  While many accept climate change and its growing impacts, few converse about
it well, limiting the adoption speed of societal changes necessary to address
it. In order to make effective climate communication easier, we aim to build a
system that presents to any individual the climate information predicted to
best motivate and inspire them to take action given their unique set of
personal values. To alleviate the cold-start problem, the system relies on a
knowledge base (ClimateKB) of causes and effects of climate change, and their
associations to personal values. Since no such comprehensive ClimateKB exists,
we revisit knowledge base construction techniques and build a ClimateKB from
free text. We plan to open source the ClimateKB and associated code to
encourage future research and applications.
