How NASA Sees Climate Change From Space

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The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Our climate is changing. In the last 100 years, the planet has warmed about 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to NASA. But how can we learn more about our planet’s climate and what we can do to slow the changes? Gavin A. Schmidt, a top NASA climate scientist and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, spoke with WSJ reporter Emily Glazer at the Future of Everything Festival on May 22, 2024 about the future of climate science and the data NASA is collecting on the Earth by looking at it from space. What do you think about the show? Let us know on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or email us: [email protected] Sign up for the WSJ's free The Future of Everything newsletter. Further reading: 2023 Was the Hottest Year on Record Extreme Heat, Floods, Fire: Was Summer 2023 the New Normal? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.0	2023 was the hottest year on record worldwide since modern record keeping began in the late 1800s.
0:26.5	That's according to NASA.
0:28.0	And over the last hundred years?
0:29.9	The planet as a whole has warmed up almost 1.5 degrees Celsius is about 2 and a bit
0:34.9	degrees Fahrenheit over that period.
0:37.8	That's Gavin Schmidt.
0:39.3	He's the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, or GISS, as well as the principal investigator
0:46.8	for the GISS Model E Earth System model.
0:50.3	He's also the acting senior climate advisor to the NASA administrator.
0:54.0	Usually, our image of NASA is looking out to the stars.
1:07.0	Most people think about the astronaut and the human space program or maybe the deep space missions,
1:11.0	but a large chunk of NASA is actually devoted to keeping its
1:14.7	eyes on the Earth from space.
1:18.0	Journal reporter Emily Glazer spoke to Schmidt at last month's Future of Everything Festival about about our warming earth and what he and his
1:24.7	team can see and learn by studying it from space.
1:29.3	Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
1:30.8	They're having an impact on heat waves, they're having an impact on intense rainfall,
1:34.6	having an impact on melting glaciers and sea level change, and we can see we can
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