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Global Climate Change Resources
Hot Topics in the Current Climate Change Debate
1) Real Climate: Climate scientists explain the science behind pressing climate change debates on this popular blog.
2) An Inconvenient Truth: Former vice president Al Gore debunks some of the popular misconceptions surrounding climate change and explains why action is needed to slow global warming in this documentary (and book).
3) Field Notes from a Catastrophe. Reporter Elizabeth Kolbert details the impacts of global warming on societies around the globe in this new compiled work.
4) James Hansen: The top climate scientist at NASA has been in the news recently for alleging that the government tried to silence him. Read more about Dr. Hansen in these articles from the Boston Globe and the New York Times.
5) Thin Ice : Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains: Mark Bowen follows Lonnie Thompson, a leading paleoclimatologist, as he traverses remote glaciers to support Bowen’s thesis on the effects of global warming in this new book.
6) 2005 reached record temperatures: Read what the Union of Concerned Scientists asserts that this means.
7) Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means For Our Future: John Cox discusses the possibility of abrupt climate shifts and what they would mean for our civilization in this recent publication.
8) Global warming and hurricanes: The 2005 Hurricane Season was especially severe. Scientists agree that global warming intensifies hurricane seasons. Read about the impact of global warming on hurricanes from the Real Climate bloggers, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
Suggested Resources
Popular Resources
Global Warming Facts & Our Future
An online exhibit of the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academies of Science
Global Warming: Early Warning Signs
An interactive map detailing documented climate changes in different regions from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Greenhouse Effect
An illustrated explanation from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Global Warming: What's Being Done
A frequently-updated page by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change on recent international, national, and local legislative attention to the issue
Human Fingerprints
A fact sheet on the impact of human's activities on the speed and severity of global warming from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Each Country's Share of CO2 Emissions
A discussion by the Union of Concerned Scientists using Oak Ridge National Research Laboratory Data.
The Effects of Global Warming
An interactive website from TIME magazine
Scholarly Resources
High Confidence in Surface Temp Reconstructions Since A.D. 1600
The National Research Council, 2006
Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises
The National Research Council and the Ocean Studies Board, 2002
Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions
The National Academy of Sciences, 2001
Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2001
Climate Change and Global Health – Risk and Responses
World Health Center, 2003
Observed Impacts of Global Climate Change in the U.S. (pdf)
Pew Center on Global Climate Change, 2004
The Science of Climate Change: Global and U.S. Perspectives (pdf)
Pew Center on Global Climate Change, 1999
U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1990 - 2004
An explanation of Environmental Protection Agency findings by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Books
Academic Books
Crutzen, Paul and Thomas Graedel. Atmosphere, Climate and Change. New York: WH Freeman and Co, 1997.
Cox, John D. Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means For Our Future. Washington, DC: National Academies (Joseph Henry Press), 2005.
Houghton, John. Global Warming: The Complete Briefing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Popular Books
Bowen, Mark. Thin Ice : Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2005.
Diamond, Jared. Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Viking Adult, 2004.
Kolbert, Elizabeth. Field Notes from a Catastrophe. New York: Bloomsbury, 2006.
Miller, Clark and Paul Edwards, eds. Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.
Victor, David. Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options. Washington, D.C.: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2004.
Books With Historical Perspective
Christianson, Gale E. Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming. New York: Walker & Co, 1999.
Fagan, Brian M. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization. New York: Basic Books, reprint edition 2004.
Weart, Spencer. The Discovery of Global Warming. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Blogs
Climate Change Action
A blog detailing how individuals can help slow climate change
It's Getting Hot in Here
A blog from Campus Climate Challenge about the global youth climate movement
Climate Science Blog
A blog including musings by a professor at Colorado State University
Real Climate
A blog on climate change science written by climate scientists
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