Further Reading on Climate Change
Further Reading on Climate Change
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This article has been reviewed by the following Topic Editor: Cutler Cleveland
Weather and climate basics
- Weather and climate basics, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- The basics of climate prediction, Oxford University
- Global warming basics, The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- Facts and fictions about climate change, The Royal Society, Oxford
- Climate Change, the BBC Weather Centre, London
- Climate Literacy: Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts, Climate Literacy Network, Boulder
- Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate, U.S. Climate Change Science Program, Washington
- Global Climate Change: NASA’s Eyes on the Earth, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
- Climate Change Effects: Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Blogs
- RealClimate.org — Run by serious climate scientists, this is probably the best one out there
- Dot Earth — by Andrew Revkin of the New York Times.
- The Oil Drum — A widely read, free-ranging discussion on energy and related matters.
- ClimatePolicy — An American Meteorological Society Project.
- Climate ChangeS — A selection of the most recent work on the economics of climate change.
- Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media — an online publication and forum to foster dialogue on climate change among scientists, journalists, policymakers, and the public.
Art and Imagery
- Global Warming Art — An extensive library of graphs, drawings and images related to all aspects of climate change by Robert Rohde at UC/Berkeley.
How to Respond to Climate Change Skeptics
- How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic, by Coby Beck at Grist.
- Climate Change: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Michael Le Page at New Scientist.
- Responses to common contrarian arguments, Real Climate.org.
- Thriller State of Fear: Separating Fact from Fiction, by Michael Crichton, Union of Concerned Scientists.
History
- Fleming, James R., Climate Change and Anthropogenic Greenhouse Warming: A Selection of Key Articles, 1824-1995, with Interpretive Essays, NSDL Wiki, Accessed 2 June 2008.
- Fleming, James R. 1998. Historical Perspectives on Climate Change, Oxford University Press, New York.
- Fleming, James R. 2007. The Callendar Effect: The Life and Times of Guy Stewart Callendar (1898-1964), the Scientist Who Established the Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change, American Meteorological Society, Washington, D.C.
- Weart, Spencer. 2003. The Discovery of Global Warming, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
- Weart, Spencer, The Discovery of Global Warming, hosted by the American Institute of Physics.
Popular Science and Policy
- Dessler, Andrew E. and Edward A. Parson. 2006. The Science and Politics of Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Turney, Chris. 2008. Ice, Mud and Blood:, Lessons from Climates Past, Palgrave Macmillan, London.
- The Earth Institute at Columbia University,
- The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, U.S. House of Representatives
Professional societies and organizations
- World Meteorological Society, Geneva
- Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter
- American Meteorological Society, Washington
- American Geophysical Union
- Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Climate Change and Human Health, World Health Organization, Geneva
- International Commission on History of Meteorology
Climate modeling centers
- Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (BMRC), Melbourne
- Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis (CCCma), Victoria
- Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling (CGAM)
- CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Melbourne
- Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ) (German Climate Research Centre), Hamburg
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Princeton
- NASA Goddard Insitute for Space Studies (GISS) Research, New York
- NERC Centres for Atmospheric Science (NCAS)
- Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique du CNRS (LMD), Paris
- Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI), Hamburg
- MIT Center for Global Change Science Climate Modeling Initiative
- National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Climate and Global Dynamics Division, Boulder
- UK universities Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme (UGAMP)
- Climate Research Center, University of New Hampshire
- Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3), McGill University
Research projects
- Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York
- AMIP (Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project)
- CLIVAR (Climate Variability and Predictability)
- CMIP (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project)
- EuroCLIVAR (an EC-funded project supporting CLIVAR in Europe)
- OCMIP (Ocean Carbon Cycle Model Intercomparison Project)
- PCMDI (Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Climate and Vegetation Group, Boston University, Boston
Climate data centers
- British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC)
- Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), Oak Ridge
- Climate Diagnostics Center (NOAA-CIRES CDC), Boulder (source of NCEP/NCAR reanalyses and COADS)
- Climate Impacts LINK project at the Climatic Research Unit, UEA
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Data Distribution Centre (IPCC DDC)
- US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Boulder
- US National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Asheville
- World Data Center for Climate (WDCC), Hamburg
Action
- Climate Choices
- Prevent Climate Change
- Climate Solutions
- UNT Climate Change Power Point
- Global Warming Solutions, Union of Concerned Scientists, USA
- Now or Never
Education
Other climate-related sites
Citation
Laura De Angelo (Lead Author);Cutler Cleveland (Topic Editor) "Further Reading on Climate Change". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth November 6, 2009; Last revised Date November 6, 2009; Retrieved February 7, 2012 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Further_Reading_on_Climate_Change>
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Laura De Angelo is the Development Manager at Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, a non-profit based in Lexington, MA. She is former Managing Editor for the Encyclopedia of Earth. She graduated from the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Boston University with a BA (cum laude) in Environmental Policy and Analysis and an MA in Energy and Environmental Analysis. Her research interests include environmental education, environmental and ecological economics, expansion of renewabl ... (Full Bio)
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