Nassa spends more than two billion dollars a year looking at the earth and trying to understand what's going on. An aven, you don't have to comment on this, but there was an early push to remove the government from its efforts to aid and abet the data that was discovering climate change. So let's this, get back to this. What is a heat wave? Justin, i think we know a heat in new york city, a heat wave is some number of days where the high goes above 90 boon fahrenheit. And does that have any meaning to you as a climate professional?
What is a heat wave? On this explainer, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore the massive heat waves that have been sweeping the world with Director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Gavin Schmidt.
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