Sofia Pyrgioti

Sofia, good talking to you, and good luck with your offsets story.

I wanted to take this opportunity to fill you in a bit more on my larger climate change knowledge management work via the Climate Web, and to explore how it might help you in the future. We do have a specific page designed to introduce Journalists - TOC to the Climate Web that you might be interested in.

This page is actually in the Climate Web, and I’ve sent you the URL to it, but you can also access it at any time simply by searching for your name in the Climate Web (which you can easily access at https://www.theclimateweb.org. Other people could theoretically run across the page if they were to search for your name, but that seems unlikely. And I won’t put anything confidential on the page.

The advantage of a page like this is that I can very easily point you to places in the Climate Web you might want to go, and they won’t get lost in an email. While you can’t communicate with me through this page, I can in effect respond to your emails through the page. And I can modify the page as we go.

So, a quick introduction:

The Climate Web is a massive knowledge management system covering hundreds of topics and representing more than 25,000 hours of knowledge curation. Its front door is always available to you via the .2 Premium Access thought, and that is a great place to explore. I’m not going to repeat here content available there and elsewhere, but simply point you to it.

Index Entries serve as topical front doors into the Climate Web, and you can access A LOT of content through Index Entries. Here are a couple of specific ones that seem relevant:

I can’t remember whether I had sent you a link to The Latest REDD+ Kerfuffle, so I’m including it here.

You can explore the Climate Web on-line, but that does not compare to having it on your own computer (MUCH faster, MUCH more powerful). So remember that if you get frustrated with on-line exploration. We’re also expecting a substantial upgrade to the on-line software in the next few weeks!

We do have a line of Climate Web enabled courses (very low cost) that you might be interested in, including a free Users Guide to the Climate Web, available here.

I’ll leave it there for now and see whether you follow up on my email and express interest in using this page to help leverage the Climate Web going forward! If not, I’ll simply delete the page!

Regards,

Mark

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