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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What a bunch of stars! This is going to be of immeasurable use in UK festivals when speaking to warmies and in political discussion. Many thanks.
Fred, there are emulators for Android that let you run iphone apps on android.
That is very pretty!
Some of us still like books. They smell good and have a special presence in the home.
My bright idea is the ability to generate a book with WUWT posts, including the comments. Wikipedia already has this technology.
Great stuff! Good job. It works well! One point of improvement could be to make the content of the top-10 list zoomable (especially the graphs) and/or allow 90deg screen rotation.
But still cool and well worth the support!
Ugh, it has plate tectonics. The only science more shoddy than man made climate change. They can’t even describe how the geometry works for subducting slabs when they would need to diverge from parallel lines of a Great Circle. The reason is because it’s geometrically impossible.
Oh, Droid!
Very nice. I expect to have an iPhone before the end of the year, so I am buying it now.
Seriously, I think you have struck gold with the climate app idea, Anthony. Obviously though, the base of platforms needs to be expanded. What better way to counter the alarmist propaganda then with unrelenting access to the truth? First Hansen will attack the concept when he realizes it’s a game-changer, and then the warmists will be forced to create their own app with a database of distorted data.
Almost every night I hear desperate global warming blurbs on the news. Tonight on ABC News it was “…global warming is irrefutable, and (of course) it’s happening faster then we thought…” There’s no support of any kind given for these statements now, just a strident repetition of the alarmist drumbeat, maybe thirty seconds worth, and then on to the sports report. It’s apparent that the days of global warming fanaticism are numbered, the shouts of its loudest advocates are trailing off, and the days of easy grant money will be slipping through their fingers like grains of sand.
An update. I still have an old 1st generation jailbroken iPod Touch running 3.1.3. I’m happy to report that the purchased app loaded properly and runs. However my Touch is a bedside podcaster so I don’t use it all that much these days. I would still prefer an Android version for my phone.
Michael Larkin says:
July 29, 2010 at 2:41 pm
“Okay – I have downloaded IBBDemo2 since I don’t have an iPhone or IPad. Can anyone talk me through what to do next?”
Same question here. I’m beginning to think IBBDemo2 may be an emulator for displaying Web sites, and will not actually run apps. Happy to be proved wrong!
Downloading now:)……..
Hi Anthony & Co
Great app. Looks great and very timely to have the facts at my fingertips. Us dyslexic folk forget a lot of stuff and …
Err anyway it will be helpful in showing the kids this stuff.
Cheers JJ
Great idea.. If they port it to the ‘Droid I might even get it…
Congrats on another accomplishment. I am literally in awe of all that you do here.
Looks and works great on an iPad too!
Hey everyone, this app is great! I bought it this morning and have now had a bit of a chance to muck around with it.
I’ve given my phone to 4 people to try the test on and it’s got them thinking to say the least…..
Many eye openers for people that don’t follow as closely as someone like me. It made them want to check on facts and all four of them immediately opened web browsers and began their enlightenment:)
We need to make this app rate highly in iTunes….. it doesn’t matter if you own an iPhone or not…… a great number of the people this app should be targeted by DO.
We need to get this app into the iTunes top10 list!
Top ten means front page of App store and fantastic exposure. We need to keep this thing front page so that people see it…. people that wouldn’t search for it (nice for the choir but better if it makes more people join the choir)
This App is a fantastic idea and all of us should do our utmost to help make it a success by buying a copy and in doing so, hoisting it to top ten status.
Many thanks to everyone that helped put it together and while I’m at it (wrong thread I know) My sincere thanks to Mr Watts for this site.
I could write a paragraph of thanks to you re your web hit mile stone thread but I won’t, I couldn’t do it justice so I’ll just say this as a father of two:
THANKYOU
I’m waiting for a check from Big Oil so I can afford a new iPhone. ;->
Downloaded it yesterday. Looks really nice and is informative. I do have two issues:
1) None of the pages will zoom so a lot of the graphs and some text are unreadable.
2) It doesn’t rotate like most apps on the iPhone.
These two items would make it a lot more useful but no regrets supporting your effort
putting this together.
WebOS, please. Don’t forget the Palm Pre, Pixi, and Pre Plus.
This app is nothing short of amazing! Better than that croc put out by the warmists a few months ago!
Only a few minor criticisms – there seems to be no way to zoom the text using the usual pinch and expand gestures, nor do the graphs respond to reorienting the device in landscape mode. The news section does appear to be based on a web page and using the inbuilt Safari browser – the page can be expanded but still can only be read in portrait style not landscape.
It would be nice for the articles in the News section to be cached for times when the user is not near a Wifi or Phone network. If these articles are found on sites with mobile versions
Has anyone else noticed that the world seems to be spinning faster and faster? That we’re inventing things and words that none but children can fathum.
Pssst! Can someone tell me what an iPhone is and what you’re supposed to do with it? Please?
s/Sixty-Two & Out Of Touch
Now a huge dilema.
I’ve never had a blackberry of iphone, but am getting one in Septemer. I thought i had finally decided on blackberry…….but now.
Anyway great app, and they are supposed to be the fastest way to reach people currently available on Earth. 1 billion downloads in 9 months!
Great job, Anthony & Co.! You have performed a vital public service with this project.
Great App. Thanks for trying to put some rationality back in the “settled science.”
Android 🙂