Climate Central

Climate Central

Type of site	News website
Available in	English
Headquarters	Princeton, New Jersey
Owner	Climate Central, Inc.
URL	www.climatecentral.org
Commercial	No
Launched	2008; 17 years ago (2008)
2018 NCSE Friend of the Planet Award[1]

Climate Central is a nonprofit news organization that analyzes and reports on climate science. Composed of scientists and science journalists, the organization conducts scientific research on climate change and energy issues, and produces multimedia content that is distributed via their website and media partners.^[2][3][4][5] Climate Central has been featured in news sources such as The New York Times, the Associated Press, Reuters, NBC Nightly News, Time, National Public Radio, PBS, Scientific American, and The Washington Post.^[6]

History

At a 2005 conference sponsored by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and held in Aspen, Colorado, more than a hundred scientists, policymakers, journalists, and leaders from business, religion and civil society identified the critical need for a central authoritative source for climate change information. A broad group of climate experts later confirmed this need during a November 2006 New York meeting convened by James Gustave Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. At roughly the same time, in Palo Alto, California, The 11th Hour Project^[7] began organizing with the mission to popularize reliable information about global warming solutions, using the power of Silicon Valley scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors.

It inspired the idea for Climate Central, which took shape early in 2008 with seed money from The Flora Family Foundation and development funds from 11th Hour Project. The founding board included Jane Lubchenco, Steven Pacala and Wendy Schmidt.^[8]

Climate Central also sponsors classes for meteorologists and provides climate graphics to television stations. This has been credited in part for the increase in acceptance of climate change science among local forecasters and their willingness to share it in their broadcasts.^[9]

Climate Central's President, CEO and Chief Scientist is Benjamin Strauss^[10] (elected April 2018 to replace Paul Hanle).

See also

• Scientific opinion on climate change
• Public opinion on climate change
• Climate change denial

References

1. Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet awards for 2018 Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine 2018-06-05 ncse.com accessed 2021-06-22
2. Scientists and journalists team up to get the climate story straight Archived 2009-11-15 at the Wayback Machine, Grist
3. Columbia Journalism Review: A One-Stop Shop for Climate Information Archived 2016-12-23 at the Wayback Machine www.cjr.org
4. New Journalism-Science Initiatives Alter How News Is Shaped www.sej.org
5. Climate Change TV Archived 2022-11-03 at the Wayback Machine flowtv.org
6. Resources for learning more about climate science. Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine green.blogs.nytimes.com
7. "Grantees". 11thhourproject.org. 11th Hour Project. Archived from the original on February 9, 2013. Retrieved August 31, 2016.
8. Climate Central's Founding Board Archived 2010-02-08 at the Wayback Machine www.climatecentral.org
9. Morrison, David (2018). "Some Good News on Climate: A Big Shift among TV Weathercasters". Skeptical Inquirer. 42 (5): 6.
10. "Climate Central Announces Appointment of Dr. Benjamin Strauss as President and CEO" (PDF). Climate Central. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 May 2018. Retrieved 5 August 2018.

External links

• Official site – contains original multimedia content on climate change, including daily news and blogs, long form video, Web videos, and infographics.