Climate Central is a nonprofit news and research organization that analyzes and reports on climate science. Composed of scientists and science journalists, the organization conducts scientific research on climate change and energy issues, and produces multimedia content that is distributed via their website and media partners.
Climate Central has produced content shown on PBS NewsHour and The Weather Channel.
Climate Central's President and CEO is Paul Hanle. Former Weather Channel climate expert Heidi Cullen

Heidi Cullen

Heidi Cullen is interim CEO and lead correspondent for Climate Central. Prior to that, she was the climate expert and correspondent for The Weather Channel where she helped start Forecast Earth, the first weekly program on climate change and the environment. Before joining The Weather Channel she...

 is the group's Director of Communications. The organization's science team is headed by Phil Duffy, while the editorial team features veterans of CNN, Time Magazine, The Weather Channel, Environment and Energy Daily, and Washingtonpost.com.

History

At an October 2005 conference sponsored by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and held in Aspen, Colorado, more than a hundred leading scientists, policymakers, journalists, and leaders from business, religion and civil society identified the critical need for a central authoritative source for climate change

Climate change

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...

 information. A broad group of climate experts later confirmed this need during a November 2006 New York meeting convened by James Gustave Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. At roughly the same time, in Palo Alto, California, The 11th Hour Project began organizing with the mission to popularize reliable information about global warming solutions, using the power of Silicon Valley scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors.

These meetings 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

Dr. Jane Lubchenco is a Ukrainian-American environmental scientist and marine ecologist. On March 19, 2009, she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the first woman to serve as the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration .While performing duties as head of NOAA, Dr...

, Steven Pacala and Wendy Schmidt.

Also see

• Scientific opinion on climate change
  Scientific opinion on climate change
  The predominant scientific opinion on climate change is that the Earth is in an ongoing phase of global warming primarily caused by an enhanced greenhouse effect due to the anthropogenic release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases...
  
  
• Climate change consensus
  Climate change consensus
  Climate change consensus may refer to:* Scientific opinion on climate change* Public opinion on climate change...
  
  
• Public opinion on climate change
  Public opinion on climate change
  Public opinion on climate change is the aggregate of attitudes or beliefs held by the adult population concerning the science, economics, and politics of global warming. It is affected by media coverage of climate change.-Regional:...
  
  
• Climate change denial
  Climate change denial
  Climate change denial is a term used to describe organized attempts to downplay, deny or dismiss the scientific consensus on the extent of global warming, its significance, and its connection to human behavior, especially for commercial or ideological reasons...
  
  

External links

• Official site – contains original multimedia content on climate change, including daily news and blogs, long form video, Web videos, and infographics.
• News Content 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.
• Board Members - information about Climate Central's Board of Directors.