NASA Plans To Use AI To Prevent Climate Change

NASA is looking for a solution to dispel climate change (photo: dock. nasa)

JAKARTA - The American Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) is looking for a solution to dispel climate change, amid global temperatures that continue to hit record highs.

In a discussion that NASA opened some time ago, it explained that it was concerned about forest fires sweeping across North America, as well as natural disasters, such as floods, hurricanes, heat waves that enveloped in June and July.

All of this, according to NASA, is a consequence of human-induced climate change. They then look for ways that can help reduce the effects of planetary warming.

"Last June was the warmest June on record," said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Space Studies Institute.

"And we anticipate, with an understanding of what happens, every day, that July is likely to be the hottest absolute month ever recorded," he continued.

Others, the agency also highlighted a mission to increase understanding of how global warming changes biological systems, by using next-generation technologies.

Such as drones to monitor forest fire response mechanisms, and deploy satellites that can track greenhouse gas emissions around the world.

The theme in the discussion also discusses the importance of generating pure climate data for the public, researchers, and policymakers. In fact, they are also interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep learning, to help get the most accurate climate data possible.

However, NASA emphasizes how such a mechanism is still under development, "Our knowledge is not finished until we communicate it," said NASA's director of Earth Science Division, Karen St. Germain.

"This is never more important or interesting than it is today. NASA Earth Science is an end-to-end capability of technology to what observation means, today and in the future. End-to-end capabilities allow us to convey the science and information that can be followed up so that more people can see Earth as we can see," he added.

Not a few marine science experts, aviation techniques and environmental studies spoke during discussions on improvements in climate change management.

"The hot waves we see in the US, Europe and China are breaking records. There have been decades after decades of increasing temperatures - over the last four decades," Schmidt said.

He stated that 2023 may prove to be the hottest year on record, and 2024 is also likely to experience the same thing.

Furthermore, this discussion is not only focused on crisis management to protect mankind, but also to help species on land and sea.

"The waters around Florida are over 90 degrees Fahrenheit, which is very complicated for marine species such as coral reefs, marine plants, and marine animals. And all the CO2 we put into the air causes the temperature to most of it to enter the sea," explained NASA's Marine Ecology Laboratory chief Carlos Del Castillo.

As an illustration, Castillo says sea acidity has increased by about 25 percent since the Industrial Revolution.

NASA's upcoming Hubble, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, is scheduled to launch in early 2024, as well as the Geostationary Research and Monitoring Radiometer (GLIMR) mission, which will begin in the following year, will help scientists outline how to address the marine problem.

Both missions are satellite-based systems, but PACE will focus more on detecting changes in sea, cloud and aerosol colors.

Meanwhile, the GLIMR will identify things like dangerous beans and oil spills. Launching Space, Wednesday, July 26, the mission will add more than two dozen climate-related missions that NASA already has in orbit, such as Carbon Observatories 2 and 3 Orbiting, which measures greenhouse gas emissions from Europe's largest coal-fired power plant earlier this year.

Finally, the agency will also partner with organizations such as FEMA and NOAA to identify community needs related to climate change solutions that can be followed up.