August 1, 2015 – World Coal Association tries to say coal is lifting people out of poverty.
August 3, 1970 – Nixon warned about climate change and icecaps melting
August 4, 2008 – Police pepper spray #climate campers
August 7, 1995 – decent Australian journo reports on utter bullshit #climate economic “modelling”
August 8, 1975 – first academic paper to use term “global warming” published
August 9, 2001 – OECD calls on Australia to introduce a carbon tax. Told to… go away…
August 10, 1980 – “Energy, Climate and the Future” seminar in MelbourneA
August 12, 1970 – US Senate warned about climate change
August 12, 1990 – Channel 4 shows crackpot documentary “The Greenhouse Conspiracy”
August 13, 1882 – William “Coal Question” Jevons dies
August 14, 1989 – South Australia creates “interdepartmental committee on #climate change”…
August 14, 1971 – Stanford Prison Study begins…
August 15, 2010 – Russia halts grain exports because of droughts and heatwaves
August 16, 2012 – Tony Windsor calls Tony Abbott an “absolute disgrace” on carbon tax/climate
August 17, 2002 – Pacific states urge Australia to sign Kyoto Protocol
August 18, 1996, Ex-CSIRO #climate boss shows he has lost the plot
August 19 1997 – “The denialists take Canberra” with “Countdown to Kyoto” conference
August 20, 1997 – Australian Mining Industry operative misrepresents the #climate science. Obvs.
August 21, 1972 – Nature editor John Maddox says C02-temperature fear “found wanting”
August 22, 1988 – scientists say “Australia, expect #climate refugees”
August 22, 1981 – New York Times front page story costs #climate scientists their jobs.
August 23, 1856 – Eunice Foote identifies carbon dioxide as greenhouse gas
August 24, 1994 – first signs of a split in the anti-climate action business coalition…
August 25, 1970 – Margaret Mead and James Baldwin rap on race…
August 26, 2006 – First “Climate Camp” begins
August 27, 1859 – The Oil Age begins. UPDATED TO BE a) accurate b) less Eurocentric
August 28, 1971 – snarky opinion piece in New York Times. Stephen Schneider rebuts days later.
August 29, 1990 – The Australian mining and forestry industries threaten to spit the dummy
August 30, 1990 -Australian diplomats (probably) tried to water down IPCC recommendations
August 30, 1971 – Bob Carr (ex- NSW premier) ‘gets’ climate change
August 31, 2011 – anti-carbon tax protesters call Anthony Albanese a “maggot”