Yes, I enjoy the posts from your site a lot - it’s an amazing resource. Just the sheer quantity of historical references to the climate problem. I knew of the (remarkably accurate) temp projections from Exxon scientists back in the 70s but little else. Please keep working on this….🙏

white bricks or painted white? (on closer inspection) if that’s the case the sign paint either did not stick well to the white undercoat, or moisture got underneath it and took both undercoat and sign paint off in flakes…

Interesting to note that the paint obviously adhered well to the yellow London stocks but not to the fancy white bricks to the right…

Thanks, that makes sense. Even so, the piece reads like something much more recent. Sobering.

I had no idea that the “carbon budget” concept was so old. Incredible and shocking

September 30. Scientific journal warns that “Carbon Dioxide and climate: carbon budget still unbalanced” September 30... 1977. That would be... 47 years ago. You have to laugh, don't you? allouryesterdays.info/2024/09/29/s...

#TodayinHistory#dataviz#Onthisday#OTD 📊 🎂Oct 30, 1903 Howard Taylor Fisher born in Chicago, Illinois, USA 🇺🇸 1960: Initial development of geographic information systems (SYMAP), combining spatially-referenced data, spatial models and map-based visualization.

I did not know about this, having learnt that the earliest GIS was the Canada Land Inventory. If I’m not misunderstanding Fisher’s GIS is contemporary or earlier…

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#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Oct 30, 1903 Howard Taylor Fisher born in Chicago, Illinois, USA 🇺🇸 1960: Initial development of geographic information systems (SYMAP), combining spatially-referenced data, spatial models and map-based visualization.

Yeah. I admit to not being a huge fan of RCP 8.5 because it tended to be used as a “baseline” ie the expected scenario, rather than “worst case” as originally intended. Unfortunately it’s starting to look a bit more likely than I thought a few years ago.

"If young people feel they’ve been conspired against, it’s because that’s exactly what’s happened. The numbers are in. A child born now will experience 24 times the number of extreme climate events as a politician born in the 1960s" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread | Tim Winton

The lassitude that distinguishes our moment is born of sorrow and buried rage. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, that’s what we are