April 2022

April 1, 1979 – JASONs have their two cents on the greenhouse effect

April 2, 1979 – AAAS workshop in Anaheim begins…

April 3, 1980 – US news anchorman Walter Cronkite on the greenhouse effect

April 3, 1991- Does coal have a future?

April 4, 1978 – UK Chief Scientific Advisor worries about atmospheric C02 build-up

April 5, 2008 – Charlton Heston dies, star of first movie to mention the greenhouse effect

April 6, 2006 – the anti-climate dam of John Howard begins to crack…

April 7, 1980 – C02 problem is most important issue…”another decade will slip by” warns Wally Broecker to Senator Tsongas

April 8, 1995 – Australian environment minister says happy with “Berlin Mandate”

April 9, 2019- brutal book review “a script for a West Wing episode about climate change, only with less repartee.”

April 10th, 2010 – activists hold “party at the pumps”

April 11th, 1987 – A matter of… Primo Levi’s death

April 12, 1992 – seminar asks “How sustainable is Australian Energy?” (proposes switch to gas)

April 13, 1992 – Denialist tosh – “The origins of the alleged scientific consensus”

April 14th, 1989 – 24 US senators call for immediate unilateral climate action

April 15, 1974 – Kissinger cites climate concerns…

April 16, 1980 – “a risk averse society might prefer nuclear power generation to fossil fuel burning”

April 17, 2007 – UN Security Council finally discusses the most important security issue of all…

April 18, 1989 – begging letter to world leaders sent

April 19, 2002 – Exxon got a top #climate scientist sacked.

April 20, 2006 – David Cameron does “hug-a-husky” to detoxify the Conservative “brand”

April 21, 1992 – President Bush again threatens to boycott Earth Summit

April 22, 1975 – UK Civil Service scratches its head on #climate

April 23, 2009 – denialists caught denying their own scientists…

April 24, 1994 – a carbon tax for Australia?

April 25th, 1974 – Swedish prime minister briefed on carbon dioxide build-up

April 25, 1996 – Greenpeace slams Australian government on #climate obstructionism

April 26, 1998 – New York Times front page expose on anti-climate action by industry

April 27, 1987 – “Our Common Future” released.

April 28, 1975- Newsweek’s “The Cooling World” story.

April 29, 1970 – Washington DC symposium talks about carbon dioxide

April 30, 1985 – New York Times reports C02 not the only greenhouse problem