The Premium Access Climate Web is a very large knowledgebase, represents more than 25,000 hours of expert knowledge curation, and organizes tens of thousands of books, reports, news stories, videos, websites, podcasts, quotes, cartoons, infographics, and more. All of this information is sliced and diced to deliver all kinds of actionable climate knowledge “kits”. With 3000+ Index Entries, hundreds of topical insight pages, hundreds of topical dashboards, numerous “best of” resource collections, and a selection of mini-courses, it is FAR more than a climate information filing cabinet.
Some particularly useful general purpose starting points include:
Zeroing in on how a wide variety of audiences can leverage the Climate Web:
- Journalists can see how the coverage of a climate topic has evolved over the years.
- College and University Faculty and Students can leverage the Climate Web in all kinds of ways
- K-12 Teachers can leverage a wide range of teaching resources
- Concerned Climate Activists can explore the challenges of tackling climate change
- Climate Communicators can explore the entire climate communications literature.
- Philanthropists can explore what’s really needed to succeed in tackling climate change, and the role of philanthropy
- Climate Story-Tellers can explore climate story-telling and climate fiction.
- Experts can break out of their own silos.
And for fun, there’s the Climate Web Grab Bag
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No matter how much time you’ve spent working on climate change, you’ll find great resources in the Climate Web that you’ll otherwise never come across. Consider this example: Alan Rowson’s A New Agenda on Climate Change was one of the most insightful pieces of climate analysis in 2013. Over the next few years we made a point of asking people about the report, and found only four people who had ever even heard of it. The Climate Web organizes thousands of such resources, and you don’t need to know about them to find them.
On-Line and Social Media Resources
We’ve organized hundreds of Facebook and LinkedIn groups and pages in the Climate Web, as you can see through these topical groups of Facebook pages.
- Activism Pages
- Adaptation Pages
- Communications Pages
- Dialogue Pages
- Emergency Pages
- Science Pages
- Solutions Oriented Facebook Pages
Quora Q&A
You may never have heard of Quora, but it’s a very useful way of accessing answers to all kinds of relevant questions posed by users of the site.
We have a dedicated Climate Site covering Quora as a useful resource, so we won’t repeat a lot of information here. Just right click on the link below to open up the Climate Site in a new browser table.
Quora
You may not be familiar with Quora, but it’s an amazing resource for exploring climate change among many other topics. That said, it’s challenging to use because there is so little structure. One way information is structured is through Topic Pages, and you can access our collection of climate-relevant Quora Topic Pages here:
The biggest value of Quora, however, is in its collection of questions and answers. Anyone can answer a question, so there is a lot of noise. But there’s also a massive amount of insight and analysis from topical experts, and we’ve organized more than 800 climate relevant Quora questions via the headings below. You can instantly activate and review the question and its answers just by hovering your mouse over the Quora questions organized under these topical headings.
- Q&A Activism and Social Movements
- Q&A Adapting to Climate Change
- Q&A Behavior Change
- Q&A Business Climate Change Decision-Making
- Q&A Carbon Footprinting
- Q&A Climate Change Mitigation
- Q&A Climate Change Science
- Q&A Climate Doubt and Denial
- Q&A Climate Politics
- Q&A Climate Risk
- Q&A Climate Technology
- Q&A Public Policy
Wikipedia
You’re certainly familiar with Wikipedia, but it too can be challenging to dig into for a topic like climate change. There are many hundreds of climate-relevant pages, but they’re not hierarchically organized or systematically linked. We’ve pulled together more than 500 Wikipedia pages using the headings listed below. In many cases (where you see a filled in green circle below a thought), you’ll see subsidiary topical Wikipedia pages when you click on the thought. You can rapidly navigate to the topic and page of most relevance to you.
- Business and Climate Change
- Climate change adaptation
- Climate change mitigation
- Climate Change and Energy
- Climate Change Decisionmaking
- Climate Change Economics
- Climate communication
- Climate Futures
- Climate Science
- Individuals and Organizations
- Other Related Topics
Twitter too is a great climate resource, and you’ll find hundreds of Twitter search terms in the search term collections in this Brain. In addition, through the two headings shown below, we’ve organized Twitter links to great climate people you might want to follow, as well as climate-related organizations.
LinkedIn Groups
LinkedIn is a great resource for tracking climate change. LinkedIn Groups are a bit hit and miss in terms how active they are, but we’ve included a substantial number of climate- and risk-relevant groups.
Facebook Groups
You’re certainly familiar with Facebook, but you probably don’t realize how many great groups there are there relating to climate change. We’ve pulled together more than 200 Facebook Groups using the headings listed below.
- Activism Pages
- Adaptation Pages
- Communications Pages
- Dialogue Pages
- Emergency Pages
- Science Pages
- Solutions Oriented Facebook Pages