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1+ posts per day- What happened? What context? What can we learn? What next? "Strangely as enchanting as depressing to read" Run by @marcsrhudson, 324.6ppm.
Aug 3, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
Thirty five years ago today (Aug 4, 1988) the Hawke Government asked for a "what can we do about #climate?" report...

#climateemergency
#Auspol

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https://t.co/9lBMsLa8crallouryesterdays.info/2023/08/03/aug…
Image Australian scientists had long been studying #climate change, and warning about trouble ahead... - see this from 1980

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Jul 17, 2022 19 tweets 12 min read
Tomorrow and Tuesday the temperature in parts of the UK will hit 40 degrees Celsius. Birds will fall from the sky. Animals will die. Humans will die.

#ClimateTwitter is understandably angry, sad, fearful.

Take care of each other.

And, a thread to show WE WERE WARNED.
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I don't mean in 2015, or in 1997, or even in 1988, when Thatcher made her speech at the Royal Society.

I do @our_yesterdays to excavate the longer history.
I will skip over the 1950s and 1960s (trust me, there's lots there).

Will start in 70s.

Happy to answer questions

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