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Public Law 95-367 (1978), Public Law 101-606 (1990), Public Law 111-358 (2010) re: NOAA Climate.gov mission

Statutory Authority

NOAA's Climate.gov's mission emanates from several landmark federal statutes:

1) Section 5(5) of the National Climate Program Act (1978) directs the Department of Commerce to create a National Climate Program that (amond other things) "shall... include global data collection, and monitoring and analysis activities to provide reliable, useful and readily available information on a continuing basis" and "systems for the management and active dissemination of climatological data, information and assessment, including mechanisms for consultation with current and potential users...

As the Trump administration acts to delete scientific data from US government agencies

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GreenPolicy360 again focuses on the damage being done by those under the Trump presidency who are attempting to expunge facts of science, the foundations of reasoned thought, policy and national security

Green Policy looks back to the beginnings of climate-related law, the 1978 National Climate Act and Program, drafted by Congressman George E. Brown, supported by those of us who envisioned green, environmental Earth Science, and those in Congress who set in motion the Earth systems imaging/observation platforms, and data gathering missions of NASA/NOAA/USGS and educational/research/business institutions.

The first-generation environmental protection work purposefully went forward to gather the science and now, fifty+ years on, the nation sees anti-science actions that threaten the health and security of the nation.

Look again at US Public Law 95-367 - H.R. 6669 - An Act to establish a comprehensive and coordinated national climate policy and program, and for other purposes

95th Congress ((1977-1978)

Sponsor: Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36] (Introduced 04/27/1977)

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

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Young people were out in front... we were looking to science to be a policy guide.

Earth Science came forward as NASA/NOAA/USGS and institutions all over the nation, large and small, famous like JPL/Caltech and MIT and University of Alabama in Huntsville, the orbiting satellite constellations were supported coast-to-coast, south-to-north, heartland and urban joined together.

The missions were multiple and the results were outstanding successes. Landsat stood out and the GPS systems and multiple tech transfer systems and new digital came to be as the US led in scientific endeavors.

Now, in the 21st Century, we need to be reminded of what was accomplished.... even as there are those attempting to delete the accomplishments.

Via CNN / Fifty years after "Earthrise"

Via USA Today / "Earthrise" on the Fiftieth Anniversary

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• http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181220-the-nasa-mission-that-broadcast-to-a-billion-people

'Earthrise'