Interactive |
| BBC Quiz: How
much do you know about our changing world? |
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| Forecast Earth |
| http://climate.weather.com/ |
| Forecast Earth will leverage
the trusted scientific resources of The Weather Channel, and
the site's mission will be to present an open, balanced dialogue
around the scientific facts concerning global climate change.
Forecast Earth will provide interested visitors a place where
sound science can be heard, and offer a forum where all people
can question and debate all points of view. The site will leverage
what the Internet does best; an exchange of rational ideas from
both experts and non-experts with questions. In addition, Forecast
Earth will look at how climate change may already be affecting
the lives of individuals, families, communities and businesses. (website
description) |
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| The Great Green Game |
| http://go.ucsusa.org/game/ |
| This game tests your knowledge
of how consumer choices affect the environment. As you answer
questions and 'shop green' the Envirometer gauges the cumulative
impact of your choices. The centerpoint on the Envirometer represents
the impact of an average American household -- at the end of
the game you can compare this average to your own impact on air
quality, water quality, natural habitats, and the sustainability
of our climate. |
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| Wedges Game |
| http://www.princeton.edu/%7Ecmi/resources/stabwedge.htm |
In order to avoid a doubling
of CO2 and dramatic climate change, society needs to act quickly
to deploy low-carbon energy technologies and enhance natural
carbon sinks.
The "stabilization wedges" concept illustrates the
scale of emissions cuts needed in the future, and provides a
common unit for comparing the carbon mitigating capacities of
various energy and storage technologies.
Interactive: Wedges
Introduction (Shockwave Flash Movie) |
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| C02 Maps |
| http://www.nextgenerationearth.org/maps |
| A new interactive map tool lets users visualize
CO2 emissions data for the entire
United States
. Produced by CIESIN, the map is part of NextGenerationEarth,
a recently-released Web site from the Earth Institute at
Columbia
University that offers a range of information climate change by state. CIESIN’s interactive map is a custom application that
builds on Google Map technology, generating maps that depict
the most recent year’s CO2 emissions (2003), or change since 1990. Users
may map total CO2 emissions, or emissions
by sector; and may choose to show emissions on a per-capita or per-GDP basis. |
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| Climate Analysis
Indicators Tool |
| http://www.wri.org/ |
| The Climate Analysis Indicators
Tool (CAIT) is an information and analysis tool on global climate
change developed by the World Resources Institute. CAIT provides
a comprehensive and comparable database of greenhouse gas emissions
data (including all major sources and sinks) and other climate-relevant
indicators. CAIT can be used to analyze a wide range of climate-related
data questions and to help support future policy decisions made
under the Climate Convention and in other fora. |
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| Interactive Landfall Probability Display |
| http://www.e-transit.org/hurricane/map.asp |
| The user selects a county, and landfall probabilities based
on William Gray's 2007 tropical cyclone forecast are presented.
The numbers in parentheses are the climatological averages
based on landfalling tropical cyclones in HURDAT. The United
States landfalling hurricane web project has been co-developed
by William Gray's Tropical Meteorology Research Project at
Colorado State University and the GeoGraphics Laboratory
at Bridgewater State College. |
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| Map and reporting system for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) |
| http://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/MapApp/index.html |
| The CDM project map shows the location of CDM activities worldwide. Visitors can travel around the globe and learn about the location and many details of each project. In addition to this, a series of new graphs provide detailed breakdowns about the range, distribution of such projects that highlight national participation, project impacts and the status of project registration. |
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| Interactive Landfall Probability Display |
| http://www.e-transit.org/hurricane/map.asp |
| The user selects a county, and landfall probabilities based on William Gray's 2007 tropical cyclone forecast are presented. The numbers in parentheses are the climatological averages based on landfalling tropical cyclones in HURDAT. The United States landfalling hurricane web project has been co-developed by William Gray's Tropical Meteorology Research Project at Colorado State University and the GeoGraphics Laboratory at Bridgewater State College. |
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Myths & Facts |
| Global Warming Myths & Facts |
| http://www.fightglobalwarming.com/page.cfm?tagID=274 |
| Information from the Environmental Defense website, a leading national nonprofit organization, represents more than 500,000 members. Since 1967, Environmental Defense has linked science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships to create breakthrough solutions to the most serious environmental problems. We have a strong history of finding solutions, from our pioneering efforts to eradicate DDT to cutting-edge hybrid truck work with FedEx. (website description) |
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| Global Warming Myths & Facts |
| http://www.fightglobalwarming.com/page.cfm?tagID=274 |
| Information from the Environmental Defense website, a leading national nonprofit organization, represents more than 500,000 members. Since 1967, Environmental Defense has linked science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships to create breakthrough solutions to the most serious environmental problems. We have a strong history of finding solutions, from our pioneering efforts to eradicate DDT to cutting-edge hybrid truck work with FedEx. (website description) |
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| The New York Times: Science Topic Page on Global Warming |
| Collection from all the news,
reference and archival information, photos, graphics, audio
and video files published about the topic of Global Warming
on NYTimes.com. |
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| Energy Bulletin |
| http://www.energybulletin.net/ |
EnergyBulletin is designed to be a clearinghouse for current
information regarding
the peak in global energy supply. |
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Timeline |
| Global Warming Timeline of Milestones |
| http://www.aip.org/history/climate/timeline.htm |
| Here are gathered in chronological
sequence the most important events in the history of climate
change science. (For a narrative see the Introduction: summary
history.) This list of milestones includes major influences external
to the science itself. Following it is a list of other external
influences. |
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| The Bush administration's environmental record on Global Climate Change |
| The Bush administration's environmental record in an Open-Content project from the Center for Cooperative Research History Commons. This investigative project is one of several grassroots investigations being hosted on the History Commons website. The data published as part of this investigation has been collected, organized, and published by members of the public who are registered users of this website. (website description) |
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Multimedia |
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| GreenPeace:
Interactive Multimedia |
| http://www.exxonsecrets.org/ |
| Created by Greenpeace this flash site allows
you ExxonMobil funds the climate change skeptics. User can map the connections
between scientists, corporations, think tanks, conservative institutions
founded by ExxonMobil with more than $12,000,000 since 1983. Also it is
possible to read fact sheets, see organizations the different people and
institutions belong to, and track the sources of information. |
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| Green TV |
| http://www.green.tv/ |
| green.tv is
the broadband TV channel for environmental films. green.tv is the first website to bring together films
from a whole range of environmental organizations and independent filmmakers
and make them available to anyone anywhere. Sections include: Air, Land,
Water, Climate Change, Technologies, People and Species. (web description) |
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| Online movie: “Proper Education” |
| http://www.green.tv/eric_prydz_int |
| Launching green.tv's
new green music video channel Swedish producer and DJ, Eric Prydz,
with his remix of Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick in the Wall'. Green.tv
interviewed Dan Morrell from climate change charity Global Cool
who consulted on the video. The tune's called 'Proper Education'.
The video has a deep green message. It focuses on climate change
and the issues surrounding global warming. Set in a London estate,
it shows a gang of young people breaking into local flats, in
order to switch appliances off standby, change light bulbs for
energy efficient alternatives and place bricks in toilet cisterns. |
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| Online video: What
can regular people do about global warming? |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQN78fhkdQg |
"What can regular people do about global
warming? This film takes a look at
how average Americans perceive the climate crisis while giving practical,
everyday tip towards reducing our carbon footprint." |
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| Online video: Global
Warming & Climate Change |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJTDSEPSfhk |
| The 10 hottest years on record were all in
the last 15 years, and arctic ice drilling shows that Co2 levels in the
atmosphere are the highest for 650,000 years, yet some people still think
this isn't happening. |
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Important websites |
| Feeling the heat |
| http://unfccc.int/essential_background/feeling_the_heat/items/2918.php |
| This guide provides an introduction to climate change and shows how the international community is responding. Starting with a scientific perspective, it explains the causes and possible impacts of climate change; it also explores ways of coping and dealing with the problem. The final sections provide an insight into the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the stricter legally binding agreement: the Kyoto Protocol. |
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| Climate Choices |
| http://www.climatechoices.org/ne/ |
This website was created
to explain to people in the United States what climate change
will mean for us, our children, and our grandchildren. Using
the most up-to-date science, ClimateChoices.org lays out two
possible emission pathways we can take. It is our hope that,
upon learning that immediate action is needed to reduce
our heat-trapping emissions and that cost-effective solutions
are already available to us, Americans will join together to
work toward a more sustainable future.
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is the leading science-based
nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world.
UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action
to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible
changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer
choices. (website description) |
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| Article: "The Global Warming Debate"
by James Hansen (January
1990) |
| http://www.giss.nasa.gov/edu/gwdebate/ |
| Published in the Goddard Institute for Space Studies Education
Resource Materials Website. |
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| USA Today: "Science
V. Bush: A heated collision" |
| The Associated Press (August 16, 2004) |
Last November, President
Bush gave physicist Richard Garwin a medal for his "valuable
scientific advice on important questions of national security." Just
three months later, Garwin signed a statement condemning the
Bush administration for misusing, suppressing and distorting
scientific advice.
(Update July, 2007: So far more than
11,000 scientists, including 48 Nobel prize winners, have
put their names to the declaration.) |
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| Statement: "Restoring
Scientific Integrity in Policymaking" |
| On February 18, 2004, over
60 leading scientists–Nobel laureates, leading medical
experts, former federal agency directors, and university chairs
and presidents–signed the statement below, voicing their
concern over the misuse of science by the Bush administration. UCS
is seeking the signatures of thousands of additional U.S. scientists
in support of this effort. |
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| Global Warming Website |
| http://www.globalwarming.org/index.php |
| This is a market-oriented website, a project
of the Cooler Heads Coalition, also a sub-group of the National Consumer
Coalition. The Cooler Heads Coalition formed May 6, 1997 to dispel the
myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk
analysis. Coalition members will also follow the progress of the international
Global Climate Change Treaty negotiations. Critical of
global warming. It has resources for students. |
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| Article: Hansen, J., 2004: Defusing the global warming time bomb. Sci. Amer., 290, no. 3, 68-77. |
| http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/2004/Hansen.html |
| At present, our most
accurate knowledge about climate sensitivity is based on
data from the Earth's history, and this evidence reveals
that small forces, maintained long enough, can cause large
climate change. Human-made forces, especially greenhouse
gases, soot and other small particles, now exceed natural
forces, and the world has begun to warm at a rate predicted
by climate models. The stability of the great ice sheets
on Greenland and Antarctica and the need to preserve global
coastlines set a low limit on the global warming that will
constitute "dangerous anthropogenic
interference" with climate. Halting global warming
requires urgent, unprecedented international cooperation,
but the needed actions are feasible and have additional
benefits for human health, agriculture and the environment.
This is a shorter version of an article published on-line
in 2003 as "Can we defuse the global warming time
bomb?". |
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| How to answer the claims of a Climate
Change Skeptic |
| Perhaps you have a friend, a work colleague
or even a family member who still isn’t convinced about Climate Change?
Well help is now at hand!
Below is a complete listing of the articles
in "How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic," a series by Coby Beck
containing responses to the most common sceptical arguments
on global warming. There are four separate taxonomies; arguments are divided
by:
Stages of Denial,
Scientific Topics,
Types of Argument, and
Levels of Sophistication
Individual articles will appear under multiple
headings and may even appear in multiple subcategories in the same heading. |
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| The Marian Koshland Science Museum |
| http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/ |
The Marian Koshland Science Museum is located in NW Washington, DC at the corner of 6th and E Streets, NW. The closest Metro stations are: Gallery Place/Chinatown, served by the Red, Green, and Yellow lines; and Judiciary Square, served by the Red line.
Exhibit: Global Warming Facts and Our Future http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/index.jsp Climate Warming Is a Global Problem, but the impacts and potential solutions will affect us locally and in many different ways. The challenge for each of us and for our policy makers is to pursue effective responses that are as fair as possible to all people and nations. In this exhibition the National Academies provide scientific information to help us make informed decisions and to help answer some important questions: Is The Climate Warming? Are Humans Causing Climate Warming? What Effects Might Climate Warming Have? What Should Be Done About Climate Warming? (from Website description) |
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| The Heat is On |
| http://www.heatisonline.org/main.cfm |
This site, based on the book The Heat Is On, by Ross Gelbspan,
(Perseus Books,1997):
- Lays bare the central drama: the ability of this
planet to sustain civilization vs. the survival of the fossil
fuel industry (a 6,000-word text overview);
- Catalogues the
last four years of increasingly frequent and severe extreme
weather events all over the world;
- Provides a digest of the
major scientific findings about global warming;
- Documents
a pervasive and very successful industry campaign of deception
and disinformation (and details the U.S. politics of climate
change at the beginning of 1999);
- Outlines a global solution
which could begin to stabilize our inflamed climate while,
at the same time, triggering an unprecedented gain in the
overall equity and wealth of the global economy. (Web description)
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| Climate Changes Fact Sheets Collection |
| http://www.cs.ntu.edu.au/homepages/jmitroy/sid101/uncc/fs-index.html |
Charles Darwin
University collection of links to
material on the interaction of energy, society and the environment that
were part of an interdisciplinary unit, SID101, that used to run at the
NTU. Disclaimer: one can expect a lot of broken links from the stuff on
non-NTU sites. Some of the material is obviously a bit dated.
Before you go off and surf the internet a
word of caution is in order. There is no filtering process with electronic
publishing. So while there is much information that is useful, there is
probably more material that is complete nonsense. Generally the information
I've moved to the NTU is written by someone who knows what they are talking
about (although the articles may be opinionated) and the purely factual
matter will generally be trustworthy (no guarantees given for some of the
raves). (web description) |
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| Article: “Climate Game Gives Real Options to
Save World” |
| http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11253361 |
by Nell Boyce June
25, 2007
When thinking about climate change and reducing carbon emissions,
people often bring up the need for technological breakthroughs.
But some experts say we already have all the tools and know-how
we need to drastically reduce carbon emissions.
That idea is the basis for a new game. It's being played by school
children, policy wonks, scientists, and other groups around the
world. Recently, at a business seminar held by the Sustainable
Enterprise Academy at York University in Toronto, some executives
decided to sit down and give it a try. |
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Solutions |
| Resources for Undergraduate Students |
| http://www.nrel.gov/learning/ |
| Variety of educational
resources that can help students learn about renewable energy
sources and technologies. |
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| The Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI) |
| http://www.princeton.edu/~cmi/ |
| The Carbon Mitigation Initiative,
a part of the Princeton Environmental Institute, is a joint project
of Princeton University, BP and the Ford Motor Company to
find solutions to the greenhouse and global warming problem. Together,
our researchers are developing strategies to reduce global carbon
dioxide emissions that will be safe, effective, and affordable. (web
description) |
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| Zero Footprint |
| http://zerofootprint.net/press_releases/1009 |
| The University of Guelph
Mobilizes Students to Fight Climate Change: Students will discover
their eco-footprint with the Zerofootprint online environmental
tool (05/15/2007) |
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| The
California Energy Crisis of 2000-2001: Causes and Solutions |
| Cutbacks to California
conservation and renewable energy programs helped cause power
shortages during 2000 and 2001. Increasing energy efficiency
and renewable energy must be part of the solution to the crisis
in California and to avoiding similar problems elsewhere. |
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| Things you can do |
| http://www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/tenthings/ |
| The choices we make and
the products we buy test our commitment to maintain a healthy
planet. When we burn fossil fuels—such as oil, coal, and
natural gas—to run our cars and light our homes, we pump
carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air. This thickens the heat-trapping
blanket that surrounds the planet, causing global warming. |
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| Make Me Sustainable |
| http://www.makemesustainable.com |
| MakeMeSustainable was created
to fill the void between how we feel about our environment and
what we do about it. We bring you the tools to take action. Our
Carbon and Energy Portfolio Manager enables you to visualize
and contextualize your individual impact. MMS' sustainable solutions
empower you to act upon your knowledge. We can help you to become
a more environmentally conscious and efficient individual or
business. MMS empowers you to spread the word and encourage friends,
family, and co-workers to join the collective effort. |
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For fun |
| The Unsustainables |
| http://www.theunsustainables.com/ |
| An original new series
of animated episodes produced by SustainLane! The Unsustainables
depicts the lives of a blended family in a modern urban environment.
Each segment centers around our characters who, like many of
us, stumble towards the future in an attempt to live green. Sometimes
they fail, sometimes they don't. |
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| Suv City (8min. USA: ND ) |
| http://www.suvcitythefilm.com |
| A short satirical animated film about the absurdity of big SUVs. Some people might find it funnier than others as the underlying message about four common types of big-SUV buyers may ring true. Watch online |
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