New York Times: President Obama wants Americans to see how climate change could deluge or destroy their own backyards - and to make it as easy as opening a web-based app.
As part of an effort to make the public see global warming as a tangible and immediate problem, the White House on Wednesday inaugurated a website, climate.data.gov, aimed at turning scientific data about projected droughts and wildfires and the rise in sea levels into eye-catching digital presentations that can be mapped using simple software...