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Daily "on this day" posts abt climate history - science, politics, protest, technology, etc (from 1661 to 2024). Also interviews, commentary.

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Meanwhile, atmospheric CO2 climbs remorselessly. here is a tattoo about that.
Tattoo of keeling curve
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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There was an early effort (1988-92) to price carbon dioxide. It was a necessary but not sufficient response to the shit storm. It was lobbied out of existence across the world (I know some clown who did a PhD abt this, re: Australia).

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Cover of House of Commons Library Research paper 3/106 "Carbon Taxes and Global Warming", published November 25 1993
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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It’s from this- independent energy experts contributing to the “what can we do?” debates
Cover of 1990 report tech responses to the greenhouse effect
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Ha.
Labour Party discussion document
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Hahahaha
Clip about carbon dioxide may have some indirect effect on temperature
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Amy one want to guess the year?

@ketanjoshi.co ?
Screengrab about co2 removal
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Anyone wanna guess the year?
Screengrab describing problems with carbon capture and storage
November 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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November 20, 1988 – Will Thatcher pick up the Green Gauntlet? (spoiler: no, no she won’t)

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Thatcher in 1988
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Interview w/ Dr Marianna Dudley, abt her academic work & book "Electric Wind."

"There can be debilitating overwhelm when it comes to climate action. I want the stories of communities who effected real change ... to offer narratives of hope and determination."
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Cover of Electric Wind
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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November 18, 1953 – future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan tells the truth about committees, after the London Smog of December 1952 killed thousands.

"We cannot do very much, but we can seem to be very busy - that is half the battle nowadays."
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1/2
Harold Macmillan memo about response to Clean Air, London SMog...
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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No, I'm not a strange strange man at all. Why do you ask?
November 17, 1869 – Suez Canal opens – All Our Yesterdays November 17, 1968 -The Observer covers carbon dioxide pollution… – All Our Yesterdays November 17, 1968 – UK national newspaper flags carbon dioxide danger… November 17, 1978 – British Wind Energy Association launches – November 17, 1980 – International meeting about carbon dioxide build up. November 17, 1994 – “When consumption is no longer sustainable”… – November 17, 2018 – XR occupy five bridges in London November 17, 2023 – two degrees warmer, for the first time… – All Our Yesterdays
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Somebody saved me the trouble of giffing it.
Picture of EO Wilson in front of bookshelves, with the quote "“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.”
November 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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November 16, 2009 – who is going to PAY for CCS? Well, you, obvs.

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Sixteen years ago, on this day, November 16th, 2009, A recently-released report by the World Coal Institute (WCI) on how to finance the experimental Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology for power stations, reminded me of a cartoon from years ago by the Australian cartoonist, Patrick Cook. In the cartoon, a huge bloated budgie (parakeet) with the letters “BHP” emblazoned on its chest, was holding a gun to its own head while proclaiming to a cowering politician, “Hand over the loot or the budgie gets it.” (At the time, BHP — which owned iron ore mines and steel mills — was haggling for government support for its ailing steel operations). Burton. B. 2009. The Coal Industry Wants Your Cash to Save Them. PR Watch, 16 November. http://www.prwatch.org/news/2009/11/8696/coal-industry-wants-your-cash-save-them The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 387ppm. As of 2025, when this post was published, it is 430ppm. This matters because the more carbon dioxide in the air, the more heat gets trapped. The more heat, the more extreme weather events.
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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28 yrs ago today (Nov 14, 1997) – Australian Prime Minister "Honest" John Howard wants the World Trade Organisation to scupper the climate treaty (UNFCCC).

All part of his dummy-spit to extort outrageous exemptions for Australian polluters. What a statesman!

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The Federal Government is growing concerned about the threat of trade sanctions against Australia should it refuse to sign the global deal aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions at the world conference on climate change in Kyoto next month. According to a confidential Australian Government briefing paper in the hands of The Australian Financial Review, the Government is seeking to have the World Trade Organisation treaty override any agreement reached by nations signing the United Nations’ Climate Change Convention that aims to significantly curb CO emissions, which many believe cause global warming. “Australia’s proposed language also sends a message to parties that efforts to include trade measures against parties as possible penalties for non-compliance would be subject to strict disciplines,” the briefing paper says. More specifically, the paper proposes that the Kyoto agreement should “not derogate from the rights and obligations of parties under existing international agreements and, in particular, shall not derogate from the provisions of the agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation or affect the rights and obligations of members of the WTO”.
November 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Here's the publishing schedule. Now I have to just scrape, hyperlink, annotate, think etc etc.
Publishing schedule for the C02 newsletters in 2026 - every second or third Monday.
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Starting the first Monday of 2026, and continuing every two or three weeks for the rest of that year, I am going to be releasing searchable pdfs and annotated html of the "CO2 newsletter", published between 1979 and 1982 by geologist William N. Barbat.

It will break your heart, again and again.
Front cover of C02 Newsletter Vol 1 no 1, with Keeling Curve and an article entitled "Why the C02 Newsletter?"
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Will be doing a post about this - bet you can't wait till December 19.
Dec 19 1989 Getting Out of the Greenhouse debate in House of Commons
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Yeah, this from 2014
Newsroom screengrab, with interviewee explaining climate impacts - "Mass migration, food and water shortages, spread of deadly disease, endless wildfires, storms that have the power to level cities, blacken out the sky and create permanent darkness"
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
"In the 1990s we will be watching the planet itself. Although the generally agreed timetable for global warming puts its harmful effects 40 years hence, some scientists think it may happen faster, and there may be, in the words of a leading American climatologist, Dr Wally Broecker, 'unpleasant surprises in the greenhouse'." McCarthy, M. 1989. Dawning of 'green age' shatters old certainties; Environment; The Turbulent 80s. The Times, December 29
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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I will now lower the tone with a Simpsons meme - the one about "so far?"
Simpson meme. Top panel is Bart, unhappy, with the text "It is also one of the only species that will happily destroy its habitat deliberately... and still manage to survive." bottom panel is Homer, smiling and saying "So Far!"
November 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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FT editorial from September 1988.

The whole shooting match in a nutshell. FT is the best daily paper I know. Written by the smart for the rich who want to stay rich/get richer. (The poor get the picture, as per Midnight Oil) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QzH...
There is a respectable economic case for spending money on environmental protection. It rests on the need to counteract what economists call external diseconomies, or the additional costs borne by society that are not paid for by individuals or firms as they legitimately pursue their private interests. But here is the rub: the discrepancy hetween private and social costs that gives rise to pollution and other forms of disamenity has been used to justify the enhanced role accorded to the state in the 20th century - that same state whose regulations Mrs Thatcher has been so anxious to roll back.
November 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Truth bomb.
The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons. E. P. Thompson
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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60 years ago today (November 5, 1965), the first US government report to warn about climate change was published.

"Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included a brief section on carbon dioxide build-up, and a longer annexe. Details below...

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Revelle was not above echoing his earlier paper with Hans Seuss in 1957, in which they had suggested that mankind was engaged in an unwitting vast experiment. “Through his worldwide industrial civilization, Man is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment. Within a few generations he is burning the fossil fuels that slowly accumulated in the earth over the past 500 million years. The CO2 produced by this combustion is being injected into the atmosphere; about half of it remains there. The estimated recoverable reserves of fossil fuels are sufficient to produce nearly a 200% increase in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere.”
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Sixty years ago today (November 5, 1965) - when not escalating the butchery in Vietnam, the Lyndon Johnson administration was... warning people about climate change. I kid you not.

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On page 9 (and this is the complete quote) readers are told. CLIMATIC EFFECTS OF POLLUTION Carbon dioxide is being added to the earth’s atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas at the rate of 6 billion tons a year. By the year 2000 there will be about 25% more CO2 in our atmosphere than at present. This will modify the heat balance of the atmosphere to such an extent that marked changes in climate, not controllable though local or even national efforts, could occur. Possibilities of bringing about countervailing changes by deliberately modifying other processes that affect climate may then be very important.
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Because education and communication, famously, bend the emissions curve downwards.
FFS.
"In commenting on the complex nature of many environmental problems currently facing policy makers, the Group recognises that there are few if any easy solutions, and, because of this, considerable stress is laid on the importance of education and communication in this field."
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM