July 2026

July 1, 1983 – Bucky Fuller dies

July 1, 2012 – Australian ETS comes into effect

July 1, 2013 – Solastalgia in front of the courts

 July 2, 1988 – end of the third meeting of the AGGG

July 3, 2020 – Daily Mail on DAC

July 4, 1971 – Ecology Action puff piece in Sydney Morning Herald

July 5, 2000 – Centre for “Independent” Studies at peak intellectual capacity

July 6, 1979 – Letter in the Nottingham Post about carbon dioxide build-up and “the greatest disaster in world history”

July 7, 1979 – climate memo on Carter’s desk

 July 8, 1996 – Australian business whining about climate change of course

CO2 Newsletter Vol. 2, no.4 – “opinion seems to be sharply divided between complacency and alarmism over timing”

July 9, 2001 – Dobriansky and Pearlman meet 

July 10, 2012 – Denialists on tour in Australia

July 11, 1979 – New York Times warns about carbon dioxide build-up

July 12, 1982 – Thatcher briefing for meeting about British Antarctic Survey

July 13, 2009 – Al Gore in Australia again

July 14, 1967 – “The rights of man and the rape of his environment: a blueprint for a peaceful revolution”

Interview with Larry Edwards : “In 1967 a physics professor impressed us with how just a small 2oC increase in global average temperature would be devastating, and could happen”

July 15,  1979 – Carter’s “malaise” speech

July 15,  1996 – Geneva games

July 16, 1970 – Nixon aide spots climate problem
July 17, 1979 – Synthetic fuel hearings

 July 17, 2022 – in case of emergency, break glass

July 18, 1991  – “Clean Coal” says Commons Energy Select Committee. 

Burnham, the brown M&Ms, and the Fafocene

 July 19, 2006 – David Miliband gives a speech

July 19, 2010 – Stephen Schneider dies

July 20, 1979 – Little Green Book gets a shout out…
July 20, 1997 – Howard appoints a taskforce…

Interview with Mark Purcell about Frantz Fanon and what he has to teach us.

July 21, 1971 – Melbourne biochemist names the carbon dioxide danger

 July 22, 2011 – David Cameron’s letter about Labor’s carbon tax plans…

Private Eye letter: “Emission Omission”

July 23,  1982 – Barbat’s newsletter gets some publicity

July 23, 2010 – Gillard proposes ‘Citizens’ Assemblies’

July 24,  2012 – Homer-Dixon on food

July 25, 1969 – “Frontiers of Science” cartoon on carbon dioxide build-up…

July 25,  1972 – “How big is the sink?” asks Sydney Morning Herald hack, flagging CO2…

July 25,  1977 – the Ironwood Daily Globe tells the truth

July 25,  1933 – lecture in Melbourne –  “Carbon Dioxide Could Change World”.

 July 26, 1956 –  Melbourne Age and climate change

July 26, 1988 –  Government officials start to feel the climate of change

July 27, 1976 – a South Australian Hudson speaks out on climate change!!

 July 27, 1976 – Papua New Guinea paper says “Climate Research vital”

July 28, 1981 – “Will the polar icecaps melt?” (Why yes, yes they will…)

 July 29, 1949 – Weather charts appear again on television

July 30,  2006 – Murray Bookchin dies

July 30,  2010 – practically everything is burning

July 31, 2008 – “Climate caravan”