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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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"Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included warning of C02 build-up and sea-level rise/melting ice-caps.
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On this day 60 years ago (Nov 11, 1965) , New York suffers a blackout
a) presumably a baby boom 9 months later (or is that a myth?)
b) some institutions set up, were important for energy regulation/innovation. I didn't know abt this when I wrote this -
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a) presumably a baby boom 9 months later (or is that a myth?)
b) some institutions set up, were important for energy regulation/innovation. I didn't know abt this when I wrote this -
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November 11, 1965 - blackout! - All Our Yesterdays
Sixty years ago, on this day, November 11th, On November 11, 1965 America received the first hint of what was to become a reality. On that night, there was a power failure. As a result, the entire Eas...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
On this day 60 years ago (Nov 11, 1965) , New York suffers a blackout
a) presumably a baby boom 9 months later (or is that a myth?)
b) some institutions set up, were important for energy regulation/innovation. I didn't know abt this when I wrote this -
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a) presumably a baby boom 9 months later (or is that a myth?)
b) some institutions set up, were important for energy regulation/innovation. I didn't know abt this when I wrote this -
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/10/n...
Today a wonderful package arrived (I will be eternally grateful to the sender!). It is a newsletter, set up to warn about carbon dioxide build-up. It was published from 1979 to 1982. Huge chunks of it could have been written yesterday; it's that prescient.
Watch this space...
Watch this space...
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Today a wonderful package arrived (I will be eternally grateful to the sender!). It is a newsletter, set up to warn about carbon dioxide build-up. It was published from 1979 to 1982. Huge chunks of it could have been written yesterday; it's that prescient.
Watch this space...
Watch this space...
"A World Congress on Climate and Development was held in Hamburg [It was November 7 to 10]. This called for carbon dioxide emissions to be reduced by ’30 per cent by the year 2000 and 50 per cent by 2015."
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November 10, 1988 - Activists demand even steeper emissions cuts than "Toronto." Ignored, obvs. But were right... - All Our Yesterdays
On this day, November 10 in 1988, a conference in Hamburg called for an even stronger target than the Toronto Conference in June of that year. However, elsewhere, the IPCC was meeting for the first ti...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"A World Congress on Climate and Development was held in Hamburg [It was November 7 to 10]. This called for carbon dioxide emissions to be reduced by ’30 per cent by the year 2000 and 50 per cent by 2015."
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Yeah, this from 2014
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Yeah, this from 2014
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OK who the fuck let Walter Matthau in here oh wait never mind it’s my bathroom mirror good god
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
snorts.
By 1969, carbon dioxide was already the “in gas” around climate concerns.
56 yrs ago today, Canadian climatologist Kenneth Hare gives a talk "Carbon Dioxide and All That" at the University of Toronto.
Fun fact- Hare was in the audience in 1938 when Guy Callendar spoke...
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Fun fact- Hare was in the audience in 1938 when Guy Callendar spoke...
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November 10, 1969 - “Carbon Dioxide and All That” - All Our Yesterdays
Fifty six years ago, on this day, November 10th, 1969, climatologist Kenneth Hare gave a talk titled “Carbon Dioxide and All That”. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 324ppm. As of 2025, when...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
By 1969, carbon dioxide was already the “in gas” around climate concerns.
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56 yrs ago today, Canadian climatologist Kenneth Hare gives a talk "Carbon Dioxide and All That" at the University of Toronto.
Fun fact- Hare was in the audience in 1938 when Guy Callendar spoke...
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/09/n...
Fun fact- Hare was in the audience in 1938 when Guy Callendar spoke...
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November 10, 1969 - “Carbon Dioxide and All That” - All Our Yesterdays
Fifty six years ago, on this day, November 10th, 1969, climatologist Kenneth Hare gave a talk titled “Carbon Dioxide and All That”. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 324ppm. As of 2025, when...
allouryesterdays.info
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
56 yrs ago today, Canadian climatologist Kenneth Hare gives a talk "Carbon Dioxide and All That" at the University of Toronto.
Fun fact- Hare was in the audience in 1938 when Guy Callendar spoke...
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/09/n...
Fun fact- Hare was in the audience in 1938 when Guy Callendar spoke...
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/09/n...
56 yrs ago today, Canadian climatologist Kenneth Hare gives a talk "Carbon Dioxide and All That" at the University of Toronto.
Fun fact- Hare was in the audience in 1938 when Guy Callendar spoke...
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/09/n...
Fun fact- Hare was in the audience in 1938 when Guy Callendar spoke...
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/09/n...
November 10, 1969 - “Carbon Dioxide and All That” - All Our Yesterdays
Fifty six years ago, on this day, November 10th, 1969, climatologist Kenneth Hare gave a talk titled “Carbon Dioxide and All That”. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 324ppm. As of 2025, when...
allouryesterdays.info
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
56 yrs ago today, Canadian climatologist Kenneth Hare gives a talk "Carbon Dioxide and All That" at the University of Toronto.
Fun fact- Hare was in the audience in 1938 when Guy Callendar spoke...
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/09/n...
Fun fact- Hare was in the audience in 1938 when Guy Callendar spoke...
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/09/n...
"It's deranging, but in a familiar way. The industry's leading powers say ridiculous things, the people whose job it is to report on the industry repeat them, and everyone downstream is left to reconcile the distance and rationalize the difference between those soaring possibilities ....
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November 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"It's deranging, but in a familiar way. The industry's leading powers say ridiculous things, the people whose job it is to report on the industry repeat them, and everyone downstream is left to reconcile the distance and rationalize the difference between those soaring possibilities ....
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Them: Zohran is a socialist (extremely derogatory)
Zohran: Eugene Debs motherfuckers
Zohran: Eugene Debs motherfuckers
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Them: Zohran is a socialist (extremely derogatory)
Zohran: Eugene Debs motherfuckers
Zohran: Eugene Debs motherfuckers
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On this day 38 years ago (November 9, 1987)- Senate hearings, for what they’re Wirth, with testimony from James Hansen...
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November 9, 1987- Senate hearings, for what they’re Wirth - All Our Yesterdays
Thirty eight years ago, on this day, November 9th, 1987, Senate hearings sponsored by Tim Wirth In November 1987 Colorado senator Tim Wirth had sponsored a hearing on climate in which Hansen had test...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
On this day 38 years ago (November 9, 1987)- Senate hearings, for what they’re Wirth, with testimony from James Hansen...
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On this day 38 years ago (November 9, 1987)- Senate hearings, for what they’re Wirth, with testimony from James Hansen...
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November 9, 1987- Senate hearings, for what they’re Wirth - All Our Yesterdays
Thirty eight years ago, on this day, November 9th, 1987, Senate hearings sponsored by Tim Wirth In November 1987 Colorado senator Tim Wirth had sponsored a hearing on climate in which Hansen had test...
allouryesterdays.info
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
On this day 38 years ago (November 9, 1987)- Senate hearings, for what they’re Wirth, with testimony from James Hansen...
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/08/n...
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"It also fails to match the cuts thought necessary by the IPCC scientists, who want reductions of 60 per cent from today's levels as soon as possible. One reason for urgency are feedback mechanisms meaning that global warming could ''take off'' at a critical point."
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November 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"It also fails to match the cuts thought necessary by the IPCC scientists, who want reductions of 60 per cent from today's levels as soon as possible. One reason for urgency are feedback mechanisms meaning that global warming could ''take off'' at a critical point."
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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
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I was thinking about Zohran’s transition team and today’s anti-feminist piece in the New York Times, and my mother’s book on the first generation of women to work in the city government in New York City.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I was thinking about Zohran’s transition team and today’s anti-feminist piece in the New York Times, and my mother’s book on the first generation of women to work in the city government in New York City.
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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...
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...
November 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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...
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...
The graph is pretty. Its implications - not so much....
What was that the Prince of Denmark said in his speech "2C or not 2C" - something about a "sea of troubles" iirc ...
What was that the Prince of Denmark said in his speech "2C or not 2C" - something about a "sea of troubles" iirc ...
If our years ran from November to October, 2025 would be the second warmest year on record.
Probably in >100,000 years and potentially much longer.
Sea Surface Temperatures are now likely already higher than during the Eemian warm period, when global sea levels were ~7.5m higher!
Probably in >100,000 years and potentially much longer.
Sea Surface Temperatures are now likely already higher than during the Eemian warm period, when global sea levels were ~7.5m higher!
November 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The graph is pretty. Its implications - not so much....
What was that the Prince of Denmark said in his speech "2C or not 2C" - something about a "sea of troubles" iirc ...
What was that the Prince of Denmark said in his speech "2C or not 2C" - something about a "sea of troubles" iirc ...
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Have to say.. very tired of this now. We all know Brexit is a shitshow. Nothing is better. No one is happier.
No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.
No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.
Very amusing to watch Reform complain about all the things wrong with the UK - every one caused by Brexit - without actually mentioning Brexit, as if they happened by magic.
November 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Have to say.. very tired of this now. We all know Brexit is a shitshow. Nothing is better. No one is happier.
No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.
No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.
"The onus is primarily on the developed world. All major industrial nations will have to commit themselves to a target of reducing carbon dioxide by 20 per cent before 2005, and by 50 per cent in 2015."
Jonathan Porritt, writing in the Times, responding to Thatcher's Sept 88 Royal Society speech.
Jonathan Porritt, writing in the Times, responding to Thatcher's Sept 88 Royal Society speech.
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"The onus is primarily on the developed world. All major industrial nations will have to commit themselves to a target of reducing carbon dioxide by 20 per cent before 2005, and by 50 per cent in 2015."
Jonathan Porritt, writing in the Times, responding to Thatcher's Sept 88 Royal Society speech.
Jonathan Porritt, writing in the Times, responding to Thatcher's Sept 88 Royal Society speech.
Truth bomb.
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Truth bomb.
You have to be kinda old now to remember the winter of 1962, but it was, I'm told (I'm old but not THAT old), proper brass monkey weather.
"He said, "In winter 1963 It felt like the world would freeze With John F. Kennedy And The Beatles" Yeah, yeah, yeah"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UXn...
"He said, "In winter 1963 It felt like the world would freeze With John F. Kennedy And The Beatles" Yeah, yeah, yeah"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UXn...
Dream Academy - "Life In A Northern Town" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TheDreamAcademy
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November 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
You have to be kinda old now to remember the winter of 1962, but it was, I'm told (I'm old but not THAT old), proper brass monkey weather.
"He said, "In winter 1963 It felt like the world would freeze With John F. Kennedy And The Beatles" Yeah, yeah, yeah"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UXn...
"He said, "In winter 1963 It felt like the world would freeze With John F. Kennedy And The Beatles" Yeah, yeah, yeah"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UXn...
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If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/
Manchester University Press - Electric wind
Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley
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November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/