# The satellite helping slow climate change — right now

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2024
- Speaker: Millie Chu Baird
- Year: 2024
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Earth and environment, Astronomy and space
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/millie_chu_baird_the_satellite_helping_slow_climate_change_right_now)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Meet MethaneSAT: the satellite circling Earth right now to track global emissions from methane: a highly potent, short-term greenhouse gas. Environmental advocate Millie Chu Baird details the heat-trapping side effects of a planet full of methane — and explains why understanding where it comes from and taking steps to reduce it is the single most important thing we can do to affect climate change in our lifetimes. (MethaneSAT is part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

## Lectures

1. [The satellite helping slow climate change — right now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/millie_chu_baird_the_satellite_helping_slow_climate_change_right_now/101fb4dfc351), 8 min (TED's player)