October 2022

October 1, 1957 – US Oil company ponders carbon dioxide build-up…

October 2, 1927/64 – Svante Arrhenius and Guy Callendar die.

October 2, 1942 – Spaceflight!!

October 3, 2004 – John Howard revealed to have asked for fossil fuel CEOs to kill renewables. #auspol

October 4, 1969 – “If we melt the Antarctic, our problems are solved because all of the ports of the world would vanish and the ocean will rise 200 feet.”

October 5, 1988 – Vice Presidential Debate and ‘the Greenhouse Effect’

October 5, 2006 – Greenpeace sues Blair Government over shonky energy “consultation”

October 6, 1988 – coal lobby says greenhouse effect “greatly exaggerated”

October 6, 2005 – carbon capture is doable…

October 7, 1989 – Alexander Downer says mining lobby”weak and gutless”,  too soft on greenies

October 8, 1959 – Shell says “nothing to see here” on carbon dioxide build-up

October 8, 1988 – Aussie poet and activist Judith Wright in final speech, warns of environmental problems ahead…

October 9, 1979 – Hermann Flohn warns Irish of “possible consequences of a man-made warming”

October 10, 1977 – famous scientist Solly Zuckerman writes to top UK Civil Servant, warning about climate change

October 11, 2006 – “Climate Institute” begins tour of rural Victoria

October 12, 1976 – Jule Charney throws (private) shade on fellow climatologists…

October 13, 2005 – “Climate Change: Turning up the Heat” published

October 14, 1974 – UK Chief Scientific Advisor is warned about carbon dioxide build-up.

October 15, 1985 – Villach meeting supercharges greenhouse concerns…

October 16, 1997 – Australian businessman declares climate change “no longer an issue”

October 16, 1956 – will H-bombs knock the world off balance!?

October 17, 2009 – Maldives cabinet meets underwater

October 18, 1973 – “how on earth do you stop using fossil fuels?”

October 18, 1983- US news networks tell the truth about #climate. Yes, 1983.

October 19, 2010 – Greenpeace trolls ANZ Bank

October 20, 1997 – Greenpeace tries to give John Howard solar panels…

October 20, 1977 – Australian petition on solar energy and carbon dioxide build-up…

October 21, 1989 – Langkawi Declaration on environmental sustainability…

October 22, 1997 – US and Australian enemies of #climate action plot and gloat

October 23, 1963 – JKF warns of actions “which can irreversibly alter our biological and physical environment on a global scale.” 

October 24, 1967 – editor of Science warns about C02 build-up

October 25, 1982 – Exxon and “Climate Processes & Climate Sensitivity” symposium

October 25, 2000 – local authorities in England make #climate promises. Well, that went well… #NottinghamDeclaration

October 26, 1975 – “The Endangered Atmosphere” conference begins…

October 27, 1990 – The Economist admits nobody is gonna seriously cut C02 emissions

October 28, 1956 – New York Times reports “Warmer Climate on the Earth May Be Due To More Carbon Dioxide in the Air”

October 29, 1991 – Australia told to pay more than poor countries to help save planet. Does it? Of course it doesn’t.

October 30, 2006 – Stern Review publshed.

October 31, 1994 – Four Corners reports on Greenhouse Mafia activity