The United States is suffering repeated climate disasters.  Coast to coast, Americans have variously suffered heat domes, flooding, the orange smoke-filled air of out of control forest fires, coastal water temperatures that make the ocean feel like a bathtub, and other climate related events.  No American has been unaffected.

In spite of the best efforts of many to reach zero emissions of carbon and methane, both gases continue to increase in our atmosphere.  They are currently at all-time highs with no signs of abatement.  Heating continues to increase.

Global Atmospheric Engineering Action (or GAEA) is now what is required to save life and our lifestyle as we know it.  Therefore, we demand the United States assemble the best engineers and scientists to engineer a solution to global warming - a Moon Shot for climate.    

America has a history of invention, of leadership, and of accomplishing that which no other nation is capable.  Once committed, America gathered no less than 31 Nobel Laureates and invented the atom bomb in three years.  It reached the Moon in eight.  And it led the way in mapping the human genome in thirteen years.  Reversing global warming demands no less commitment. 

We demand a national GAEA Project to craft and perfect a solution from the various known candidates or perhaps from ones not yet known.   This can and should be undertaken side-by-side with continued efforts to reach zero emissions and with international partners as useful.

Until scientists are recruited and organized and a national commitment is made, it is impossible to know which of the potential avenues will be the one(s) to lead to success.   Through our use of fossil fuels we have already engineered the atmosphere without planning.  It is now time to engineer it with planning to preserve it.  While this is not without risk, continued heating cannot be allowed to continue.

The need for this Action is urgent.  Our quality of life is deteriorating.  Our entire way of life is in danger.

America can and must live up to its history of invention, greatness, and leadership and repair the climate.