November 2025

November 1, 1953 – Australia strikes oil – All Our Yesterdays

November 1, 1965 – “Fortune” magazine covers carbon dioxide build-up – All Our Yesterdays

November 1, 1968 – Ida Hoos on carbon dioxide build-up – All Our Yesterdays

 November 1, 1969 – “Carbon dioxide affects global ecology” – All Our Yesterdays

November 1, 1970 – Ayn Rand fulminates incorrectly, for the first time ever – All Our Yesterdays

November 2, 1965  – The Met Office starts twice daily weather forecasts – All Our Yesterdays

November 2, 1966 – a pivotal paper is submitted – All Our Yesterdays

November 2, 2006 – throwing shade at the Great Barrier Reef – All Our Yesterdays

November 3, 1988 – priorities revealed via adverts – All Our Yesterdays

November 3, 2007 – Second Rising Tide Australia boat blockade – All Our Yesterdays

November 4, 1959 – Edward Teller tells it like it is – All Our Yesterdays

November 5, 2008 – Queen asks the key question – All Our Yesterdays

60 years ago today, the first US government report to warn about climate change was published. – All Our Yesterdays

November 6, 1961 – “Air Over Cities” pollution conference begins  – All Our Yesterdays

November 6, 2011 – Keystone… – All Our Yesterdays

November 7, 2001 – Australian Conservation Foundation bluffs in support of Kyoto ratification – All Our Yesterdays

November 8, 2011 – Australian polluters are going to have to pay (briefly) – All Our Yesterdays

November 8, 1989 – somebody suggests the polluters pay…. – All Our Yesterdays

November 9, 1987- Senate hearings, for what they’re Wirth – All Our Yesterdays

November 9, 1994 – interdepartmental bunfight in Australia – All Our Yesterdays

November 10, 1969 – “Carbon Dioxide and All That” – All Our Yesterdays

November 11, 1965 – blackout! – All Our Yesterdays

November 12, 1998 – USA signs Kyoto – All Our Yesterdays

November 13, 2000- Kyoto “would hardly make any difference.“ – All Our Yesterdays

November 14, 1984 – first World Industry Conference on Environmental Management begins in Versailles, France. – All Our Yesterdays

November 14, 1997 – Aussies want WTO to scupper UNFCCC – All Our Yesterdays

November 14, 1984 – first World Industry Conference on Environmental Management begins in Versailles, France. – All Our Yesterdays

November 15, 1979 – the FT reports on German concerns about fossil fuel effects. – All Our Yesterdays

November 16, 2009 – who is going to PAY for CCS? Well, you, obvs. – All Our Yesterdays

November 17, 1975 – “Living with Climatic Change” conference begins in Toronto – All Our Yesterdays

November 17,  2009 – “Climategate” hack – All Our Yesterdays

November 17,  2009 – Manchester CIty Council signs off on a climate action plan – All Our Yesterdays

November 18, 2006 – Richard Black and “climate tourists” – All Our Yesterdays

November 18, 2020 – Boris Johnson’s ten point plan – All Our Yesterdays

Interview with Dr Marianna Dudley, author of “Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain” – All Our Yesterdays

November 19, 2009 – Ed Miliband on “The Politics of Climate Change” – All Our Yesterdays

November 20, 1991 – IEA CCS etc – All Our Yesterdays

November 20, 1997 – John Howard’s safeguarding bullshit – All Our Yesterdays

November 21, 1997 – Shell is getting out of Aussie coal – All Our Yesterdays

November 22, 1996 – Clinton in Australia, gives climate speech about Great Barrier Reef… – All Our Yesterdays

November 23, 1965 – Walter Orr Roberts “carbon dioxide is clearly rising in the atmosphere” – All Our Yesterdays

November 23, 2021 – XR says will mobilise two million – All Our Yesterdays

November 24, 1973 – German speed limits – All Our Yesterdays

November 24, 1979 – Anti-nuclear campaign launch – All Our Yesterdays

November 25, 2010 – GB Tucker dies – All Our Yesterdays

November 26, 2008 – UK MPs told climate targets inadequate  – All Our Yesterdays

November 26, 2009 – Abbott challenges Turnbull – All Our Yesterdays

November 27, 1978 – Harvey Milk assassinated – All Our Yesterdays

November 27, 2018 – Obama boasts about oil production – “that was me, people” – All Our Yesterdays

November 28, 1988 – early doubt-casting – All Our Yesterdays

November 29, 1968 – Arnold Marsh of the National Clean Air Society on carbon dioxide – All Our Yesterdays

November 29, 1995 – Australian power company boss is silent on climate, obvs – All Our Yesterdays

November 30, 2005 – a “North Sea Basin Task Force” is formed – All Our Yesterdays