Climate Central

Climate Central

Type of site	News website
Available in	English
Headquarters	Princeton, New Jersey
Owner	Climate Central, Inc.
URL	www.climatecentral.org
Commercial	No
Launched	2008;17 years ago (2008)
2018 NCSE Friend of the Planet Award [1]

Climate Central is a nonprofit news 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. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Climate Central also sponsors classes for meteorologists and provides climate graphics to television stations. This has been credited in part for the increase in acceptance of climate change science among local forecasters and their willingness to share it in their broadcasts. ^[6]

Climate central was founded in 2008 with seed money from The Flora Family Foundation and development funds from 11th Hour Project. The founding board included Jane Lubchenco, Steven Pacala and Wendy Schmidt. ^[7] As of 2025, its current CEO and chief scientist is Benjamin Strauss. ^[8]

See also

• Scientific opinion on climate change
• Public opinion on climate change
• Climate change denial

References

1. Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet awards for 2018 Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine 2018-06-05 ncse.com accessed 2021-06-22
2. Scientists and journalists team up to get the climate story straight Archived 2009-11-15 at the Wayback Machine , Grist
3. Columbia Journalism Review: A One-Stop Shop for Climate Information Archived 2016-12-23 at the Wayback Machine www.cjr.org
4. New Journalism-Science Initiatives Alter How News Is Shaped www.sej.org
5. Climate Change TV Archived 2022-11-03 at the Wayback Machine flowtv.org
6. Morrison, David (2018). "Some Good News on Climate: A Big Shift among TV Weathercasters". Skeptical Inquirer . 42 (5): 6.
7. Climate Central's Founding Board Archived 2010-02-08 at the Wayback Machine www.climatecentral.org
8. "Team | Climate Central". www.climatecentral.org. Retrieved 2025-12-18.

External links

• Official site – contains original multimedia content on climate change, including daily news and blogs, long form video, Web videos, and infographics.