Global Climate Change
  • Climate Change Education
  • Climate 101
  • Mother Earth's Triple Whammy
  • American Meteorological Society statement on global warming.
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. provides the definitive summary of the status of our current understanding of climate change.
  • RealClimate For more in depth discussion and answers to many of your questions
  • Global Climate Change Briefing Book Introduction
  • Global Climate change This is a site with information presented to US congress about climate change.
  • Some evidence that it really is happening. Harbingers of change
  • NASA Earth Science Enterprise - Earth from space.
  • Global climate change This site has a wealth of information about global climate. An extensive resource.
  • The National Climatic Data Center provides a good overview.
  • Global Warming is bunk according to the National Consumers Coalition.
  • Taxpayer subsidies to the oil industry.
  • Ozone depletion: This presents a brief sketch of the ozone problem along with some interesting graphics. Good place to start.
  • Information from the Environmental Protection Agency about ozone depletion.
  • Ozone Depletion, Global Warming, Nuclear Missile Defense, and more. The Union of Concerned Scientists presents the science and the societal implications of a multitude of issues. An excellent resource. Not particularly technical so it is readable for the general public.
  • Rising sea level
  • World energy consumption A wealth of information from the US Department of Energy. Good graphs with comprehensive background info.
  • Classroom of the Future / Global Warming (http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/carbon/earthfire.html) If you are going to be a teacher take a look at the Global Warming unit from COTF. You'll learn about the science and you'll find an excellent teaching resource.
  • The Environmental Defense Fund is trying to do something about the possibility of global climate change.

  • Knowledgeable and authoritative help to sort the science from the BS: RealClimate.org

    Here are seeds for several activities in which students can look at two sides of the issue.

    The following links are a few others that I have found useful.

    (IPCC) Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis The International Panel on Climate Change was founded in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program. Their Third Assessment Report was published in 2001. The next report will be published this year starting in February.

    The Discovery of Global Warming by Spencer Weart is available to read online or download at the AIP website. Highly recommended. Note his Links and there look for a teacher's guide.

    Earth's Energy Imbalance, Hansen, et al., Science, 3 June 2005 This link takes you to a NASA page listing abstracts for 2005. Scroll down to find Hansen, Nazarenko, et al. Note that the "related dataset webpage" will allow you to find the results of multiple simulations yourself. This is an important paper with current estimates of the fundamental parameters contributing to radiative forcing.

    RealClimate Comment on Hansen, et al.

    Goddard Insitute for Space Studies - Data and Images

    Ocean Surface Topography from JPL Includes sea surface temperature information

    Sea Level change data and summary available from University of Colorado, Boulder.

    RealClimate predict the future enables you to do some rough calculations and make some predictions.

    Exxon-Mobil funding for climate naysayers From the Environmental Defense Fund

    Factcheck.org A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center

    SourceWatch is a wiki which documents the PR and propaganda activities of public relations firms and public relations professionals.