Climate Change Resources
Climate Change: Books
- The Discovery of Global Warming (website and book)
- Earth: The Operators’ Manual (website and book)
- What We Know About Climate Change (2nd Edition)
- Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast (2nd Edition)
- Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis (Volume 1 – The Physical Climate)
Climate Change: New England
- Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2020 (December 2010)
- Massachusetts Climate Change Adaptation Report (September 2011)
- The New New England: How Climate Change Jeopardizes the Northeast’s Economy and Environment (October 2012)
- Climate change in New England (New England Aquarium)
- The Northeast Climate Science Center at UMass Amherst
- The Changing Northeast Climate (from the Union of Concerned Scientists)
- Climate Change Impacts in Maine (Boston Globe)
Climate Change: The Science
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- The IPCC (video and infographic from Nature Magazine)
- Sunspots!
- Ocean Circulation and Gulfstream (animated infographic)
- Trends and Variations – a great animation! (discussed here)
- Volcanoes and Climate
- How Do Greenhouse Gases Work? (3:08 minutes, YouTube)
Climate Change: Greenhouse Gases
- 2013 CO2 Concentrations Map
- 2010 GHG Emissions: Sources and Uses (more information)
- The Carbon Emissions Globe: a very cool animation!
- The Hestia Project: mapping carbon emissions down to the building level!
- The Vulcan Project: mapping carbon emissions across the USA!
- EPA 2010 Greenhouse Gas Emissions (from large facilities)
- CARMA: Carbon Monitoring for Action (carbon emissions from power plants)
- New York City carbon emissions (from Carbon Visuals and YouTube)
- CO2 Air Capture: how to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
- What happens if we burned all the fossil fuels we have?
- Methane and Permafrost (cool video!)
Climate Change: The Numbers
- Your Warming World: a great visualization of the instrumental record
- Global Land Temperatures from 1900 (a great interactive map and timeline)
- Two ways to look at 1973 to 2010! (discussed here and here)
- 1880 to 2011 Temperature Data (NASA)
Climate Change: The Oceans
- Ocean acidification and biodiversity impacts (12:12 minutes)
- Ocean acidification (3:01 minutes)
- Ocean chemistry (1:07 minutes)
Climate Change: The Impacts
- Sea Level Rise and Global Warming (infographics)
- What could disappear: Maps for cities around the USA
- What could disappear: Boston, NYC, Washington DC, Miami
- Surging Seas
- 1, 3, 5 m sea level rise (maps and animations)
- Storm surge and flooding (actual and predicted) from Hurricane Sandy
- How To Avoid The Next Atlantis (2:32 minutes, YouTube)
- 25 feet sea level rise: animations
- Disappearing Lake Mead (NASA)
- Flooding and damage from Hurricane Sandy
- State of the Polar Bear (great web animation)
- The New Arctic (9:58 minute Vimeo)
- Landsat Timelapse 1984-2012 (by Google)
- Climate Change Impacts in Africa and Asia
- The New Climate (Extremes): Kevin Trenberth on PBS
- Trenberth (2012) How to relate climate extremes to climate change
- Extreme Measures (Nature, 8 September 2011)
- A link between climate change and Joplin tornadoes? Never!
Climate Change: The Solutions
- Carbon Tax with 100 Percent Dividend
- Climate Change in the American Mind (infographic)
- The UNFCCC (infographic)
- Vertical Farms: website and article
- The Public Opinion on Climate Change
- The President’s Climate Action Plan (June 2013)
Climate Change: Videos and Podcasts
- Climate Change 101 (4:33 minutes, with Bill Nye)
- Bill McKibben – Do the math! (31:333 minutes podcast)
- Bill McKibben – Our Strange New Eaarth (32:59 minutes podcast)
- A link between climate change and the Joplin Tornadoes? Never! (4:10 minutes YouTube)
- Naomi Oreskes – The Denial of Global Warming (35:17 minutes podcast)
- Naomi Oreskes – The American Denial of Global Warming (58:37 minutes video)
- Michael Mann – The Climate Wars (34:12 minutes podcast)
- David Keith – Geoengineering (8:43 minutes video)
- David Keith and Steven Colbert (6:25 miuntes)
- A Brief Introduction to Geoengineering (YouTube video)
- James Hansen – Why I must speak out about climate change (17:51 minutes, Ted.com)
- James Hansen – Nuclear Energy and Climate Change (9:57 minutes video)
- Stefan Rahmstorf – The Basics of Climate Change (31:46 minutes, Vimeo)
- Stefan Rahmstorf – The Impacts of Climate Change (29:20, Vimeo)
- Katharine Hayhoe – Climate Scientist and Evangelical Christian (8:07 minutes, PBS)
- Richard Muller – Global Warming and Solutions
- Hans Rosling – Population growth and climate change (3:18 minutes, YouTube)
- Welcome to the Anthropocene – website – YouTube video
- How Much Does Meat Actually Cost? (2:11 minutes YouTube)
Climate Change: Assorted Items
- The Human Urban Footprint: Density Levels and Population Size of 129 Metropolitan Areas
- Mapping the Anthropocene: that’s a bit of a buzz word these days…this website has a series of spectecular maps showing the impacts of human on the planet.
- How much do you know about climate change? A quiz!
- The limits of climate prediction (Nature, 14 June 2012)
- The US Global Change Research Program: The Essential Principles of Climate Science – A Guide for Individuals and Communities
- CAMEL: a free multi-media resource for educators – very cool!
- Living in the Donut: A Safe and Just Space for Humanity. More at the blog and on YouTube.
Climate Change: Blogs
