Well, NASA is a world leader in studying
climate change and the Earth science research.
With more than two dozen satellites that we have,
and then instruments aboard the International Space Station.
NASA uses our unique vantage point
to bring critical climate data
down to Earth.
For example, ECOSTRESS.
It's a thermal instrument on the ISS.
It measures changes in temperature to identify plant stress,
which we can help identify extreme heat
in urban areas as well.
NASA's soon going to launch the PACE mission,
which is going to better understand how particles in the atmosphere
are changing, including what aerosols in the atmosphere are doing
and how our oceans
and atmosphere exchange carbon dioxide.
And these are key factors affecting global warming.
We also have instruments
such as SWAT.
It's giving us the level of all the freshwater
or rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs.
We have had the level of the oceans.
This is the first time through an instrument called SWAT.
There are many, many instruments up there
that are giving us a real time specific definition
of what is happening to our Earth.
NASA and the Biden-Harris administration
are really committed to ensuring our climate data
is not only understandable,
but it's accessible to everyone.
We want it to be for everyone,
not just scientists and government agencies,
but schoolchildren as well,
as well as around the world,
not just here domestically.
So one of the things
with all of this data that we possess,
we open the Earth Information Center.
It's at our headquarters.
It's an easy
to use climate information for anyone.
You don't have to walk in the building to see it.
You go on nasa-dot-gov (nasa.gov) or earth-dot-gov (earth.gov)
and you can get that information of what is happening to the Earth -
real time from our NASA satellites
as well as our instruments.
So we had a big climate conference
over in Dubai this past year.
We announced there the U.S.
Greenhouse Gas Center.
This is real time critical climate data
on carbon dioxide and methane,
the two major greenhouse gases.
That is available for everyone.
And to see where those greenhouse
gases are coming from.
So changes in our climate have serious impacts.
Air quality agriculture, food security,
forest wildfires, you name it.
NASA's climate models are providing key information to build
into what we want climate resilience.
We're working with
all our government partners like NOAA
to make sure we protect our planet.
And we better do it
because the Earth is heating up.