Earth Right Now
Trump administration deletes "Earth Right Now" on the Internet... follow the NASA site map to see what is cut next
At GreenPolicy360 we have emphasized the vital (as in 'vital signs') importance of 'measuring and monitoring' to advance effective, reasoned and beneficial policy decisions.
We, starting with our founders work with George E. Brown, looking back at beginnings of The Modern Environmental Movement, realized that Earth Science would have to grow vigorously to put a foundation in place on which successive generations could build enlightened business, educational, government and scientific policies. And, until the Trump administration came along, we succeeded in large part. The facts are what they are...
Read about the science and a man who came to be known as 'Mr. Science' in the U.S. Congress -- 'Our friend', George E. Brown
Now the scientific, forward-looking work of modern times confronts an anti-science U.S. president and administration. The facts of the rollback of scientific research in the U.S. across a wide swath of the current government are what they are -- and a growing voice is stepping up to support facts and policies that protect and promote smart, beneficial policies and values.
We are seeing more groups coming into view who are doing work that needs to be done, work essential to be kept going through turbulent times and retrogressive government actions.
And we are seeing the ignominious actions of the current administration in the US as they enact and attempt to enact bans and deletions, censoring and rollbacks, threats and 'Vought-led' OMB cuts to essential services, functions, policies and personnel. This is an era that will come to be known for what it is, what it did, and how it impacted the U.S and the nations and people of the world...
- Earth Right Now
- 'Vital Signs'
Earth Right Now
• http://www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow - Deleted by the Trump administration
• http://www.climate.nasa.gov - Deleted by the Trump administration
• http://www.climate.jpl.nasa.gov - Deleted by the Trump administration
In July 2026, we focus in on NOAA...
Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump
Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump
Scientists Relaunch Climate.gov a Year After the Trump Administration Shut It Down
Former NOAA Employees Revive Climate Site Shut by Trump Administration
The database of federal global warming research recreates a website that was closed amid the administration’s broad retreat from climate science
Climate.us launches independent website for trusted climate information
GreenPolicy360:
As one looks at NASA and NOAA, and across the current U.S. government, executive orders act to remove science, research, data, programs, departments, decades of ongoing world-class initiatives, achievement, productivity, competitiveness, front-of-market engineering, energy resilience, and on and on...
E.g., see remnant Earth Right Now 'error message' notice of deletion here...
Perfidious -- Trump administration's extensive cuts and dismantling of NASA Earth Science departments and programs, including 'Earth Right Now' decades of data, resources, and essential scientific knowledge that was available for public viewing on the Internet/Worldwide Web.
Clearly the priorities of the current administration reject national security issues that involve a host of clear and present dangers to communities in the United States.
See New Definitions of National Security
The abandonment of science clearly impacts today's and tomorrow's local and global well-being. The Trump legacy will be felt for years, and the consequence of backward looking policies are already being broadly rejected.
Tracking the Retro-Trump (and 'Project 2025') Record
Stay tuned for the return of another presidential administration, policy and budgeting, and re-enabling of vital Earth Science initiatives of NASA, which continue to follow the foundational NASA Mission Statement to study Planet Earth, to measure/monitor changes of land/water/oceans/atmospheric conditions impacting life on Earth, and to provide citizens and policy makers with essential Earth System Science data needed to make informed and intelligent decisions.
Until the advent of a new administration and a renewed support of essential science and life enhancing and supporting policies, here is an example of Earth Now 'vital signs' reporting from NOAA.
And here are examples over decades of developing 'Earth Right Now' efforts from the resources of GreenPolicy360 & Strategic Demands -- 'a foundation on which to build'...
Planet Earth: Our Planet Citizen Home
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Measure to Manage
GreenPolicy360: In our emphasis on facts, science, and 'planet citizen' navigation it's time to speak of responsibilities.
Let's start up with a reminder from the NASA Mission Statement...
From the beginning of NASA thru 2005, here's the Mission
Here's the story of the NASA Mission as told by GreenPolicy360.
Our founder/siterunner was a participant in the work as a friend up close to Representative George E. Brown, who was key to Congressional oversight of Science, Space and Technology.
Three decades of foundational science work -- read about the vision and about the life of George E. Brown here ... a unique view of the beginnings of 'Big Science'.
- "Mr. Science", George E. Brown, Rep. Los Angeles
Today, NASA's Earth Science work continues, overcoming challenges ...
NASA, often in partnership with NOAA, USGS, the EPA continues, despite retrogressive political forces, with a deep and wide constellation of ongoing science ventures with educational institutions, businesses, and non-profit citizen groups ... observational science, the invention of measuring devices, the GPS enabling mapping technology and shared with citizens and scientists worldwide, the Landsat program of a half century, the data of atmospheric composition and change that provides a knowledge base for climate science and climate policy ... the Earth Science benefits go on and on ....
NASA is providing Atmospheric Science, Earth Science, Ocean Science, Climate Science -- measuring/monitoring changes over time of Earth's dynamic living systems ...
'You can manage only what you can measure' ...
* https://www.nasa.gov/content/you-can-manage-only-what-you-can-measure
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- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/index.php/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs
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- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space
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- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Vision_of_Living_Earth | Planet Citizen Vision of Our Living Earth
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GreenPolicy360 & Strategic Demands, developing "New Definitions of National and Global Security"
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- https://strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/
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A Personal recollection from GreenPolicy360's founder/siterunner --
A Story of 'Earthrise' to 'Earth Day' and Far Beyond....
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- Round & Round We Go ....
The Modern Environmental Movement
'Earthrise' to a First 'Earth Day' ... Now Earth Is in Your Hands
'Earthrise', December 24, 1968 to 'Earthset', April 6, 2026
Continuing with the Original NASA "Mission Statement"
- "To Understand and Protect Our Home Planet"
Earth Observing System -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_Observing_System_-_fleet_of_satellites.png
2022
GreenPolicy360: We have put forward a proposal to restore the original Earth Science provisions to the Mission Statement of NASA.
Next stop, the desk of current NASA administrator Bill Nelson, former astronaut and U.S. Senator from Florida.
We are looking at the top-of-mind directive that stated a key intent of the U.S. space program at inception.
Your GreenPolicy360 founder/siterunner, as a high school student in the 1960s met and became friends with a newly elected Congressman, George E. Brown from East Los Angeles who, as a trained physicist/engineer went on to a three decade career as a leader of NASA space programs, focusing on Earth Science, Earth Imaging and study of Earth systems. Representative Brown pointed at this NASA Mission Statement as he did his Congressional Committee oversight roles that were foundational in creating first generation Earth Science.
As George became a friend and over the years became a colleague,I remember how his eyes lit up when he talked about environmental protection and how the Landsat technology was what the mission ordered and how the 'new ways of seeing' would forever change the ways we see our home planet.
George Brown was a visionary -- and I have tried to keep the mission and message alive through the years, with George and since his passing the year before the new Millenium.
Now, as planet citizens in action, we have an opportunity through personal and political connections to meet with Bill Nelson, the head of NASA and Kathy Castor, the chair of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. We are planning to advocate for a Mission Statement 'revisioning' and continue to go forward from the original statement plus an integral update as the scope and seriousness of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) fleet of missions are key in achieving environmental, national, and global security.
Journalist Andrew Revkin wrote about the removal of the initial home planet provision by the George W. Bush administration, even though it was an essential part of NASA since the beginning of NASA as a government agency. GreenPolicy360 believes that, although these provisions were 'silently' removed in 2006, they continue to have an essential role in the missions of NASA and NASA's work.
Here is what Andrew Revkin wrote some 15 years ago:
>Andrew Revkin/July 22, 2006/ NY Times
>“To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can.”
>In February 2006, the phrase "to understand and protect the home planet" was quietly removed from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s official mission statement.
>It is the first time since NASA’s founding in 1958 that the mission statement does not explicitly include mention of the Earth.
Here is part of NASA Administrator Bill Nelson's testimony before the Senate oversight committee this past week:
INDEED A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK OF NASA AS THE SPACE AGENCY. DON'T FORGET TO THE FIRST A, AERONAUTICS. BUT ALSO, PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE IT IS ALSO THE POINT OF THE SPHERE ON CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE BECAUSE ALL THE MEASUREMENTS THAT ARE BEING MADE ARE DONE BY INSTRUMENTS THAT WE DESIGN, BUILD, LAUNCH AND MANY OF THEM WE OPERATE.
OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT DECADE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A GREAT OBSERVATORY OF FIVE ADDITIONAL MAJOR SPACECRAFT THAT ALL OF THIS INFORMATION IS GOING TO BE PUT INTO A 3D COMPOSITE ON PRECISELY WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE EARTH'S CLIMATE. WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THE WATER, TO THE LAND, TO THE ICE, TO THE ATMOSPHERE. WE ARE PUTTING UP AT THE END OF THIS YEAR A MISSION THAT IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO MEASURE FOR THE FIRST TIME THE ELEVATION OF THE STREAMS AND RIVERS AND LAKES, THE FRESHWATER. WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO MEASURE THE ELEVATION OF THE OCEANS, THE SALTWATER. WE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO FIND OUT VERY PRECISELY WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE ICE.
ALL OF THIS AND WE HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE WHITE HOUSE ON THIS AND WE HOPE WE WILL HAVE YOUR SUPPORT. WE ARE GOING TO CREATE IF YOU CAN ENVISION IN SPACE TERMS A MISSION CONTROL CENTER. IT'S GOING TO BE CALLED THE EARTH INFORMATION CENTER. IT'S GOING TO BRING ALL OF THIS DATA IN AND IT'S GOING TO BE DISPLAYED AND IT'S GOING TO BE AVAILABLE TO EVERYBODY, NOT JUST GOVERNMENT AT ALL LEVELS INCLUDING YOUR LOCAL COUNTY COMMISSION WHEN THEY ARE PLANNING, BUT IT'S GOING TO BE AVAILABLE TO SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR AS WELL AS TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AND THE CHANGES THAT ARE HAPPENING TO THE CLAIMANT.
Readers of GreenPolicy360 can look back at our founder's work with George E. Brown, who was instrumental as a leader in Congress for over 30 years and led Earth Science efforts, including advancing NASA's first generation of earth research from space.
Congressman Brown's point of view for over 30 yrs in Congress was that technology, science, and data, 'measuring and monitoring', would enable smart policy decisions. Check out Congressman Brown's record as GreenPolicy 360 begins to bring it into the light. George set in motion many of the programs and missions that accomplish a generational legacy, advancing environmental protection goals that we have taken up and carried on...
The original Mission Statement of NASA ((1958) provided Congressional intent and guidance to the first generation of space programs. George, if he were here, would've done everything within his power to protect the original mission statement, even as misinformation and denial are rampant these days ...
Advancing an Intergenerational Science Mission
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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Science at a hearing on their agency’s fiscal year 2023 budget request. Administrator Nelson answered a variety of questions, including Russia and the International Space Station, the 2025 Artemis Mission to the Moon, climate change, and infrastructure. Director Panchnathan addressed STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education investments, technology innovation, and quantum computing. They both addressed competition with China, national security concerns, and the importance of private-public partnerships
More re: NASA Priorities at https://www.c-span.org/video/?519058-1/nasa-administrator-agencys-priorities
Carbon Mapper
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Earth Observation System / EOS
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(Removed by Trump administration)
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NASA
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Global Climate Change Resources from NASA
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2017
2017 Takes Second Place for Hottest Year
Climate Time Machine NASA Earth Science
2016
Science in the Cause of National & Global Security
NASA Announcement: Unlimited access to the 16-plus-year database for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Japan) Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument, which flies aboard NASA's Terra satellite. ASTER’s database, more than 2.95 million individual scenes is worldwide....
"We anticipate a dramatic increase in the number of users of our data, with new and exciting results to come," said Michael Abrams, ASTER science team leader at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, home to ASTER's U.S. science team.
- 2015
From Above We See Our Planet: High Definition Video from NASA
JPL-NASA #EarthScience from space / Five new #EarthNow missions
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The DSCOVR Mission
Images of Earth from DSCOVR-EPIC in Lagrange orbit, daily 'selfies' from a million miles away
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- DSCOVR is launched and on its way!
Feb 12, 2015 The DSCOVR satellite with its EPIC cam, PlasMag & NISTAR instrument package is on the way... a million mile journey, in approx four months, it will light up, be tested and begin delivering data to Earth, including near-real-time imaging of Earth provided online.
GreenPolicy360 is assisting NASA DSCOVR mission managers and we will be delivering a stream of amazing imagery of our planet as NASA/NOAA begin uploading EPICs pictures of ... Planet Earth 'selfies'!
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History-making Earth Science
Earth Science Research from Space / #EarthScience
OCO-2 Historic Mission to Study the Earth's Atmosphere
NASA Challenges Public to Join In
Monitoring the Home Planet
As the realization of the critical importance of studying life systems of the planet has grown, the priorities of NASA have shifted.
The incoming US Congress will have to address the evident risks and dangers to the planet, even though its leadership denies risks and dangers.
As we review the latest from the US space agency's new focus, take a look at Pulse of the Planet, Vital Signs released Sept 2014...
To fully appreciate pulse's high resolution detail, click on the gear symbol, set it to 720p resolution and choose full screen video
"Pulse of the Planet" / HD Video
bit.ly/VitalSignsPulseofthePlanet
- Earth Right Now
- Vital Signs
NASA Climate: Vital Signs of the Planet
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Where did Earth Right Now start as a mission?
NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) -- Originally called "Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE)"
NASA's Earth Science Division' plans and manages earth science programs including Earth Right Now.
"The Earth Science Enterprise (ESE)is dedicated to "understanding the total Earth system and the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment."
NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) provides "long-term global observations of land surfaces, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, and oceans."
The Earth Science Projects Division manages the missions which advance our understanding of the Earth.
NASA's Earth Observing System Project Office
- NASA Earth Science: Critical Science, Vital Signs
Current Generation Earth Research from Space, Missions and Programs
Responding to the Challenge of Climate and Environmental Change
Earth Observing System Data and Information System - Maps
Suomi NPP - Next-generation Earth-observing satellite system
Next generation NASA-NOAA #EarthMonitoring satellite
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http://eros.usgs.gov/ceos/lsip.shtml
http://eros.usgs.gov/ceos/satellites_midres1.shtml
http://eros.usgs.gov/ceos/satellites_midres2.shtml
http://eros.usgs.gov/ceos/satellites_midres3.shtml
http://eros.usgs.gov/ceos/overview.shtml
http://eros.usgs.gov/ceos/sensors_midres8.shtml
"The ultimate beneficiaries are the present and future generations of the people on Earth..."
"The goal of the Earth Observing project is improved understanding of the Earth as an integrated system."
"Earth Science: "To improve life here" and "to understand and protect our home planet."
Eyes on the Earth - Earth Right Now
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Planet Citizens, Y/Our Planet Is Changing
We need to develop Earth Science as a comprehensive factual set of measurements if we are to secure and manage the future of the Earth Systems
In the 1980s, the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee led a new Earth vision and NASA embraced the concept of Earth system science with a global perspective of Earth monitoring
The continuing mission of NASA, its partners and Earth Science research remains vital to [1] new understandings of national and global security
We are in a race against time
We need the best possible scientific knowledge to protect and preserve "The Commons"
as 'wise stewards' securing communities, nations and global eco-systems
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"We shall never cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
– T.S. Eliot
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