January 2023

January 1, 1988 – President Reagan reluctantly signs “Global Climate Protection Act” #CreditClaiming

January 2, 2008 – tiresome (but sound) “Green Fatigue” warning is made.

January 3, 1984 – US report on energy transition to combat climate released. 

January 4, 1977 – US politician introduces #climate research legislation

January 5, 1973 –  An academic article about the Arctic emerges from the Met Office

January 6, 1995 –  Australian business interests battle a carbon tax with “nobody else is acting” argument

January 7, 2013 – Australian climate activist pretends to be ANZ bank, with spectacular results  

Jan 7 – Ten years on from the ANZ spoof – Jonathan Moylan reflects

January 8, 2003 –  Energy firms plan to “bury carbon emissions”…

January 8, 2013 –  Australian Prime Minister connects bush fires and #climate change

January 9, 1974  –   The UK sets up a “Department of Energy”

January 10, 1991 – “Separate studies rank 1990 as world’s warmest year”  #ShiftingBaseline

January 11, 2010 – Bad news study about trees and the warming Arctic… 

January 12, 2008 – Australian mining lobby group ups its “sustainability” rhetoric #PerceptionManagement #Propaganda   

 January 13, 2021 – New Scientist reports on types of intelligence required to deal with #climate change    

January 14, 2010 – Investors hold UN summit on #climate risk

January 15, 1990 – A political lunch with enormous #climate consequences for Australia #PathDependency #Denial  

January 16, 2003 – Chicago Climate Exchange names founding members

January 17, 2001 – Enron engineers energy “blackouts” to gouge consumers

January 18, 1993 – Australian unions and greenies launch first “Green Jobs” campaign

January 19, 1976 – The carbon consequences of cement get an early discussion.

January 19, 1968 – Engineers are not ecologists…

January 20, 2011 – Shell tries to change the subject from its own emissions   

January 21, 1960 – at least 435 coal miners killed in apartheid South Africa incident #BusinessAsUsual   #Racism   #Profiteering   #GlobalApartheid

January 22, 1995 – UK Prime Minister John Major told to implement green taxes on #climate

January 23, 1957 – New Zealand scientist warns about consequences of carbon dioxide build-up  

January 24, 1984 – Canadian TV documentary and discussion about #climate 

January 25, 2013 – Lord Stern admits #climate “worse than I thought”

January 26, 1970 – US science bureaucrat writes “what’s going on?” memo about #climate

January 27, 1986 – Engineers try to stop NASA launching the (doomed) Challenger Space Shuttle

January 28, 2013 – Doomed “Green Deal” home insulation scheme launched in the UK

January 29, 2001 – President Bush announces “energy taskforce” #TaskforceAnnouncementGrift

January 30, 1961 – New York Times reports world is cooling

January 31, 2002 – Antarctic ice shelf “Larsen B” begins to break up.