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CO2 in Earth's Atmosphere

Thin Blue Layer

Looking Down and Around, Visit NASA's Missions to Measure CO2

Monitoring CO2 in Earth's Atmosphere

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner - SJS / January 2022: We need to look back to the 1960s and 70s to the beginnings of Earth Science from Space to understand how climate science came into my view. The questions about 'smog', air quality, health impacts were top-of-mind for a Congressman in Los Angeles, which was acknowledged as having some of the dirtiest air in the world. The Congressman, who I had gotten to know, had an oversight role his political positions over environmental issues, space, science and technology. I watched and listened as 'George', who was had studied physics and was an engineer, set to work. He saw Earth research missions of NASA and affiliated U.S. agencies like the USGS in association with higher education and aerospace business, Caltech/JPL, and many more as partners in a new quest. He wrote vision statements and legislation and Rep. George E. Brown (D-Los Angeles), set in motion and managed the measuring and monitoring programs that led to decades of atmospheric and Earth systems science and data. This constellation of new space technology -- digital imaging, Earth 360° remote viewing, scientific observations, changes over time, atmospheric and earth temperature trend lines, all came 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 real- and extended-time knowledge bases which can be used, effectively and we propose legally, to deliver on pledges and promises made at international climate change conferences and summits.

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 (externalities) -- CO2, methane, CFCs and other gases -- nation-by-nation into Climate Plan Enforcement (CPEs).

It is time to move from distant pledged goals 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.

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Measure to Manage

A 1970's era mission envisioned to develop and launch an ongoing series of satellites to observe, understand, measure and monitor our planet home, becomes the EOS, the Earth Observing System, now international, cooperative, and essential as its services provide science, data and facts as we confront and work to manage the #ClimateCrisis

OCO-2 "game changing" earth science

The A-Train convoy of orbiting earth observing satellites ...

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2

• https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/a-train/a-train.html

From the initial 'A Train' of satellites to today... ... Fifty+ years on...

Earth Science Research from Space has vastly expanded an original 1970s 'measure and monitor' mission

We needed the data, the climate data, we went and got the data, and then science went to work

Earth Science Vital Signs

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New Ways to See & Experience Planet Earth  

Visit GreenPolicy360's story of Earth Science research from our decades of research, eco-activism and #PlanetCitizens education.

Our eco operating system (eOS) includes:

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Generation Green

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ThinBlueLayer.com - Look at how thin our atmosphere is

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Earth Imaging-New Space

Oh NOAA, Oh Mauna Loa, Looking and Measuring Up and Out

• https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/graph.html

https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2_data_mlo.png

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New Definitions of National & Global Security

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Planet Citizens

Climate Problems, Climate Solutions

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Earth Temperature Today 🌡️ Climate Change Institute -- https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/

Climate Forecast System - https://cfs.ncep.noaa.gov/ | https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/weather-climate-models/climate-forecast-system

National Centers for Environmental Prediction - https://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/ | https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/

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Flashback -- 1978, Climate Action Memories

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: Our friend George steps up in Congress

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_J

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First National Climate Act

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner / SJ Schmidt: The beginnings of modern environmental and climate science can be traced to the 1960s and 1970s. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences played a key role in laying a foundation of scientific reports and data.

Energy and Climate Report, 1977, National Academy of Sciences / 175 pp. / PDF via GreenPolicy360

Rep. George Brown took the findings of the 1977 Energy and Climate Report from the Academy of Sciences and made the science actionable. In a historic moment, he proposed and drafted the legislation of the first U.S. National Climate Program and shepherded its passage in 1978.

This first federal program established to study and assess scientifically the issues and risks of human-caused climate change became a foundation for comprehensive initiatives, with an array of new Earth Science missions led by NASA and NOAA, the EPA and USGS.

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1992 -- The First International UN Earth Summit

We (your GreenPolicy360 founder) reported 'deep into the first Earth Summit'...

and in that early 90s year worked to draft a 1992 US presidential campaign platform 'deep on the green'

Launch of the Annual International (UNFCCC) Climate Conferences

Earth Summit (1992)

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