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OUR TAKE: Extreme Weather/Kicking The Fossil Fuel Habit By ClimateYou Senior Editors George Ropes & Abby Luby
The American West, especially California, has always been subject to droughts, fires, and floods. But human-induced climate heating tipped the Western weather system into overdrive. 2020 was an exceptional year for drought, wildfires, and floods. 2021 was even more exceptional. Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, lying between
OurTake: COP26 — the Most Important UN Climate Summit Since COP21
COP26 is the most important UN climate summit since COP21 in 2015 when the Paris Agreement was signed. At that meeting, representatives from 195 member nations (called Parties; COP stands for Conference of the Parties) made Unilaterally Determined Commitments (UDCs) to lower their carbon emissions, the invisible gases
Our Take: An Empty-handed Biden Will Bereave us all
A piece in The Guardian titled “Is Joe Biden about to show up at COP26 empty-handed?”, by climate activist and author Kate Aronoff, argues persuasively that President Joe Biden has the executive powers necessary to set the US on a course to replace climate-heating fossil fuels with ones that
OUR TAKE: The Four Tasks
No matter what happens at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties in Glasgow, Scotland next month, now is the time for all actors besides the governments of the world —individuals, universities and research labs, corporations, faith-based organizations, and civil society—to examine their
OurTake: Our Last Chance Just Went — Glasgow Will be a Fiasco
For years the climate crisis was “long”. Now it’s here. For months the Glasgow Climate Summit has been a looming disaster. Today, after Democrats admit they’ll have to cut deeply into Biden’s omnibus Build Back Better reconciliation bill, and China announced it wouldn’t be ending coal-fired plants anytime
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
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Will Wind Power Help Mitigate Climate Change? by City Tech Blogger Angel Herrera Vargas
What is Climate Change According to NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), It’s when we release carbon like burning coal or using gas-powered cars causes the greenhouse effect, which causes our atmosphere to have a higher concentration of CO2. Wind Power Impacting Climate Change Like solar and nuclear,
How my Academic Major Relates to Climate Change & How I can Impact Climate Change in My Career by City Tech Blogger Sadman Hafiz
Climate is constantly changing, and human understanding and awareness of climate change are crucial in avoiding a major crisis soon. My major is communication design (graphic design). Communicating with the audience through my graphic works such as advertisements, poster designs, and logo designs is a part of my
Heat Waves and How It relates to Climate Change by City Tech Blogger Dennis Guzman
Within the past decade, people across the globe have felt and observed days of high temperatures, which are not only becoming more unbearable to stand in but are becoming more frequent enough that it is impacting winter seasons in terms of weather and climate. The bigger issue is
Climate Change and Agriculture By City Tech Blogger Ethan Brown
When it comes to agriculture, such practice is highly dependent on the climate. Therefore, climate change has a negative effect on agriculture due to its unpredictable changes in climate. The intricate pattern the climate change makes the practices of farming and growing crops yet more uneasy than the
The Next Big Thing: Solid State Battery By City Tech Blogger Brian Gomes
I think we are in the process of doing something revolutionary, that is mass-producing solid-state batteries. Solid-state batteries are like lithium-ion batteries but better. They promise to provide more energy, less charging time, longer life, and safer to use. Solid-state batteries are not a new concept, in fact
Sea Level Rise and Climate Change By City Tech Blogger Jan Adamez
The world mean sea level increased by around 8 to 9 inches from 1880. Most of this increase has been observed in the past two and half decades. The increasing water level happens because of meltwaters emerging from glaciers. Further, glaciers turn into water with all forms of
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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
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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.
