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Well, according to NASA's

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records, 2022 is tied
for the fifth warmest on record.

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And collectively,

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the last nine years have been the warmest
since modern recordkeeping began.

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Temperatures
in 2022 were about 1.1 degrees Celsius

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or about 2 degrees Fahrenheit
above the late 19th century average.

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And while that may sound
like a small number, just small changes

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in temperature
can have big impacts around the world.

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So what we see with with climate change,

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with the temperatures
that we're already experiencing,

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this 1.1 degrees Celsius or 2 degrees
Fahrenheit, we're already seeing impacts.

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So we see declines in the extent
and mass of Arctic sea ice.

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We see increases in sea level
and we see more extreme events

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like heatwaves and wildfires,
more changes in precipitation patterns

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that lead to more droughts and floods
and heavy precipitation events.

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So we're seeing these these changes

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in our Earth system
already driven by climate change.

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So we

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use the vantage point of space
to observe the Earth from space.

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We can see all of the Earth
and we can measure different things.

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So each of our satellites
is designed to measure something different

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about the planet.

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And so what we can see are things like
vegetation, changes in the massive ice

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sheets, clouds and precipitation, carbon
dioxide and much more.

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And we've been observing the planet
for decades.

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So we can see

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not just the state of the Earth today,
but also how it's changed over time.

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The most recent satellite
we launched, SWOT, which NASA launched

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in December, shows us surface
water and ocean topography.

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So it can, it's going to be able
to tell us

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how much water
is running through rivers and lakes

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and also give us more information
about ocean circulation.

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And oceans play a really important role
in climate change in that they absorb

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a lot of heat and carbon
and so will give us more information

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about their potential
to do so in the future.

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So what we're seeing is increases
in temperatures have continued.

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So over the last nine years, the warmest
since modern recordkeeping began.

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We know that the changes

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that we've experienced so far are driven
by greenhouse gases from human activity.

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And what science tells us is that future
warming will depend on future emissions.

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And if temperatures continue to rise,
we'll see more of these impacts

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and extreme events
that we're experiencing today.

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So more heatwaves, more wildfires,
more droughts and heavy precipitation

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events in the future with more warming.

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So 2022 is what scientists
and meteorologists call a La Niña year.

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And in general, La
Niña years are cooler than average.

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But 2022 is still tied
for the fifth warmest

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and among the nine warmest years on record
because of climate change.

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So we are seeing increases in temperature
now that

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continue into the future.

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