Life Itself's ongoing inquiry into the climate crisis 🌍🔥

https://climate.lifeitself.org/

Layout

A flat markdown knowledge base. The repo root is the publish root — these markdown files are the site, published by Flowershow.

*.md            # the knowledge base, one page per file, flat
index.md        # home page
assets/         # images and data files
config.json     # site configuration (theme, nav, redirects)
docs/           # design, plans, review queue — not published
scripts/        # structural checks — not published

Working on it

scripts/init.sh      # cold start: install deps and verify
scripts/verify.sh    # the checks: links resolve, images exist, frontmatter parses

Conventions and guard rails are in AGENTS.md (CLAUDE.md symlinks to it).

Without the Hot Air

David MacKay's Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air used to live in this repo. It now has its own home:

• Site: https://withouthotair.org
• Repo: https://github.com/life-itself/without-hot-air

Old /without-hot-air/... URLs here redirect there.

Other work

Other work we have done:

• With Tommaso Venturini of KCL / Sciences Po we (Rufus Pollock) built the COP21 Treaty Texts website in November / December 2015
• With Tommaso Venturini of KCL / Sciences Po we worked on analyzing climate negotations