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'You can manage only what you can measure' ...

* https://www.nasa.gov/content/you-can-manage-only-what-you-can-measure

 

GreenPolicy360 Supports NASA's Measure-to-Manage Message

Here is our policy on science and decision-making based on science


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Earth Observing System


From the 1970s on... Decades of Earth Science/Climate Science Data Accessible for Planet Citizen Action


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Measure to Manage

Permalink - http://bit.ly/2DZNTOA


GreenPolicy360 strongly supports good science. We look to baselines and trendlines, sets of data, the intelligence compiled and made available over time. 'Shifting baselines', as they are sometimes called, serve as a basis for smart and effective decision-making.

Monitoring the dynamics of change over time should be a guide for all of us. Whether in assessing real world challenges -- the CO2 emissions in the Earth's atmosphere or responding to a virus outbreak or global pandemic -- facts and measuring are critical in providing knowledge to know what decisions can best be made ...


The Critical Importance of Science & Facts


STEM areas of study - Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math, including Computer Science


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"We are the first generation monitoring atmospheric science/earth science data changes over time. Think about it -- the critical science data, baselines and trendlines, are just now coming into view."

-- Steve Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Founder/Siterunner


Establishing an Era of Earth Science Measuring & Monitoring

Generational Vision, Looking Back to the Beginnings of the NASA and First Decades of US Earth Science, Digital Imaging Missions


Steven J. Schmidt: Remembering Congressman George E. Brown, instrumental in setting in motion the first era of earth science and atmospheric research from space. As the 'big science' advocate, member and chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space & Technology for three decades, Representative Brown's legacy is unparalleled.

As a trained engineer, George greatly valued the importance of facts, data, science and knowledge as a guide to decision-making and policy that looked to the future and environmental protection and security. Congressman Brown authored the first National Climate Act in 1978 and for years led the creation of scientific programs to gather critically important data.

For some forty years George Brown led science, atmospheric science, earth science, ocean science, educational initiatives, first gen, non-military government research & development, environment and technology initiatives, setting in place a strong foundation on which we have continued to build and advance shared goals since his passing in 1999.


George E. Brown Jr
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Official portrait - https://history.house.gov/Collection/Detail/29123
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr


George E. Brown, 1960s - 1990s, a member, leader and chair of the Science, Space & Technology Committee


U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology


Established in 1958, the first committee since 1892 to be established for an entirely new area of jurisdiction

The Committee’s initial jurisdiction included exploration and control of outer space, astronautical research and development, scientific research and development, science scholarships, and legislation relating to scientific agencies. The scientific agencies under the Committee initially included the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology), NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Council, and the National Science Foundation.

In 1974, the Committee’s name was changed to the "Committee on Science and Technology." At that time, the Committee’s jurisdiction was expanded to include legislation related to energy, the environment, the atmosphere, civil aviation research and development, and the National Weather Service. The Committee on Science and Technology was also given a "special oversight" function providing for exclusive responsibility among all Congressional Standing Committees to review and study, on a continuing basis, all laws, programs and government activities involving Federal non-military research and development.

Today the Committee has jurisdiction over much of the non-defense Federal research and development (R&D) portfolio. The Committee has exclusive jurisdiction over the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The Committee also has authority over R&D activities at the Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service (NWS), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).


Steve Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 siterunner: Back in the day another Congressman, George Brown, showed me the original NASA Mission Statement, pointing at these words: “To understand and protect our home planet..." George Brown, on the NASA oversight com't for 3 decades, led 'home planet' earth science programs. I rode along as a friend.


"To understand and protect our home planet..."


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SJS: In 1968//69 my East Los Angeles Congressional Representative spoke of the Mission Statement of NASA. This was an unprecedented time, a time when 'Earthrise', our blue-green planet as seen in space, first came into view. It was time -- “To understand and protect our home planet"


George E. Brown, 1995:

"I am struck, by how often I have pleaded with the scientific community to pay attention to the changes taking place in the world and the need to become more-closely linked with social goals and needs."

"I think that Congress and the nation can and does expect more from the research community than we see currently. At the very least we expect you to exercise a modicum of common sense. And common sense dictates that we make good on our promises of societal benefit, where those benefits are no longer the more obvious ones of national military security. Common sense dictates that we envision a new definition of security...based on a healthy, growing and sustainable economy; an improved global environment; and, most important, a just and equitable society, both in our own country and then in an increasingly interdependent global community."


Acting on Climate Change


Climate Action Plans @GreenPolicy360

GrnPolicy360: Climate Plans Enforcement Initiative

Methods to Enforce Climate Plan Pledges

Pressuring Nations to Step Up, Cooperate, and Act Now

Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (launching in 2023)

Environmental Laws, Regs, Rules... Lawsuits & Legal Actions

Glasgow (2021) & Paris (2015) Summits: Int'l Climate Plan Pledges & Promises (INDCs-NDCs)


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Measuring, Monitoring, Preserving & Protecting


Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists

Planet Citizens


Environmental protection


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Earth Science Vital Signs

Earth Right Now


New Definitions of National Security

"New Definitions of National Security"


A Project of GreenPolicy360 and Strategic Demands

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Our Home Planet
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* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary
Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement (PDF)

 

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We are the first generation monitoring atmospheric science/earth science data changes over time.

Think about the need for critical science data, baselines and trendlines that are just now coming into view. This is what we knew in the 1970s and 80s had to set in motion with Rep. George Brown and Space, Earth Science & Technology government resources and funding. Policy makers and the public needed Earth Science to provide the data for decisions, so we went to work, out in front, with a vision of doing what needed to be done. -- SJS/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner


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OCO-2
The OCO-2 Mission: Monitoring CO2 in Earth's Atmosphere
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The Critical Importance of Earth System Research & Science

Navigate with Knowledge


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#MeasuretoManage

"You can manage only what you can measure"

 

Time to Look into the World of Data

Data, Data Navigation, Data Flow, Actionable Data

A Data Flow Overview

(Courtesy of www.montecarlodata.com)


Data Measurements > Policy Direction and Operational Management

(How's your data team doing? Data Scientists, Data Stewards, Data Analysts, Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, Data Products Managers and Directors -- Data measurements are key to successful program/policy/mission guidance/command-control and management)

Database intelligence and 'smart' decision-making has come a long way in recent years


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A Global 360 Challenge

Climate Policy


Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Tracking

GreenPolicy360: Act Now: 'Accelerate the Measuring & Monitoring of Emissions'
'Cooperate, Share Climate Plans, Climate Actions & Best Practices'
'Join Science with Legal Enforcement & Turn Nation's Climate Pledges/Promises into Reality'
'Shift Away from Politically Talking the Talk and Slow-Walking Real Resilient Climate Progress'
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Climate_Policy
* https://www.carbonbrief.org/paris-2015-tracking-country-climate-pledges
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/INDCs


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Climate Pledges Must Be Enforced

How to turn each nation's climate pledges into 'effective climate action'

Promises of international climate summits in Paris (2015) & Glasgow (2021) require 'effective climate action follow on'
Measuring & monitoring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with satellite missions is becoming a 'GreenPolicy360 climate tool working nation-by-nation. Smart science applied and put into action by planet citizens.


Critical local/national/global policy, planning, and action: creating, curating, and developing climate data


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GreenPolicy360's Campaign to 'Turn National Climate Promises & Pledges into Reality' (2021)

Our Climate Plans Enforcement Initiative continues as the next Global Climate Conference approaches, November's Conference of the Parties (COP27)
Drawing from the database of Earth Science resulting from decades of space-based missions designed to provide us with actionable 'Earth-system and Climate-related data'
Measuring and Monitoring to better manage Earth's Living, Dynamic and Changing Systems, Local, National and Global


Methods to Enforce Climate Plan Pledges


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Green Best Practices: Data Goes into Public Interest Atmospheric Science/Earth Science/Ocean Science

An Overview via GreenPolicy360


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PlanetCitizen

Planet Citizens


Climate News

Earth and Space, Politics

Earth Science Research from Space

New Definitions of National Security


Earth Right Now

Earth Science Vital Signs


Landsat data users handbook


Democratization of Space

Micro-satellites

New Space

Earth Imaging-New Space

Planet Labs Doves Fly

Planet API


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Measuring Changes in Earth's Ecosystems Over Time

"Data Sets / Shifting Baselines"


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Global Fishing Watch
Global Forest Watch



Key Performance Indicator / KPI / Data Visualization

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_indicator


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Worldometer / World Statistics -- https://www.worldometers.info


Our World in Data -- https://ourworldindata.org/about


Our World in Data is one of the best sources available online for gathering data in its various forms, fields, presentations and timelines. Our World in Data is now launching -- Data Insights. Take some time and check it out, says GreenPolicy360.


"Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems"


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Planet Citizens in Action

Our Biggest Experiment


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FB post from GreenPolicy360's siterunner

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Our_Biggest_Experiment


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