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'A Japanese spacecraft is due to launch on a mission to help scientists understand and monitor how the Earth's climate is changing' - Climate satellite set for launch, BBC News.

I belief that fpr most of the people who lives on Earth, has noticed about the seriousness of global warming. In which the Earth's climates change unusually throughout years, and for most of the cases, the temperature on Earth rises.

In the article Climate satellite set for launch, it is basically talking about a Japanese spacecraft, Gosat, is to identify and monitor sources of CO2, to support compliance with international treaties and agreements. Gosat will measure 2 different greenhouse gases, CO2 and CH4, by 2 sensors. These sensors that Gosat will be using in order to measure the greenhouse gases are the Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS), and the Cloud and Aerosol Image (CAI). The purpose of measuring the greenhouses gases, is that it can help scientists to understand and monitor how the Earth's climate is changing. Which is one of the major global issues on Earth.

Gosat is set to blast off between 0354 and 0416 GMT on Friday from Tanageshima.

I'm glad to see that people are trying to figure out ways to solve global warming. I think understanding how the climate has been changing is definitely important because this way, people will know what exactly the problem is, and then it'll become easier to solve, or at least reduce global warming.