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      • “No smell of victory”
      • “We knew, we knew, we knew”
      • 1988 was a pivotal year, when the problem finally became an issue
      • Activists are outnumbered, outgunned.
      • Activists face dilemmas when engaging with either state or corporates
      • All the adverts fit to print…
      • And you know the rest…
      • Brown M&Ms
      • Business will say whatever is convenient for them to say.
      • Cat belling
      • Civil society has failed to force the state and business to behave.
      • Denial has been around a long long time
      • Ego-fodder
      • Everybody knows
      • Invitation to anger and stupidity
      • It. Was. Not. A. State. Secret.
      • News is something that…
      • Politicians will say whatever is convenient for them to say
      • Propaganda Model
      • The Culture Wars
      • The emissions kept climbing
      • The Emotacycle
      • The Great Acceleration
      • The ol’ hypzel manouevre…
      • The scientists did their job (well, enough of them)
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      • 1991 report “Rescue the Future”
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      • Conservation Foundation meeting – March 1963
      • COP 15- Copenhagen
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      • COP26 – Glasgow
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  • Welcome
  • “Everything”
    • Everything – why?
    • How the hell is this done?
    • What do I currently believe?
    • Who the hell am I?
  • About
    • Comments policy
    • Disclaimers/corrections
    • Guest posts
    • Help wanted
    • Rarely asked questions
    • Re-use of material
    • What, Why, Who, How, When
      • Why this site?
        • What’s in it for you?
    • Why “All Our Yesterdays”?
  • CO2 Newsletter
    • CO2 Newsletter, Vol. 1 no. 1
    • CO2 Newsletter, Vol. 1, no. 2
    • CO2 Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 3
      • Glacial icemelt – how soon? how fast?
    • CO2 Newsletter, Vol. 1, no. 4
    • CO2 Newsletter Vol. 1, no. 5
  • Contact
  • Interviews & guest posts
  • Kayfabe in the Fafocene
  • People
    • Denialists
      • Fred Singer
      • Pat Michaels
      • Robert Jastrow
      • William Nierenberg
    • Journalists
      • Elizabeth Kolbert
      • Fred Pearce
      • John Maddox
      • Lenore Taylor
      • Robyn Williams
    • Politicians
      • Australian Prime Ministers
        • Billy McMahon
        • Gough Whitlam
        • Malcolm Fraser
        • Bob Hawke
        • Paul Keating
        • John Howard
        • Kevin Rudd
        • Julia Gillard
        • Tony Abbott
        • Malcolm Turnbull
        • Scott Morrison
        • Anthony Albanese
      • British Prime Ministers
        • Harold Macmillan
        • Harold Wilson
        • Edward Heath
        • James Callaghan
        • Margaret Thatcher
        • John Major
        • Tony Blair
        • Gordon Brown
        • David Cameron
        • Theresa May
        • Boris Johnson
        • Rishi Sunak
      • US Presidents
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        • Barack Obama
        • Donald Trump
        • Joe Biden
      • Other politicians
        • Al Gore
        • Barry Jones
        • Bob Brown
        • Bob Carr
        • Chris Puplick
        • Christine Milne
        • Ed Miliband
        • Graham Richardson
        • Lord Kennet
        • Ros Kelly
    • Public intellectuals
      • Barbara Ward
      • James Baldwin
      • John G. Hutton
      • Margaret Mead
      • Peter Ritchie-Calder
      • Phillip Adams
      • Phillip Toyne
      • Rachel Carson
    • Scientists
      • Alvin Weinberg
      • Barrie Pittock
      • Barry Commoner
      • Bert Bolin
      • Charles David Keeling
      • David King
      • Eunice Foote
      • Frank Fraser Darling
      • G. Evelyn Hutchinson
      • Gilbert Plass
      • Graeme Pearman
      • Guy Callendar
      • Hermann Flohn
      • James Hansen
      • John Mason
      • Paul Ehrlich
      • Robert Watson
      • Roger Revelle
      • Stephen Schneider
      • Svante Arrhenius
      • Wally Broecker
      • William Kellogg
  • Posts
  • Resources
    • Acronyms
    • Basic explainers
      • Climate science – the basics
      • Economics – the basics
      • Innovation – the basics
      • Politics – the basics
      • Social movements
    • Books
    • Concepts
      • “and you know the rest”
      • “No smell of victory”
      • “We knew, we knew, we knew”
      • 1988 was a pivotal year, when the problem finally became an issue
      • Activists are outnumbered, outgunned.
      • Activists face dilemmas when engaging with either state or corporates
      • All the adverts fit to print…
      • And you know the rest…
      • Brown M&Ms
      • Business will say whatever is convenient for them to say.
      • Cat belling
      • Civil society has failed to force the state and business to behave.
      • Denial has been around a long long time
      • Ego-fodder
      • Everybody knows
      • Invitation to anger and stupidity
      • It. Was. Not. A. State. Secret.
      • News is something that…
      • Politicians will say whatever is convenient for them to say
      • Propaganda Model
      • The Culture Wars
      • The emissions kept climbing
      • The Emotacycle
      • The Great Acceleration
      • The ol’ hypzel manouevre…
      • The scientists did their job (well, enough of them)
      • The Smugosphere
    • Countries
      • Australia
      • Austria
      • Canada
      • China
      • European Union
      • France
      • Germany
      • India
      • Italy
      • New Zealand
      • Norway
      • Russia
      • Sweden
      • United Kingdom
      • United States of America
    • Historical Documents
      • 1991 report “Rescue the Future”
    • Key events
      • Changing Atmosphere conference in Toronto – June 1988
      • Conservation Foundation meeting – March 1963
      • COP 15- Copenhagen
      • COP1 – Berlin
      • COP2 – Geneva
      • COP21 – Paris
      • COP26 – Glasgow
      • COP3 – Kyoto
      • Earth Summit – June 1992
      • First World Climate Conference – February 1979
      • Greenhouse ’88 – November … 1988
      • International Geophysical Year
      • Stockholm Conference – June 1972
      • Villach – September 1985
    • Links
    • Media
      • Australian Financial Review
      • Canberra Times
      • Financial Times
      • Green Week
      • Los Angeles Times
      • Nature
      • New Scientist
      • New York Times
      • Newsweek
      • Science
      • Scientific American
      • The Australian
      • The Guardian/Observer
      • The Science Show
      • The Times
      • Time
      • Washington Post
    • Organisations
      • International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis
      • Union of Concerned Scientists
      • International Organisations
        • G7
        • Global Climate Coalition
        • International Council for Science
        • International Energy Association
        • IPCC
        • Oil & Gas Climate Initiative
        • OPEC
        • UNESCO
        • UNFCCC
        • United Nations Environment Program
        • World Coal Association
        • World Meteorological Organisation
      • US Organisations
        • American Association for the Advancement of Science
        • Conservation Foundation
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        • George Marshall Institute
        • Heritage Foundation
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  • March 17, 2013 – Daily Mail idiot makes idiotic climate claims 
  • “A sense of urgency was introduced to the CO2-greenhouse problem” -CO2 Newsletter Vol. 1 no. 5
  • March 16, 1988- Coal strategy, no mention of climate
  • March 15,  2019 – Met Police film children at climate protest

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  3. drmarchudson on January 10, 2001 – Podesta defends the Clinton-Gore climate record from Bill McKibben’s criticism
  4. Jarrod Baniqued on January 10, 2001 – Podesta defends the Clinton-Gore climate record from Bill McKibben’s criticism
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