Climate Change    

Climate Change

1. Global Warming and Climate Change  LECTURE AND LECTURE READINGS
2. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007)
   • Main Page
   • Full Report
   • Impacts Report
3. Climate Change Timeline
4. Bush administration
   • Global Warming
   • Global Warming- Politicians Rewriting Science
   • Read Redacting the Science of Climate Change
   • Bush At War With Environment - Richard Nixon's EPA Head
5. 20/20 Stossal-Gore Debate LECTURE AND LECTURE READINGS
   • Sea level will not rise so quickly (2:23)
   • Polar bear and seal migration routes
   • Polar bear pix are HERE
   • Polar Bears (9 min;  Just shows how cute they are)
6. Audio Resource: California Warming (A time-compressed version is here)   LECTURE AND LECTURE READINGS
7. Audio Resource: Rapid Glacial Melting
8. Breaking News!
   • Bush on  Global Warming
   • Fall Canceled!
   • New Bush policy concerning climate change following IPCC conference
9. ACK! See this: Climate Change Goal Unattainable
10. A very nice overview from the BBC.
11. Vital Signs of a Warming World
12. Environmental Defense Lists
13. Annual Reports
    • IPCC Main page (GET SYNTHESIS REPORT or Full Working Group Reports)
    • 2007 Climate Report (BBC)
    • Nature Reports: Climate Change (PDF is here)
    • Goldilocks and the Greenhouse 
    • Age of Consequences
    • Pentagon Report
    • Movie from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS main page is here)
    • Abrupt Climate Change (Department of Defense 2003)
    • UN Warns of Climate Setbacks
    • A new Antarctica map! Main site is here. Map is here.
14. Records
    • Global Warming Underestimated
    • Arctic Ice at a Record Low
    • Record Melt in Arctic and Greenland
    • Ground frozen since ice age thaws
    • "Heat Waves will Increase in Severity" in Secret Readings
    • 20,000 Dead (Global Warming)
    • Tropics Expand
    • Unexpected Growth in CO₂
15. Polar Regions
    • What's Happening to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet?
    • Future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
    • More Glacier Pix!!!
    • Hear about the melts here.
    • Water World
    • Sea ice is melting faster than expected.
    • Inuit see signs in arctic thaw.
    • A new Antarctica map! Main site is here. Map is here.
    • Arctic Melt Map
16. Weather-Related
    • New hurricane categories may be needed.
    • Hurricane Katrina
    • Time to connect the dots
    • Atlanta and Drought
    • Island States Urge Climate Action
17. Disease
    • Tropical Disease Reading
    • Global Warming Causing Disease to Rise
18. Water
    • Asian-Pacific Islands Urge Climate Action
    • Reefs Unlikely to Survive
    • Corn Boom could Expand Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone (Dead Zone Pix are HERE)
19. Miscellaneous
    • Nature Reports: Climate Change (PDF is here)
    • Experts cite strong evidence of global warming.
    • Thermohaline current is slowing down
    • Global Warming Underestimated
    • No Stopping Global Warming
    • How Electric Power is Produced
    • China's Power Plants
    • Gaia and Climate Change: Lovelock's Odd Idea
    • Species Scramble to Adjust to Warming
    • How Climate Change Alters Rhythms of the Wild.
    • Define Global Warming
    • Study Shows How US Can Cut Emissions By 28%
    • House sets higher goal for fuel efficiency
    • US and Brazil argue on "green list"
    • Disappointments on Climate (Bali)
20. Technological Fixes:
    • Carbon Sink Technologies
    • Geoengineering
    • Ocean Fertilization
      • CNN news here
      • Convention discourages ocean fertilization
      • Legal Aspects
    • Acid Rain and Sulphur
      • (News)
      • More is here (details)
    • Space Mirrors
      • 600,000 square miles
    • Giant Pipes
      • Lovelock
    • Study Shows How US Can Cut Emissions By 28%
    • Biofuels
      • Definition
      • Food
      • Myths
      • Food Prices
      • deforestation diesel
      • Uganda
      • Starve the Poor
      • Bush and Ethanol There's a short video clip on Bush and ethanol HERE
      • Coal-fired Ethanol Plants
      • Feed SUVs
21. Skeptics
    • World Climate Report
    • Science and Environmental Report Project
    • 20/20 Stossal-Gore Debate

Effects on the Inhabitants of Ecosystems

1. Ecosystems and Their Goods and Services
   • Effects of Global Change on the Terrestrial Biosphere. Read sections 5.2-5.2.4.4
   • Responses of Wildlife and Impacts on Goods and Services. Read sections 5.4.3-5.4.3.1.4
   • Impacts of Goods and Services with Market Values. Read sections 5.4.3.3 - 5.4.3.3.7
2. Ocean and Fresh Water
   • Coral Bleaching and the Great Barrier
   • Half of coral reefs now gone
   • Flying Squid Move Northward
   • Fish fry
3. Plants & Algae
   • Changing Climate and the Effect on Plant Life
   • Grassland Vegetation Changes and Nocturnal Global Warming
   • Simulating the effects of climate change on tropical montane cloud forests
   • Biomass Decline in Amazonian Forest Fragments.
   • See "climate impact on plankton" in secret readings
4. Birds
   • Climate Change and Distribution of Birds. Listen
   • Climate change and birds
   • Rising number of birds at risk
5. Our Friends, the Frogs
   • Climate Change and Amphibian Decline. A little more from the lab is here.
   • Premature Frog Calls
   • Amphibian declines and malformations
   • Amphibian Count Database
6. Miscellaneous
   • Locusts in Kenya
7. Polar Regions
   • Polar bear and seal migration routes
   • Polar bear pix are HERE
   • Warm Weather is Keeping Russian Bears Awake
   • Fun in the Arctic!