Thomas A Clingan former USCG officer, maritime law counsel to the US House of Representatives was co-founder of the Ocean and Coastal Law program at the University Of Miami School of Law. As an adviser to Ambassador Elliott Richardson President Carter's US Representative to the Third United Nations Conference on the International Law of The Sea (UNCLOS III), he was in a unique position to advise, review, contribute and memorialize the origins, legal predicates, and background of US Ocean Policy that with the advent of global climate change is now even more an any analysis of the evolution and background of US policy in the 21st Century.