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So the last ten years have

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been the warmest since modern
record keeping began last year.

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At this time, we announced
that 2023 was the warmest year on record.

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This year, 2024 has broken that record.

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And we're seeing, you know, from science,
we understand that increases

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in greenhouse gases
are driving a trend towards warmer years.

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But we also have natural dynamics
like El Nino, a La Nina, that can lead

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to some years being relatively warm
or relatively cooler.

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But the last two years
have been the warmest that we've measured.

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And so the PACE satellite,
launched almost a year ago,

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and it's looking at tiny things
in the ocean, in the atmosphere.

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And by looking at these tiny things,
we can better understand things

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like weather, air quality, harmful
algal blooms, fisheries and climate.

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So the warming that we're seeing,

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this trend towards warmer and warmer
years is driven by greenhouse gases.

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And so what we know from science

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is that how much warmer it gets
in the future depends on future emissions.

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And when we're seeing with increasing
warming and increasing temperatures,

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we're seeing an increase in impacts
and extreme events.

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Some are becoming more frequent,
some more intense, and some both.

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And we would expect that to continue
with continued warming.

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So at NASA, one of our most important
missions is our home planet.

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We've been looking back at Earth
from space for decades.

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We do this with our crew that are living
in the International Space Station.

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They can take pictures of Earth
from space.

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We also have more than two dozen
satellites and instruments in orbit,

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and they're able to show us things

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about the atmosphere, ocean, land,
and how it's all interconnected.

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And because we've been monitoring Earth
for decades, we can see

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both what it looks like today
and also how it's changed over time.

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And we provide all of that information
publicly.

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So people all around the world
know what's happening, where they live.

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So NISAR

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is going to tell us more about
how the surface of the earth moves.

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And by looking at that,
we can better understand things

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like earthquakes, landslides
and ice sheet dynamics.