May 2025

May 1, 1972 – Walter Orr Roberts and the need for black climate scientists – All Our Yesterdays

May 2, 1989 – a DC forum about “Our Common Future” – All Our Yesterdays

May 3, 2024 – Friends of the Earth and Client Earth win a court case – All Our Yesterdays

May 4, 1992 – Liberals to be terrible on environment, for once. – All Our Yesterdays

 May 4, 1985 – world leaders promise to solve “climatic change” – All Our Yesterdays

May 5, 1990 – Coal barons have to pretend to care – All Our Yesterdays

 May 6, 1969 – a legacy lunch in Melbourne… – All Our Yesterdays

May 7, 1935- a “Declaration of Interdependence” – All Our Yesterdays

Podcasts review: Ice-free Arctic days by 2030? and the meaning(s) of crisis – All Our Yesterdays

May 8, 2008 – Carbon Rationing Scrapped – All Our Yesterdays

May 9, 1989- Tony Blair says market forces can’t fix the greenhouse effect… – All Our Yesterdays

May 10, 2007 – Future Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan “punches the Liberal bruise” on climate and emissions trading – All Our Yesterdays

May 11, 1990 – Money or the Planet. You decide (except you don’t). – All Our Yesterdays

May 12, 1974 – an early dose of Hydrogen Hope/Hype – All Our Yesterdays

What is a good scientist? (Another speech I will never give) – All Our Yesterdays

Proposed format for standard “on this day” AOY post – All Our Yesterdays

May 13, 2011 – Climate Institute launches “national week of action” to support Gillard’s ETS – All Our Yesterdays

May 14, 2009 – First bite at the CPRS apple – All Our Yesterdays

Date for your diary – Sun Day, Sept 21st – All Our Yesterdays

May 15, 1963 – JFK gets told “Yeah, Rachel Carson was Right” – All Our Yesterdays

May 16, 1972 – “Carbon and the Biosphere” symposium – All Our Yesterdays

May 17, 1969 – Ritchie Calder gives a speech – All Our Yesterdays

May 18, 2011- Malcolm Turnbull disses “direct action” on Lateline – All Our Yesterdays

May 19, 1982 – House of Lords debate on “Coal and the Environment” – All Our Yesterdays

May 20, 1970 – NUC Symposium on Environmental Preservation – All Our Yesterdays

Podcast Review: Tipping Point on The Limits to Growth. LISTEN NOW FOR THE LOVE OF GAIA – All Our Yesterdays

May 21, 2024 – the Pope warns again – All Our Yesterdays

Podcasts/interview/book alert – Sarah Schulman on AIDS, activism, the fantasy and necessity of solidarity etc – All Our Yesterdays

May 22, 1989 – Greenhouse plebiscite mooted – All Our Yesterdays

May 22, 2000 – Industry versus the greenhouse trigger… – All Our Yesterdays

May 23, 2006 – David Attenborough finally comes out on climate – All Our Yesterdays

The Fafocene – All Our Yesterdays

May 24, 1954 – Swedes study the climate… – All Our Yesterdays

May 24, 2015 – Is the Pope an environmentalist? Why yes, yes he is. – All Our Yesterdays

Affect and the Fafocene: kayfabe, hypernormalisation and Leonard Cohen – All Our Yesterdays

May 25, 1962- JFK speaks to a Conservation conference  – All Our Yesterdays

May 26, 1978 – “Advisory Group on Climate” meeting – All Our Yesterdays

May 27, 1927 – Ford ceases to produce the Model-T – All Our Yesterdays

 May 28, 1990 – “Global Warming is really here” (IPCC First Assessment Report) – All Our Yesterdays

May 27, 2025 – Infantilising critics – All Our Yesterdays

May 28, 2025 – signs of the times – All Our Yesterdays

May 29, 1989- “We will all be flooded” – All Our Yesterdays

May 29, 1992- ANAO says it will look at DPIE’s energy management programme – All Our Yesterdays

 May 30, 1996 – Minerals Council investment pays off, again… – All Our Yesterdays

 May 31, 1994 – Climate change and Frankenstein Syndrome… – All Our Yesterdays