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OUR TAKE: U.S. Congress Passes Landmark Climate Legislation By ClimateYou Guest Contributor
After decades of failed attempts, the U.S. Congress in August 2022 passed a climate action bill. The climate legislation comes in the guise of the Inflation Reduction Act, the most pressing immediate issue for many voters. While it does aim to reduce the deficit and enable Medicare to
OUR TAKE: Wildfire Update 2022 by ClimateYou Senior Editor Abby Luby
At any given moment thick, rolling smoke plumes covering several thousand acres are spewed out by raging wild fires burning all over the world. From Asia to Africa, Europe to North and South America, these extreme fires are exacerbated by heat waves and droughts, the perilous extreme weather
OUR TAKE: Gender Equity is Crucial to Fight Climate Change
That women and children have long been victims of the adverse impacts of climate change is not surprising. As global warming creates more extreme weather conditions, women and children living in vulnerable, impoverished countries hit by floods or drought have suffered exponentially and are forced to leave their
Manchin Supports Proactive Climate Bill by ClimateYou Senior Editor Abby Luby
A surprise deal made just last week between Democratic Senators Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and majority leader Chuck Schumer of New York has put into motion the most ambitious climate action plan ever taken by the United States. Manchin had been holding out on voting for
ClimateYou Interviews Climate Artist & Writer Melissa Fleming
Climate Artist Melissa Fleming Editor’s Note: ClimateYou.org has long appreciated the climate artwork of Melissa Fleming and her popular blog The Weather Gamut, that discusses all things related to weather and climate change. Following is our interview with Fleming. ClimateYou: Is your approach to the weather/art connection
The Silencing of Science by M.Annenberg, ClimateYou Guest Contributor
(Editor’s Note: This essay is excerpted from Artist/Writer M.Annenberg’s artist talk about the melting glaciers of the Hindu Kush) American democracy is skating on thin ice, when the potential loss of drinking water for one billion people, because of melting glaciers, is not considered news in the American
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How We Help to Slow, Stop or Solve Climate Change by a City Tech Blogger
If everyone could stop in a minute to acknowledge the harms we are causing on our planet, what would earth look like in the next 10 years or is it too late? To quote George Bernard Shaw: “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their
My take on Climate Change By A City Tech Blogger
In the recent decade, I personally observed that temperatures started to get warmer and the winter season isn’t as cold as it once was. There have usual changes in temperature such as temperatures normally near zero degrees in the wintertime being in the twenties and thirties. In
Climate Change Effects in NYC by City Tech Blogger Orel Jeffrey
New York City is one of the most resourceful cities in the United States. Since the 1970s, the effects of climate change have become more apparent. Warmer temperatures, rising sea levels and more snow and rain are a few of the effects experienced. While a number of investments
How My Academic Major Relates to Climate Change By City Tech Blogger Mark Stewart
When I was researched the prompt, I learned that my major (Software development) does serve as both a benefit and hindrance to climate change. When I researched climate change, I discovered major factors such as emission of greenhouse gases and lack of recycling to be the root of
The Climate Change Disaster By City Tech Blogger Zin Win Ko
The issue of climate change has created significant changes in weather patterns and has allowed temperatures to shift overtime. In terms of human activity, the excessive burning of fossil fuels and deforestation have contributed to the increasing atmospheric temperature of the Earth. This raises the likelihood of natural
Climate Change in my Home Country, China by a City Tech Blogger
Climate change is a globalized situation and it will affect everyone who lives on this planet. When I was a child, this was the first globalized environmental issue I learned about and it is commonly everlasting. To be honest, people like to get used to it and
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Brooklyn Botanical Garden
Spring 2020
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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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.
Dedication
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.
Dedicated to:
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.
