50 years + climate actions in the US
November 5, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson’s White House released “Restoring the Quality of our Environment” report:
“Carbon dioxide is being added to the earth’s atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas at the rate of 6 billion tons a year. By the year 2000 there will be about 25 percent more CO2 in our atmosphere than present. This will modify the heat balance of the atmosphere to such an extent that marked changes in climate, not controllable through local or even national efforts, could occur.”
Nixon founded the Environmental Protection Agency.
Reagan signed the Montreal Protocol (to ban ozone-depleting pollutants), George H W Bush introduce cap-and-trade (to deal with the acid rain problem).
And what about George W Bush?
Well Dubbya of course ran against the single politician--Al Gore--who is most closely associated with the cause of climate action in modern U.S. history.
So I suppose it isn't too surprising that we heard lines like this spoken on the campaign trail:
“As we promote electricity and renewable energy, we will work to make our air cleaner. With the help of Congress, environmental groups and industry, we will require all power plants to meet clean air standards in order to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury and carbon dioxide within a reasonable period of time. And we will provide market-based incentives, such as emissions trading, to help industry achieve the required reductions.”
What might be surprising for you to learn, however, is that it wasn't Al Gore--but George W Bush--who made that statement in the run-up to the election. It was Bush who had committed to combat climate change through the regulation of carbon emissions.
http://michaelmann.net/content/vice-commentary-politics-climate-denial?fbclid=IwAR1WK5iI4Kjd-IH8XFJ-pEEQ-6dM0Oabw-fmqYNMloCBZxzDm_qsIKBqk_Y
50 YEARS OF US SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENTS AND PRESIDENTS COMES TO THE SAME CONCLUSION ON AGW:
PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON’S 1965 “Restoring the Quality of our Environment report”.
Fifty years ago: The White House knew all about climate change
On November 5, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson’s White House released “Restoring the Quality of our Environment”, a report that described the impacts of climate change, and foretold dramatic Antarctic ice sheet loss, sea level rise, and ocean acidification.
That 1965 White House report stated:
“Carbon dioxide is being added to the earth’s atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas at the rate of 6 billion tons a year. By the year 2000 there will be about 25 percent more CO2 in our atmosphere than present. This will modify the heat balance of the atmosphere to such an extent that marked changes in climate, not controllable through local or even national efforts, could occur.”
On the 50th anniversary of the White House report, CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere are indeed at 399 ppm: 25 percent over 1965 levels, exactly as predicted 50 years ago.
Ronald Reagan’s 1989 EPA REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Page 28: http://bit.ly/2w8YMuV
Trump's 2018 National Climate Assessment. ️
Based on extensive evidence … it is extremely likely that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century,”
For the warming over the last century,
“there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the extent of the observational evidence.”
President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970 and it began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency
https://www.epa.gov/
Reagan signed the Montreal Protocol (to ban ozone-depleting pollutants)
Under the Reagan administration, the United States played a strong leadership role in getting the Montreal Protocol adopted in 1987.
the U.S. was one of the first countries to ratify the Protocol and have been a leader on the revisions that sped up the phase-outs of ozone-destroying chemicals
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/21/reagan-seeks-to-protect-ozone-layer-1987-1067252
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/montreal-protocol-ozone-treaty-30-climate-change-hcfs-hfcs/
Ronald Reagan’s 1989 EPA REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
http://bit.ly/2w8YMuV?fbclid=IwAR096oy1HVhV2VFld7IHZgaXZk05-6pluj5lZYnEKmLoyYh2G_lUgmeCRDA
George H W Bush introduced cap-and-trade (to deal with the acid rain problem).
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-political-history-of-cap-and-trade-34711212/
George Bush jr:
"“As we promote electricity and renewable energy, we will work to make our air cleaner. With the help of Congress, environmental groups and industry, we will require all power plants to meet clean air standards in order to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury and carbon dioxide within a reasonable period of time. And we will provide market-based incentives, such as emissions trading, to help industry achieve the required reductions.”"
http://michaelmann.net/content/vice-commentary-politics-climate-denial?fbclid=IwAR1WK5iI4Kjd-IH8XFJ-pEEQ-6dM0Oabw-fmqYNMloCBZxzDm_qsIKBqk_Y
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