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Climate Whirl≈≈≈≈
Ilmastopyörre
Science based aggregator for systemic information on climate change
Feel and understand climate and climate change!
Climate change – One of the grand challenges of our time
"People are bored with climate change" (writer Risto Isomäki, ESS June 30th 2014)
It seems that people are overloaded with information that is fragmented in different disciplines and sources
Only a minority of people base their daily decisions on scientific information
Most often the decisions are made on totally different grounds
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A complicated problem that is difficult to grasp as a whole
Bored? No wonder…
Terike Haapoja: Venice Biennale 2013
Climate Whirl
Science based aggregator for systemic information on climate and climate change
Climate and environmental
informationHealth
information
Consumer, social
information
Games Art Citizen Science
Education X, Y, Z
X, Y, Z
Research
Teachers StudentsScientistsCitizens
School childrenUser groups Artists
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Cross-disciplinary team
Experts on • environmental education• climate research• forest ecology• sustainability assessment of
consumption• public health• arts• software design
We are aiming at:• New efficient ways to have an
impact on society• Make the phenomenon of climate
change more understandable by concretising it in the everyday life
Got interested?• Contact us: [email protected]
