This document discusses a global vegetation monitoring workshop and issues regarding continuity of sensor data, validation, and verification of results from initiatives like REDD+ and measuring net ecosystem exchange and net primary productivity. It questions whether $100 billion would be invested based on current information and notes that while the global climate is now better understood, the global economic model had a flaw exposed, with $30 trillion at risk.

1. Workshop welcome

2. Workshop Welcome

4. THE FIRST GLOBAL VEGETATION MONITOR

5. GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) Earth Observations Summit Observations to Users to Benefits

7. Global Fires for 10 Days REDD – REDUCING EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION AND DEGRADATION

9. Would you invest $100,000,000,000 based on this information???

10. WE MAY BECOME THE GLOBAL CARBON COPS

11. Alan Greenspan ( US House of Representatives testimony Oct 24, 2008 ) “ I discovered a flaw in the model that I perceived is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works” WE UNDERSTAND THE GLOBAL CLIMATE BETTER THAN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY!!! $30 TRILLION !!!