Directory of Climate Change Resources

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Topics include climate change (or global warming), atmospheric C02, stratospheric ozone, desertification, and change indicators.

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• For Kids and Teens
• Impacts and Indicators
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Resources in This Category

• AIP - The Discovery of Global Warming

  https://www.aip.org/history/climate/
  A hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly) understand what people are doing to cause climate change, told in a set of hyperlinked essays by Spencer Weart. From the American Institute of Physics.

• Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases

  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/99EO00330/abstract
  Article reviews scientific understanding of the issue of greenhouse gases and climate change, as presented in peer-reviewed publications. This understanding serves as the underlying basis of the American Geophysical Union's position statement of December 1998.

• ClimateCrisis

  http://climate.yolasite.com/
  Explains what global warming is, why it should concern you and what you can do about it.

• Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union

  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2324-9250
  Article reviews scientific understanding of the issue of greenhouse gases and climate change, as presented in peer-reviewed publications.

• Exploratorium: Global Climate Change

  http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/
  Educational site provides scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the land, and their living organisms. Teaches how scientists study natural phenomena: how researchers gather evidence, test theories, and come to conclusions.

• Geological Society of New Zealand: Evidence for Global Warming

  http://www.gsnz.org.nz/info_page/evidence-global-warming-need-take-action-i-6.html
  A statement by Professor Peter Barrett (Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand) on the reality of global warming from the viewpoint of an earth scientist.

• Global Boiling

  http://www.globalboiling.com/
  Provides live satellite and sensor imagery which links sea temperatures, hurricane and typhoon strengths, melting polar icecaps, rising sea level, melting glaciers and weather patterns all over the world.

• Global Change

  http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/rotary/index.shtml
  An elementary introduction to the problems surrounding man-made climate change.

• Global Climate

  http://globalclimate.ucr.edu/
  Provides resources including peer reviewed articles, funding and research opportunities and recent climate news.

• Global Warming

  http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/
  Provides factual information on climate change based on IPCC reports and peer reviewed papers.

• Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Discussion List

  http://listserver.ciesin.columbia.edu/hdgec.html
  Mailing list subscription information and link to archives.

• IPCC Data Distribution Centre

  http://www.ipcc-data.org/
  Established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to facilitate the distribution of up-to-date scenarios of changes in climate and related environmental and socio-economic factors for use in climate impact assessments.

• Is Climate Sensitive to Solar Variability?

  http://www.fel.duke.edu/~scafetta/pdf/opinion0308.pdf
  Nicola Scafetta and Bruce J. West argue that the importance of the variability of the sun's output has not been given sufficient weight when discussing the causes of climate change.

• NASA's Global Change Master Directory

  http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/
  A directory of descriptions of data sets of relevance to global change research. The GCMD database covers climate change, agriculture, the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and oceans, geology, geography, and human dimensions of global change.

• National Resources Defense Council: Global Warming

  http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/
  Highlights the issues facing the United States today and suggests ways members of the public can help.

• Nikan Oti: The Future

  http://www.parc.ca/nikan_oti/
  The project examines how two First Nations communities have taken initiatives to address adaptation and adaptive capacity to climate related risks and opportunities.

• Reconciling Observations of Global Temperature Change

  http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309068916
  Full-text online version of book from the (US) National Academy of Sciences, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, a detailed investigation into differences between surface temperatures and those of the lower troposphere, concluding that the warming trend is "undoubtedly real." From National Academies Press.

• SourceWatch - Portal: Climate Change

  http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Portal:Climate_Change
  Information resource investigating key aspects of climate change policy and debate. Includes articles, who's who, skeptics corner, COP15 and things to do.

• START - SysTem for Analysis Research and Training

  http://www.start.org/
  Aims to evaluate the impact of global change and enhance scientific capacity in developing countries.

• Telegraph.co.uk: Climate Dissent Grows Hotter as Chill Deepens

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/3555918/Climate-dissent-grows-hotter-as-chill-deepens.html
  The extraordinary winter weather of 2008 in different parts of the world is discussed by Christopher Booker.

• The Green Agenda

  http://green-agenda.com/
  Describes the rise of the global environmental movement and its future political agenda.

• Usenet: Climate Change: Some Basics

  http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sci/climate-change/basics/
  Archived Usenet FAQ.

• WHO: Climate Change and Human Health

  http://www.who.int/globalchange/en/
  Provides links to much detailed information on climate change science and the health implications of global warming.

• Wikibooks - Climate Change

  http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Climate_Change
  Provides information on the science, evidence of change, causes, effects, and mitigation strategies. From the open-content textbook collection.

• Wikipedia - Climate Change

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change
  Hyperlinked encyclopedia article about climate change over millions of years, including causes and physical evidence.

• Wikipedia - Global Warming

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
  Hyperlinked encyclopedia article covers the trends, climate models, feedback, attributed and expected effects, responses, debate and skepticism.

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