Welcome!

Reading Climate is for everyone who cares about the environment and feels like they should know more about how Earth’s climate works and how it is changing. Whether you’re a teen or a retired engineer, you can see the data and listen to climate reports.

Author Jay Brett is an oceanographer and climate scientist. They are building this climate education effort to the world in hopes of building hope and action toward a better, brighter future. For a fairly up-to-date list of their publications and conference presentation abstracts, you can check Google Scholar.

Reading Climate will share topical overviews, explain plots/figures from climate reports, describe the changing climate, and describe real actions that are improving the climate, via conservation, technology, and policy.

A podcast is in the works— initially, this will be a serial audiobook of the USA’s Fifth National Climate Assessment, whose text is in the public domain, and which was removed from climate.gov in the early days of the second Trump administration.

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