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On June 23, 1988, in the sweltering heat, Hansen told a U.S. Senate committee he was 99 percent certain that the year’s record temperatures were not the result of natural variation. It was the first time a lead scientist drew a connection between human activities, the growing concentration of atmospheric pollutants, and a warming climate. | |||
In the 1970s, as a new environmental protection movement gathered speed, those of us who had envisioned and planned a series of 'teach ins', organizing a first '''[[Earth Day]]''', and moving forward to launch Earth Science initiatives with the US Congress, found an ally who became a leader on climate, science, technology and Earth system study. The Congressman was a friend of GreenPolicy360's founder and Rep. '''[[George E. Brown Jr]]''' made history by drafting and pushing the adoption of the first '''National Climate Program Act''' in 1978 and set the stage for Jim Hansen's famed testimony in 1988 that brought wide public awareness to the rising threat of global warming and climate disruption. | |||
<big>'''James Hansen’s groundbreaking testimony on global climate change'''</big> | |||
'''On June 23, 1988''', in the sweltering heat, Hansen told a U.S. Senate committee he was 99 percent certain that the year’s record temperatures were not the result of natural variation. It was the first time a lead scientist drew a connection between human activities, the growing concentration of atmospheric pollutants, and a warming climate. | |||
NASA scientist James Hansen testifies in 1988: Ten Years After the Establishment of the [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:US_Public_Law_95-367.png '''National Climate Program Act'''] | |||
* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:US_Public_Law_95-367.png | |||
“It’s time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here,” Hansen told reporters. | “It’s time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here,” Hansen told reporters. | ||
http://grist.org/article/a-climate-hero-the-testimony/ | * http://grist.org/article/a-climate-hero-the-early-years/ | ||
* http://grist.org/article/a-climate-hero-the-testimony/ | |||
* http://grist.org/article/a-climate-hero-an-outspoken-truth/ | |||
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'''Thirty years after Dr. James Hansen's testimony, on June 23, 2018''' | |||
'''A retrospective look... "A Prophet of Doom Was Right About the Climate" ''' | |||
[[File:James Hansen - NY Times Opinion - June 23, 2018.pdf]] | |||
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/James_Hansen_-_NY_Times_Opinion_-_June_23%2C_2018.pdf | |||
* [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jun/25/30-years-later-deniers-are-still-lying-about-hansens-amazing-global-warming-prediction Via The Guardian / 30 years later, deniers are still lying about Hansen’s amazing global warming prediction] | |||
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:http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr | <big><big>'''Setting the Scientific Groundwork in Place'''</big></big> | ||
GreenPolicy360: We have written copiously and personally of the early years of earth science related to climate and environmental security. Our history of the early days of the science, research, activism, legislation, organizing, educational outreach has a reality and record of effort to make a difference. Now, looking back over many years it is becoming clear, as the clock ticks, that it will be time to pass the torch. Our generation, that GreenPolicy's founder-siterunner has called '''[[Generation Green]]''' will look hopefully to the next generation to take up the challenges though they be many and formidable. | |||
As my father and mother would tell me during difficult times -- "Never give up". These are good words to remember. The climate change, global warming challenge is y/ours. Recognize the proble, act on it, do the best you can do. | |||
'''[[Climate Problems, Climate Solutions]]''' | |||
<big>'''Climate Is Intergenerational'''</big> | |||
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Energy_and_Climate_Report%2C_1977%2C_National_Academy_of_Sciences.pdf '''Energy and Climate Report, Published 1977, National Academy of Sciences''' / PDF] | |||
<big>'''Congressman George E. Brown Acts / Science Committee and the National Climate Program Act of 1978'''</big> | |||
: Drafts the US First National Climate Legislation | |||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/National_Climate_Program_Act_Public_Law_95-367_Sept_1978.pdf National Climate Program Act - Public Law 95-367] | |||
[[File:US Public Law 95-367.png]] | |||
SJS / GreenPolicy Siterunner: | |||
On the House science committee for over 30 years George Brown led an array of science and environmental initiatives, including one that greens look to as prescient -- he drafted legislation establishing 'the first federal climate change research program' via the [https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-92/pdf/STATUTE-92-Pg601.pdf Federal Climate Program Act of 1978]. | |||
I was fortunate, as a high school student to be introduced to politics by George Brown in East Los Angeles in the 1960s and to know him and work with him, on environmental, science, anti-nuke and non-proliferation issues on which both of us cared greatly, until his passing of a heart attack in 1999. | |||
* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr | |||
The Congressman's accomplishments are especially missed in the current era as the U.S. enters the third decade of the 21st century and as [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics anti-science positions and climate change denial] in the U.S. Congress threaten national and global security... | |||
[[File:George Brown, Sci Com't.jpg]] | |||
SJS / GreenPolicy Siterunner / June 2, 2016 | |||
<big>'''The Beginnings of the Modern Climate Change Movement within the US Congress'''</big> | |||
In 1977-78, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) produced a first-of-its-type scientific study of climate change issues. Congressman George E. Brown from East Los Angeles in California was a leader in science initiatives in Congress and took up the climate policy cause. This is decade prior to the historic testimony of Jim Hansen before Congress in June 1988. | |||
Throughout the 1960s and 70s, and until his passing in 1999, George Brown was a mentor and friend to your GreenPolicy siterunner. The Congressman encouraged by political and environmental work and at the University of Southern California, he often participated in our anti-war efforts and our student transition to environmental efforts, especially via "teach-ins" including the first Earth Day "teach-in" on April 22, 1970, organized with the assistance of [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:USC_Daily_Trojan_Sen_Nelson_speech_day_after_first_Earth_Day_.jpg Gaylord Nelson who spoke on campus the day after the first Earth Day], was the first of what has now become a global effort. Our student teach-in idea has grown far beyond what we initially hoped for...''' | |||
Currently, to continue George's work of encouragement and to highlight his setting up the first Federal study by the US government of climate change, I'm corresponding with a Wikipedia editor to update George E Brown's online biography -- some changes have been made and the addition below is now under consideration. | |||
''' | '''The Congressman's central role in proposing and drafting key initiatives and legislation at the beginning of the modern environmental movement, included drafting the statute that originated the Federal climate change research program in 1978, a profound accomplishment''' -- https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-92/pdf/STATUTE-92-Pg601.pdf | ||
Here | Here are a few lines I've written to the Wikipedia editor: | ||
>The Congressman served for more than 30 years on the House Science Committee. See last paragraph here, a NY Times citation - http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/09/science/a-conversation-with-george-e-brown-jr-the-congressman-who-loved-science.html | >The Congressman served for more than 30 years on the House Science Committee. See last paragraph here, a NY Times citation - http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/09/science/a-conversation-with-george-e-brown-jr-the-congressman-who-loved-science.html | ||
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>Also re the current Wikipedia bio wording >Among some of his many accomplishments during his service on the House Science Committee: | >Also re the current Wikipedia bio wording >Among some of his many accomplishments during his service on the House Science Committee: | ||
>>Established the first federal climate change research program in the Federal Climate Program Act of 1978 | >>Established the first federal climate change research program in the Federal Climate Program Act of 1978. | ||
>In fact George Brown was the principal author of the initial legislation and leader on this climate change/policy issue ( | >In fact George Brown was the principal author of the initial legislation and leader on this climate change/policy issue... | ||
>Skip Stiles (the Congressman's chief of staff) writes of this period of service on Capitol Hill -- Congressman Brown was the author of legislation in 1977-78 that established the first federal program of research on climate change -- | |||
[https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-92/pdf/STATUTE-92-Pg601.pdf '''(Public Law 95-367) PDF'''] | |||
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<big>'''Read More'''</big> | |||
* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement | |||
* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is | |||
* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space | |||
* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizens | |||
* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene | |||
* [https://www.slideshare.net/Revkin/global-warming-as-news-1988 When Global Warming Became News: 1988 by Andy Revkin, Discover Magazine Cover Story] | |||
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In the 1970s, as a new environmental protection movement gathered speed, those of us who had envisioned and planned a series of 'teach ins', organizing a first Earth Day, and moving forward to launch Earth Science initiatives with the US Congress, found an ally who became a leader on climate, science, technology and Earth system study. The Congressman was a friend of GreenPolicy360's founder and Rep. George E. Brown Jr made history by drafting and pushing the adoption of the first National Climate Program Act in 1978 and set the stage for Jim Hansen's famed testimony in 1988 that brought wide public awareness to the rising threat of global warming and climate disruption.
James Hansen’s groundbreaking testimony on global climate change
On June 23, 1988, in the sweltering heat, Hansen told a U.S. Senate committee he was 99 percent certain that the year’s record temperatures were not the result of natural variation. It was the first time a lead scientist drew a connection between human activities, the growing concentration of atmospheric pollutants, and a warming climate.
NASA scientist James Hansen testifies in 1988: Ten Years After the Establishment of the National Climate Program Act
“It’s time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here,” Hansen told reporters.
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Thirty years after Dr. James Hansen's testimony, on June 23, 2018
A retrospective look... "A Prophet of Doom Was Right About the Climate"
File:James Hansen - NY Times Opinion - June 23, 2018.pdf
New Definitions of National Security
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····································································································
Setting the Scientific Groundwork in Place
GreenPolicy360: We have written copiously and personally of the early years of earth science related to climate and environmental security. Our history of the early days of the science, research, activism, legislation, organizing, educational outreach has a reality and record of effort to make a difference. Now, looking back over many years it is becoming clear, as the clock ticks, that it will be time to pass the torch. Our generation, that GreenPolicy's founder-siterunner has called Generation Green will look hopefully to the next generation to take up the challenges though they be many and formidable.
As my father and mother would tell me during difficult times -- "Never give up". These are good words to remember. The climate change, global warming challenge is y/ours. Recognize the proble, act on it, do the best you can do.
Climate Problems, Climate Solutions
Climate Is Intergenerational
Congressman George E. Brown Acts / Science Committee and the National Climate Program Act of 1978
- Drafts the US First National Climate Legislation
National Climate Program Act - Public Law 95-367
SJS / GreenPolicy Siterunner:
On the House science committee for over 30 years George Brown led an array of science and environmental initiatives, including one that greens look to as prescient -- he drafted legislation establishing 'the first federal climate change research program' via the Federal Climate Program Act of 1978.
I was fortunate, as a high school student to be introduced to politics by George Brown in East Los Angeles in the 1960s and to know him and work with him, on environmental, science, anti-nuke and non-proliferation issues on which both of us cared greatly, until his passing of a heart attack in 1999.
The Congressman's accomplishments are especially missed in the current era as the U.S. enters the third decade of the 21st century and as anti-science positions and climate change denial in the U.S. Congress threaten national and global security...
SJS / GreenPolicy Siterunner / June 2, 2016
The Beginnings of the Modern Climate Change Movement within the US Congress
In 1977-78, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) produced a first-of-its-type scientific study of climate change issues. Congressman George E. Brown from East Los Angeles in California was a leader in science initiatives in Congress and took up the climate policy cause. This is decade prior to the historic testimony of Jim Hansen before Congress in June 1988.
Throughout the 1960s and 70s, and until his passing in 1999, George Brown was a mentor and friend to your GreenPolicy siterunner. The Congressman encouraged by political and environmental work and at the University of Southern California, he often participated in our anti-war efforts and our student transition to environmental efforts, especially via "teach-ins" including the first Earth Day "teach-in" on April 22, 1970, organized with the assistance of Gaylord Nelson who spoke on campus the day after the first Earth Day, was the first of what has now become a global effort. Our student teach-in idea has grown far beyond what we initially hoped for...
Currently, to continue George's work of encouragement and to highlight his setting up the first Federal study by the US government of climate change, I'm corresponding with a Wikipedia editor to update George E Brown's online biography -- some changes have been made and the addition below is now under consideration.
The Congressman's central role in proposing and drafting key initiatives and legislation at the beginning of the modern environmental movement, included drafting the statute that originated the Federal climate change research program in 1978, a profound accomplishment -- https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-92/pdf/STATUTE-92-Pg601.pdf
Here are a few lines I've written to the Wikipedia editor:
>The Congressman served for more than 30 years on the House Science Committee. See last paragraph here, a NY Times citation - http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/09/science/a-conversation-with-george-e-brown-jr-the-congressman-who-loved-science.html
>Also note and consider this quote from the NY Times (a few months before his death in 1999) >He was an author of legislation creating the Environmental Protection Agency, a prime mover behind efforts to include ozone layer protections in the Clean Air Act and an advocate of restructuring the national weapons laboratories to meet the needs of a peacetime economy.
>Also re the current Wikipedia bio wording >Among some of his many accomplishments during his service on the House Science Committee:
>>Established the first federal climate change research program in the Federal Climate Program Act of 1978.
>In fact George Brown was the principal author of the initial legislation and leader on this climate change/policy issue...
>Skip Stiles (the Congressman's chief of staff) writes of this period of service on Capitol Hill -- Congressman Brown was the author of legislation in 1977-78 that established the first federal program of research on climate change --
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