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<big><big><big><font color=green>'''''2021'''''</font></big></big></big>




<big>'''[[Glasgow Climate Summit - Pledges, Promises, Declarations - What's Next Up]]'''</big>
<big><big>'''[[National Climate Plans]]'''</big></big>


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The story arc of GreenPolicy360, in its span and scope, tracks back to the late 1960s when Steve Schmidt, our founder and current siterunner, began to work alongside a new Congressman from East Los Angeles, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr '''Rep. George E. Brown'''.] Their work as detailed in GreenPolicy360 reveals a narrative and scientific journey into the origins, development, Earth Science and political activism that helped set in motion the modern environmental movement.


<big><big>'''Climate Pledges Must Be Enforced'''</big></big>


How to turn each nation's climate pledges into 'effective climate action'
<big>Connecting & sharing world changing stories</big>


:Promises of international climate summits in Paris (2015) & Glasgow (2021) now require 'effective climate action follow on'
"GreenPolicy360 journeys across 50+ years of the modern environmental movement"


::Measuring & monitoring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with satellite missions can become -- 'Our climate tool working nation-by-nation'


Today's challenges come into the light as a half century journey of key players, events, struggles, and decisions are revealed. Green politics and the modern environmental movement have progressed far from [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf '''first-era Whole Earth images'''] of the 1960s and a first [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day '''"Earth Day"'''] of 1970.


'''GreenPolicy360 Siterunner - SJS / December 2021''': Looking back to the 1960s and 70s to the beginnings of the Earth Science from Space missions of NASA and affiliated U.S. agencies, in association with higher education and aerospace business, the vision statements of Congressional leaders, recalling [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr '''Rep. George E. Brown (D-Los Angeles)'''], setting in motion the [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp,_OCO-2,_June_2014_m.jpg '''measuring and monitoring'''] programs that have led to decades of atmospheric and earth systems data. This constellation of new space technology -- digital imaging, Earth 360° remote viewing, scientific observations, changes over time, trend lines, all can come into our hands. 'Drilling down', not for gas and oil, but in the parsing of data, now has the promise to provide essential ways and means to deliver a real- and extended-time knowledge base which can be used, effectively and we propose legally, to deliver on pledges and promises made at international climate change conferences and summits.
GreenPolicy360 speaks of green, life affirming values, "a politics of values" that we see as needed "for the long run" as humanity navigates the challenges and demands of the 21st century.


Let us do our part in continuing to expand this first-generation earth science vision -- space-based cooperative missions, initiatives and ventures -- that makes it possible to turn database tracking of emissions [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Externalities '''(externalities)'''] -- CO2, methane, CFCs and other gases -- nation-by-nation into Climate Plan Enforcement (CPEs).
The media is welcome onboard. Search & explore GreenPolicy360's curated collection of stories from around the world.  


It is time to move from distant pledges to coordinated nation-by-nation climate action. Using best practices, effective nationally determined, and legally enforced operational plans, we can become agents of change making a positive real-world difference. As it is said -- "Earth Is In Our Hands", let us turn science and knowledge into climate action now.


The strategic demands for international cooperation and action is our generations greatest task and our legacy. Let us take up our climate challenge. Our time is today to enforce well intended, but extremely hard to achieve climate pledges.
<big><big>'''On Earth'''</big></big>


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'''[[Green Stories of the Day]]''' ~ '''[[Climate News]]'''


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<big><big>'''Summit for Democracy'''</big></big>
 
[https://www.idea.int/gsod/global-report As the data comes in:] [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/report-democracy-backsliding-across-the-world-amid-pandemic/ar-AAQZjXy ''' 'Democracy is backsliding across the globe' ''']
 
 
United States Department of State Organizes 'Summit for Democracy' - December 9-10, 2021
 
* https://www.state.gov/summit-for-democracy/
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Democracy
 
 
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<big><big>Remembering the First Earth Summit</big></big>
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_Summit_1992.jpg
 
 
GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: Thirty years ago and now I'm older and looking back at the first "Earth Summit" that led to the first global climate  'Conference of the Parties'. My reports to the Environmental News Service (ENS) picked up on the green, environmental platform planks I was also adding to the [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Jerry_w_Steve_%2792_pres_campaign_at_the_Dem_plat_hearing_m.jpg '''Platform in Progress'''] for California Governor Jerry Brown's presidential campaign. The first Earth Summit and Governor Brown's energetic efforts both moved a vital, forward-looking vision and both encountered myriad obstacles from powers-that-be and business-as-usual. The obstacles didn't stop before or after 1992. The work continued on and continues to today... November 2021, fifty years on...
 
I'm now remembering and picking up and continuing the threads of Representative [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr '''George E. Brown's work] '''to advance climate science, beginning in earnest with the first [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:US_Public_Law_95-367.png '''National Climate Act of 1978'''] and establishment of the [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:1977_from_the_Office_of_Science_and_Technology_Policy.jpg '''Office of Science and Technology Policy'''] to push what was called a "big science, earth science" agenda with the first generation of [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science '''focused earth studies and science'''], [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp,_OCO-2,_June_2014_m.jpg '''measuring and monitoring'''] [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/The_Commons ''' 'the Commons' '''], [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Atmospheric_Science '''earth's atmosphere'''], natural resources (e.g., [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Landsat_data_users_handbook '''Landsat's start up'''] and a [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space '''deep, multi-decade array of NASA/NOAA/USGS missions'''] that have now continued for half a century.
 
A tip of our GreenPolicy360 hat to [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens '''#PlanetCitizens'''] and [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists '''#PlanetCitizensPlanetScientists'''.]
 
Here's to [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Problems,_Climate_Solutions '''Opportunities for Citizen Activism''']
 
 
<small>FB post from GreenPolicy360's siterunner</small>
 
: <small>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Our_Biggest_Experiment</small>
 
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<small>''"We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe... The greater the change to the chemical composition of the physical, chemical makeup of the oceans and atmosphere [due to increased carbon emissions], the greater the long-term effect will be... [W]hy would you run this crazy experiment to see how bad it'll be? We know it's at least some bad, and the overwhelming scientific consensus is that it'll be 'really bad'." -- Elon Musk''</small>
 
<small>''"We are beginning to realize the extent of an existential experiment humanity is conducting in the atmosphere of the planet, the [http://www.thinbluelayer.com '''"Thin Blue Layer"''']. The '''Anthropocene era''' is a gathering storm that is changing 'nature' as nature used to be... Our challenge is to use our native intelligence to protect the life-enabling atmosphere, to make decisions that sustain and benefit life today and for future generations." -- Steven Schmidt''</small>
 
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:<big><big><big>'''''[[Our Biggest Experiment]]'''''</big></big></big>
 
:::''by Alice Bell''
 
:::''Publication scheduled for September 2021''
 
:::''Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight''
 
::: ''on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the''
 
::: ''defining story of our age: the climate crisis.''
 
 
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<big><big><big>'''This Is 'Code Red' '''</big></big></big>
 
'' "We've got to listen to the scientists and the economists, and the national security experts, they all tell us this is code red," Biden said... "The nation and the world are in peril. That's not hyperbole. That is a fact." ''
 
* https://www.axios.com/biden-extreme-weather-this-code-red-e8fa9294-6b3c-4720-abac-1a4f94a3d7a3.html
 
 
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<big>'''As climate pledges fall short, U.N. predicts globe could warm by catastrophic 2.7 degrees Celsius'''</big>
 
* https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/09/17/un-climate-2030-biden/
 
 
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<big><big>'''Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change'''</big></big>
 
* https://www.ipcc.ch/
 
* https://bit.ly/IPCCLIVE
 
* https://www.ipcc.ch/2021/08/05/press-conference-details-wgi-ar6/
 
* https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-i/
 
 
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<big><big>'''''Climate in the Infrastructure Bill: A substantial investment in resilience'''''</big></big>
 
[https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/10/senate-to-pass-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill.html '''''Infrastructure Bill Passes in Senate: Next Up, 3.5T Resolution''''']
 
'''''Follow-on reconciliation package of legislation essential to address green policy, energy, climate'''''
 
 
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<big>'''31 Vital Earth Signs'''</big>
 
'' 'Virtual signs' worsening''
 
''Tipping points, deepening disaster''
 
* https://phys.org/news/2021-07-earth-vital-worsening-humanity-impact.html
 
* https://www.dw.com/en/climate-tipping-points-are-now-imminent-scientists-warn/a-58665256
 
 
''Researchers, part of a group of more than 14,000 scientists who have signed on to an initiative declaring a worldwide climate emergency, said that governments had consistently failed to address the root cause of climate change: "the overexploitation of the Earth".''
 
''Of 31 "vital signs"—key metrics of planetary health that include greenhouse gas emissions, glacier thickness, sea-ice extent and deforestation—they found that 18 hit record highs or lows.''
 
 
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:<big><big><big><big><font color=orange>''' 🥵 When it gets too hot....'''</font></big></big></big></big>
 
 
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[https://www.cnet.com/news/surface-temperatures-in-siberia-heat-up-to-a-mind-boggling-118-degrees/ '''Surface temperatures in Siberia heat up to a mind-boggling 118 degrees''']
 
: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/30/climate-change-heat-politics/ '''Climate change is behind record-breaking heat waves''']
 
:: [https://cleantechnica.com/2021/07/01/climate-change-from-heating-human-bodies-to-baking-the-earth/ '''From heating human bodies to baking the Earth''']
 


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From Portland, Oregon, to Vancouver, Canada, the heat during the end of June didn't just break records; it buried them.  Learn more in this Event Tracker post.


[https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/astounding-heat-obliterates-all-time-records-across-pacific-northwest '''''Astounding heat obliterates all-time records across the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada in June 2021''''']
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<big><big>'''''Devastating News: Climate Change Impacts to Hit Sooner than Predicted'''''</big></big>
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Policy:About


* https://phys.org/news/2021-06-climate-impacts-sooner.html


''Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisors obtained by AFP.''
Also visit GreenPolicy360's Associated website -- Strategic Demands


''Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seas—these and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating and bound to become painfully obvious before a child born today turns 30.''
* https://strategicdemands.com/
* https://strategicdemands.com/about/
* https://strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/


''The choices societies make now will determine whether our species thrives or simply survives as the 21st century unfolds, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says in a draft report seen exclusively by AFP.''


''But dangerous thresholds are closer than once thought, and dire consequences stemming from decades of unbridled carbon pollution are unavoidable in the short term.''


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<big><big>'''''Intergenerational'''''</big></big>
Steven J. Schmidt (SJS)


: '' "[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apocalyptic_Thinking '''The worst'''] is yet to come, affecting our children's and grandchildren's lives much more than our own."''
GreenPolicy360 Founder / Siterunner


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Siterunner Siterunner @ GreenPolicy360]


:::<big><big>''"Yes, It's Time to be Extremely Concerned"''</big></big>


Personal Contact: [email protected]


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About GreenPolicy360 - Local/National/Global

We are a 'Green Best Practices' resource hub to use community-by-community, day-by-day...

We are hosted on a MediaWiki platform. We are open-source and designed to be shareable.

GreenPolicy360's networking has tens of millions of visits, interactions, active user shares and re-shares.

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National Climate Plans

Planet Earth Perspective


The story arc of GreenPolicy360, in its span and scope, tracks back to the late 1960s when Steve Schmidt, our founder and current siterunner, began to work alongside a new Congressman from East Los Angeles, Rep. George E. Brown. Their work as detailed in GreenPolicy360 reveals a narrative and scientific journey into the origins, development, Earth Science and political activism that helped set in motion the modern environmental movement.


Connecting & sharing world changing stories

"GreenPolicy360 journeys across 50+ years of the modern environmental movement"


Today's challenges come into the light as a half century journey of key players, events, struggles, and decisions are revealed. Green politics and the modern environmental movement have progressed far from first-era Whole Earth images of the 1960s and a first "Earth Day" of 1970.

GreenPolicy360 speaks of green, life affirming values, "a politics of values" that we see as needed "for the long run" as humanity navigates the challenges and demands of the 21st century.

The media is welcome onboard. Search & explore GreenPolicy360's curated collection of stories from around the world.


On Earth

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Earth and Space, Politics

 

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Continuing decades of environmental work, GreenPolicy360 launched in 2005-2006


Read more about GreenPolicy360 here --


Also visit GreenPolicy360's Associated website -- Strategic Demands


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2006, Clearwater, Florida


Steven J. Schmidt (SJS)

GreenPolicy360 Founder / Siterunner

Siterunner @ GreenPolicy360

Email: [email protected]

Personal Contact: [email protected]


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