This Kansas man acted on climate change. Here's what you can learn from him. Sarah Spicer, The Wichita Eagle Jan. 11—It was the summer of 1965. Medicaid and Medicare were just signed into law. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he was doubling the number of men drafted to fight in Vietnam and protests were gaining traction. Although it went by another name, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had just been created and tasked with advancing the scientific study of the natural environment. And in Wichita, Kansas, Glen Chambers, an Army veteran who had returned from Korea two years earlier, was teaching himself to program on the only computer at Wichita State in the hopes of getting a job at Boeing. He was able to teach himself quickly, but his heart belonged to science and the environment.