FAQ Launch Challenge

You can simply register (it’s free of fees for 2015-2016) and opt in for notifications. You will then receive emails notifying you on the various activities of the members and you can decide where and how you would like to participate. Climanosco is about the participation of its members as individuals in their diversity and uniqueness. As a member, you will also be invited to participate to our annual on-line General Assembly. Note that Climanosco does not accept institutional members.

The climate has been on the international scene for several decades now. We all hear about it in the news, at school, etc. But what is it? How does it work? What do we know about it? Who knows something? How to access this knowledge? How to acquire knowledge on climate?
Climanosco is a non-profit association with members around the world who aims at tackling this challenge, one step at a time. Its aim is to make climate sciences understandable and openly accessible to everyone. It aims at building a bridge between citizens and climate scientists where citizens can raise their questions and get engaged side-by-side with climate scientists in the process of making science and of communicating science.

Please contact us at crowdfunding@climanosco.org for any question pertaining to the Crowdfunding campaign or at contact@climanosco.org for any other inquiry.

Thanks to the artists associated with this campaign, we can offer for this campaign, limited edition certified museum quality hahnemuhle fine art prints of the original masterpiece, each numbered and signed by the artists (size: 56x56cm or 22x22inches). The number of copies is limited to 100 overall, and by supporting Climanosco during this campaign, you will receive the very first ones. This is a very exclusive award which is limited to the perks of $1000 and $2000.

The name “Climanosco” is composed of the Latin words “Clima” and “Nosco”, the active form of the verb to know. So, it means something like “I am becoming knowledgeable on climate”. That’s precisely what we wish our readers and members to feel when they connect with Climanosco.

Become a member by registering on our web site (it’s free for 2015-201?) and simply participate as you see fit! If you want to support financially Climanosco, please visit our Donate page or contact us at donate@climanosco.org.

Climanosco is about making knowledge on climate understandable and openly accessible. It is not about advocating any specific idea or opinion, it is neither a political nor an activist movement. It reflects individuals in their diversity of opinions and uniqueness of perspectives. It also reflects the progress of scientific research in its complexity and diversity. It does not focus on climate change or global warming. It covers the broad area of climate sciences. It does not have commercial goals. It is a registered non-profit association (under Swiss laws). Climanosco is not fitted to any specific donor’s agenda. It is strictly independent at the governance and financial levels. It is governed by its members and donations are capped to CHF2000 per donor per year (as for 2015).

There is an immense gap between what we actually know on the climate from a scientific perspective and what people have access to. By becoming a member, you can publish your research for the general public in the easiest and most direct manner. You also have access to a community which will help you speed up your learning curve in writing for non-scientists. By becoming a member of Climanosco, you also contribute alongside with many colleagues around the world, to develop a long-term and trustworthy structure which will help improve the general understanding on climate in the public. And you will be able to network with interesting people from all around the world.

The purpose of Climanosco is to offer open access articles written in non-scientific language reflecting the state-of-the-art research in climate sciences. It is also a platform where citizens can engage side-by-side with climate scientists. Citizens can submit invitations for scientists to write an article on a topic of their interests and can participate to the elaboration of such articles. Citizens can translate articles from English to their language and thereby contribute to making knowledge accessible for everyone. Through their involvement in our innovative Peer-Review process, citizens play a central role by making sure that Climanosco’s articles are accessible to non-scientists. The Board of Directors is equally composed of climate scientists and non climate scientists. Citizens who want to engage further can get elected and take a leadership role as member of the Board of Directors.

We have now developed the basic building blocks of Climanosco and are now launching our activities. Our statutes allow us to fund Climanosco through membership fees (free of fees for 2015-2016), fundraising and occasional sales of publications and other products. This 2015 Crowdfunding is our first campaign for raising money. This funding will be used to bring Climanosco to the next level in its reach, its community, its articles and its internet platform.

Yes, absolutely, we will be delighted to have you as a new member. We need people like you to participate. You have a very important role to play especially in making sure that Climanosco’s published articles are accessible to a large public.

This Challenge is our Launch Challenge. We are starting our activities and at this occasion, we are inviting climate scientists to rewrite, in non-scientific language, one of their scientific papers that appeared in a peer-reviewed journal.

The masterpiece is a uniquely beautiful painting kindly provided by our two artists in support of this campaign. You will be able to discover this painting on 17th September at our Launch Event in Zurich or on 20th September on our internet site.

First of all because it’s fun! You will be able to participate to our activities and even engage as a candidate for the Board of Directors at the next General Assembly. You will have access to the manuscripts before they are published. You will be able to discuss on manuscripts alongside with other people and climate scientists, and help authors learn to write for non-scientists. You will be able to invite climate scientists to write an article on a topic of your interest. You will be able to co-author articles written in reply. And you will be able to network with interesting people from all around the world.

Over the past year, we have developed the basic ideas of Climanosco, have built up an initial community as well as an internet platform. Climanosco is now a registered non-profit association with a Board of Directors and an Editorial Board. We have tested our system with an initial manuscript and are now ready to accept our first submissions. In other words, we are launching our activities on Climanosco. This Challenge is our Launch Challenge.

We currently have 53 members from all around the world, including Canada, USA, Nicaragua, Mexico, UK, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Algeria, Australia, and India (status at the end of August 2015).

The submission of manuscripts in Climanosco is generally open to all climate scientists who have published at least one article in a recognized peer-reviewed journal in the area of climate sciences. However, for this challenge specifically, we had to limit participation by issuing invitations. We are still a small community and as such, there is a limit to the number of manuscripts we can streamline through our peer-review process while assuring its quality. For this reason, we had to limit the participation to this challenge to around 25 main authors. And because we do not want to be obliged to say “no” to great people, we preferred to run this challenge by invitation. While the submission of manuscripts not participating to the challenge remains open at all times, including during this challenge, we ask their authors to be patient as we are streamlining the manuscripts participating to the challenge.

Our first Crowdfunding campaign ever joyfully starts on 15 September and joyfully ends on 15 October 2015.

As stated in its Statutes, independence is one of the three basic principles which Climanosco must satisfy in achieving its goals. This independence is built in at every level of governance and financially. Climanosco is a non-profit association exclusively governed by its members. It does not accept institutional members. Donations are capped to avoid any dependence with respect to any specific donor.

Beyond the exciting prizes that Climanosco will offer for the best manuscripts, participating to this Challenge also means taking part in an initiative which aims at opening for the general public a new access to state-of-the-art research in the area of climate using the highest scientific standards. Climanosco is independent at the financial and governance levels. To ensure long-term balance, the Board of Directors is equally composed of climate scientists and non climate scientists and donations are capped. Manuscripts are peer-reviewed through an innovative process where climate scientists review the scientific content and non-scientists review the accessibility. With this structure, Climanosco’s aim is to offer a direct, reliable and unbiased channel for climate scientists to communicate their research for the general public and to increase their impact and visibility.