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OUR TAKE: Heat Projections Higher in Recent Climate Models
Global climate models have been used by climate scientists since the 1970s. They have been refined over the years as more data have accumulated and computers have become faster and more powerful. Yet, even the relatively simple models from the 1970s have proved to be quite accurate at
OUR TAKE: Joe Manchin & Ecocide
Damn Joe Manchin. We’re toast, burnt toast, as a nation and a species. Manchin is guilty of killing American democracy — a woefully inadequate social welfare Reconciliation bill guarantees Trump 2024, ecocide — a token American response to the climate crisis guarantees the failure of the UN climate
OUR TAKE: Unintended Consequences! Bushfire Smoke Prompts Plankton Bloom
Who in Australia would have guessed the 2019-20 bushfires would trigger a huge, continent-sized phytoplankton bloom in the Southern Ocean? Deadly to animals, out of season, unprecedented in two decades of satellite records, this anachronistic event was tracked by biological oceanographers of the University of Tasmania, with results
OUR TAKE: Supergrid — Bring It On
A barrage of news images of downed electrical towers and power lines from recent climate related hurricanes and tornados are a bleak reminder that our power system is careening towards failure. In an opinion piece by Jennifer M. Granholm for CNN Business, the former U.S. Secretary of Energy says
Our Take: A New Pipeline? In East Africa? Are You Kidding?
It’s hard to believe that on the heels of the cataclysmic climate report by the authoritative UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the call by UN Secretary General António Guterres for the abrupt end of any new fossil fuel exploration and production, plans to build the
Our Take: How serious is Biden about climate?
Since ascending to the Presidency with bold and ambitious plans for tackling the climate crisis, Joe Biden has compiled a lengthy and damning list of disappointing decisions accommodating or favoring the fossil fuel industry. These indicate that while Biden “gets” climate, he’s still a politician at heart. He
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The point is: while the climate is going to get worse because of all the carbon emissions we've already emitted, the sooner we stop emitting more, the slower our climate will deteriorate.
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My Take on Climate Change
What I am going to tell you is what I think about the changing climate and the considerable impact it has had on our planet and what each nation, such as the United States, can do to respond to the matter. The aspects of climate change have resulted
Pollution is a Problem for Everyone and the Earth
As residents of this planet Earth, it is our responsibility to be mindful of what we are doing to our planet. As the Earth continues to spin, all its inhabitants are all trying to survive and trying to fulfil their basic needs. Of the plethora of different species
How to Save Our World
We are closely connected to our natural surroundings. Our bodies are, in part, made up of water, we need clean air to breathe, and to grow nutritious food we need good, fertile soils. We could live in cooperation with nature, however, we should ask ourselves whether respect should
Climate Change in New York City
Climate change is a topic that’s always in debate, whether it’s real or not. Let me say that climate change is real, and it’s occurring more than usual. First, what is climate change? Climate change is a pattern change in the weather we see each day of each
We Can Do Something About Climate Change
Climate change has been increasingly on the in this last decade and is a big concern we need to face for the next century. As a college student taking “Physics of Natural Disasters” interdisciplinary course, we are learning more about climate change. But as just a normal citizen,
My Take on Climate Change: Keep Fossils Fuels in Check, It’s too hot!
First and foremost, yes climate change and global warming is real. A primary example is how this summer was significantly hotter to a point where the United States had some groundbreaking temperatures. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration the earth has had 198 years of the
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In spring 2020, an innovative three-way collaboration took place between ClimateYou, the Brooklyn Botanical Garden and two City Tech classes. It was a success. City Tech students in Professor Robin Michals’ Communication Design Photography Class and those in Professor Reginald Blake’s Natural Disaster Class joined together to explore evidence of climate change at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. This unique, cross-discipline collaboration paired photography students with student writers, each reflecting and sharing his or her personal observations of how the changing climate affects nature.
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ClimateYou-City Tech-Brooklyn Botanic Garden Three-Way Collaboration
In spring 2020, an innovative three-way collaboration took place between ClimateYou, the Brooklyn Botanical Garden and two City Tech classes. It was a success. City Tech students in Professor Robin Michals’ Communication Design Photography Class and those in Professor Reginald Blake’s Natural Disaster Class joined together to explore
The Greenhouse Effect
For the first time in a long time, I went to the and unexpectedly enjoyed it even though it was a required class trip. I found it amazing that the major environmental factors that we talk about in class were demonstrated in such a relatively small garden. The greenhouse
Brooklyn Botanical Garden: How Greenhouse Gases Interact with Plants in Tropical Environments
The Brooklyn Botanical Garden is one of the many places that utilize a greenhouse to conserve plant life at a specific temperature. Like most areas in New York, the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Greenhouse uses greenhouse gases to store heat energy for tropical plants. This heat energy is stored
Our focus is to share with you all aspects of global climate change
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.
George Ropes
A former international relief and development worker, George Ropes 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.
Abby Luby
Abby Luby is an environmental journalist, food and arts writer, and educator, whose work has appeared in The New York Daily News, SolveClimateNews, and Edible Hudson Valley. An experienced writing teacher, she now focuses on helping students to communicate about climate change.
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This website is dedicated to Dr. George H. Ropes, a math educator who lived in Westchester County, New York. He created one of the first interactive software programs in 1990 to teach students about climate change. He would applaud the efforts of ClimateYou.org to link people of all ages from around the world to explore, learn about, and communicate the many ways that a changing climate impacts life today — and what we can do about it.
Our focus is to teach you about all aspects of global climate change
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.
George Ropes
Former international relief and development worker. 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.
Abby Luby
Abby Luby is an environmental journalist, food and arts writer, and educator, whose work has appeared in The New York Daily News, SolveClimateNews, and Edible Hudson Valley. An experienced writing teacher, she now focuses on helping students to communicate about climate change.
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This website is dedicated to Dr. George H. Ropes, a math educator who lived in Westchester County, New York. He created one of the first interactive software programs in 1990 to teach students about climate change. He would applaud the efforts of ClimateYou.org to link people of all ages from around the world to explore, learn about, and communicate the many ways that a changing climate impacts life today — and what we can do about it.
