climate research and info

click for weather and earth science links

climate news/info

• climate.gov

• globalchange.gov

• UCAR Atmos News

• RealClimate

• Climate Central

• Climate Signals

• Carbon Brief

• Skeptical Science (provides organized rebuttals to disinformation in the media and politics)

• Favorite Climate Denier Tricks (Real Climate: entertaining and informative reader comments thread as well)

• Climate Data links

• Climate Progress

• Columbia University Climate Matters

• Climate Science and Policy Watch

• Yale Climate Connections

• Past Global Climate

• Scripps CO2 Program

• The Discovery of Global Warming (American Institute of Physics) Extensive Bibliography

• Carbon Dioxide and Climate: Scientific American reprint from 1959

• Carbon dioxide residence time in the atmosphere and ocean, Revelle and Suess, 1956

• How is Worldwide Sea Level Rise Driven by Melting Arctic Ice (2017 Scientific American summary)

• Ocean Acidification Information (NOAA)

• History of International Agreements

• Environmental Laws and Regulations

• Business Environmental Leadership Council

• Explaining Extreme Climate Events of 2016

• Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfireacross western US forests

• Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity

  • Wildfires and climate are related – are Americans connecting the dots?

  • Scientists find strong link between climate change and wildfires

  • Simple Infographic: Climate Change and Wildfires

graphics/visuals

• Keeling Curve displays: Scripps Institute of Oceanography

• Bloomberg CO2 Real-Time viewer

• NASA/GSFC/GISS Anthropogenic Warming Visuals

• USGS Global Climate Change Viewer

• Climate Explorer (view all sorts of data)

• Sea Level Rise viewer

• Cal-Adapt Visualization tools

• Global Warming's 6 Americas (Yale Climate Communication)

• xkcd webcomic of Earth Temperature Timeline

Robust Research and Hallmark Papers in chronological order

(global warming/climate change- professional journals, international societies and fellowships, recognized publications)

• 0. Affecting the Heat of the Sun's Rays (the first Global Warming - Greenhouse Gas reference)

  • Mrs. Eunice Foote, 1856, American Association for the Advancement of Science

• 1. Notes on John Tyndall's 1859 research on greenhouse gases

• 2. Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with a Given Distribution of Relative Humidity

  • American Meteorological Society, 1 May 1967, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, ESSA

  • Syukuro Manabe and Richard T. Wetherald

• 3. Atmospheric carbon dioxide variations at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii

  • Tellus, 1976, Keeling, C. D., Bacastow, R. B., Bainbridge, et al

• 4. Variations in the Earth's Orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages

  • Science, 10 Dec 1976,

• J. D. Hays, John Imbrie, N. J. Shackleton

• 5. Climate Change Science, an Analysis of Some Key Questions

  • National Academies Press, 2001, Committee on the Science of Climate Change

• 6. The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change

• Science AAAS, 03 Dec 2004, Naome Oreskes

• 7. Projections on Future Changes in Climate

  • IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007

• 8. Expert Credibility in Climate Change

  • National Academy of Sciences USA, 09 April 2010,

• William R. L. Anderegg, James W. Prall, Jacob Harold, and Stephen H. Schneider

• 9. Perception of climate change

• Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 29 March 2012

• James Hansen, Makiko Sato, and Reto Ruedy

• 10. Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature

  • Environmental Research Letters, 15 May 2013,

  • John Cook, Dana Nuccitelli, Sarah A Green, Mark Richardson, Bärbel Winkler, Rob Painting, Robert Way, Peter Jacobs, and Andrew Skuce

• 11. 'Executive Summary and Introduction to the 2013 IPCC 5th Assessment Report'

  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Ch 5 (IPCC), 2013

• 12. 'Information from Paleoclimate Archives' (excellent summary of research comparing past climate/GHG/sea levels to today

  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Ch 5 (IPCC), 2013

• 13. The Consensus Project

• Peer-reviewed citizen science website sponsored by skepticalscience.com,

• Dr. John Cook, climate communication research fellow at the Global Change Institute, University of Queensland, Australia

• 14. Climate Change: Evidence and Causes

  • The Royal Society, 27 Feb 2014, London England

• 15. Climate Change Synthesis Report Summary for Policy Makers (page 4)

  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2014

• 16. Climate Change Basics (National Academy of Sciences)

• 17. On the causal structure between CO2 and global temperature

• Nature, 22 Feb 2016, Adolph Stips, Diego Macias, Clare Coughlan, Elisa Garcia-Gorriz & X. San Liang

• 18. Paraphrase of this research from phys.org

• 19. Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change

  • National Academy of Sciences, March 2016

• 20. Consensus on consensus: A synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming

• Environmental Science Research Letters, 13 April 2016, John Cook, Naomi Oreskes, et al

• 21. Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

  • Nature, 01 Dec 2016,

• T. W. Crowther, K. E. O. Todd-Brown, C. W. Rowe, et al

*Insights into funding sources of climate change deniers

Summary Link

Paper:

Institutionalizing delay: foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate change counter-movement organizations

2013 R. J. Brulle PhD, Drexel University

related Guardian Newspaper article

related Washington Post articleNotable International Position Statements

1. Joint Science Academies Statement (including USA and 10 countries)

2. The Commonwealth Climate Action Statement (52 member states, 2.4 billion people represented)

3. Joint Statement from 18 Scientific Associations

4. US-China Joint Statement

5. India-Germany Joint Statement

6. Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs

7. American Association for the Advancement of Science Position

8. American Meteorological Society Position

9. NASA Position Statement

10. Union of Concerned Scientists Position

11. The Weather Channel Position Statement

Related Videos

• 1. Dr. Stephen Schneider 'Science and Distortion'

     1. PhD Mechanical Engineering and Plasma Physics Columbia University,

     2. Postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in greenhouse gases and suspended particulate material on climate,

     3. co-founded the Climate Project at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, advised 8 US presidents,

     4. Senior Fellow at Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, IPCC author/coordinator

  2. Dr. Schneider answers questions from deniers on Australian TV (recorded shortly before his death)

     1. (good discussion of common arguments, also clear that we humans are so reluctant to give up our held beliefs in spite of evidence)

  3. Dr. Marshall Shepherd 'Slaying the Zombies of Climate Science' TEDx Atlanta

     1. 2013 President American Meteorological Society, Director University of Georgia Atmospheric Science Program,

     2. 12 years as NASA research meteorologist, BS-MS-PhD Physical Meteorology Florida State University, numerous national science awards,

     3. has testified for senate committees and advised numerous governmental panels

  4. Dr. James Hansen: 'Why I Must Speak Out on Climate Change'

     1. Former Director NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Member US National Academy of Science,

     2. Columbia University Director of Climate Science Awareness and Solutions program,

     3. BS University of Iowa, highest distinction in physics and mathematics, MS in astronomy, Ph. D. in physics.

     4. Visiting student at the Institute of Astrophysics, University of Kyoto and Dept. of Astronomy, Tokyo University, Japan,

     5. NSF post-doctoral scientist at Leiden Observatory, postdoctoral career at NASA GISS

  5. Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, 'What if Climate Change is Real?'

     1. Texas Tech University, Director of Climate Science Center

     2. PhD Atmospheric Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

     3. Podcast: Global Weirding

  6. NASA Climate Change 'How Global Warming Stacks Up' Sept 2016

  7. Knowledge Based Consensus (this may be helpful in understanding what 'consensus in science' means)