A flood of information is coming out about climate change. Here are some of the major online resources on the emerging science and the policy options: 

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1. Major climate sites
2. Climate blogs
3. Climate news
4. Climate data
5. Climate reports
6. Training, workshops and lectures
7. Studies and news on changing behavior
8. Other links and resources

Major climate sites

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• US Global Change Research Program
• U.S. EPA climate change information
• Climate Change at the National Academies
• Pew Center on Climate Change
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• World Resources Institute
• National Wildlife Federation
• Center for Climate Strategies
• United Nations Environment Program
• An Inconvenient Truth website
• Architecture 2030
• California Climate Change Portal
• EPA Climate Change
  • Climate change indicators in the United States (April 2010)
  • Climate change science facts
  • Climate change and ecosystems
  • Climate change and health effects
  • Climate change and society

Climate blogs

• Real Climate: Climate science from climate scientists
• Climate Progress: An insider's view of climate science, policy and solutions
• Climate 411. Environmental Defense
• Climate Matters @ Columbia
• Cleantech Blog
• Green Car Congress

Climate  news

• Scientific American: Climatology
• Nature Reports: Climate Change
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• Brookings Institution
• guardian.co.uk
• Science Daily: Climate News

Climate  data

• NASA GRACE A and B satellites - GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment)
• NASA Topex/Poseidon satellite

Climate reports

• Local impacts Climate Wizard map by The Nature Conservancy.
• Advancing the Science of Climate Change. National Research Council, 2010. 
• Climate in Peril: A Popular guide to the latese IPCC Reports. United Nations Environment Programme, February 2009.
• Road Transportation Emerges as Key Driver of Warming, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, February 2010. 
• Working for the Climate: Renewable Energy and the Green Job [R]evolution, European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) and Greenpeace, August 2009
• Confronting Climate Change in the Midwest: Ohio, Union of Concerned Scientists, July 2009.
• Synthesis Report: Climate Change. Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions. Copenhagen 2009, 10-12 March
• Global Climate Change Impact in the United States. U.S. Global Change Research Program. Released June 16, 2009
• The forest carbon offseting survey 2009, EcoSecurities, May 2009.
• An Ohio Perspective on Climate Change, Ohio University Consortium for Energy, Economics and the Environment, May 2008.
• Frequently Asked Questions Published in 2007 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Understanding and Responding to Climate Change: Highlights of National Academies Reports 2008 Edition
• Ecological Impacts of Climate Change by the National Academy of Sciences (2009)
• Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Sciences by NOAA's Climate Program Office
• Economic trade-offs of carbon cap and trade system vs. carbon tax (PDF, 157 KB)
• The Economics of Climate Change. The Stern Review
• Carbon sequestration in forests
• Myths and facts about global warming by Environmental Defense
• The seldom-seen devastation of climate change: A NASA climatologist, Gavin Schmidt, explains why global warming is more than starving polar bears, and skeptics are simplistic.
  • Check out the slideshow from Schmidt's book, "Climate Change: Picturing the Science"
• Solving the Puzzle: Researching the Impacts of Climate Change Around the World. National Science Foundation. 2009.
• Kick the Habit: A UN Guide to Climate Neutrality
• Climate Change Refence Guide. Alice McKeown and Gary Gardner. Worldwatch Institute. 2009.
• Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change. The Lancet (vol. 373) and University College London Insititute for Global Health Commission. May 16, 2009.
  • Read an interview with the reports lead investigator, Anthony Costello, here.

Training, workshops, and lectures

• Video lectures by David Archer from a core class for non-science majors, Fall Quarter, 2009, University of Chicago.
• Carbon reduction webinar series

Studies and news on changing behavior

• The Secret to Turning Consumers Green, Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2010

Other links and resources

• GreenCityBlueLake Institute
  • Transportation Resources
  • Building Resources
  • Energy Resources
  • Food Resources
• Clim'way Online - create your own climate plan to help a community meet its emission reduction targets.
• To What Degree? What Science Is Telling Us About Climate Change. Watch video clips of leading climate change experts discuss one of the most complex scientific puzzles ever to confront humnakind. 
• Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. Lester Brown's latest version of Plan B was released on Sept. 30, 2009. The entire book is available for download, along with the data, online. 
• Design: e2: the economies of being environmentally conscious. Watch episodes of the PBS series
• Smithsonian Education Online Climate Change Conference:  Explore Smithsonian research and collections related to the evidence,impact, and response to climate change. Access recordings of all live events that took place during the online conference from September 29 through October 1, 2009.
• The Breathing Earth Simulation. This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.
• Global Warming: Early Warning Signs. Union of Concerned Scientists and World Resources Institute. An interactive map that illustrates the local consequences of global warming.
• How toTalk to a Climate Skeptic: Responses to the most common skeptical arguements on global warming (A Grist Special Series)
• Global Climate Change Student Guide. Atmosphere, Climate and Environment Information Programme (aric). Manchester Metropolitan University. (This is a great primer on earth systems sciences.)
• Global Warming Facts and Figures. Pew Center on Climate Change
• Livestock's Role in Climate Change and Air Pollution. Livestock's Long Shadow - Chapter 3. Food and Agriculture Organziation of the Unite Nations.
• Earth's Future: Taming the Climate. 2004 Columbia University symposium transcripts, video archives and resources.
• Yale Environment 360. Opinion, Analysis, Reporting and Debate
• Global Warming Primer. Woods Hole Research Center.