How do we steer a balloon?

This kind of diagram is called a balloon race.

They got everything but the balloon ascension.

Everybody sitting in a basket, and I was on top of the balloon, ready to slide down with my skysurf board.

Well, in balloons we need weather men, the one who calculate the direction of each layer of wind, at which altitude, in order to help the balloonist.

What's so funny? Did you ever see a balloon ascension?

And, I mean, first of all we nobody had actually crossed the Atlantic in a hot air balloon before, so we had to build a hot air balloon that was capable of flying in the jet stream, and we weren't quite sure, when a balloon actually got into the jet stream, whether it would actually survive the 200, 220 miles an hour winds that you can find up there.

Of course not just like the atmosphere in the balloon, but in life itself.

Does the heating work in the winter?

And in that sense, ballooning is a beautiful metaphor.

Well, in a balloon it's easy, we have ballast.

With heat from the bottom and heat from the top.

RB Well, I think the balloon adventures were each one was, each one, actually, I think we came close.

It has a tropical climate tempered by trade winds which blow throughout the year.

But actually I had to go around the world in a balloon to be invited to talk about it.

I mean, I think with the ballooning and boating expeditions we've done in the past.

It's hot today.

It's getting hotter and hotter.

Whew! It's getting muggy.

In this heat? Yeah.

NASA also participated in the international Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE) program.

Well, I learned a lot of things about ballooning, especially at the end of these balloon flights around the world I did with Brian Jones.

TRMM will provide the scientific community with data and information about tropical rain systems and the global latent heating time series, improving understanding of the global energy budget and climate variability in different time scales.

Over two thirds of global rainfall occurs in tropical areas, producing one of the main sources of global climate change.

It was hot yesterday.

Gas and heating fuel

He is hot and scant of breath.

There's your tailpipe heat, your fuel pressure gauge.

Over two thirds of total rainfall, one of the main sources of global climate change on the Earth, occurs in tropical areas.

Radio Okay, release the balloon, release the balloon, release the balloon.

The Climate Change Agenda Heats Up

I don't mind if the weather is hot.

What stenches will arise from Rome?

Especially in this hot weather.

Heat a heavy defeat men. The journey has been long, the land can not be far away.

Over two thirds of total rainfall on the earth occurs in tropical areas and this rainfall is one of the main sources of global climate change.

So that's the balloon, big gas balloon.

Another type of engine is the hot air engine.

The temperature has stayed hot this week.

This horrible hot weather is killing me.

Youthful, passionate, idealistic.

And a lovely day it is, sir. Colder than blazes.

It must be the heat.

This here is lovely hotchestnut weather.

And he showed that gasses such as CO2 absorb heat, thus acting like a blanket warming Earth's surface.