加利福尼亚州州长加文·纽瑟姆（Gavin Newsom）和慈善家，前纽约市市长迈克尔·布隆伯格（Michael Bloomberg）宣布了一项新计划，该计划将使用卫星数据监测加利福尼亚州的气候变化。
这两人与总部位于旧金山的地球影像公司Planet一起，于周三在纽约举行的第三届年度彭博全球商业论坛上宣布了这一消息。该活动于本周早些时候在同一城市举行的联合国气候行动首脑会议之后举行。
根据彭博慈善基金会的新闻稿，该项目被正式称为“气候行动卫星”，该项目“将使政府，慈善家，环保组织和科技公司聚集在一起，利用卫星技术监测温室气体排放并将卫星数据转化为可操作的信息。”
根据新闻稿，该倡议有三个主要目标。首先，它将使用Planet的现有观测数据来调查加利福尼亚州的燃煤电厂运营。其次，它将研究具有创新能力的卫星技术，该技术具有扩大的能力以探测大气中的二氧化碳和甲烷等气体。第三，它将开发分析行星的新方法，这将有助于保护珊瑚礁，森林“和其他重要自然资源”。
Newsom说：“在采用新技术方面，加利福尼亚是推动变革的力量。” “我们将与Planet和彭博慈善基金会合作，通过利用卫星数据和分析来执行我们大胆的气候政策，继续推进气候领导事业。”
纽瑟姆的前任，前州长杰里·布朗（Jerry Brown），也是民主党人，去年成为头条新闻，他说如果唐纳德·特朗普总统撤回联邦政府收集大气数据和监测排放物如何影响的努力，加利福尼亚将发射“自己的该死的卫星”。地球的大气层。
在布朗和纽瑟姆的领导下，加利福尼亚州毫不犹豫地不同意总统。就在上周，特朗普表示，他将撤销加利福尼亚通过自己的车辆准入标准的能力。该州迅速对特朗普政府提起诉讼。
据推测，气候行动卫星将帮助该州实现在未来几十年内大幅减少其总排放量和碳足迹的目标。在布朗担任州长，国家提出到2030年削减温室气体排放低于1990年水平40％，到2045年产生全部来自可再生能源的零售电价的宏伟目标，根据对洛杉矶时报。
布朗气候政策顾问艾米·巴恩斯（Aimee Barnes）告诉《洛杉矶时报》：“这既是艰巨的任务，也是紧迫的任务。” “我们在布朗政府和以前的政府中设定了许多理想的目标。目标是给北极星一个方向，为我们需要去的方向指明方向。我认为如果有人能做到，那就是加利福尼亚“。
CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR NEWSOM AND MICHAEL BLOOMBERG ANNOUNCE PLAN TO USE SATELLITE TO TRACK CLIMATE CHANGE
Governor Gavin Newsom of California and philanthropist and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have announced a new initiative that will use satellite data to monitor climate change in California.
The duo, along with Planet, an Earth-imaging company based in San Francisco, made the announcement Wednesday at the third annual Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York. The event was held on the heels of the United Nations Climate Action Summit in the same city earlier this week.
Officially called Satellites for Climate Action, according to a press release from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the project "will bring together governments, philanthropists, environmental groups, and technology companies to use satellite technologies to monitor greenhouse gas emissions and turn satellite data into actionable information."
The initiative has three principle objectives, according to the press release. First, it will use existing observational data from Planet to survey coal-fired plant operations in California. Second, it will work on innovative satellite technologies with expanded capacities to detect gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere. Third, it will develop new ways to analyze the planet that will assist conservation efforts for coral reefs, forests "and other critical natural resources."
"California is a force for change when it comes to adopting new technologies," Newsom said. "Working with Planet and Bloomberg Philanthropies, we will continue advancing the cause of climate leadership by leveraging satellite data and analyses to enforce our bold climate policies."
Newsom's predecessor, former Gov. Jerry Brown, also a Democrat, made headlines last year when he said that California would launch its "own damn satellite" if President Donald Trump rolled back the federal government's efforts to collect atmospheric data and monitor how emissions were affecting Earth's atmosphere.
Under both Brown and Newsom's leadership, California has not hesitated to disagree with the president. Just last week, Trump said he would revoke California's ability to pass its own vehicle admissions standards. The state quickly filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration.
Satellites for Climate Action will presumably assist the state in reaching its goals of drastically reducing its total emissions and carbon footprint in the coming decades. During Brown's tenure as governor, the state made ambitious goals of cutting emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and generating all of its retail electricity from renewable sources by 2045, according to the Los Angeles Times.
"It's both Herculean and an imminently doable task," Aimee Barnes, Brown's policy adviser on climate, told the LA Times. "We set a lot of aspirational goals in the Brown administration and prior administrations. The point of a goal is to give a North Star, to give some direction to where we need to be headed. I think if anyone can do it, it's California."
