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"We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe... The greater the change to the chemical composition of the physical, chemical makeup of the oceans and atmosphere [due to increased carbon emissions], the greater the long-term effect will be... [W]hy would you run this crazy experiment to see how bad it'll be? We know it's at least some bad, and the overwhelming scientific consensus is that it'll be 'really bad'." -- Elon Musk

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:

I'm remembering a quote I gave back int 1980s about the chemical experiment we are running in the earth's atmosphere, and how earth's atmosphere is 'thin', very thin, and the emissions are going to prove to be costly...

"We are beginning to realize the extent of an existential experiment humanity is conducting in the atmosphere of the planet, the "Thin Blue Layer". The Anthropocene era is a gathering storm that is changing 'nature' as nature used to be... Our challenge is to use our native intelligence to protect the life-enabling atmosphere, to make decisions that sustain and benefit life today and for future generations." -- Steven Schmidt

Green Quotes

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

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Steven Schmidt

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/User:Siterunner

Steven Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Siterunner....

DYK? Yes, we do, we remember the beginnings !

Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf

 

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On the 50th Anniversary

Memories on the Road to the First Earth Day

By Steve Schmidt

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary

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

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Steve Schmidt / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: Yes, we're running, humanity's running, the 'Biggest Experiment' and a question is asked, "Where were the activists in all of this?"

Activists were, we were, there on the frontlines. We were 'out in front' raising the questions and demanding answers and solutions. We were, environmental activists, were working with serious intent and due diligence to gather the facts, set in motion the science, the research, the earth observations. We saw that we were faced with atmospheric disruption from global industrial emissions, greenhouse gases producing global warming evidence and a case based on science had to be made. Atmospheric and earth science and our activism, armed with facts and data, was to come to the forefront.

In the 1970s and 80s, and through the 1990s, a key point person in the U.S. Congress was a friend, George E. Brown of the House of Representatives Science Committee. George Brown was a leader of the National Academy of Sciences scientific work studying climate. George prepared and authored the legislation that put the scientists studies into action. As a longtime friend, I watched him and assisted him as I could over the years, over decades in his role in the U.S. House of Representatives as a member, then chair of the House Science Committee. George E. Brown was a visionary and led an intensely dedicated and activist effort on the environmental, earth science, and climate front.

His work included authoring the first National Climate Act in 1978. Look closely...

At the Beginning of U.S. Science on Global Warming, Strategies & Planning

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

National Climate Program Act, 1978 / PDF

The first federal program is established to initiate and coordinate federal studies; scientifically assess issues and risks of human-caused climate change, propose action and responses.

1978, the First Climate Act

Congressman Brown, the drafting and passage in 1977 of the First U.S. Federal Climate Report

National Climate Program Act, Public Law 95-367

National Climate Program Act of September 1978

In 1979 came a first follow-on National Science Academy report that was prescient, and accurate, in its global warming predictions.

George Brown and your GreenPolicy360 siterunner first began our friendship in 1965 as the new Congressman joined the Committee on Science & Technology, a role he would have over the next 35 plus years. George's deep green environmental work on the front lines of science inspired your GreenPolicy siterunner. The range and depth, and success, of the environmental programs the Congressman envisioned, initiated, and oversaw was astounding to my young mind.

Begin with his National Climate Act, then go on to see how an array of science was put in place for decades of ongoing programs and action.

Via Wikipedia / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brown_Jr.

Brown was known as a champion for science. He left behind a deep and expansive legacy that has shaped science and science policy in America. 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 Office of Science and Technology Policy

• Established the Environmental Protection Agency

• Established the Office of Technology Assessment

Look at any of the founding work that was set in motion ...

• George Brown on the Omnibus Environmental Bill, 1969

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

• @GreenPolicy360, 'The beginning of the modern environmental era'

Look at the record of the 'environmental era'...

Unprecedented environmental protection that continues to this day...

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Our Biggest Experiment

Look at how thin our atmosphere is

Climate Change - Global Warming Keyword-Terms

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'The Biggest Experiment and .... Externalities - Emissions - Toxic Chemicals

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

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

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

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

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

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/@Earth360

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists

ThinBlueLayer.com

NASA

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

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

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