As temperatures rise, NASA set to track climate change

A record hot June and an already-hotter July, paired with wildfires, flooding, heatwaves, have made millions of people over the globe experience the effects of extreme weather. While June already set a record, July is likely to be the warmest absolute month on record.

US space agency NASA aims to keep a track and find possible solutions to climate change. It said it is noting all the extreme weather conditions that are taking place. "The data is clear: Our Earth is warming, and NASA is committed to empowering scientists, decisionmakers, and people around the world to make data-based decisions when it comes to climate," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, at a recent media roundtable, highlighting the agency's climate work.

"With more than two dozen satellites, instruments aboard the International Space Station, and commercial and international partnerships, NASA uses our unique vantage point of space to observe our planet. To put it another way, NASA is bringing space down to Earth," he added.

NASA experts pointed out quite a few of the agency's endeavours to combat climate change, including missions to improve our understanding of how global warming is changing biological systems, looking into next-gen technologies like unmanned aircraft to monitor wildfire response mechanisms and deploying satellites to track greenhouse gas emissions across the globe.

They also discussed how artificial intelligence and deep learning could aid the agency with getting climate data that's as precise and accurate as possible. The experts also argued the urgency to step up efforts to tackle climate change.