Climate Change Information
Reports
- Interacademy Council Review of the IPCC (09/10)
- Mapping Population and Climate Change (PAI) - 01/10
- Verifying Mitigration Efforts in a New CC Agreement (Pew) - 12/09
Forest Carbon Index (RFF) - a data-rich report on the role of tropical forests in sequestering carbon, including estimates of their effect on carbon pricing in developing coutries.- Transitions and Tipping Points in Complex Systems: NSF's Committee on Environmental Research and Education
- Economics of Climate Adaptation working group - 09/09
- Global Climate Change Impacts in the U.S. (GCRP) - 06/09
- Pew Center Report on Wind and Solar Energy - Challenges and Opportunities - 06/09
- Rockefeller Foundation White Paper on CC Resilience -08/09
Educational Resources
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The Bard Center for Environmental Policy hosts the twice-monthly National Climate Seminars.
Books & Videos For the National Teach-In
- Auden Schendler's Getting Green Done
- Gary Braasch's Earth Under Fire
- Gary and Lynne Cherry's How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming
- Michael Mann and Lee Kump's Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming,
- Amy Seidl's Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World
- Eban Goodstein's Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction
- Ignition (Isham and Waage)
- The Water and Climate Channel (great source of videos for classroom use or events)
- Global Carbon Cycling Demo (courtesy Galen McKinley, Univ of Wisc)
- Climate Literacy Guide (NOAA & AAAS)
- Wildlife and Wildlands Toolkit
- Teaching Climate Change Law & Policy
- Greenhouse Gas Management Institute
- Online Climate Change Exhibit (Rockefeller Foundation and the AMNH)
- Smithsonian Online Conference for CC Educators (September 29-August1)
- Climate Discovery (online courses for teens from UCAR)
Links
- World Resources Institute Eath Trends Database
- Climate Feedbacks: Nature's Climate Change blog