Read on and discover how NASA is studying climate change in the Trump era.
to launch PACE, saving it from further potential cuts. That might be a trend we see more of: private space companies, including SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, picking up the tab for NASA projects as the current administration routes money to Trump’s pet projects. Climate change—which the President, Earth’s global surface temperature in 2019 was the second warmest on record. Watch the evolution of global warming above.
NASA has no qualms about telling you exactly where it stands on the climate change issue. “Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities, and most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position,” reads the agency’s website, on a page labelled.
Still, what remains to be seen is how NASA and private space companies are contributing to the climate change crisis themselves., a science site affiliated with the nonprofit American Geophysical Union, there are a bunch of chemicals, particulates, and even water vapor emitted during rocket launches that could be negatively impacting the climate, the ozone layer, and our environment in ways we aren’t yet aware of because we just aren’t studying it enough.
I ask Dr. Bontempi what she would say to people who are still skeptical of climate science. “You don’t come out and tell somebody they’re wrong,” she says. “You say, ‘Let me explain to you how the earth works and how we know the scientific data that are out there.” Mostly though, she wants people to feel free to ask questions directly at the source, to feel like they have the tools they need to understand earth science: “I want people to know that this is their space agency.
So while climate change is a terrifying threat, it’s reassuring to know that some of the best minds in the world are working hard to understand exactly what we’re dealing with and making sure we understand it too, no matter who’s in office. While that might seem like just a small step in the right direction, you know what NASA says about small steps.
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