NASA and the Politics of Climate Research NASA and the Politics of Climate Research
Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

NASA and the Politics of Climate Research

Satellites and Rising Seas

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Today, there exists an integrated, large-scale satellite system to track sea-level rise, its speed, causes, and impacts. Building it was a struggle every step of the way. It was the most vivid and potentially consequential program within NASA’s larger Earth Science directorate. How did it happen? Who did what? Why? This book seeks to answer such questions. It goes back to the origins of NASA’s interest in the oceans in the 1960s and first true ocean satellite, Seasat, in 1978. After three months of operation, Seasat failed. But before it did, it showed how much satellites could tell about the ocean’s dynamics. In many ways, sea-level rise is the clearest and most understandable result of a warming planet.
W. Henry Lambright is Professor of Public Administration, International Affairs, and Political Science at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, USA.

GÉNERO
Ciência e natureza
LANÇADO
2023
9 de outubro
IDIOMA
EN
Inglês
PÁGINAS
168
EDITORA
Springer Nature Switzerland
TAMANHO
859,4
KB

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