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This is Star Talk, Cosmic Query's edition, special live at the Broward County Youth Climate Summit,

the third annual. So delighted to be a part of that.

I've got with me my co-host Chuck, nice, Chuck. Hey, Neil. So obviously, while I know a little bit about climate,

I don't know anything near who we've got here as guests.

Yeah. A very important addition to this, because for Cosmic Query's, we want to make sure we have the right expertise at the right time, at the right place, which is now.

I've got Gavin Schmidt, Gavin, welcome back to Star Talk.

Hi, Neil, Chuck. Nice to be back.

Hey, Gavin. Excellent.

And you recently became seen in addition to being director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which is a NASA satellite office in Manhattan.

Many people don't know about that one. They know about Kennedy Space Center and Houston.

But we've got a little pocket of NASA in New York City, and you're there as our neighbors, so good to know that.

But you're also elevated, or it's just a promotion, I guess, to senior advisor on climate to NASA.

So it's nice to know that such a position exists.

Well, it does now, yes.

It does. It does now.

And it's not good enough just to research on climate. This stuff has to get communicated.

And if you're an advisor to NASA, and NASA is a hugely public entity in our lives, not only domestically, but in the world, you've got a really key place there.

And let me just lead off. Before we get to the questions that no Chuck has collected, because that's the DNA of this format is questions from you, from the public coming back to get answered in our start talking in way.

But let me just ask you, Gavin, should we not be surprised that this youth climate summit is being organized in Florida and not Colorado or one of the mountain states.

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