Climate Central

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title: "Climate Central" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["climatological-research-organizations", "climate-change-organizations-based-in-the-united-states"] description: "Nonprofit news organization" topic_path: "philosophy" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Central" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Nonprofit news organization ::

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Field	Value
name	Climate Central
logo	Climate Central Logo.png
url
commercial	No
type	News website
language	English
owner	Climate Central, Inc.
headquarters	Princeton, New Jersey
launch_date
footnotes	2018 NCSE Friend of the Planet Award
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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.

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.

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. As of 2025, its current CEO and chief scientist is Benjamin Strauss.

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References

1. [https://ncse.com/news/2018/06/friend-darwin-friend-planet-awards-2018-0018759 Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet awards for 2018] {{Webarchive. link. (2018-06-12 2018-06-05 ''ncse.com'' accessed 2021-06-22)
2. [http://www.grist.org/article/Climate-Central Scientists and journalists team up to get the climate story straight] {{Webarchive. link. (2009-11-15 , [[Grist (magazine)). Grist]]
3. [https://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/climate_central.php Columbia Journalism Review: A One-Stop Shop for Climate Information] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-12-23 ''www.cjr.org'')
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5. link. (2022-11-03 ''flowtv.org'')
6. (2018). "Some Good News on Climate: A Big Shift among TV Weathercasters". [[Skeptical Inquirer]].
7. [http://www.climatecentral.org/about/people/#founding_board Climate Central's Founding Board] {{Webarchive. link. (2010-02-08 ''www.climatecentral.org'')
8. "Team {{!}} Climate Central".

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