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.
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.
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 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.
Roger Pulwarty is an invited keynote speaker at the VII Americas Competitiveness Forum. Roger has been asked to speak on climate science and services: education and innovations.
On September 23, 2014, President Obama announced a new Executive Order in support of the development of climate resiliency at home and globally.
CPO’s Adam Parris was invited by the American Chemical Society and the Society for Risk Analysis to speak at a Congressional briefing on September 12, 2014 at the Rayburn Building of the House of Representatives.
Climate Program Office Director Wayne Higgins is scheduled to attend the Pan Pacific International Conference on Climate Change Agenda (PPICCA) in Taipei, Taiwan from Sept. 26 – Oct. 3, 2014.