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About ClimateYou
ClimateYou provides people of all ages, interests, education levels and professions with a place to learn about climate change. At ClimateYou, you will find out about the causes and effects of climate change, interact with others from around the world, document your own local climate change, and discover ways to respond. ClimateYou is your place.
ClimateYou helps you:
• Learn the facts about climate change
• Follow the latest news on its many aspects
• Share your views with others
• Get involved in your own community’s climate change efforts.
You can participate in ClimateYou by:
• Making suggestions how ClimateYou could be better
• Telling us what you’re doing about climate change personally and in your community.
Climate Change
By now almost everybody has heard the term ‘climate change,’ but only a few know much about what it means, either for our daily lives or for the future of the planet.
Climate change is a big, fascinating topic that has many aspects, ranging from new energy sources to rising sea levels, from melting glaciers to electric cars, from insulating our homes to more frequent – and possibly more violent – hurricanes.
Some aspects of climate change are on the cutting edge of science, others we can do at home by making small changes in the way we live.
We want to learn with you about global climate change. As we do, we hope you’ll get involved in slowing climate change. We can make a difference, regardless of our age, where we live, and what we do.
The Story of ClimateYou
ClimateYou began in 2007 with links to news articles discussing global climate change. Then we started writing summaries of the articles and presented them in a blog format. The summaries let visitors decide whether or not to read the entire article. They also highlight the key issues, helping readers to further their knowledge of climate change.
In late 2008, we decided to move the blog into a website on climate change. The new website, launched in August 2009 with the same name, has more content, climate change activities, and the original blog. With the expanded website, we added a slogan: Learn, Share, Act.
ClimateYou will continue to pursue its original objectives to help us all learn more about global climate change, deepen our understanding of it, communicate that knowledge and understanding to our families and friends, and, we hope, do something about it in our daily lives.
Who are we?
George Ropes is retired from a career in international relief and development work. He has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He is especially interested in how climate change affects the health and food security of people living in the developing world.
Daniel Bader is a programmer and website manager at the Center for Climate Systems Research, part of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He analyzes climate model data for use in climate change adaptation planning. He likes to track weather patterns and make forecasts.