December 2022

December 1, 1976 – Met Office boss still saying carbon dioxide build-up a non-issue

December 1, 2005 – David Cameron says “low carbon living should not be a weird or worthy obligation”

December 2, 1991 – “Ecologically Sustainable Development” bites the dust…

December 2, 1964 – Mario Savio’s “bodies on the gears” speech at Berkeley..

December 3, 1972 – #climate scientists write “gizza grant” letter to President Nixon

December 4, 1989 – first anti-climate action economic “modelling” released in Australia

December 5, 2002 – Australian Government CCS support begins…

December 6, 2006-  Turns out 0.1% of a Very BIG NUMBER is … quite a lot…

December 7, 1928 – Noam Chomsky born

December 8, 1981 – Thames TV shows “Warming Warning” documentary

December 9, 1974 – UK Department of Energy launches “energy efficiency” programme

December 10, 1978 – Academic workshop on “Climate/Society Interface” begins in Toronto…

December 10, 1985 – Carl Sagan testified to US Senators on #climate danger

December 11, 1895 – Arrhenius reads his “Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air” paper to Swedish Academy of Science…

December 11, 1975 – German scientist gives stark climate warning in Melbourne

December 12, 1977 – UK Government launches energy efficiency scheme, because Jimmy Carter had visited…

December 13, 1967 – Sweden begins to save the world…

December 13, 1984 – Christian Science Monitor monitors the #climate science – ooops.

December 14, 1988 – Greenhouse Glasnost gets going…

December 15, 2009 – Daily Express expresses its irresponsibly idiocy…

December 16, 2002 – another knee-capping for renewable energy in Australia…

December 17, 1989 – a big #climate conference in Egypt begins…

December 18, 1970 – Science article about “Man-Made Climatic Changes”

December 19, 1991- Will UN negotiations go as usual and “commit us to global catastrophe”?

December 20, 2007 – UK opposition leader David Cameron gives clean coal speech in Beijing…

December 21, 2005 – US activist William Rodgers commits suicide

December 22, 1975 – “Scientist Warns of Great Floods if Earth’s Heat Rises” (surely “when”?)

December 22, 1978 – UK Energy Department chief scientist worries about CO2 levels and pressure to reduce them…

December 23, 2009 – Kevin Rudd told to call double-dissolution #climate election… (spoiler – he didn’t)

December 24, 1968 – “Earthrise” photo

December 25, 1989 – business press pushback about Global Warning “panic” begins…

December 26, 1997 – #climate denial machine exposed again and again

December 27, 1989 – Greenhouse effect = “socialist hokum”

December 28, 1994 – Australian Financial Review says “say yes to Tradeable Emissions Quotas”

December 29, 1995 – Sydney Morning Herald points out year has been hottest yet…

December 30, 1976 – President Jimmy Carter is lobbied about #climate change

December 30, 2007 – Bert Bolin dies.

December 31, 2012 – Murdoch employee throws predictable inaccurate shite at Greens…

December 31, 2022 – FT publishes letter about Thatcher and Just Stop Oil