work… – All Our Yesterdays

December 25, 1976 – The Nation investigates the assassination of Fred Hampton – All Our Yesterdays

December 26, 2018 – Juliana vs United States grinds on – All Our Yesterdays

December 27, 2010 – Queensland government withdraws ZeroGen CCS funding – All Our Yesterdays

 December 28  – Carl Rossby (1896) and Jonny von Neumann (1903) born – All Our Yesterdays

December 29, 1959 – plenty of room at the bottom – All Our Yesterdays

December 30, 1931 – Robert Innes and climate change – All Our Yesterdays

December 31, 1994 – “Climate Change Science: Current understanding and Uncertainties” – All Our Yesterdays