August 1, 1980 – Wall Street Journal does excellent #climate reporting
August 2, 1970 – LA Times runs #climate change front page story
August 2, 2007 – Russia plants a flag on the Arctic sea-bed.
August 3, 1988 – Exxon tries to downplay “the greenhouse effect.” Again.
August 4, 1988 – Hawke Cabinet asks for “what can we do?” report on climate.
August 5, 2010 – academics call for insurance industry to get involved in climate fight
August 6, 1990 – another climate documentary shown…
August 7, 2003 – John Howard meets with business buddies to kill climate action
August 8, 1990 – Ministers meet, argue for Toronto Target
August 9, 2013 – BP writes the rules (de facto)
August 10, 2003 – a UK temperature record tumbles…
August 11, 2005 – Greenpeace protest Hazelwood power station
August 12, 2010 – BZE launches energy plan for Australia
August 13, 2007 – Newsweek nails denialists
August 14, 2002 – Australian economists urge Kyoto Protocol ratification
August 15, 2010 – a walk against warming fails to catch fire. #RepertoireRot
August 16, 2010 – Polar Bears going through the motions
August 16, 2002 – “Oil Lobby Urges Bush to Keep Climate Change Off the Table at Earth Summit”
August 17, 1982 – Crispin Tickell sounds the alarm bell
August 17, 1989 – Space shields to save the earth…
August 17, 1998 – Emissions Trading considered (again)
August 18, 1975 – it’s gonna get hotter, not cooler, say scientists
August 19, 1968 – Is Man Spoiling the Weather? (yes)
August 20, 2018 – Greta Thunberg’s first protest
August 21, 1961 – The UN holds a “new sources of energy” conference.
August 22, 2000 – Minchin kills an Australian Emissions Trading Scheme
August 22, 2011 – anti-carbon pricing rally flops
August 23, 1971 – nuggets of ecological wisdom from Nugget Coombs.
August 23, 1853 – first International Meteorological Conference
August 23, 1971 – the Powell Memorandum
August 24, 1989 – a Sydney council takes greenhouse suggestions on-board (or says it will).
August 25, 2013 – The IPA loses support, for being stupid climate deniers.
August 26, 1973 – Sir Kingsley Dunham points out the C02 problem
August 26, 2003 – Australian “plan” to save biodiversity
August 27, 2013 – absurd claim of Nobel-prize winners’ support for Liberal non-policy is debunked.
August 27, 1993 – international negotiations edge forward
August 28, 2003 – EPA says Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant
August 29, 2008 – business tells Labor to go softly (Labor then does, obvs).
August 30, 1975 – The Science Show does climate change…