Traditionally reliability statistics have been used for manufacturing processes and to determine the reliability of physical products or the processes that manufacture those products. The goal of this project is to find a reasonable example of how these statistical measures can be used to determine the effectiveness of public policy, specifically as it relates to goals of decreasing CO2.

The world is becoming increasingly interconnected and, by most measures, is accelerating the pace of change. We may look to population increases, CO2 increases or technological advances as an example of our new trend towards the exponentially increasing pace of our world. The current political battles that regulate and legislate our national policies have been rooted in ideological beliefs. It is therefore important to aid in the development of policy to bring factually based data to beliefs or organizations. (Wang et al., 2003)While these ideological solutions have brought us to our current state of technological, social and economic progress there is a need to move to a more data driven model of public policy implementation.