Slashdot Mirror
To Fight Climate Change, California Says 'We're Launching Our Own Damn Satellite' (latimes.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the Los Angeles Times:
Jerry Brown closed his climate summit in San Francisco on Friday with a dramatic announcement: California will launch its own satellite into orbit to track and monitor the formation of pollutants that cause climate change. "With science still under attack and the climate threat growing, we're launching our own damn satellite," Brown said in prepared remarks. "This groundbreaking initiative will help governments, businesses and landowners pinpoint -- and stop -- destructive emissions with unprecedented precision, on a scale that's never been done before...."
The state will develop the satellite with the San Francisco-based Earth-imaging firm Planet Labs, a company founded by former NASA scientists in 2010. The state may ultimately launch multiple satellites into space, according to the governor's office.... Robbie Schingler, co-founder of Planet Labs, said the project will inform "how advanced satellite technology can enhance our ability to measure, monitor, and ultimately, mitigate the impacts of climate change..." Brown's announcement came in quickly delivered remarks at the close of the three-day gathering and received a standing ovation from many in the audience.
Governors from 17 states (and from both political parties) also pledged to spend $1.4 billion to lower auto emissions, using money from Volkwagen's legal settlement over falsifying clean-air performance data. New York City also announced that its pension fund would invest $4 billion in companies offering climate change solution over the next three years.
And 26 states, cities and businesses said they'd procure non-polluting vehicle fleets by 2030, while ChargePoint and EV Box pledged to build 3.5 million new charging stations around the world.
The state will develop the satellite with the San Francisco-based Earth-imaging firm Planet Labs, a company founded by former NASA scientists in 2010. The state may ultimately launch multiple satellites into space, according to the governor's office.... Robbie Schingler, co-founder of Planet Labs, said the project will inform "how advanced satellite technology can enhance our ability to measure, monitor, and ultimately, mitigate the impacts of climate change..." Brown's announcement came in quickly delivered remarks at the close of the three-day gathering and received a standing ovation from many in the audience.
Governors from 17 states (and from both political parties) also pledged to spend $1.4 billion to lower auto emissions, using money from Volkwagen's legal settlement over falsifying clean-air performance data. New York City also announced that its pension fund would invest $4 billion in companies offering climate change solution over the next three years.
And 26 states, cities and businesses said they'd procure non-polluting vehicle fleets by 2030, while ChargePoint and EV Box pledged to build 3.5 million new charging stations around the world.
I was torn but your liberal usage of CAPS LOCK really won me over in the end.
On the Oregon Cost born and raised, On the beach is where I spent most of my days
Don't you get it? Homeless are some of the lowest per capita emitters of C02. The more homeless California has the greater their impact on climate change!
On the Oregon Cost born and raised, On the beach is where I spent most of my days
To fight climate change, California says "We're launching our own damn satellite! With blackjack, and hookers!"
#DeleteFacebook
No, more like:
"I will launch the best satellites ever to catch losers and cheaters in Jiiina and other shit-hole countries who fart our way without telling us. AND I'll make Canada and Mexico pay for it! I know rockets, believe me, know them really really well. They'll launch the best satellites; gold plated eagles and Jesuses; you'll be proud, proud as it orbits above your patriotic head as we all look up together as Americans to watch solar eclipses without those fake CNN glasses they claim you should use to protect your eyes from socialistic rays. Totally rigged business, and you look silly wearing them. I like people without wimpy eyes who don't go blind. Space Force will MASA!"
Table-ized A.I.