Climate Change Resources and Links

National Park Service

• Climate Change Response Program
• Climate Friendly Parks

 

Park Science

• Nathan L. Stephenson and Constance I. Millar. 2012. Climate change: Wilderness's greatest challenge. Park Science 28(3): 34-38.
• David Graber. 2011. Climate change threatens wilderness integrity. Park Science 28(3): 39-41.
• Park Science: Volume 28(2)-Summer 2011: Special Issue: Climate Change Science in the National Parks (html or 19.06 MB PDF)
• Park Science: Volume 28(1)-Spring 2011: Special Issue: Climate Change Adaptation & Communication (html or 6.20 MB PDF)
• Andrew G. Bunn. 2006. The rock and ice problem in national parks: An opportunity for monitoring climate change impacts. Park Science 26(1): 17-21.
• Jessica Lundquist and James Roche. 2009. Climate change and water supply in western national parks. Park Science 26(1): 31-34.

 

WebRangers - the National Park Service's site for kids of all ages.

• Investigating Global Connections

 

Do Your Part! for Climate Friendly Parks

 

Earth to Sky: Sharing a World of Resources is a Federal, inter-agency partnership working to collaborate across all sectors in support of scientific literacy. Through unique learning experiences, Earth to Sky brings scientists and communications professionals together in a collegial environment fostering a community of practice to develop communications products and strategies for furthering environmental efforts across the nation.

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News about Climate Change

• Environmental Health News: Climate Change
• Google News: Climate Change
• Google News: Global Warming
• Inter Press Service News Agency: Earth Alert: Confronting Climate Change

Government agencies and non-governmental organizations studying and working to educate the public about climate change

 

350.org

• 350 Science
• Understanding 350: Frequently Asked Questions

 

Center for Biological Diversity

• 350 Reasons we need to get to 350: 350 Species Threatened by Global Warming

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Environmental Protection Agency

• Climate Change
• Climate Change: What You Can Do

 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

• IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4): Synthesis Report - November 16, 2007
• • IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4): Synthesis Report - Summary for Policymakers - November 16, 2007 (html or 6.36 MB PDF)
• Working Group I Report: "The Physical Science Basis" - February 2, 2007
• • Working Group I Report: "The Physical Science Basis" - Summary for Policy Makers - February 2, 2007 (html or 3.67 MB PDF)
• Working Group II Report "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" - April 6, 2007
• • Working Group II Report "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" - Summary for Policy Makers - April 6, 2007 (html or 923 KB PDF)
• Working Group III Report "Mitigation of Climate Change" - May 4, 2007
• • Working Group III Report "Mitigation of Climate Change" - Summary for Policy Makers - May 4, 2007 (html or 631 KB PDF)
• Other IPCC Assessment & Special Reports

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National Academy of Sciences

• Climate Change at the National Academies
• Understanding and Responding to Climate Change
• Reports
• • Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate (2009)
  • Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change (2009)
  • Disaster Risk Management in an Age of Climate Change: A Summary of the April 3, 2008 Workshop of the Disasters Roundtable (2009)
  • The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Transportation (2008)
  • Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program: Methods and Preliminary Results (2007)
  • Radiative Forcing of Climate Change: Expanding the Concept and Addressing Uncertainties (2004)
  • Understanding Climate Change Feedbacks (2003)
  • Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises (2002)
  • Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions (2001)

 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Climate Change: NASA's Eyes on the Earth - Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
• The Earth Observatory's mission is to share with the public the images, stories, and discoveries about climate and the environment that emerge from NASA research, including its satellite missions, in-the-field research, and climate models.
• Climate 365 is a yearlong effort in 2013 to highlight NASA's ongoing monitoring of Earth's climate.

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Pacific Institute

• Climate Change and Water
• Climate Impacts and Adaptation Initiative
• Report: The Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on the California Coast - March 2009
• Sea-Level Rise Maps

 

RealClimate - a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists.

 

The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and Natural Resources Defense Council

• Losing Ground: Western National Parks Endangered by Climate Disruption - July 2006 (1.84 MB PDF)

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The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission

• San Francisco Bay Scenarios for Sea Level Rise Index Map

 

Union of Concerned Scientists

• Explore the Climate Hot Map to see evidence of climate change including heat waves, sea-level rise, flooding, melting glaciers, earlier spring arrival, coral reef bleaching, and the spread of disease. Learn about practical solutions to curb global warming.

 

US Global Change Research Program

• Publications and Assessment Reports
• Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States Report (2009)
• Climate Science News

 

The World Bank

• Climate Change
• • Climate Change Report Warns of Dramatically Warmer World This Century - November 18, 2012
  • • Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided (14.3 MB PDF) - November 18, 2012

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Economic Impact of Global Climate Change

 

• The Economic Impacts of Climate Change and the Costs of Inaction - A Review and Assessment by the Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER) at the University of Maryland

• Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (2006)

Businesses--particularly the insurance industry--are recognizing the realities and implications of climate change as well.

• Lloyds'
• • Corporate Responsibility: Environment and Climate Change
  • News and Insight: News and features: Environment

• Swiss Re Publications on climate change

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Statements and Testimony of Department of the Interior Officials before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies regarding Climate Change - April 26, 2007

• DOI - Lynn Scarlett (Deputy Secretary of the Interior) (21 KB PDF)
• BLM - Ron Huntsinger (National Science Coordinator) (29 KB PDF)
• BLM - Mike Pellant (Great Basin Restoration Initiative Coordinator) (35 KB PDF)
• NPS - Dan Kimball (Superintendent, Everglades NS) (25 KB PDF)
• NPS - Don Neubacher (Superintendent, Point Reyes NS) (42 KB PDF)
• USFWS - Sam Hamilton (Southeast Regional Director) (39 KB PDF)
• USGS - Thomas Armstrong (Senior Advisor for Global Change Program) (29 KB PDF)

 

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