The satellite helping slow climate change — right now | Millie Chu Baird

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🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Meet MethaneSAT: the satellite circling Earth right now to track global emissions from methane: a highly potent, short-term greenhouse gas. Environmental advocate Millie Chu Baird details the heat-trapping side effects of a planet full of methane — and explains why understanding where it comes from and taking steps to reduce it is the single most important thing we can do to affect climate change in our lifetimes. (MethaneSAT is part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks daily,
0:11.0	where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:14.8	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:17.0	You can't change what you can't measure.
0:19.4	That's the idea behind the work of today's speaker, Millie Chu Baird.
0:23.0	She's an environmental advocate working on a sweeping project to operate a satellite that tracks methane emissions.
0:30.0	Methane is one of the biggest contributors to climate change.
0:34.0	Getting a better sense of where it's coming from
0:36.4	is a powerful tool to reduce it and reduce climate change
0:39.7	in our lifetimes.
0:41.6	She explains, after the break. And now our TED Talk of the day.
0:48.8	Lots of people are really enthusiastic about space.
1:00.1	My husband, my daughters, and a lot of my colleagues love rockets and pretty much anything that has to do with space.
1:02.6	It's never really been my thing. However, I recently went to a rocket launch
1:05.8	and I can honestly say that I got emotional.
1:08.6	And the emotion that I felt wasn't just thrill or awe.
1:13.8	It was hope, because my colleagues and I helped put something
1:17.8	on that rocket that will address the single most important thing
1:22.2	we can do
1:23.3	to affect climate change in our lifetimes.
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