Great news, and a present for the many readers of WUWT. The “Our Climate” iPhone App has made it through Apple’s review process unscathed and the App is now available for download on the iTunes Store worldwide.
Here’s what the menu screen looks like:
From the website:
Our Climate is your “go-to” climate information resource. It is the most comprehensive, fun and informative climate education resource available for Apple® iOS devices, such as the iPhone® and iPod Touch® platforms.
You have all the information at your fingertips, wherever you go, to help you get a more complete picture on what is happening to our climate!
Our Climate features a number of “bite-size” climate information nuggets that you can absorb without needing a PhD in climate science! These information nuggets offer you rapid insight to some of the most interesting aspects of our climate, both today and in the past.
Try your hand at our fun climate quiz, where the answers are never really what you think at first! See if you can get your score up to that of a professional climate scientist…
With literally dozens of built-in tutorials, Our Climate will help you understand how basic climate science operates and, most importantly, help you distinguish between climate facts, climate theories and popular misconceptions.
Once you feel familiar with the basics, why not participate in our anonymous global poll on attitudes towards Global Warming? When you have expressed your views, you can then see by region how the rest of the world’s users of Our Climate have voted.
Since climate issues do feature heavily in the news, you also have a climate-centric news feed directly on the App. This offers you quick access to some of the top climate stories of the day.
Finally, Our Climate comes packed with a large number of very recent climate datasets that you can browse at your own pace, or perhaps use to settle a debate with friends! Each dataset comes with a detailed set of comments to help you understand what the data is all about.
The App’s main website is here: ourclimate.info
The app developer, Paul of Aeris Systems Pty Ltd. writes:
There’s only light feedback so far – so let’s see how it progresses in the marketplace.
Unlike scientific papers, changes to this app can be made fairly promptly, so if any material errors have slipped through, rest assured that such errata will be readily addressable. Already a few minor errata have been collected over the past week to be packaged into a V1.0.1 overnight. Please let me know if you spot anything and we will act on your feedback as promptly as we can.
The app has had many, many people contribute to it’s design, content gathering, and review. It is a joint effort of dozens of people.
There’s an old saying, “a picture is worth 1000 words”, and when it comes to demonstrating facts about climate to someone who has been oversold by a compliant and unquestioning mass media, the app makes it easy to educate them.
I had been asked to review this app. So, for “inquiring minds”, no, I earn nothing from it, just like in a scientific paper review. The app developer in Australia has put hundreds of man hours in research and software development into it. The 99 cents purchase price goes to offset his costs and time.
Now, the tearing down begins at other websites who can’t tolerate it’s presence.
The best measure of success of any iPhone app is the number of downloads. Like WUWT reaching 50 million hits today, we’ll see if it rises to the top download in its category. Please spread the word.
A web link for the App on the store is provided here:
Our Climate is your “go-to” climate information resource. It is the most comprehensive, fun and informative climate education resource available for Apple® iOS devices, such as the iPhone® and iPod Touch® platforms.
You have all the information at your fingertips, wherever you go, to help you get a more complete picture on what is happening to our climate!
Our Climate features a number of “bite-size” climate information nuggets that you can absorb without needing a PhD in climate science! These information nuggets offer you rapid insight to some of the most interesting aspects of our climate, both today and in the past.
Try your hand at our fun climate quiz, where the answers are never really what you think at first! See if you can get your score up to that of a professional climate scientist…
With literally dozens of built-in tutorials, Our Climate will help you understand how basic climate science operates and, most importantly, help you distinguish between climate facts, climate theories and popular misconceptions.
Once you feel familiar with the basics, why not participate in our anonymous global poll on attitudes towards Global Warming? When you have expressed your views, you can then see by region how the rest of the world’s users of Our Climate have voted.
Since climate issues do feature heavily in the news, you also have a climate-centric news feed directly on the App. This offers you quick access to some of the top climate stories of the day.
Finally, Our Climate comes packed with a large number of very recent climate datasets that you can browse at your own pace, or perhaps use to settle a debate with friends! Each dataset comes with a detailed set of comments to help you understand what the data is all about.
UPDATE: For Windows users and others without iPhones:
For those without a mac or an iphone, there are iphone emulators and emulator websites you can download to run this application.
http://www.stemkoski.com/simple-iphone-emulator-for-windows/
You need to run the Safari browser to run the first link properly.
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Now all I need is an Android version. I wish Apple allowed cross platform development tools. I’ll never see this one otherwise.
I’d happily pay 99 cents to download this app — unfortunately I’m a Blackberry user.
Dueling apps; I love it. Maybe if we make a huge pile of cell phones some sweet reason will seep out of the bottom of the pile.
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iPhone refusenik here. Any chance of a Mac dashboard widget instead?
I sure hope the Sea Ice Page is part of this…
Fantastic.
Very Impressive.
Thanks to all involved.
How about a Blackberry app?
I am not so enamored with the Apple or AT&T corporation. If you check the AT&T coverage map, the areas that are tan with an orange stripe means that I am on borrowed time. I can only have limited use of the iPhone. If I use it too much, given that I am borrowing time from a non AT&T wireless phone provider, AT&T can cut me off, which means my iPhone won’t work anymore. Much of the middle and western US would find this to be the case. If you live away from mega-population centers, AKA monied centers, AT&T could not care less about you. The Mac corporation also could not care less, given that they only use AT&T. I want my Ma Bell back.
Same here – I’d buy the app if only I had an iPhone.
Hearty congratulations on this app and the 50,000,000+ website hits as well!
ANDROID
I will chime in, Android.
I am very dissapointed. I have been anxiously awaiting your widget for the i-phone. this is not the widget.
REPLY: I never said it was. Frankly this is far better than anything I could have done alone. – Anthony
I would have been happy to pay $10.00 fo the Widget. This thing is a waaist of money.
Loading now. I note its under the category ‘weather’, not ‘climate’ 😉
It would be neat to add the SurfaceStation project… you enter the surface station and get all the data in a graph form as well as its review. If the station is not there… then you can submit a review.
I would just like to mention that people may buy the application even if they don’t have any iPhone-like device. You can’t use it, but you may still contribute your dollar. 😉
Install iTunes, create an Apple ID, and click “buy Our Climate app” in the iTunes application. It will download somewhere in your directories and wait if you happen to be more friendly towards Apple in the future. 🙂
I’m also an iPhone refusenik. We need a Mac dashboard widget!!
Has some nice things, especially the news updates. Isn’t really ready for prime time for IPad users like me. Would like to see the app reworked for IPad.
Regarding the “survey” on climate change. Percentages are nice, but raw numbers would help define the size of the respondent group.
Need to fix one question in the test. As a matter of law, in Mass. v. EPA, the Supreme Court held that CO2 is a pollutant. The term is a defined term under the Clean Air Act. Thus, NOx SOx and CO2 are all legally pollutants. In practical terms, none of them are pollutants (having an adverse effect on human health and the environment) at and below some level (different for each). Need to show greater care on that one.
Overall, more than worth the price if for nothing other than the new feed, but clearly nice for the graphics, which on an IPad allow for great use in the cocktail hour (ok, at the bar).
d.
Luboš Motl says:
July 29, 2010 at 10:07 am
I would just like to mention that people may buy the application even if they don’t have any iPhone-like device. You can’t use it, but you may still contribute your dollar. 😉
Install iTunes, create an Apple ID, and click “buy Our Climate app” in the iTunes application. It will download somewhere in your directories and wait if you happen to be more friendly towards Apple in the future. 🙂
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Thanks,
I will talk to hubby about it this evening and spread the word to the relatives.
The Globe and Mail the Canadian newspaper owned by Thomson Reuters [ex-Citibank executives on their Borad of Directors] is starting over its global warming disinformation campaign using… a business reporter commenting a NOAA report!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/the-earth-is-hotter-than-ever-global-warming-is-real-researchers/article1655436/
Of course this accompanies the flowering of articles about green funds, businesses, and cap-and-trade that BC, Quebec and Ontario want to implement…
Well done to all involved.
Unfortunately I, like many others, have an Android device and would definitely pay for an Android version. I’m some of the Blackberry owners would feel the same way.
Also, I refuse to contribute towards Apple in any way (I am a fan of open source software) so the itunes suggestion is a no go for me.
Pamela Gray says (July 29, 2010 at 9:43 am) : “If you check the AT&T coverage map, the areas that are tan with an orange stripe means that I am on borrowed time.”
Heh. Here in the hills around Silicon Valley, we’re technically covered by AT&T, but in practice Verizon gives much better reception (I’ve heard this explained as inadequate bandwidth for the humongous number of AT&T users; maybe, maybe not).
In any case I won’t be downloading this “oil company propaganda” (I’m kidding) because I don’t think I’m smart enough to use an iPhone. 🙂 For those who are, I hope they learn something from this.
Who wants to chip in a couple of cents to help buy it for Al Gore?
I just downloaded it. Will give it a full spin in a bit, but at a cursory look it has the sort of information you see here, though in summary form and without all of the erudition and amusement that comes from the commenters. 😉
Yippee, something I want to have on my new iphone. Trouble is I have to get husband to do the techie stuff as I am such a technophobe – will go and wheedle at his side now.
And, Anthony, I am such a fan of your site. I am not a scientist, just a lowly surveyor but I find the information so interesting. Keep up the good work and I’m looking forward to your paper on the weather stations – when is it coming out?