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 ..." 
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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! 
:pic.twitter.com/A63Cyfds2N
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...”
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:Large (charismatic) vs. Small Species
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: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 
 link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EV_Corridors_Electric_Vehicles_Zero_Emission_Vehicles#GreenPolicy360_sees_.2ASolar-charging.2A_stations_on_a_highway_near_you
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'Going Green'
 
President Obama Announces U.S. Clean Power Plan
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<Big>Climate Publishers Network</Big>
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
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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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