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The United States federal government should increase ocean exploration through earth observation satellites.

U.S. ability to monitor the earth is rapidly collapsing due to lack of funding and infrastructure – ¾ of our system will be lost by 2020
Lacey 12 (Stephen Lacy, reporter for think progress, “Report: U.S. Environmental Satellite System ‘Is At Risk Of Collapse’ And Could Decline 75% By 2020”, 5/8/12, [] ) EML

Overwhelming scientific consensus supports that warming is real and human caused
Kevin **__Trenbeth__**, Distinguished Senior Scientist, Climate Analysis Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research et al., writing with over 30 other distinguished climate researchers

( “Check with Climate Scientists for Views on Climate,” WALL STREET JOURNAL, letter to the editor, 2—1—**__12__**, [])


 * Satellites are key to developing models that enable effective mitigation and adaption **
 * EUMETSAT NO DATE, ** [EUMETSAT is a global operational satellite agency at the heart of Europe. Their purpose is to gather satellite data on weather, climate and the environment around the clock, and to deliver them to Member and Cooperating States, = international partners, and to users world-wide, “Climate services need to be developed to meet the challenge of mitigating and adapting to climate change”, EUMETSAT, http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/AboutUs/WhatWeDo/MonitoringClimate/index.html ] l.gong

Enhanced climate data is key to informed and confident policymaking – helps test climate models and identify causes of warming

 * Lewis 10- **James Andrew Lewis is a senior fellow and director of the Strategic Technologies Program at CSIS (**__Lewis__**, CSIS, 20**__10__**, Earth Observation for Climate Change: A Report of the CSIS Technology and Public Policy Program, http://csis.org/files/publication/100608_Lewis_EarthObservation_WEB.pdf)//SJ

U.S. commitment to satellites is key to sustaining monitoring efforts worldwide – NOAA sets quality standards and serves as a global model
Morello ’12

(Lauren, writer for Scientific American and Senior Science columnist for Climate Central, “Budget Woes Halt Climate Monitoring at 12 Ground Stations,” The Scientific American, [], 9/4/12, Accessed 6/25/14, arh)

Warming is the only existential risk
(Terry, “Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic for American Statecraft,” Conclusion: American Foreign Affairs Strategy Today)
 * __Deibel ’07__** —Prof IR @ National War College

Growth has removed all motivation for escalatory wars – empirically proven

 * __Gartzke 11__** – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego PhD from Iowa and B.A. from UCSF (Erik, "SECURITY IN AN INSECURE WORLD," www.cato-unbound.org/2011/02/09/erik-gartzke/security-in-an-insecure-world/ )

Observation 3 is Disease

 * Satellites are critical to preventing disease outbreaks – ensure better modeling**
 * Ford et al. 09** – (Timothy E. Ford, PhD in Aquatic Microbiology from the University College of North Wales, Bangor, department head of Microbiology at Montana State University, Rita R. Colwell, Joan B. Rose, Stephen S. Morse, David J. Rogers, and Terry L. Yates, University of New England, Biddeford, Maine, USA (T.E. Ford); University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA (R.R. Colwell); Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (R.R. Colwell); Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA (J.B. Rose); Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA (S.S. Morse); Oxford University, Oxford, UK (D.J. Rogers); and University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (T.L. Yates) Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, “Satellite Imagery in Predicting Infectious Disease Outbreaks”, September 2009, v.15)

Diseases in environmental reservoirs are uniquely able to cause extinction – your burnout arguments don’t apply
Casadevall 12 (Arturo Casadevall – Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Division of Infectious Diseases of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, “The future of biological warfare”, Microbial Biotechnology (2012) // JJ)

Satellite environmental data can be used predict disease outbreaks
Harmon 9 [Katherine Harmon writes for the Scientific American, “Satellites Used to Predict Infectious Disease Outbreaks”, 8/24/09, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/satellites-predict-infectious-disease/]l.gong

Satellites can predict climate anomalies where disease epidemics will develop
Kalluri et al 7 -Satya Kalluri, PhD in Geography and assistant research scientist at the Department of Geography at the University of Maryland; Peter Gilruth, PhD in Forestry and Forest Product Techniques and has over 20 years of experience as an environmental scientist and project manager and strategist with the US Government and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and currently in the private sector where he collaborates closely with the US space agency NASA; David Rogers, PhD in Geological and Geotechnical Engineering and Professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology; Martha Szczur, writer of several books on pathogens and health geographics, 2007, “Surveillance of Arthropod Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases Using Remote Sensing Techniques: A Review,” pdf available online: []

Observation 4 is solvency:

Improved ocean observation is critical – it’s the missing piece of the climate equation
Stillman 8- Director at Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (Fall 2008, vol 23, no 3, Imaging Notes, http://imagingnotes.com/go/article_free.php?mp_id=146)

Oceans are instrumental to exhibiting changes and influencing climate conditions
Richardson et al. 11 [Katherine Richardson, 2011 Professor in Biological Oceanography at the University of Copenhagen. Climate change global risks, challenges and decisions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. []] l.gong

U.S. leadership key to a global move towards renewables and increased efficiency
Jones 5/28/14- Senior Fellow of Foreign Policy, Director of Project on International Order and Strategy (Bruce Jones, “American Leadership Required for Progress on Global Climate and Energy Governance”, Brookings.edu, []) //JL


 * Satellites are key to monitoring treaty compliance **


 * Fisk 9 ** – Lennard A. Fisk, Thomas M. Donahue Distinguished University Professor of Space Science, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, University of Michigan and Vice Chair, Committee on the Rationale and Goals of the U.S. Civil Space Program Space Studies Board and Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council, The National Academies, October 21, 2009, “THE CASE FOR SPACE: EXAMINING THE VALUE,” testimony before the Subcommittee on Science and Space Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation U.S. Senate

__Climate Wire 9__ **–** March 4, 2009, “Aging climate satellites ‘a real problem’, academy head tells Congress”, Climate Wire, []
 * Sats monitoring effective implementation of emissions policies **


 * Must act now – some parts of the world are near a tipping point **


 * The Guardian, March 28 **, 20**14**, []

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