Where to Find Other Information
For facts online try the "START
HERE" page maintained by climate scientists. A comprehensive review of scientific understanding as of
ca. 2012 is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2013 reports (with other, specialized reports); an updated report will be issued soon. For serious study of the science you need textbooks, see below. For published historical accounts see the bibliography below.
Links to basic information, news and reports online:
RealClimate's start
here page is indeed a good place to start.
Another good set of resources, from ClimateRapidResponse.org
For a quick review, the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society have a good booklet
(read online or get a pdf).
The US Global Change Research Program offers many resources,
including the National Climate Assessment reviewing what's happened and will happen in the USA.
The NASA climate site has many resources, including sections for kids and educators.
NOAA's climate.gov is useful even though parts were removed by the Republican administration in 2017. The Environmental Protection Agency site also retains some material, and some pages removed from the site were preserved by volunteers on a rescue site. Resources for teachers at Cleanet.org.
Wikipedia's global
warming pages have much information with frequent updates, mostly
reliable if not well organized.
Carbonbrief.org, Climate Central, Climate Depot, livescience have news and information. Good coverage of current news in the New York Times and The Guardian.. A list of news links. The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication for polls and discussion..
Climate Portal is a huge links compilation — articles, videos, materials for kids and teachers, music and art, whatever.
Illustrations: photos and diagrams, historical
and contemporary.
If you want to really study it all, see the
meticulously assembled IPCC reports.
The National Academy Press also has
key reports online including many of historical interest (search on "climate").
Links to discussion and action online
John Cook and Stephan Lewandosky, The Debunking Handbook, how to argue against those who deny there's a problem.
RealClimate.org (run
by climate scientists) and skepticalscience.com are
well-regarded blogs that discuss real scientific work as well as controversies.
Did global warming make that hurricane or heat wave worse? Scientists answer at WorldWeatherAttribution.
The industry-funded Cooler Heads
Coalition, the billionaire-supported CO2 Coalition, and Anthony Watts's blog argue against taking action to restrict fossil fuel emissions and attack the credibility of consensus climate science.
Skeptic Arguments
and What the Science Says; How
to Talk to a Climate Skeptic; Responses
to Common Contrarian Arguments.
For expert advice on convincing people see The Consensus Handbook (pdf).The World Resources Institute
(mainstream environmentalism) has reports, including matters of business
interest. The Pew Center on Climate
Change offers news and policy-related reports, and the World Bank on economic dimensions.
The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and the Solutions Project address the energy supply problem.
350.org is coordinating a global climate movement with marches, political campaigns, etc. The WWF, Greenpeace,
Environmental
Defense, and the National
Resources Defense Council also have
basic climate change information and arguments, news, and programs for
action.
You can reduce your greenhouse emissions!
See organizations linked immediately above and http://www.wikihow.com/Reduce-Your-Carbon-Footprint. The US Environmental Protection Agency's suggestions, deleted in 2017 by the Trump administration, have been preserved here. But reducing your personal greenhouse emissions is no
substitute for political action to attack the problem globally.
See my Personal Note,.
You can contribute to climate science!
Put your computer's idle time to good use by joining the team at climateprediction.net. Or help recover vital historical weather data, for example from ships' logs, see this realclimate.org post.
Some other useful Websites: United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The European
Commission climate site from the European Union. co2now
tracks the level and more. Photo
documentation.
Scientists attributing weather events to climate change.
Science textbooks
John Houghton, 2015 (5th ed.) Global Warming: The Complete Briefing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, 2011. Principles of Planetary Climate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
A free online course is offered by
the University of Chicago
History
Alley, Richard B. 2000. The Two-Mile Time Machine. Princeton University Press.
Archer, David, and Raymond T. Pierrehumbert (Eds.) 2011. The Warming Papers: The Scientific Foundation for the Climate Change Forecast. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
Bolin, Bert. 2007. A History of the Science and Politics of Climate
Change. The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bowen, Mark. 2005. Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains. New York: Henry Holt.
Boykoff, Maxwell T.
2011. Who Speaks for the Climate? Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Broecker, Wallace S., and Robert Kunzig. 2008. Fixing Climate: What
Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat — and How to Counter
It. New York: Hill and Wang. (Including history of Broecker's research.)
Caldeira, Ken, and Govindasamy Bala. 2017. "Reflecting on 50 Years of Geoengineering Research." Earth's Future 5: 10-17 [doi:10.1002/2016EF000454].
Christianson, Gale E. 1999. Greenhouse: The 200-year Story of Global
Warming. New York: Walker.
Crawford, Elisabeth. 1996. Arrhenius: From Ionic Theory to the Greenhouse Effect. Canton, MA: Watson Publishing - Science History.
Dansgaard, Willi. 2004. Frozen Annals. Greenland Ice Sheet Research.
Copenhagen: Dept. of Geophysics of the Niels Bohr Institute at the University
of Copenhagen.
Dalmedico, Amy Dahan. 2007. "Models and Simulations in Climate
Change. Historical, Epistemological, Anthropological and Political Aspects."
In Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives,
edited by Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck and M. Norton Wise.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Edwards, Paul N. 2000. "A Brief History of Atmospheric General
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Edwards, Paul N. 2010. A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Figueres, Christiana, and Tom Rivett-Carna. 2020. The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis. New York: Knopf.
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New York: Oxford University Press.
Fleming, James R., ed. 1996. Historical Essays on Meteorology 1919-1995.
Boston: American Meteorological Society.
Fleming, James R., ed. Classic
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Fleming, James R. 2007. The Callendar Effect. The Life and Work
of Guy Stewart Callendar (1898-1964), the Scientist Who Established the
Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change. Boston, MA: American Meteorological
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Fleming, James R. 2010. Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control. New York: Columbia University Press.
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- more info
here.
... and for the record, pioneering histories by participants:
1985 - Roger Revelle, “Introduction: The Scientific History of Carbon Dioxide,” in The Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric CO2: Natural Variations Archean to Present (Geophysical Monograph 32), edited by E. T. Sundquist and Wallace S. Broecker, pp. 1-4. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union.
1987 -William W. Kellogg, "Mankind's Impact on Climate: The Evolution
of an Awareness." Climatic Change 10: 113-36.
1990 - M .D.H. Jones and A. Henderson-Sellers,."History of the
Greenhouse Effect." Progress in Physical Geography 14: 1-18.
1992. - Mark David, Handel and James S. Risbey, "An Annotated [Historical] Bibliography on the Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change." Climatic Change 21: 97-255.
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