May 1, 1996 – US Congressman says climate research money is “money down a rat hole” May 2, 2009 – Australian Liberals warned of wipe-out if seen as “anti-climate action” #auspol May 2, 2012 – CCS is gonna save us all. Oh yes. May 3, 1990 – From Washington to Canberra, the “greenhouse effect” has […]
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April 1, 1979 – JASONs have their two cents on the greenhouse effect April 2, 1979 – AAAS workshop in Anaheim begins… April 3, 1980 – US news anchorman Walter Cronkite on the greenhouse effect April 3, 1991- Does coal have a future? April 4, 1978 – UK Chief Scientific Advisor worries about atmospheric C02 […]
On this day, August 8 1975 the first academic paper to use the term “global warming” was published “Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?”, Wallace S. Broecker, Science, 8 August 1975 Apparently Wally Broecker didn’t like having been the first and offered 200 bucks to anyone who could find […]
On this day, third of April 1980, CBS News, anchored by Walter Cronkite had a two and a half minute story on climate change (by reporter Nelson Benton), hooked on some Senate hearings on the subject. Cronkite was a vastly respected news anchor. And famously, President Lyndon Johnson had said to Robert McNamara, “if we’ve […]
On this day in 1979, a few weeks after the end of the First World Climate Conference, Wally Broecker, the oceanographer met with Exxon scientists who were studying climate change and fossil fuels. Broecker, to his apparent dismay, had coined the had been the first to use the term global warming in an academic context. […]
Right now this is just a listing. When I have time/skills I will do something a little more imaginative, visually attractive/user-friendly… 1600s 1661 September 13, 1661 – Fumifugium! 1700s December 22, 1759 – “What have ye done?” March 21, 1768 – Joseph Fourier born 1800s 1824 October 21, 1824 – Cement patent granted – Will […]