August 2026

August 1, 1992 – ACF reviews carbon tax studies

August 2, 2002 – Crispin Tickell editorialises

August 3, 2013- How commentators and the blogosphere treat climate sceptics

August 4, 1977- “Workshop on Anticipated Plant Responses to Global Carbon Dioxide Enrichment”

August 5, 1976 – “It is wise to influence the climate” writes Mikhail Budyko…

August 5, 1980 – carbon dioxide build-up discussed in the South Australian parliament

August 6, 1960 – “Earth Warming Up?” asks New York Times

August 7, 1977- Arthur Herzog’s “Heat” reviewed

The Great Pumpkin, the Fafocene and climate change

August 8, 2007 – late great journalist Sharon Begley did a Q&A about climate denialism

“Closure of the Strait of Hormuz may trigger a bioinvasion super‑spreader event”  IMO, we may be toast

August 9, 2008 – Mass action at Kingsnorth

The silence is the message: Burnham’s deafening silence – why, what it tells us and what comes next? 

August 10, 2001 – Major Australian parties tell OECD, future generations to get fucked

August 10, 1970 – A letter about the “International Scientific Academy for the Protection of Life, for Environment & Biopolitics”

August 11, 1999 – Australian Senate calls for a report on climate

August 11, 2021 – Syracuse boils…

Of misfortune cookies and newspaper headlines in the Fafocene

“Weather records no longer exist” by Sybrand Frietema de Vries

August 12, 2006 – Canadian press platforming idiots

Another neologism – “Melt-schmerz”

August 13, 1986 – Soggy summers, withering winters says Irish newspaper

August 14, 1912 – That wretched news clipping that keeps doing the rounds was first published

Burnham’s crisis – the media, the why (via Star Trek) and what he might do next…

August 15, 2000 – “Plan to bury Greenhouse Gas”

Daily Mail climate propaganda – from ‘Gish gallops’ to “Littlejohning”

August 16, 1976 – Energy shortages will be pleasant

August 16, 2001 – Rising Tide has plenty of ideas

August 17, 2006 – Howard attacks State government plans to introduce a carbon trading scheme.

August 17, 1970 – letter about pollution (inc carbon dioxide) and power in Sydney Morning Herald

Face-eating leopard develops a taste for white meat

Daily Mail propaganda technique: personalisation

August 18, 2002 – David Kemp is delusional

August 18, 2019 – Plaque for a dead glacier

When September comes: Rosebank and Jackdaw etc

August 19, 2019 – Business Roundtable repudiates Friedman Doctrine

Mobilisation versus Actual Movement Building

August 20, 1987 – “we have a wait and see approach”

Burnham and Tice – what substantive difference, besides some hand-wringing?

August 21, 2000 – Renewables boast a hoax

August 22, 1991 – Industry Commission report does its job (scuppering climate action)

August 23, 1997- Sydney Morning Herald does some Clintonian wish-casting…

August 24, 1981 – Daily Telegraph : “Floods fear as Earth gets warmer.”

August 25, 2006 – Vestas wind farm closes

Book review(s) – “Nobody Is Saved Alone” (on Norminton, Harrison and Butler)

 August 26, 1997 – Germans versus Australians…

August 26, 1989- American and Soviet scientists call for  “environmental security alliance” to combat “catastrophic warming”

“Climate Camp at 20: what (if any?) lessons

August 27, 1969 – The Australian tells the truth on pollution

August 28, 1959 – Daily Mail reports on carbon dioxide build-up

August 28, 1976 – Talking about the weather must be more than a national pastime

August 28, 1996 – BCA still at it “International Energy and Environment Conference”

August 28, 2006 – “National Emissions Trading Taskforce” report released

August 29, 1983 – Robin Page, in Daily Telegraph, worries about carbon dioxide build-up

August 30, 2010 – InterAcademy Council report on IPCC

August 31, 2010 – Rann says ETS delay a national failure