Here's one from 1965. Unfortunately, he did not see that his immigration act would ruin the country or that his stealing from social security individual accounts would lead to a world growth only economy. Both of these things have put the entire Earth Biosphere on a course towards GTE.
LBJ's climate warning 50 years ago - do we have your attention yet?
Posted on 18 February 2015 by Glenn Tamblyn
"An old saying in marketing and communications says: ‘Repeat it, and repeat it, and repeat it again. When you are tired of repeating it, people might just start to take notice’. Sometimes this can seem oh too true. Particularly where warnings about unexpected dangers are concerned.
In 1951 U.S. President Harry Truman established the Science Advisory Committee as part of the U.S. Office of Defense Mobilization. After the launch of Sputnik in 1957 President Eisenhower renamed it the President’s Science Advisory Committee and moved it into the White House.
The committee wrote many reports for U.S. presidents, often on defense issues. But they also produced a large report – ‘Restoring The Quality of Our Environment’ – tackling a wide range of environmental and pollution problems of the time.
Some of the insights in the report are resonant today
‘Within a few short centuries, we are returning to the air a significant part of the carbon that was extracted by plants and buried in the sediments during half a billion years’
‘Through his worldwide industrial civilization, Man is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment. Within a few generations he is burning the fossil fuels that slowly accumulated in the earth over the past 500 million years’
‘By the year 2000 the increase in CO2 will be close to 25%. This may be sufficient to produce measurable and perhaps marked changes in climate.’
‘The climate changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings.’
The report was far more circumspect than reports we would read today but still covered many familiar subjects. In addition to the possibility of warming air temperatures the report discussed issues such as the melting of the Antarctic ice cap, rising sea levels, less carbon in the soil, warming of the oceans and resultant carbon dioxide ‘outgassing’.
It even covered a what-if scenario; what if we need to find a way to cool the earth?
‘The possibilities of deliberately bringing about countervailing climatic changes therefore need to be thoroughly explored…for example by spreading very small reflecting particles over large oceanic areas’
They foresaw, half a century ago, the need for research that is currently being undertaken into ‘geoengineering’ to look for ways to artificially cool the earth if we don’t control our CO2 emissions."
http://www.skepticalscience.com/LBJ-climate-1965.html
I guess even then, the amount of trees that needed to be planted yearly was too high. Now it is up to 1388 apiece per year!!!
The only geoengineering left that may work is forcing the eruption of one or two super-volcanoes that may be susceptible to drilled nuclear devices around the bottom of the magma chamber, or a bunker busting type that could penetrate to near the bottom of the magma. Like Fat Man and Little Boy to stop GTE. 120 MGT for each.
