Original air date: Nov. 12 at 9 a.m. PT (noon ET, 1700 UTC)
NASA will host a media teleconference to discuss the latest insights into how Earth is responding to rising levels of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, and what this means for our future climate.
Later this month, a United Nations climate meeting in Paris will focus on setting limits on future levels of human-produced carbon emissions. This NASA briefing will present new observations from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission, NASA’s first satellite dedicated to measuring carbon dioxide, and preview field work planned in the North Atlantic and Alaska.
The panelists will be:
The panelists will be:
* Michael Freilich, director, NASA’s Earth Science Division, NASA HQ, Washington
* Mike Behrenfeld, PI, NASA’s NAAMES field campaign, Oregon State University, Corvallis
* George Hurtt, lead, NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
* Annmarie Eldering, deputy project scientist, NASA’s OCO-2 mission, NASA’S Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
* Lesley Ott, research scientist, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
