On Wednesday, the White House announced plans to create a website for organizing all existing government data on the issue of climate change, the Los Angeles Times reported. The site represents another step by the administration to address the country's -- and world's -- changing environment.

Climate.data.gov will provide information showing climate change's effects on sea levels, coastal flooding, and eventually the food supply, public health, and energy sources. The site will cater to a range of entities and people -- from industries to companies to individuals at the local level. One feature will allow people to type in their zip code and receive projections relating to their area.

"By taking the enormous data sets regularly collected by NASA, NOAA, and other agencies and applying the ingenuity, creativity, and expertise of technologists and entrepreneurs, the Climate Data Initiative will help create easy-to-use tools for regional planners, farmers, hospitals, and businesses across the country-and empower America's communities to prepare themselves for the future," John Podesta, a counselor to the president, and John P. Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said in a joint statement.

Likely, the website will contain data from all viable sources, though only government agencies have so far been emphasized.

Perusing Google News daily for the past six months, I've found (as many others have) articles related to climate change represent a significant portion of the science section -- and typically draw fierce commentary. A few months ago, I had the idea of summarizing/organizing every piece relating to global warming over a few months into an overall body of work as a way to gauge not only the current science of the issue, but the nation's views on it. Obviously, such a project would take a significant effort to which I can't commit at the moment, but it would be interesting if someone did. The government's project is similar, but without taking into account public opinion.