Category:Climate Change
Green values demand strategic focus on #ClimatePolicy & #EnvironmentalSecurity
New Definitions of National Security are necessary to meet the Climate Change Challenges of our Era
New Definitions of National Security
Steve Schmidt / GreenPolicy360:
It is at times overwhelming to realize that one was there at the beginning of climate change realizations and action to face and deal with the coming challenges -- and consequences -- of climate change disruption. Your GreenPolicy360 siterunner was there at a time where climate change came 'on the radar'.
This story is now 50 years plus old and at GreenPolicy360 we have been attempting to bring to light many of the salient, and key moments of this story.
Thank you for visiting us and please feel free to click through our content and links. We are an open-source MediaWiki platform after all and our originating model was to share 'green best practices' worldwide. Climate change and climate policy, realization of the problems bring us to climate action.
Here is one of our page, for example, Climate Problems, Climate Solutions -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Problems,_Climate_Solutions
Once we are aware of the climate problems, then it is time to step up, go to work and do our best to make a positive difference. Earth is, as we say, in human hands.
Here are a number of pages and sites to explore as you 'get with the action':
Flashback -- 1978, Climate Action Memories
- GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: Our friend George steps up in Congress
First National Climate Act, Historic Work
GreenPolicy360 Siterunner / SJ Schmidt: The beginnings of modern environmental and climate science can be traced to the 1960s and 1970s. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences played a key role in laying a foundation of scientific reports and data.
Energy and Climate Report, 1977, National Academy of Sciences / 175 pp. / PDF via GreenPolicy360
Rep. George Brown took the findings of the 1977 Energy and Climate Report from the Academy of Sciences and made the science actionable. In a historic moment, he proposed and drafted the legislation of the first U.S. National Climate Program and shepherded its passage in 1978.
This first federal program established to study and assess scientifically the issues and risks of human-caused climate change became a foundation for comprehensive initiatives, with an array of new Earth Science missions led by NASA and NOAA, the EPA and USGS.
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1992 -- Earth Summit
- Launch of Annual International Climate Conferences
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It's no ride in the park looking back at some 50+ years of environmental protection work. The obstacles were many, the climate change denial purposeful, and the dis- and mis-information pervasive. Those of us who were developing the field of climate science were, although we didn't describe it as such, creating a story arc of the climate change movement. The genesis of climate science was becoming a key 'atmospheric science' question to Congressman George E. Brown in the 1960s and I was, as a high school student, becoming a political follower of my representative's work. George went on to be a 'mover and shaker' in Congress and leader, as a trained physicist and practicing engineer, in the science and policy of climate. His work is essential in understanding how climate change powered up a constellation of NASA/NOAA/USGS programs and missions, many of which were the first of their type gathering digital data and earth science imaging. I was fortunate, as an environmental activist, to be along for the ride over the years until George's untimely passing in 1999.
Thank you George for all you did, the perseverance, the vision, the hard work. You made a world of difference, a positive difference that goes on and on (and you changed my life) -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary
To our GreenPolicy360 readers, please take a look, a close look, at George E. Brown as I've recalled many of his contributions here -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr
Let us also all take a look at some of the history of climate conferences over the years here -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Climate_Conferences_1979-2020.jpg
The work continues as we step up and do our best, becoming Planet Citizens day-by-day, month-by-month, year-by-year, decade-by-decade.
George E. Brown Jr | Environmental movement | Look at how thin our atmosphere is | Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists | The Commons | Eco-nomics |
New Definitions of National Security | Earth Right Now | Earth Science Vital Signs | Environmental protection | Generation Green
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(1979-2020)
"A Timeline of International Climate Conferences"
- Accompanied by 'Trends in Atmospheric CO2 vs Global Temperature Change'
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"Climate Change", "Climate Devastation"
Environmental Security, National Security
Earth Science Research from Space
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GreenPolicy360 & Strategic Demands:
Our "Thin Blue" focus on atmospheric science & climate change
Rarely recognized as a 'strategically vital' natural resource, our home planet's thin blue layer of life protecting atmosphere is being disrupted
- Today's industrial emissions are 'externalities', ominous costs adding up relentlessly in an experimental brew of risk & change to "Thin Blue"
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After the Paris Agreement: "Now What?"
Paris Climate Agreement Tracker / CAIT Climate Data Explorer
http://cait.wri.org/indc/#/map
Click on the Map for the Latest Country-by-Country News
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Pope Francis on the eve of the Climate mtgs
- "It would be sad, and dare I say even catastrophic, were special interests to prevail over the common good and lead to manipulating information in order to protect their own plans and interests."
- "The Pope focuses comments to those who reject the science behind global warming..."
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More Climate Policy Updates @GreenPolicy360
"Climate Change", aka, "Climate Disruption"
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Begin with the History of Climate Change Science
The Discovery of Global Warming
- https://www.aip.org/history/climate/author.htm
- https://www.aip.org/history/climate/summary.htm (with hyperlinks)
Congressman Brown / Science Committee in Front of Climate Action
National Climate Program Act, 1978 / PDF
- The first US federal program established (1978) to study and assess scientifically the issues and risks of human-caused climate change
Dr. James Hansen
1981
Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
From the Journal of Science
28 August 1981, Volume 213, Number 4511
James Hansen et al.
Greenhouse Effect
Atmospheric CO2 increased from 280 to 300 parts per million in 1880 to 335 to 340 ppm in 1980, mainly due to burning of fossil fuels....
Summary. The global temperature rose by 0.20C between the middle 1960βs and1980, yielding a warming of 0.4Β°C in the past century. This temperature increase is consistent with the calculated greenhouse effect due to measured increases of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Variations of volcanic aerosols and possibly solar luminosity appear to be primary causes of observed fluctuations about the mean trend of increasing temperature. It is shown that the anthropogenic carbon dioxide warming should emerge from the noise level of natural climate variability by the end of the century, and there is a high probability of warming in the 1980βs. Potential effects on climate in the 21st century include the creation of drought-prone regions in North America and central Asia as part of a shifting of climatic zones, erosion of the West Antarctic ice sheet with a consequent worldwide rise in sea level, and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage.
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Pages in category "Climate Change"
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- California Global Warming Solutions Act
- California is ahead of the game as Obama releases Clean Power Plan
- California out in front in a Green future
- Capitalism and the Environment
- Carbon Brief
- Carbon Sequestration
- Christianity and Climate Change Belief or Disbelief
- Citizen Science
- Citizens Climate Lobby
- Climate Change - Global Warming Keyword-Terms
- Climate Change and US Politics - Quotable
- Climate Change Denier Talking Points -- and Rebuttals
- Climate Change Summit Paris
- Climate Conference - Paris 2015
- Climate Desk
- Climate Justice
- Climate Law Blog @Columbia Law School
- Climate migration
- Climate News
- Climate News Events Archive ... 1970 to Today
- Climate Plans Enforcement - Resources
- Climate Problems, Climate Solutions
- Climate Resilience Toolkit-USA.GOV-NOAA-NASA
- Climate Smart Agriculture
- CO2 Facts
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Copernicus EU
- Creatively Green
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- Each of us can make a positive difference
- Earth
- Earth and Space, Politics
- Earth Day
- Earth Day 2020
- Earth Day Is Every Day
- Earth Day Memories on the 50th Anniversary
- Earth Day Summit - April 22 2021
- Earth from NASA
- Earth Imaging-New Space
- Earth Right Now
- Earth Science
- Earth Science Eco-Fields
- Earth Science Research from Space
- Earth Science Vital Signs
- EarthPOV
- EarthTime
- Earthviews
- EBikes 360
- Eco-economic Decoupling
- Eco-nomics
- Ecolivia
- Ecotourism
- Energy Storage - Batteries and Grid
- Environmental agreements
- Environmental Law, Rollbacks under Trump 2016-20
- Environmental Laws and Modern Environmental Movement
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental Rules Rolled Back
- Environmental Security Organizations
- Environmental Studies Online
- ESA Living Planet Announcement - May 2022
- Ethics and Climate Change
- European Union Green Deal - Fit for 55
- European Union INDC
- EV Corridors Electric Vehicles Zero Emission Vehicles
- Extinction
- ExxonMobil and US House Science Committee v US Attorneys General and Environmental Groups
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- Generation Green
- George E. Brown Jr
- Glaciogenic Art
- Glasgow Climate Summit - Pledges, Promises, Declarations - What's Next Up
- Global Climate Action Summit
- Global Fishing Watch
- Global Forest Watch
- Global warming
- Going Green
- Going Green: Texas v. Pennsylvania
- Google Earth
- Google Earth Timelapse
- Governor Jerry Brown
- GP360 NewPages
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- Green Banks - US
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- Green Politics with GreenPolicy360
- Green Quotes
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- Green Stories of the Day - GreenPolicy360 Archive
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- PeoplesClimateMarch
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- Planet API
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- Planet Labs Doves Fly
- Planet of the Humans, a documentary film
- PlanetCitizen
- Pope Francis on the Environment
- Population Question
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