{"id":2327,"date":"2010-02-11T16:36:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T23:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2010-02-11T16:36:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T23:36:20","slug":"noaa-announces-new-climate-change-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/noaa-announces-new-climate-change-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA announces new climate change portal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NOAA's new Climate.Gov website is supposed to provide a 'single point-of-entry for NOAA\u2019s climate information, data, products and services.' (NOAA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced its new \u2018portal to climate information\u2019 at the web address Climate.Gov<\/a>. The site is to serve as a consolidated home to climate information from across all of NOAA\u2019s various departments.\u00a0 The site has potential but despite the announcement, some of the information on the site is already out of date.<\/p>\n

The new site was announced yesterday by Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco. Ironically, the Gore Effect seemed to be in full force as the major winter snowstorm that struck Washington D.C. forced the press conference to be held by telephone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The NOAA Climate Service Portal will go hand in hand with the proposed NOAA Climate Service, a new branch of NOAA<\/a> that officials want to become the one-stop-shop for climate information from the U.S. government. \u201cWe envision this climate portal as the first step toward making the wealth of climate information at NOAA available in one easy-to-use resource,\u201d Lubchenco said.<\/p>\n