2°C is a nonprofit citizen science organization with a mission of transforming anyone who enjoys the outdoors into environmental heroes. When our heroes carry one of our research-grade climate or ocean sensors, they become mobile observatories, automatically gathering essential environmental data wherever they go. Shared with scientists worldwide, these data are necessary for understanding and solving climate change and its impacts!
Extreme storms, intense heatwaves, acidifying oceans, widespread drought – climate change is affecting everyone, everywhere. Every social, economic, and environmental system on Earth is impacted by these changes, and those impacts are growing larger every day.
Climate change is a big puzzle, and we’re missing some very important pieces of information. Right now, we have pretty good climate information for cities and other urban areas, but what we don’t have is detailed data about the weather data in rural and remote places to understand how climate change is affecting them.
2°C cares about the people and biodiversity that fall in the gaps outside of the areas currently served by the existing climate observing network of observations. Simultaneously, millions of people all over the planet want to do something but are driven to despair by the overwhelming scope of climate change and the widespread climate threats they face. We provide the tools needed to participate in closing these data gaps.
“To act, we must understand.
To understand, we must observe”
-Dr. Karsten Shein
We are building a global community of individuals who are committed to gathering data from those remote places and sharing them with scientists worldwide in an effort to reduce climate uncertainty and identify practical and scientifically sound solutions.
Climate action is challenged by a lack of high-quality climate data in many places on Earth. Without sustained local observations, we cannot reduce uncertainty or understand climate change at the scale of a community or ecosystem. This puts billions of people and vast ecosystems at grave risk.
The 2°C initiative is a global network of low-cost, mobile environmental sensor systems, each collecting scientifically valid, georeferenced observations.
An individual observation may seem insignificant, but its existence reduces climate uncertainty in and around the place it was collected. Each additional observation improves the accuracy of weather and climate models and paints a more reliable picture of the climate and climate change. There is indeed strength in numbers.
"Citizen science is really
important... to help us keep
our thumb on the pulse
of the planet."
Prof. Katharine Hayhoe
Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy
"Outdoor enthusiasts become
citizen scientists by helping to
measure and monitor the
environment they love."
Marjorie McGuirk
President - CASE Consultants International
US 501 (c)(3) Nonprofit | EIN – 84-2585229
A Degree of Concern: Why Global Temperatures Matter – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
climate.nasa.gov
Part 1 of a two-part feature: Higher temperature thresholds will adversely impact increasingly larger percentages of life on Earth, with significant variations by region, ecosystem and species. For so...
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