Cosmic Queries – Climate Change at NASA with Chief Scientist Katherine Calvin

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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How does NASA combat climate change? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck Nice answer questions about renewable energy, geoengineering, and how science is helping us battle the climate crisis with NASA Chief Scientist Katherine Calvin.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.0	This is Star Talk.
0:16.0	When you yield the grass Tyson here, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:19.0	And today, it's a Cosmic Query's edition on climate change
0:23.0	and what NASA has to say about it.
0:26.0	And what NASA might be doing about it.
0:29.0	And we've got here Chuck, nice, Chuck.
0:31.0	Hey Neil, you know, you think a lot about climate change.
0:34.0	I've seen you do some philanthropic activities in this place.
0:39.0	I devote a lot of my time to trying to educate people through entertainment
0:43.0	and other means about the climate crisis.
0:46.0	Okay.
0:47.0	I call it that because it is.
0:48.0	Because sometimes you got to make them laugh to have them listen, I guess.
0:51.0	Yeah, you know, that's how I've stayed married all these years.
0:55.0	I'm not going to say, I'm okay.
0:59.0	So whatever you know and I know about climate is not the level of expertise we require
1:03.0	to have a show based on that subject.
1:05.0	And so we comb the landscape.
1:08.0	And we said, oh yeah, the recently appointed NASA chief scientist is also the NASA's senior climate advisor.
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