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Climate change primers
United States Department of Agriculture, Climate Change Resource Center, Climate Change PrimerUniversity of Washington, Center for Science in the Earth System, Global Climate Change Primer
Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Climate Change 101: Overview
Resources for students and educators
Guide to Online Schools: Ultimate Guide to Weather and Climate Resources OnlineExcellent compendium of online materials. Includes general weather and climate resources; weather and climate resources for kids, teens, educators, and college students; and climate change resources.
International Union for Conservation of Nature, A Guidebook to the Green Economy
This guidebook serves as an introduction into the green economy, offering an an overview of available literature. It is structured as an annotated compilation of relevant papers, reports, and articles that can be freely accessed on the internet.
Government web sites
climate.govPortal that provides access to all the climate services of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Global Climate Change Indicators, NOAA, National Climatic Data Center
Page that presents "information from several independent measures of observed climate change."
Global Climate Change, Key Indicators, NASA
Graphical summary of historical data on sea level, carbon dioxide concentration, global surface temperature, Artic sea ice, and land ice.
Climate blogs
Climate ProgressWeb site run by a prominent climate change skeptic.
Real Climate
Web site about climate science run by climate scientists.
Skeptical Science
Web site which "gets skeptical about global warming skepticism."
OneClimate
Mobilising people power on climate change & live interactive webcasting from key climate events.
Wikis
Climate LabWiki addressing issues related to climate change, launched in March 2009.
Data on climate change and emissions
U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)Carbon emissions past and projected (interactive graphic), Financial Times, November 10, 2009.
Climate policy in the U.S.
Hill HeatWeb site "focused entirely on covering global warming developments on Capitol Hill."
Climate change conferences
Aspen Environment ForumTwitter resources
http://bit.ly/CcJ6Z http://bit.ly/cSZp8T http://bit.ly/dEtGi http://bit.ly/6hGoXJ http://bit.ly/bOkoEXSelected inks from these tweets include:
- Sceptics arguments from Skeptical Science
- EPA rejects petitions from Solve Climate
- Hockey Stick myths from Real Climate
- deniers v consensus visualisation from Information is Beautiful
- notes on "the petition" from OneClimate
Debates between proponents of climate change and skeptics
Plimer, Monbiot cross swords in climate debate, Lateline, Australian Broadcasting Corporation News, December 15, 2009.Climate skeptic Ian Plimer, author of Heaven and Earth, and George Monbiot, of The Guardian, debate the validity of climate science.
George Monbiot, Showdown with Plimer, Monbiot.com, December 16, 2009.
Monbiot's post-debate musings on his December 15 exchange with Plimer (see video directly above), with a links to several of the scientific studies discussed.
Michon Scott, Short-term Cooling on a Warming Proposalet, ClimateWatch Magazine, NOAA, December 31, 2009.
Skeptical Science, Skeptic Arguments and What the Science Says (updated on an onging basis).
A table with nearly 100 arguments put forward by skeptics, each accompanied by a response. Includes many links to articles from scientific journals on the relevant subjects.
