GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2015

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Eyes on the Future

"We can commit to do more"

- Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard climate science director

December 12, 2015: International Climate Agreement Reached

195 Countries Sign On to the New Agreement

GreenPolicy's INDC Global List & Updates on Individual Country Climate Action Plans

Nationally determined INDCs | resilient renewable clean energy climate plans

Links to GreenPolicy360 Reports

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:INDC

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/INDCs

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/UN_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change-2015

Climate News at GreenPolicy360

Climate Politics / Earth Science

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics

ThinBlueLayer.com

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:ThinBlueLayer

Climate Action National Plans/INDCs

Which Countries Are Doing the Most?

Eleven Countries in Front of Shift to Renewable Energy

Visit GreenPolicy's GreenLinks Trending News

GTN GreenLinks Trending News

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GTN_GreenLinks_Trending_News

#climateaction -- https://twitter.com/hashtag/climateaction?src=hash

#climatechange -- https://twitter.com/hashtag/climatechange?src=hash

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International 2015 Paris Climate Agreement

• https://twitter.com/hashtag/ParisAgreement?src=hash

#INDCs -- https://twitter.com/hashtag/INDCs?src=hash

#IPCCC -- https://twitter.com/hashtag/ipccc?src=hash

Washington Post editorial

A Year of Progress and 'Buffoonery' on Climate

U.S. Senate Republicans Say 'No' to Paris Climate Accord / Via ThinkProgress

"Republicans attempt to derail climate talks" / Via The Atlantic, Dec 1, 2015

GOP On Lockdown / Via Reuters

Via the New Republic "The only remaining global outlier — the only major political party that denies climate science and opposes even the effort to reach a climate deal — is here in the U.S.: the Republican Party ..."

Obama paves way for success in Paris

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U.S. Congress/Science Committee News

Lamar Smith, Chair of Science Com't Accuses Scientists (Video)

Letter to Science Committee re: integrity

More from American science organizations

Science Orgs respond to attacks by Science Committee

Environmental Security

GreenPolicy's listing of 189 country climate plans

Climate News

Earth Observations

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Nationally determined climate plans | resilient | renewable energy

Visit GreenPolicy's Int'l List of Countries and Climate Plans

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UN / Climate Plans "Synthesis Report"

Christiana Figueres @CFigueres #UNFCCC

Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Nov 15: Will not stop -- Must contine

Figueres - REDDIT AMA

UN Climate Action @UNFCCC

Oct 19

Opening plenary of the latest @UN climate negotiations

http://bit.ly/1OObz76

#ADP2

#ADP2 session... steps toward Paris... Focus!

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http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/UN_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change-2015

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Laudato Si'

Vatican announcement of a first "Eco-encyclical"

Catholic Pontiff Speaks of an 'Integral Ecology'

From the first Catholic pope to name himself after St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of the environment and wildlife

• Vatican announcement of an eco-encyclical

• Catholic Pontiff Speaks of 'Integral Ecology and Common Home'

• Thoughts of a leader taking a church in new directions

Pope Francis poised to weigh in on climate change with major document

Pope Francis’s Encyclical on Climate Change

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"Racing Extinction" - The Movie

“We’re not making a movie, we’re starting a movement. This film is one component of a movement that will go on and on...

to live in people’s hearts and minds and change behavior. We are the only generation that can save species for millions of years going forward.”

There is No Plan(et) B

• http://racingextinction.com/

• http://racingextinction.com/the-film/#press-kitA

• http://racingextinction.com/resources/#video-galleryA

Racing Extinction

Racing Extinction ○ #RacingExtinction @RacingXtinction

“I told the crew, 'We’re not making a movie – we’re starting a movement'. This film is one component of a movement that will go on and on...

and hopefully live in people’s hearts and minds and change behavior. We are the only generation that can save species for millions of years going forward...”

Large (charismatic) vs. Small Species

In the Smallest Creatures

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tree_of_Life

Updates

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TinyBlueGreen

www.tinybluegreen.com

"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean (Prochlorococcus) produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take"

--Sylvia Earle

Breathe freely, tiny plankton -- Plankton climate dance

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TinyBlueGreen

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Planet Labs / New Space

Planet Labs Platform Beta to Advance Sustainable Development Goals

Open California -- California imaging from Planet Labs fleet, a "full historical archive" now available under a CC BY-SA license

Planet Labs / Updates

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space

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California out in front modeling and sharing green best practices

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future

Here come the 'EV Corridors' and Solar-Charging Stations -- New Motto, More Sun, Less Exxon

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'Going Green'

President Obama Announces U.S. Clean Power Plan

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Climate Publishers Network

May 2015, New International Media Network to share climate change news

“Climate change is the biggest challenge humanity is currently facing and requires new ways of collaborating across geographic as well as political boundaries.”

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Astronaut Gerst --- 'Planet Citizen' Video

• OCO-2 reports most detailed CO2 measurements
• Take a look at the UN Climate Change Newsroom
• The World Bank's point of view re climate change

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DSCOVR/EPIC 'News from a Million Miles'

You are being imaged!

Visit EarthPOV for DSCOVR/EPIC News

VR -- The "Big Picture" -- Earth

• The Earth & Moon as Never Before Seen

DSCOVR with EPIC imaging goes LIVE! --- "Beautiful reminder that we need to protect the only planet we have"

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Atmospheric Science

Studying the "Thin Blue Layer"

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2

OCO-2 / Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission

I am OCO-2 -- reporting home Climate deniers blame global warming on nature. This NASA data begs to differ

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I am OCO-2

Earth atmosphere emission data begins to be made available -- Sept 2015

CO2 Virtual Science Data Environment / GOSAT --- AQUA --- OCO-2 --- http://tccon.ornl.gov/

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Watching the Planet Breathe

It's Your Breathing Planet

#climateaction

#COP21

#INDCs

#climatechange

Monitoring Earth's Essential Systems

Earth Right Now: Briefing @NASA

• Highlighting Results from New Earth Missions (as of 2015)

• http://www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow/

• http://climate.nasa.gov/

• http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105/

• https://nex.nasa.gov/nex/

Earth Science Vital Signs

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Earth Science Research from Space

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