Climate Central is a nonprofit news organization that analyzes and reports on

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. Composed of scientists and science journalists, the organization conducts scientific research on

climate change and energy In the 21st century, the earth's climate and its energy policy interact and their relationship is studied and governed by a variety of national and international institutions. The relationships between energy-resource depletion, climate change, ...

issues, and produces multimedia content that is distributed via their website and media partners. Climate Central has been featured in many prominent U.S. news sources, including ''The New York Times'', the Associated Press, Reuters, ''NBC Nightly News'', ''Time'', National Public Radio, PBS, ''Scientific American'', and ''The Washington Post''. Climate Central's President, CEO and Chief Scientist is Benjamin Strauss (elected April 2018 to replace Paul Hanle).

History

At a 2005 conference sponsored by the

Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale School of the Environment (YSE) is a professional school of Yale University. It was founded to train foresters, and now trains environmental leaders through four 2-year degree programs ( Master of Environmental Management, Master of Environme ...

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 In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...

information. A broad group of climate experts later confirmed this need during a November 2006 New York meeting convened by

James Gustave Speth James Gustave (Gus) Speth (born March 4, 1942) is an American environmental lawyer and advocate who co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council. Early life and education He was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1942. He graduated Lati ...

, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. At roughly the same time, in Palo Alto, California,

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began organizing with the mission to popularize reliable information about global warming solutions, using the power of Silicon Valley scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors. 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 Jane Lubchenco (born December 4, 1947) is an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist who teaches and conducts research at Oregon State University. Her research interests include interactions between the environment and human well-be ...

, Steven Pacala and

Wendy Schmidt Wendy Susan Schmidt (''née'' Boyle) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the wife of Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, whom she met in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the president of ...

. 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.{{cite journal , last1=Morrison , first1=David , authorlink1=David Morrison (astrophysicist) , title=Some Good News on Climate: A Big Shift among TV Weathercasters , journal=

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, date=2018 , volume=42 , issue=5 , page=6

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– contains original multimedia content on climate change, including daily news and blogs, long form video, Web videos, and infographics.
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News stories on climate change produced by Climate Central - contains original content produced by Climate Central staff and media partners.
Funding
- information on Climate Central's funders.
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- information about Climate Central's Board of Directors. {{Authority control Climatological research organizations Climate change organizations based in the United States

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