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2022 was an extraordinary year

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we traveled to the Moon again for the

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first time in half a century

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we made history with the James Webb

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Space Telescope sink deeper into the

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universe than ever before

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and those same folks exploring outward

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are also the same people looking inward

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so what did we see this past year

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foreign

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scientists around the world determined

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the greenhouse gas emissions that drive

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climate change once again set new

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records

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in July we sent a new instrument called

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emit to the International Space Station

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emit can identify super emitters of

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methane a powerful greenhouse gas coming

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from pipelines landfills and other

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sources

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and it's already recorded super plumes

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all over the world including in

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Turkmenistan Iran and New Mexico

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methane carbon dioxide and other

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greenhouse gases trap heat in the

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climate system and cause rise in global

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surface temperatures

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2022 effectively tied for Earth's fifth

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warmest year since 1880. in the last

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nine consecutive years have been the

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warmest nine on record and all that heat

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expressed itself differently across the

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globe this year

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most of the extra heat in the climate

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system builds up in the ocean

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and 2022 set new records for ocean heat

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and independent NOAA and NASA analyzes

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this increased ocean heat can fuel

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intense tropical storms like we saw in

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Ian rapidly intensified from a tropical

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storm into a category 4 in under 24

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and became one of the costliest storms

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to ever hit the U.S

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as the climate system warms the

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atmosphere holds more moisture resulting

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from June through September Pakistan saw

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some of the worst flooding in a decade

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due to prolonged and intense Monsoon

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rains leaving behind a devastated

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community

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increasing heat not only leads to more

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water in the atmosphere and heavier

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downpours but it also exacerbates soil

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moisture loss and drought

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which is what we saw in the American

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West as it experienced ongoing droughts

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in 2022 leading to vital water

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reservoirs like Lake Mead and Lake

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Powell dropping to just 27 percent of

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drier and warmer conditions means

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there's more fuel and opportunities for

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fires

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in January during a long-standing heat

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wave and drought the corrientes province

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in Argentina saw over a thousand fires

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it devastated important wetlands in

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Iberia National Park and vital

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surrounding farmland

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but there is hope looking ahead in

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addition to monitoring Earth NASA is

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powering Solutions with free and open

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data like open ET a tool for farmers and

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other resource managers to plan and

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Implement irrigation and water use in a

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warming World

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NASA know-how is also helping

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firefighters and Forest managers prevent

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future fire hazards by better

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controlling airspace during prescribed

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Burns and emergency response

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as we've seen a warming climate impacts

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all of us and it's going to take all of

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us to combat it

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as we look back at 2022 in years past we

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see that each year we better understand

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the challenges we face and how important