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News & Resources

The resources on this page are intended to provide early-career natural and social scientists with a few starting places for climate-change information resources. There are numerous websites in each category that are not identified here, so Google away.

Climate News Services & Sources

Climate Ark News - daily news
Climate-related videos and press releases from the European Research Media Center
Climatewire - daily news
EarthPortal - news from the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)
Environmental News Network - daily news
EurekAlert - news from the Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
GreenWire - energy and environmental policy news
Nature - investigative reporting on climate change
One degree - climate change news, science and debate from the Weather Channel
Real Climate - climate science commentary by working climate scientists
Tiempo Newswatch - weekly news on climate and development
Top Ten Sources (global warming) - "best of" listing for rich media content from the
    Web, including blogs, podcasts, video, and mainstream media
Science & Development Network - news, views and information about science, technology
    and the developing world
UNEP News Centre - United Nations Environment Programme - environment for development
World News Network - global warming news

Listservs

APPAM - Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Climate-L - IISD news & announcements on climate change policy & issues
CLMLIST - International list for climatologists
EANTH-L - Ecological & Environmental Anthropology
ECOLOG-L - Grants, jobs and news from the Ecological Society of America
ESWN - Earth Science Women's Network
Geomorphlist - Listserv for the International Association of Geomorphologists
GEP-Ed - Global Environmental Politics
H-NET - Environmental History
ISOGEOCHEM - Stable Isotope Geochemistry science and news
Met-Jobs - Meterological and related jobs (UK)
Paleoclimate-List - Paleoclimatology - research & science
RESECON - Land & Resource Economics Netowrk
RISKCOM - Risk Communication

Organizations with a focus on climate change

American Meteorological Society - Societal Impacts Board (AMS-SIB)
International Geosphere-Biosphere Program
(IGBP)
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
National Academies Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC)
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
U.S. Climate Change Science Program (USCCSP)
U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Workshops for New PIs

  ACCESS Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists
  DIALOG Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Limnology and Oceanography
  DISCO Dissertations Symposium on Chemical Oceanography
  DISCCRS Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research
  IASSA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Young Scientists Summer Program
  ICES/PICES Marine Science Conference for Early Career Scientists
  MYRES Meeting of Young Researchers in the solid Earth Sciences
  NCCR National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCR)
Climate Summer School
  NCCR Swiss Climate Research
  NGPR Next Generation of Polar Researchers
  PODS Dissertations Symposium on Physical Oceanography
  WAYSNET World Academy of Young Scientists

Teaching Resources

Brookings Institution - Environment & Energy - articles from prominent scholars/analysts

Carbon Calculator - personal impact calculator from 'An Inconvenient Truth' website

Climate Change Kids Site - Climate change issues addressed in a child-friendly manner

Climate Ethics - Climate change rasies pofound unprecedented questions of justice and equity for the human race. Climateethics.org is a new web blog that follows the ethical dimensions of climate change issues that arise in day-to-day climate change policy making.

Carbon Mitigation Initiative - Teacher's guide to Pacala & Socolow's stabilization wedges (Princeton Environmental Institute)

CLIMPAG - Climate Impact on Agriculture from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Discovery of Global Warming - A hypertext history of global warming science


Earth Negotiations Bulletin Archive - archives of multilateral negotiations on environment & development

ELDIS Climate Change Resource Guide - Gateway to Development Information

Energy Diet - New York Times article about how to reduce individual carbon emissions

Environmental Education and Outreach - U.S. Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO)

Global Climate Change Briefing Book (from the Congressional Research Service

NorthSouthEastWest - 'A 360° View of Climate Change' - Photography Exhibit

On the Cutting Edge - Professional Development & Resources for Geoscience Faculty

Policy Library: Climate Change - Social, economic and foreign policy resource

WorldView of Global Warming - Photographs of climate change (Gary Braasch)

100 climate-change web sites from the World Environmental Organization

 

DISCCRS is the Dissertation Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research. This page is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (GEO/EAR Education and Human Resources Program, GEO/ATM Climate and Large Scale Dynamics Program and SBE/BCS) grant # EAR-0435728 to Whitman College, C.S. Weiler PI, and # EAR-0435719 to University of Oregon, R.B. Mitchell PI.

 

 
Reports & Articles

IPCC WGIII - Mitigation of climate change (Summary for Policy Makers)

IPCC WGII - Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability (Summary for Policy Makers)

IPCC WGI - The Physical Science Basis (Summary for Policy Makers)

Thomas Friedman: The Power of Green (April 2007)

Impacts of Climate Change (March 2007)

Stern Review on the economics of Climate Change

Crossing boundaries: hitting barriers
Nature Vol 445, 22 February 2007

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  Last updated: April 27, 2008