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<big><big>'''[[Our Biggest Experiment]]'''</big></big>
<small>''"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''</small>
 
 


: [[Look at how thin our atmosphere is]]
GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:


:: [[Climate Change - Global Warming Keyword-Terms]]
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...




: [[File:Our Biggest Experiment - by Alice Bell.jpg]]
<small>''"We are beginning to realize the extent of an existential experiment humanity is conducting in the atmosphere of the planet, the [http://www.thinbluelayer.com '''"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''</small>




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


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SJS/GreenPolicy360


We/GreenPolicy360 recommend a new descriptor for emissions-externalities-carbon pricing -- 
<big>''[[Steven Schmidt]]''</big>


'''Not a tax, let's call it... +Emissions Cost... +EC'''
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/User:Siterunner




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[[File:Christina Korp Earth Day and Apollo 8.jpg]]


: <big>'''Steven Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Siterunner....'''</big>


[[File:Thin Blue difference - approx 12 miles high.jpg]]
:: DYK? Yes, we do, we remember the beginnings !




[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf <big>'''Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement'''</big>]


[[File:'Thin Blue Layer' of Earth's Atmosphere 2.jpg]]
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf


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=='''The By-Products of an Industrial Age'''==
<big><big>On the 50th Anniversary</big></big>


<big><big>Memories on the Road to the First Earth Day</big></big>


<big><big>'''Externalities - Emissions - Toxic Chemicals'''</big></big>  
<small>By Steve Schmidt</small>  


* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Externalities
:<small>• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary</small>


* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Atmospheric_Science
:<small>• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day</small>




SJS / Siterunner: [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement A worldwide environmental protection movement] began to take on momentum in the 1960s. A growing realization that human impact on Earth's systems enabling life were at risk and the dangers were multiplying became a new politics. The tag "green" was given to these diverse political, business, and educational efforts. Green politics covers a vast array of endeavors and initiatives and your GreenPolicy360 siterunner has participated in green environmental efforts since the mid 1960s. Environmental security work included legislative initiatives with US Congressman [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr George E. Brown], and his 1970 and 1980s coalitions and outreach, and work on policy proposals with California Governor Jerry Brown, especially in drafting the 1992 presidential campaign platform. This formative work was key to my drafting and putting forward a founding US national Green Party platform. 
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[[George E. Brown Jr]] -- [[Governor Jerry Brown]] -- [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Jerry_Brown_92_Presidential_Platform_We_the_People.jpg Jerry Brown 92 Presidential Platform] -- [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:GreenPartyplatform_cover_of_founding-platdoc-2000_s.png U.S. Green Party Founding Platform]
   
   
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 [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Out_in_Front ''' 'out in front' '''] raising the questions and demanding answers and solutions. We were, environmental activists, were working with serious intent and due diligence to [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr '''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 [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr '''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...
[[File:US Public Law 95-367.png]]


Adding Environmental full-cost accounting and eco-nomics as an expressed body of thought, I believed was an essential component of the US [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Platform Green Platform] that I was charged with drafting.


The attempt to address the costs of global/local emissions and externalities that are human-caused has continued since the late 1970s and first National Climate Act legislation, that was authored by Congressman Brown.


My hope continues that more rational, comprehensive  [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security definitions of security], of real and sustainable security for nations and communities would motivate actions across the globe to preserve and protect life.  
<big>'''At the Beginning of U.S. Science on Global Warming, Strategies & Planning'''</big>
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Energy_and_Climate_Report%2C_1977%2C_National_Academy_of_Sciences.pdf '''Energy and Climate Report, 1977, National Academy of Sciences / 175 pp. / PDF via GreenPolicy360''']
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/National_Climate_Program_Act_Public_Law_95-367_Sept_1978.pdf '''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.'''
 
 
<big>'''1978, the First Climate Act'''</big>
 
'''Congressman Brown, the drafting and passage in 1977 of the First U.S. Federal Climate Report'''
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:US_Public_Law_95-367.png '''National Climate Program Act, Public Law 95-367''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/National_Climate_Program_Act_Public_Law_95-367_Sept_1978.pdf '''National Climate Program Act of September 1978''']
 
 
'''In 1979 came a first follow-on [https://www.nap.edu/read/12181/chapter/1 National Science Academy report] that was [https://phys.org/news/2019-07-charney-years-scientists-accurately-climate.html prescient, and accurate,] in its global warming predictions.
 
 
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr 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 [https://www.congress.gov/bill/95th-congress/house-bill/06669 Federal Climate Program Act of 1978]''
   
• ''Established the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Science_and_Technology_Policy Office of Science and Technology Policy]''
   
• ''Established the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency Environmental Protection Agency]''
   
• ''Established the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessment Office of Technology Assessment]''
 
 
Look at any of the founding work that was set in motion ...
 
• [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Can_our_environment_be_saved_George_Brown-Omnibus_Environmental_Bill_1969.pdf George Brown on the Omnibus Environmental Bill, 1969]
 
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Ethics_and_Climate_Change
 
• [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Env_policy_laws_US_'the_beginning'_of_env_era.jpg @GreenPolicy360, 'The beginning of the modern environmental era']
 
 
Look at the record of the 'environmental era'...
 
:[[File:Env policy laws US 'the beginning' of env era.jpg]]
 
 
 
Unprecedented environmental protection that continues to this day...
 
 
[[File:Acting on Climate Change.png]]
 
 
 
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<big><big>'''[[Our Biggest Experiment]]'''</big></big>
 
: [[Look at how thin our atmosphere is]]
 
:: [[Climate Change - Global Warming Keyword-Terms]]
 
 
: [[File:Our Biggest Experiment - by Alice Bell.jpg]]
 
 
 
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[[File:Thin Blue difference - approx 12 miles high.jpg]]
 
 
 
[[File:'Thin Blue Layer' of Earth's Atmosphere 2.jpg]]
 
 
 
<big><big>''''The Biggest Experiment and .... Externalities - Emissions - Toxic Chemicals'''</big></big>
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Externalities
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Atmospheric_Science


Human responsibility to [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp,_OCO-2,_June_2014_m.jpg measure and manage] to avoid harmful and potential tragic consequences is [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_in_Human_Hands_Intro.png in our hands].
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is


Local and far-sighted actions are part of a green vision -- a damage-control mission that focuses on [http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-20/world-pollution-deadlier-than-wars-disasters-hunger/9069776 protecting life and health].
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_protection


Classic liberal capitalism does not take into account "Externalities" ... These missing costs, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_full-cost_accounting an environmental full-cost accounting,] are systemically profound in climate change.
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space


The theory of "The Invisible Hand" does not take into account and factor in to climate change the price of carbon burning activities.
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/@Earth360


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


<big>[[Eco-nomics]]</big>


:<big>[[Environmental full-cost accounting]]</big>
[http://www.thinbluelayer.com ThinBlueLayer.com]


[[File:ThinBlueLayer.com-Wiseman-2014.png|link=http://www.thinbluelayer.com]]


As business and politics moves into the 21st century we must advanced our awareness of full-cost eco-nomics.
<small>NASA</small>


For three decades, as environmental advocates, we have pressed green discussion/debate and decision-making.


Now is the time to recognize the scope of the challenge and to act together across boundaries, cooperatively.
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs


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




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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


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Steven Schmidt


Christina Korp Earth Day and Apollo 8.jpg

Steven Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Siterunner....
DYK? Yes, we do, we remember the beginnings !


Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement

 

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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...


US Public Law 95-367.png


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'...

Env policy laws US 'the beginning' of env era.jpg


Unprecedented environmental protection that continues to this day...


Acting on Climate Change.png


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Our Biggest Experiment

Look at how thin our atmosphere is
Climate Change - Global Warming Keyword-Terms


Our Biggest Experiment - by Alice Bell.jpg


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Thin Blue difference - approx 12 miles high.jpg


'Thin Blue Layer' of Earth's Atmosphere 2.jpg


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


ThinBlueLayer.com

ThinBlueLayer.com-Wiseman-2014.png

NASA



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