For a city planner looking to make a new building flood-proof, or a farmer interested in trying out new drought-resistant seed, there is no shortage of climate change information available.

The problem, often, is that there is too much of it — and that it is on too many different websites, and is not easy to understand or figure out how to use.

"We pour this jug of information over people's heads and hope it sticks," said Roger Street, the director of adaptation science at UKCIP, the United Kingdom Climate Impacts Programme.