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Climate Change or Global Warming

Both terms are used, both bring political and scientific meaning

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: In 1977-78, I watched and participated in the discussion, debate and drafting of the first National Climate Act. The principal author of the legislation was my good friend, Representative George E. Brown from my home town, Monterey Park in East Los Angeles. Congressman Brown was attempting to define and set out a course of action that the National Academy of Sciences had began to describe as a gathering global threat. The terms used were both a global warming threat and a climate change threat.

A decade later in testimony before the U.S. Senate, Jim Hansen used the term 'global warming' in his extensively reported warming that the world faced a crisis as, due to greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, the world was entering a new era of environmental disruption. Scientists pointed at the consequences of CO2 emissions, global warming producing, in turn, atmospheric systems disruption, drought, severe weather events, air pollution, biodiversity loss, extensive human costs. Political reactions varied from efforts to protect and secure a safe environment to political forces fighting against the new environmental agenda and attempting to maintain the vast power and reach of the fossil fuel industry.

In 1988, in the U.S. presidential campaign, the Democratic Party candidate Michael Dukakis looked to existing energy production, and its voting importance in oil/gas/coal states. He put forward a pro-coal effort in West Virginia as a sign of being willing to work with existing coal production. Within his campaign, which your GreenPolicy360 siterunner was volunteering in Boston, there were those who pressed for a more forward looking shift toward clean energy. These voices, which included mine, were not ultimately successful, nor was the Dukakis campaign and its failed environmental vision. The Republican Party candidate, George Bush, who came from the oil/gas industry in Texas was a stalwart supporter of the lobbying power, with global reach, of big oil/gas, whose interests including in the Middle East he pursued throughout his presidency.

In 1992, a potential change came into the presidential debate with the campaign of Californian Jerry Brown. Your GreenPolicy siterunner was asked to assist in the setting up the campaign's national office and run the state campaign in New Mexico. As the campaign gathered momentum, and success, I was putting forward a proposal accepted by Governor Brown to formalize our campaign platform. The plan included transcribing the Governor's speeches and our key campaign pledges. Near the top of our agenda was the well-known environmental initiatives of California, with global warming and climate -- and the consequences of a heated planet being stated one by one in the "We the People" platform-in-progress.

Although the campaign ran a close second to the campaign of the eventual president, Bill Clinton, the efforts of Governor Brown and myself to negotiate with the Democratic Platform Committee on our key platform positions to include them in the Clinton campaign (and administration), the efforts were pushed back and were unsuccessful.

Neoliberal trading policies, NAFTA, GATT, WTO became the agenda of the 90s, and the climate-global warming challenge was not made a top priority.

However, an activist wing of in the environmental movement continued on... and this translated with your GreenPolicy siterunner to accepting an invitation to join the new New Mexico Green Party, and becoming a political independent (as were some 30 plus percent of the U.S. voting electorate). A new Green Party state platform was drafted and I put forward a strategic plan for a new national Green platform and party... environmental protection and security, new definitions of national and global security, clean energy, a shift in priorities were captured. The new national Green Party with the founding Green Platform was accepted by the U.S. Federal Election Commission in 2001....

The science of climate and global warming, the big picture and planet citizen activism became a mantra...

Climate Change & Global Warming -- Definitions, a History:

• https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate_by_any_other_name.html

• https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/articles/whats-name-global-warming-vs-climate-change

• https://climate.nasa.gov/resources/global-warming-vs-climate-change/

• https://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/the-name-game-from-global-warming-to-climate-change-/97908

• https://skepticalscience.com/climate-change-global-warming.htm

• https://www.history.com/topics/natural-disasters-and-environment/history-of-climate-change

• https://www.123helpme.com/essay/When-Did-Global-Warming-Become-Climate-Change-180237

• https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/02/world/global-warming-climate-change-language-scn/index.html

• https://weather.com/news/climate/news/2018-01-29-climate-change-global-warming-trump-piers-morgan

• https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/difference-between-global-warming-and-climate-change

Environmental Security Issues

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Strategic_Demands

Eco-tags / Eco-news

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GTN_GreenLinks_Trending_News

Climate Change Buzzwords

Via United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2007-08)

Sources: Wikipedia, Green sympatico, The Global Language Monitor

Global weirding: Slang term for climate change, coined by Hunter Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a US-based energy think-tank. The term has been catching on in cyberspace, as it aptly sums up the crazy impact of global warming — more intense heat and cold spells in some places, shorter winters and longer droughts in others, excessive flooding in more places, more frequent and bigger cyclones, and so on.

Energy-exia: A combination of energy and anorexia. Refers to people who follow an extremely strict carbon-footprint regimen. The New York Times, the daily newspaper, coined the term in an article in October 2008 about "energy anorexics" – people who grow their own produce, air-dry their clothes, and let their children share beds to pool body heat.

Eco-hacking or Geo-engineering: The use of science in large-scale projects to change the environment or stop global warming, for example, by putting reflectors on ocean surfaces to reflect sunlight back into the atmosphere, as suggested by US president Lyndon Johnson's advisors when scientists warned of the impact of carbon dioxide on the climate in the 1960s. Kind of B-grade sci-fi as the Guardian newspaper in the UK put it.

Ecoflation: Inflation caused by ecological problems in the future, such as water scarcity, which would push the price of production up. The term was used in a report, 'Rattling Supply Chains', co-authored by the World Resources Institute, the US-based environmental think-tank, which looked into the cost of production in the future expected to rise when the implementation of climate change policy would result in a price for greenhouse gas emissions, water scarcity; and deforestation policies.

Green audit: An assessment to determine the environmental impact of an activity, product, or production process by examining, for example, the use of energy, the type of raw materials, and disposal of any waste materials.

Greenwashing: Refers to repositioning a product to stress its eco-friendly attributes; it can even apply to politicians, according to scientist Jim Hansen.

Locavore: Someone who tries to eat food grown within a certain radius of their home; the food not only tastes better because it is fresher, but less energy is wasted in transporting it. The term was coined by US chef Jessica Prentice.

Precycle: The practice of reducing waste by making a conscious effort, for instance, buying consumables in bulk to reduce packaging, or choosing products in recyclable packaging instead of those in non-recyclable materials, and using electronic media for reading material rather than throwaway items like magazines or newspapers.

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EcoInternet Search

• https://search.ecointernet.org/

Eco-Search Engine

• https://www.ecosia.org

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Evolving list of scientific & popular terms

A -

AGW - Anthropogenic Global Warming - http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/- http://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/139/

Antarctic Melt - http://www.npr.org/2015/03/26/395379216/big-shelves-of-antarctic-ice-melting-faster-than-scientists-thought

Anthropocene - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene

Arctic Sea Ice Melt - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/arctic-ice-melt/

Atmosphere / Atmospheric Science - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Atmospheric_Science - http://www.thinbluelayer.com

B -

C -

Climate Action Plan (CAP) - https://www.c2es.org/document/climate-action-plans/ - http://www.ca-ilg.org/climate-action-plans

Climate Change - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Climate_Change

Climate Migrants - Environmental Migrants - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_migrant - http://climatemigration.org.uk/about-us/

CO2 - Carbon Dioxide - https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.html

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E -

'Ecocide’ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecocide / ec·o·cide /ˈēkōˌsīd,ˈekōˌsīd/

From the Oxford Dictionary - Destruction of the natural environment, especially when willfully done. "Their crime is nothing less than attempted ecocide."

"The rainforests of the Amazonia, sub-Sahraran Africa, and Borneo/Indonesia are indispensable ecological resources of the planet whose managerial control should not be left entirely to national discretion as exercised by governments, often on the basis of economistic and short-term policy goals, which is currently almost invariably the case. This statist sovereignty approach not only puts at risk the planet’s largest carbon sink and most valued source of biodiversity, as well as disrupting and imperiling the lives of 20 million or more people, mostly indigenous communities, living in Amazonia. Forest experts warn that once a rainforest is degraded beyond a certain point, a tipping point is reached, and the degrading will continue of its own accord until what was once a flourishing rainforest becomes a huge area savannah grasslands. Even before tipping points are reached it takes decades to restore forest ecosystems, including precious biodiversity resources." -- Richard Falk (2019)

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Eco-nomics

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Eco-nomics

@ Google Scholar -- Go online to https://scholar.google.com/ ... Type in "Eco-nomics" and compare content from scholarly journals cited by Google with what's available at GreenPolicy360 -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-nomics

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Environmental full-cost accounting

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_full-cost_accounting

Environmental Security (Global Security, National Security Strategy)

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security

http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/

http://strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/

Externalities

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_full-cost_accounting

Extreme Weather - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_weather

F -

G -

Global Commons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_commons - http://www.planetcitizen.org

Global Warming - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

GHG - Greenhouse Gas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas

GISS / Goddard Institute for Space Studies - http://www.giss.nasa.gov/

Gravity Waves (atmospheric) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_wave

Greenland (Ice Sheet Melt) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_ice_sheet

H -

Harmful Externalities (External Costs) - http://enduse.lbl.gov/Info/Externalities.pdf

Holocene - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene

Hydroflourocarbon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofluorocarbon

I -

IceBridge / Operation IceBridge - https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/index.html - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_IceBridge

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICLEI

J -

Jet Stream - Hemispherical Jet Streams - "Understanding the Jet Stream" - Video - https://robertscribbler.com/2016/06/28/gigantic-gravity-waves-to-mix-winter-with-summer-wrecked-jet-stream-now-runs-from-pole-to-pole/

K -

Keeling Curve - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling_Curve

L -

La Nina - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ni%C3%B1a

LANCE (Land, Atmosphere Near-real-time Capability for EOS) - https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time

M -

Mass Migration - as a result of war/environmental disruption - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_European_Migrant_Crisis_2015.png - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-36573082 - (correlations/consequences http://strategicdemands.com/brexit-day-one/ Brexit)

Megadrought - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megadrought

Methane - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane

-- Bill McKibben: (at the 2016 Democratic Party platform meeting) People used to routinely refer to natural gas as a bridge fuel that would help us overcome our climate woes. As with many things, this turned out to be much too good to be true. The problem is that if it escapes unburned into the atmosphere, each molecule of methane, CH4, depending on the timeframe you measure it on, about 86 times more powerful greenhouse gas molecule for molecule than CO2.

• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Methane-2D-dimensions.svg/170px-Methane-2D-dimensions.svg.png

Montreal Protocol - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol - Due to its widespread adoption and implementation it has been hailed as an example of exceptional international co-operation, with Kofi Annan quoted as saying that "perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol" ... When comparing this very success story with attempts to establish an international policy on the Earth's climate or atomic energy, the entire process from a problem formulation to a global acceptance supported by a legal framework took less than a quarter of a single human generation live span.

Montreal Protocol "Ozone Hole" and International CFC Mitigation Accord

Among the treaty's accomplishments: The Montreal Protocol was the first international treaty to address a global environmental regulatory challenge; the first to embrace the "precautionary principle" in its design for science-based policymaking; the first treaty where independent experts on atmospheric science, environmental impacts, chemical technology, and economics, reported directly to Parties, without edit or censorship, functioning under norms of professionalism, peer review, and respect; the first to provide for national differences in responsibility and financial capacity to respond by establishing a multilateral fund for technology transfer; the first MEA with stringent reporting, trade, and binding chemical phase-out obligations for both developed and developing countries; and, the first treaty with a financial mechanism managed democratically by an Executive Board with equal representation by developed and developing countries.

"Amazing Recovery" - and Model for Potential of International Cooperation on Climate Issues - http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0630/Gaping-hole-in-ozone-layer-shows-amazing-recovery-say-scientists

N -

NASA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2 - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Resilience_Toolkit-USA.GOV-NOAA-NASA - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/NASA_EarthSciences,_Challenges_Public_to_Join_In

NCAR - https://ncar.ucar.edu/

NOAA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration

O -

OCO-2 - Orbiting Carbon Observatory - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/NOAA_logo.svg/165px-NOAA_logo.svg.png

P -

Paris Climate Summit - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Summit_Paris - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/IPCC_Report_Nov_2014

Particulate Pollution (atmospheric) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particulates - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Quality - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Atmospheric_Science

Q -

QBO - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-biennial_oscillation

R -

Representative Concentration Pathway

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_Concentration_Pathway
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:RCP-projections-damage_to_US_economy.jpg

"Rossby Whistle" - "a deep whistling sound offshore in the Caribbean - an A flat - some call it 'a Rossby'", an oscillating of the earth's gravity field and it's changing its tone... the Rossby can be heard as far away as from space -- https://youtu.be/kSlVKTbdGUU -- http://thescienceexplorer.com/nature/caribbean-sea-whistles-so-loud-it-can-be-heard-space

Runaway Climate Change / Runaway Greenhouse Effect / "Human-Induced Hothouse" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_state#Hothouse

S -

Seasonality - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonality

T -

"Thin Blue" - http://www.thinbluelayer.com

"Tiny Blue-Green" - http://www.tinybluegreen.com

U -

V -

W -

X / Y / Z -

Zonal Wind Patterns - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extratropical_cyclone

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/ProjectDrawdownCO2

• http://www.drawdown.org/solutions

• http://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank

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Read more about the early days of #ClimateAction

1977/78

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr

Congressman Brown / Science Committee in Front of Climate Action

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Congressman_george.e.brown.gif

National Climate Program Act, 1978 / PDF

The first federal program established to study and assess scientifically the issues and risks of human-caused climate change

Energy and Climate Report, 1977, National Academy of Sciences / 175 pp. / PDF via GreenPolicy360

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1988/89

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Hansen-testimony-1988.jpg

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Hansen_testimony_WaPo_front_page.jpg

Looking back after decades of science and study

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Gavin_Schmidt_TW-Dec8,2016.png

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