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Real. >> climate change is real. >> jacob soboroff is back in l.a., joins me now. jacob, trump's nominee was just confirmed to lead nasa, a really narrow vote, what could he do to the agency's climate change programs like operation ice bridge? >> he could, quite frankly, just slash the budget, but not if any of these folks i met have anything to do with it. these are some of the most passionate, dedicated scientists i've ever met in my life. they dedicate a huge portion of their lives, some of them, the last nine years, to go to some of the most remote places on earth to ensure that all of us ...

What do you think? >> i think that the data that we are collecting is valuable, it's real, it's showing changes that are happening and regardless of what some people might believe, the facts are the facts. they speak for themselves. >> reporter: climate change is real. >> climate change is real. >> jacob soboroff is back in l.a., joins me now. jacob, trump's nominee was just confirmed to lead nasa, a really narrow vote, what could he do to the agency's climate change programs like operation ice bridge? >> he could, quite frankly, just slash the budget, but not if any of these folks i met have ...

>> reporter: nathan kurtz is the lead scientist of nasa's operation ice bridge. his team's mission will last for six weeks. >> in order to look at long-term changes, we need a long-term record that goes year-to-year. we need to put all of the pieces together to really find out what's causing changes. >> reporter: the data and images collected over the course of the spring will be taken back to nasa to be analyzed. and its findings made public later this year. when you hear politicians back in washington, d.c. say, you know, the science is inconclusive about climate change, you're actually crea...