As a leading agency observing and understanding environmental changes to Earth, NASA has joined the National Climate Task Force. President Joe Biden issued an executive order Jan. 27, which initially outlined details of the task force.
The administration’s climate agenda outlines putting climate at the center of the country’s foreign policy and national security and encourages a governmentwide approach to climate change.
From the launch of the first weather satellite in 1960, the Television and Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS-1), NASA has used the vantage of space to study Earth. It remains the only space agency in the world providing end-to-end research on the Blue Planet to analyze and understand the processes involved.
“Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing us today,” said Gavin Schmidt, acting NASA senior climate advisor and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. “Given our unique ability to observe the planet from space and the long-term data records we’ve been able to assemble, NASA is in a prime position to inform policy decisions in the current administration and beyond.”
Working together with our government partners, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the United States Geological Survey, NASA is responsible for building the country’s Earth-observing assets in civil space. More than two dozen NASA satellites measure the height of oceans and inland waters, clouds and precipitation, soil moisture, carbon dioxide, and more. The data collected helps to improve weather forecasts, inform farming practices, and helps decisionmakers at all levels of government and the private sector.
Beyond Earth-observing satellites, NASA is developing predictive modeling technologies to examine policy-specific scenarios and conducting research that contributes to governmentwide sustainability efforts and understanding of climate change. To reduce the environmental impacts of aviation, NASA is conducting research for energy efficient aircraft that employ technologies such as lightweight structures, transformative aerodynamics, and hybrid-electric propulsion.
Through its long-term observations of Earth, providing insight into how the planet is changing, efforts to contribute to sustainable aviation and nurturing partnerships with the private sector, NASA already is poised to help the task force address the most pressing climate change issues today.
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Kudos for observing and reporting but once the data adjustment and modelling starts NASA, NOAA and GISS became part of the propaganda machine trying to disassemble modern society’s energy underpinnings based on a failed theory. They start with science and then move quickly to sucking off the public teat while stabbing the taxpayer in the back.
Good luck trying to measure a 2 mm change in sea level from 200 km above the earth, where the sea level change is one hundred-millionth of the orbital height, and a small fraction of wave heights and tidal fluctuations.
NASA should stick to useful things like showing us where hurricanes form and which way they are moving, and if they are a threat to people along the coast.
“NASA should stick to useful things like showing us where hurricanes form and which way they are moving, and if they are a threat to people along the coast.”
Actually that’s NOAA’s job (specifically the National Hurricane Center) NASA just launches the weather satellites. Once they’re aloft NOAA takes control of them. From then on, their use in weather monitoring and forecasting are the work of NOAA. NASA don’t do sh*t. 😉
NASA has overstepped the bounds of its initial charter as defined in public law 85-568.
It specifically says the purpose of the Space Act is to “Provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the earth’s atmosphere, and for other purposes.”
To wit:
This act also provided for the formation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to administer and coordinate the above stated purposes.
Its clear that NASA was and is chartered to build and launch aircraft and spacecraft, and to conduct research on aerodynamics, propulsion, and life-support systems. No where does the Space Act authorize the study of Earth or its climate. The processing and research on the data received from aircraft and Earth-orbiting satellites should be the purview of other agencies such as US Geological Survey, Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-72/pdf/STATUTE-72-Pg426-2.pdf
By definition of the climate scientologists, Gavin Schmidt being a mathematician is not a climatey sciency guy and therefore nothing he says has any standing in climate Scientology.
By their words
From the above article attributed to NASA: NASA “. . . remains the only space agency in the world providing end-to-end research on the Blue Planet to analyze and understand the processes involved.”
At top level, that’s a pretty self-serving statement.
I just observe that, as long as NASA relies on GIGO supercomputer-based global climate models to “analyze” climate, they will never achieve an understanding of such.