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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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60 yrs ago today (Nov 5, 1965), the 1st US government report to warn about climate change was published.
"Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included warning of C02 build-up and sea-level rise/melting ice-caps.

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48 years ago today.

November 24, 1977 – Canberra Times reports “all coal” plan would “flood US cities”

Dr Peter Fong, of Emory University in a paper delivered to the American Physical Society said an all-coal policy would be "tantamount to suicide".

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November 24, 1977 - Canberra Times reports "all coal" plan would "flood US cities" - All Our Yesterdays
On this day, November 24 in 1978, the Canberra Times ran a story “All coal plan to flood cities”, based on a UPI wire story about an American Physical Society meeting the day before in Florida where D...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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The fossil fuel industry’s calculated effort to deceive the public into thinking climate change is a hoax is one of the most successful mass manipulation campaigns in history. And it will doom us all.
November 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
November 24, 1973 – German speed limits Imposed in response to Arab oil embargo. Repealed months later…

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November 24, 1973 - German speed limits - All Our Yesterdays
Forty six years ago, on this day, November 24th, 1973, 24 Nov 1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasted only four month...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I suppose I ought to do a snarky “what the hell did you expect from the COP, you deluded hopium freaks?” post, but srsly, it is late and the Fafocene is upon us….
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
By the late 1960s, well-informed and scientifically-literate people were beginning to worry…
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Let’s see how this one ages. The gabbatoir beckons…
Stuart Broad bites back after David Warner predicted that Australia will win the Ashes 4-0 🍿
November 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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November 23, 1968 – “Hell upon Earth” warning to London audience by Ritchie Calder about environmental destruction, including climate…

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November 23, 1968 - "Hell upon Earth" warning about environmental destruction,inc. climate... - All Our Yesterdays
On this day, November 23, 1968  Lord Ritchie Calder gave a presidential address to the Conservation Society (a British NGO from the mid 60s to the late 1980s). Its cheerful title? Hell Upon Earth. And...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
November 23, 1968 – “Hell upon Earth” warning to London audience by Ritchie Calder about environmental destruction, including climate…

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November 23, 1968 - "Hell upon Earth" warning about environmental destruction,inc. climate... - All Our Yesterdays
On this day, November 23, 1968  Lord Ritchie Calder gave a presidential address to the Conservation Society (a British NGO from the mid 60s to the late 1980s). Its cheerful title? Hell Upon Earth. And...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Heather Cox Richardson flays the Ukraine/Russia peace treaty that the U.S. is pushing. U.S. and Russia profit. The EU foots the bill. NATO is hamstrung and Ukraine suffers massive loss of territory and rights. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Rather than 'brilliant but flawed', wd it be better/more accurate to acknowledge moral qualities and intellectual ability are un-related?And to prioritise morality? Eg "He was so morally vacuous that his brilliance merely served to advance his malevolent aims" or just "morally degenerate" full stop?
November 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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CO2 levels in the atmosphere continue to accelerate upwards. The decade since the Paris Agreement being the most extreme so far. This and more charts in my article published today: COPs vs CO2 at www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/a...
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Anyone wanna guess the year?
November 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Friendly reminder that not everyone likes to put all of their trauma on the internet (no shame to those who do) so you never really know who you're quote skeeting and what they've endured.
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Well, that went well…
November 20, 1991 – IEA CCS etc

“On 20th November 1991 a number of countries signed an agreement to take part in a programme of research and development aimed at potential mitigation techniques as a response to the issue of global warming”

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November 20, 1991 - IEA CCS etc - All Our Yesterdays
Thirty four years ago, on this day, November 20th, 1991, On 20th November 1991 a number of countries signed an agreement to take part in a programme of research and development aimed at potential miti...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM