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This is a collection of useful web sites for teaching climate change. If you know of web sites, journal articles or other references that are useful for teaching and learning about climate issues or global warming, let us know about them.


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California Burning: A multimedia project part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This multimedia resource provides an overview of wildfire risk and response to the risk in California. Text, video, images, and data are used to discuss how drought and overgrowth of forests play a ...
Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Decision-Making, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Public policy, Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Policy, Environmental Science, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather:Drought, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Public policy , Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Wildfires, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Environmental Science:Forest Resources, Sustainability
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Audio/Visual

Extraterrestrial Influence on Climate Change part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Climate changes are being explained by various scientists based on the observational data of last 200 years. Most of the statistical scientific data were not able to answer satisfactorily the erratic ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

High level architecture of earth system models part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This blog entry, by professor Steve Easterbrook, provides a visual representation of climate models. Through the use of schematic diagrams, Steve attempts to aid in the understanding of climate ...
Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Global change modeling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

The Family Guide to Disruptive Climate Change part of SERC Print Resource Collection
The everyday problems of family life occupy the attention and resources of most of our country's citizens. Thoughts of the future climate of our planet continue to be secondary to worries of ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

Hurricanes: Science and Society part of SERC Web Resource Collection

The Hurricanes: Science and Society website (HSS) is one of the most comprehensive Internet resources on hurricanes. The HSS website and its associated educational resources provide information on ...
Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather:Hurricanes
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Collections, Pedagogic Resources:Collection, Scientific Resources:Collection

Oil, Water and Climate: An Introduction part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Global energy demand is increasing from population and economic development pressures and climate change, resulting in large part from the burning of fossil fuels, is exacerbating the impacts of the ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Energy, Geography, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Sustainability
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

IPCC Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This report is a synthesis of work by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It focuses on the observed changes in climate, their causes, and their effects, as well as predicting probable ...
Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Anthropogenic causes, Climate feedbacks, Recent climate data, Greenhouse gas emissions, Global change modeling, Public policy , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, History and evolution of Earth's climate, Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Climate feedbacks, Recent climate data, Environmental Science:Policy, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Greenhouse effect, Mitigation of climate change, Impacts of climate change, Public policy, Global change modeling
Resource Type: Policy Resources, Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Research Results

Global Warming Art part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Like all sciences, the study of climate change relies upon a thorough and comprehensive investigation of the data. It is the goal of Global Warming Art to make some of that data accessible to the ...
Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science, Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources

Mix and match: how climate selects phytoplankton part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This is a research article from the journal Nature on the link between climate-driven physical processes and evolution of microbial communities in the ocean. Topics covered include oceanic nutrient ...
Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Global energy balance, Atmospheric and oceanic circulation, Evolution of climate and atmosphere, Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Evolution, Ecology, Biodiversity, Biogeochemical cycling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate, Geoscience:Oceanography:Physical , Biological, Biology, Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Geoscience:Oceanography, Biogeosciences , Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Climate feedbacks, Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Biology:Ecology:Food Webs:Microbial Food Webs, Biology:Ecology:Symbiotic Relations:Mutualism, Biology:Ecology:Metabolism, Habitats, Food Webs, Principles, Biology:Biogeochemistry, Diversity, Ecology, Ecology:Habitats:Marine, Water Column, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate, Paleoclimate records, Climate feedbacks, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Biology:Evolution, Evolution:Patterns, Biology:Microbiology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Bibliography, Scientific Resources, Overview/Reference Work

Introduction: how and when did microbes change the world? part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This is a review article published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. It summarizes the current consensus and points of debate regarding the age and history of life on Earth. It ...
Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climatology :Evolution of climate and atmosphere, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Geoscience:Biogeosciences , Biology, Geoscience:Paleontology, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Evolution, Biogeochemical cycling, Biology:Microbiology, Evolution:Processes, Biology:Evolution, Biogeochemistry, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, History and evolution of Earth's climate
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Scientific Resources