Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
People who are interested in climate have a new source of maps and data on NOAA Climate.gov. The recently updated page at Climate.gov/maps-data offers easy-to-understand climate maps, a visual catalog of popular climate products, and instructional pages that cover the fundamentals of measuring climate variables and processing and using climate data.
Have you ever wanted to test your climate prediction skills against the experts’? Now you can! Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate.gov team released Climate Challenge, a new educational online game that invites players to learn more about climate science and to test their knowledge.
NOAA unveils Climate Challenge: an interactive game to build and test climate knowledge Read More »
Staff from the Climate Program Office supported the White House Climate Education and Literacy “Champions of Change” event on Feb. 9.
CPO staff works with White House on “Champions of Change” Event Read More »
In 2014, NOAA’s Climate Program Office, led by Director Wayne Higgins, went through the process of rearticulating its mission, vision, and unique value through the development of the CPO Strategic Plan. The office also made major progress on an Implementation Plan that provides a roadmap to achieving important outcomes in climate science.
Climate.gov team provides visual highlights for 2014 Arctic Report Card Read More »
On October 22, Holdren (and staff) posted a “Call to Action” blog which was essentially the start of the climate education initiative. NOAA’s Climate Program Office in partnership with the Office of Education and the National Ocean Service worked with OSTP to develop the initiative and submitted a number of commitments released in the White House Factsheet (Released Dec. 3).
Staff from NOAA’s Climate Program Office will attend the United National Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru.
CPO Staff Members to represent NOAA at UNCCC in Lima, Peru Read More »
Using plain language and easy-to-use tools, the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit illustrates climate-related vulnerabilities that communities and businesses face, from national to local scales, and summarizes steps they can take to become more resilient.
The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit celebrates rollout Read More »
The Climate Program Office contributed to one of Ocean Today’s latest videos: Happening Now: State of the Climate 2013. CPO’s Diane Stanitski, Ned Gardiner, and Frank Niepold helped suggest reviewers for the video and the Climate Program Office is listed as a contributor.
CPO contributes to Happening Now: State of the Climate 2013 video Read More »
The article “Enabling Climate and Energy Literacy: A Shared Effort” about the CLEAN collection (featured on NOAA’s Climate.gov Portal) made the front page of the September issue of the American Geophysical Union’s EOS publication.