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Forty-three years ago, on this day, May 31st 1981, the British public intellectual Barbara Ward died. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was roughly 340ppm. As of 2024 it is 425ppm, but check here for daily measures. Barbara Ward, well you can read her Wikipedia page here, had been banging on about development, […]
Twenty-nine years ago, on this day, May 31st, 1995, the rebranded peak mining body meets with Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. Leaders of AMIC, now the Minerals Council of Australia, met with the Prime Minister, Paul Keating, for three hours on Wednesday [31 May] to discuss regional relations, trade liberalisation and relations with Japan and […]
Fourteen years ago, on this day, April 7th, 2010, the nuclear bullshit gets sprayed again, and not for the last time… NUCLEAR advocate Ziggy Switkowski has said an Australia powered by up to 50 nuclear plants would pose little risk of an environmental disaster such as this week’s threatened oil spill on the Great Barrier […]
Forty two years ago, on this day, March 25th 1982, there was network news coverage of “The Greenhouse Effect”. The CBS Evening News for March 25, 1982 included a two minute and 50 second story by David Culhane on the greenhouse effect. Chemist Melvin Calvin raised the threat of global warming, Representative Al Gore called […]
Scientists, eh. Pointy-headed boffins telling us that there are in fact facts and also that climate is a beast we keep poking with a sharp stick (that’s Wally Broecker). There will be pages for at least the following; Svante ArrheniusEunice FooteGuy CallendarGilbert PlassRoger RevelleCharles David KeelingHermann FlohnPaul EhrlichBarry CommonerJames HansenStephen SchneiderWally BroeckerWilliam KelloggBert BolinBarrie PittockGraeme […]
History is about people (and classes, creatures, objects, organisations etc). And so as part of the “make All Our Yesterdays more navigable/relatable/useful” push (late 2023 onwards), I am going to create individual pages for people who pop up repeatedly in past and future posts. There will be politicians (Prime Ministers – both Australian and British) […]
July 1, 1983 – Australian High Court “saves” Franklin River (it woz the activists wot won it) July 2, 1952 – Rachel Carson says Arctic warming July 2, 1993. Denialists versus the facts, again. July 2, 2013 – Boris Johnson, expert on energy systems, attacks windfarms July 3, 1986 – House of Lords debate about […]
Forty seven years ago, on this day, November 13, 1975, scientists were busy trying to inform politicians of the coming threats. Concerning possible effects of air pollution on climate Testimony before the Subcommittee on Environment and the Atmosphere of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, 13-14 November 1975 And got turned […]
Forty five years ago, on this day, June 6, 1978, Exxon got told about the climate crisis to be caused by its product… We know this thanks to the hard work of the folks at Inside Climate News and Exxon Knew. 6 June 1978 PRESENTATION SHARED WITH EXXON MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE from Exxon Research and Engineering […]
Forty seven years ago, on this day, March 17, 1976, John Mason gave a lecture at the Royal Meteorological Society… The few mentions of climate prediction at the [Met] Office in the early to mid-1970s came from Mason—and they brought out the hesitant side of a man who was otherwise an aficionado of numerical modeling. […]