'The key challenge, in my opinion, remains making big enough dents in our carbon emissions,' NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt told Newsweek.
To tackle global warming, we need to accurately know the scale of the problem that we are dealing with. As part of this effort, a team of NASA scientists set out to verify the accuracy of recent global warming figures that suggest, among other things, that 2015, 2016 and 2017 were the hottest years on record.
They then compared these measurements to data on the air temperature 2 meters above the surface collected by weather stations around the world and analyzed by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies Surface Temperature Analysis. There are many groups that have independently analyzed that data—NASA, the Goddard Institute and the U.K. Met Office among them—and shown that results are consistent. But this is the first time that we have used a near globally complete satellite data set to evaluate and confirm the surface temperature [data.]
Do you think findings such as these can go any way to addressing the issue of climate change skepticism?
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