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Daily "on this day" posts abt climate history - science, politics, protest, technology, etc (from 1661 to 2024). Also interviews, commentary. Ideas for posts? Tag or chat... Run by @marchudson.bsky.social

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 23d

70 years ago today, (Sept 22, 1955) a General Electric scientist warned about carbon dioxide build-up.

C02 “may be having a greenhouse effect on our climate” because mankind is “contaminating the earth’s atmosphere faster than nature can clean it.”

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Portrait photo of John G. Hutton, General Engineering Lab of General Electric

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 4h

There's no incentive for them to do so, and a lot of dis-incentives in fact. Serious solutions will upset the status quo and piss off powerful incumbents. Far better to wave hands and airily talk about "efficiency" and "new technologies" and so on. This has "worked" for 40 yrs...

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 4h

54 years ago today (Oct 15, 1971) "Inadvertent Climate Modification: Report of the Study of Man's Impact on Climate." published.

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Cover of Man's Impact on Climate: Report of the Study of Man's Impact on Climate.

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 4h

doesn't that describe about 97% (to choose a number entirely at random) of the politicians and pundits?

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 4h

On this day, October 15, in 2009, during the peak of Kevin Rudd's (rightly) doomed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, the ACF does some economic modelling.

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Oct 15, 2009 - The Australian Conservation Foundation models back - All Our Yesterdays

On this day sixteen years ago the ACF tried to stop Kevin Rudd from giving away more and more “compensation” (i.e. taxpayers’ money) to polluters. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/13467/20120118-0823/www...

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 4h

Interview with the psychoanalyst Rosemary Randall on "disavowal" (when we know and don't know at the same time), XR/JSO and much else...

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On disavowal, social movements and the climate crises: interview with Ro Randall. - All Our Yesterdays

Ro Randall is a retired psychoanalyst with decades of extremely useful contributions to social movements (and latterly the climate movement) under her belt. For more, see links at the foot of this int...

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 4h

Almost 40 years of warnings (the problem, long understood "broke through" in 1988). Platitudes, promises, pledges but no action. State, corporate and civil society failure on an epic scale.

This failure will almost certainly continue, even (especially) as the impacts escalate in scope and scale.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 1d

It's Electric Wind publication day!💨

Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.

Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇

A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.

Electric Wind is out now💡

Promotional image for Electric wind. Purple background with an image of rolling hills and a blue sky, wind turbines dot the hills. Book cover sits in centre of image. Text reads: How has energy shaped a nation? Electric Wind Out Now.

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

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

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

On this day, October 14 in 1974, a UK Cabinet Office civil servant tells his boss about this climate change issue, after having been told about it by German Professor Hermann Flohn. “The first example...

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 2d

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 1d

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN EAST ASIA

Full summer conditions continue with another absurdly hot night in SOUTH KOREA

The Minimum temperature at Sogwipo was 25.5C,
HOTTEST OCTOBER NIGHT IN KOREAN HISTORY
Broken for the 3rd time in few days

It's above JULY average!
Just unbelievable

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

On this day, October 14, in 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier.

No limits to human ingenuity and technology. Well, that would come (not much) later...

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October 14, 1947 - Yeager breaks the sound barrier - All Our Yesterdays

Seventy-nine years ago, on this day, October 14th, 1947 – Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the spee...

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

not according to the economists. "The market will provide"....

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

Various other puns, of decreasing quality, offer themselves, but I think I'll quit while I'm ahead (minus an eye).

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

Dare I say that that pirate captain was leg-end-ary?

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

Fwiw, I (pi)rate that cartoon highly!

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

@sustainable2050.bsky.social - there is an interview with the Dutch environment minister

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

Spoiler - here's the last paragraph

Our political ancestors knew that to be effective you have to keep coming back. You have to turn up where it counts. You have to make a nuisance of yourself. You must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. One by one, all these rights have been struck down. Now the last remaining attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. Protest is allowed, as long as it’s invisible, transient and useless. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies.

George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

We know, we know, we know …

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

Spoiler - here's the final paragraph.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

How the Labour government would have banned the Labour movement.
My latest column.
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Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

19 years since the Stern Review was launched...

We are not a terribly bright species.

(See then-Australian-Prime-Minister John Howard's response.)

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October 31, 2006 - Stern Review “pure speculation” according to John Howard - All Our Yesterdays

Seventeen years ago, on this day, October 31st, 2006, Australian Prime Minister John Howard dismisses the report on “The Economics of Climate Change” by former World Bank economist Nicholas Stern as “...

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 None of the UN IPCC models capture what NASA satellites are seeing.

We should assume and prepare for the worst, as there is a non-zero chance of 3°C of global warming by 2050.

We better assume that it will happen and/or try to make sure that it doesn't happen.

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

Hello @davidho.bsky.social - this is Gilbert Plass, speaking in early 1957 at Scripps...

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

Close enough! 1971, in the run up to the UN conference on the human environment.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

Looks good, will read with interest. I have always thought venue-shopping was an under-utilised concept for explaining how power works...

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