WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:10.610 --> 00:00:15.015 Well, NASA is a world leader in studying 2 00:00:15.015 --> 00:00:18.852 climate change and the Earth science research. 3 00:00:18.918 --> 00:00:22.989 With more than two dozen satellites that we have, 4 00:00:23.056 --> 00:00:26.659 and then instruments aboard the International Space Station. 5 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:30.797 NASA uses our unique vantage point 6 00:00:30.897 --> 00:00:34.634 to bring critical climate data 7 00:00:34.734 --> 00:00:36.903 down to Earth. 8 00:00:36.903 --> 00:00:39.606 For example, ECOSTRESS. 9 00:00:39.606 --> 00:00:42.375 It's a thermal instrument on the ISS. 10 00:00:42.375 --> 00:00:47.714 It measures changes in temperature to identify plant stress, 11 00:00:47.814 --> 00:00:50.817 which we can help identify extreme heat 12 00:00:51.051 --> 00:00:54.954 in urban areas as well. 13 00:00:55.021 --> 00:00:58.024 NASA's soon going to launch the PACE mission, 14 00:00:58.224 --> 00:01:03.363 which is going to better understand how particles in the atmosphere 15 00:01:03.563 --> 00:01:09.769 are changing, including what aerosols in the atmosphere are doing 16 00:01:09.869 --> 00:01:11.971 and how our oceans 17 00:01:11.971 --> 00:01:16.142 and atmosphere exchange carbon dioxide. 18 00:01:16.209 --> 00:01:20.346 And these are key factors affecting global warming. 19 00:01:20.413 --> 00:01:23.016 We also have instruments 20 00:01:23.083 --> 00:01:24.818 such as SWAT. 21 00:01:24.818 --> 00:01:29.155 It's giving us the level of all the freshwater 22 00:01:29.222 --> 00:01:34.861 or rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs. 23 00:01:34.928 --> 00:01:38.898 We have had the level of the oceans. 24 00:01:38.998 --> 00:01:42.902 This is the first time through an instrument called SWAT. 25 00:01:42.969 --> 00:01:45.605 There are many, many instruments up there 26 00:01:45.605 --> 00:01:50.610 that are giving us a real time specific definition 27 00:01:50.610 --> 00:02:02.322 of what is happening to our Earth. 28 00:02:02.422 --> 00:02:05.825 NASA and the Biden-Harris administration 29 00:02:05.825 --> 00:02:10.063 are really committed to ensuring our climate data 30 00:02:10.163 --> 00:02:12.932 is not only understandable, 31 00:02:12.932 --> 00:02:16.736 but it's accessible to everyone. 32 00:02:16.803 --> 00:02:20.173 We want it to be for everyone, 33 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:23.443 not just scientists and government agencies, 34 00:02:23.510 --> 00:02:26.880 but schoolchildren as well, 35 00:02:26.946 --> 00:02:30.250 as well as around the world, 36 00:02:30.316 --> 00:02:34.087 not just here domestically. 37 00:02:34.154 --> 00:02:36.089 So one of the things 38 00:02:36.089 --> 00:02:39.092 with all of this data that we possess, 39 00:02:39.259 --> 00:02:42.362 we open the Earth Information Center. 40 00:02:42.362 --> 00:02:44.731 It's at our headquarters. 41 00:02:44.797 --> 00:02:46.032 It's an easy 42 00:02:46.032 --> 00:02:51.337 to use climate information for anyone. 43 00:02:51.404 --> 00:02:54.240 You don't have to walk in the building to see it. 44 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:59.712 You go on nasa-dot-gov (nasa.gov) or earth-dot-gov (earth.gov) 45 00:02:59.779 --> 00:03:04.017 and you can get that information of what is happening to the Earth - 46 00:03:04.083 --> 00:03:07.754 real time from our NASA satellites 47 00:03:07.854 --> 00:03:11.591 as well as our instruments. 48 00:03:11.658 --> 00:03:14.227 So we had a big climate conference 49 00:03:14.227 --> 00:03:17.964 over in Dubai this past year. 50 00:03:18.031 --> 00:03:21.467 We announced there the U.S. 51 00:03:21.568 --> 00:03:24.304 Greenhouse Gas Center. 52 00:03:24.304 --> 00:03:28.241 This is real time critical climate data 53 00:03:28.341 --> 00:03:31.344 on carbon dioxide and methane, 54 00:03:31.544 --> 00:03:34.914 the two major greenhouse gases. 55 00:03:34.981 --> 00:03:37.083 That is available for everyone. 56 00:03:37.083 --> 00:03:40.587 And to see where those greenhouse 57 00:03:40.587 --> 00:03:43.923 gases are coming from. 58 00:03:43.990 --> 00:03:48.194 So changes in our climate have serious impacts. 59 00:03:48.294 --> 00:03:52.131 Air quality agriculture, food security, 60 00:03:52.365 --> 00:03:56.603 forest wildfires, you name it. 61 00:03:56.703 --> 00:04:02.575 NASA's climate models are providing key information to build 62 00:04:02.642 --> 00:04:07.013 into what we want climate resilience. 63 00:04:07.113 --> 00:04:08.381 We're working with 64 00:04:08.381 --> 00:04:11.618 all our government partners like NOAA 65 00:04:11.684 --> 00:04:15.321 to make sure we protect our planet. 66 00:04:15.421 --> 00:04:18.258 And we better do it 67 00:04:18.258 --> 00:04:20.426 because the Earth is heating up.