NASA Offers Many Resources to Monitor Climate Change
In light of recent extreme weather events in the United States and around the world, NASA held a media roundtable July 20 from its headquarters in Washington to highlight the agency’s climate work.
From wildfires raging across North America, flooding in the Northeast, heatwaves across the Southwest, and a record hot June, millions of Americans are experiencing the effects of extreme weather. NASA is tracking it all, and sharing its data.
“The data is clear: Our Earth is warming. And NASA is committed to empowering scientists, decisionmakers, and people around the world to make data-based decisions when it comes to climate, said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “With more than two dozen satellites, instruments aboard the International Space Station, and commercial and international partnerships, NASA uses our unique vantage point of space to observe our planet. To put it another way, NASA is bringing space down to Earth.”
The topics of discussion ranged from greenhouse gases, NASA’s new Earth Information Center, the fleet of satellites the agency has observing weather-data, how NASA uses surface records to learn more about climate change, how climate change affects oceans, and more.
“NASA’s vast, decades-long array of Earth, atmospheric, and solar data – which are openly and freely available to anyone – provide a comprehensive, real-time history of our dynamic and complex planet. Understanding Earth gives us the means to better protect it,” said Calvin.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/2023/climate-media-resources
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@johnte_ndeto with this kind of progress we will achieve more
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Good move by NASA
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@rukia_ahmed_abdi totally