Category:Global Warming

Note: This page is about the science itself; see also the "debate" page, which is more about who has been suppressing and distorting the science and why.

In the years since the Industrial Revolution, the planet's average temperature has been increasing more or less steadily. Most scientists attribute this phenomenon, referred to as Global Warming or Climate Change, to the increased use of fossil fuels and the heat-trapping greenhouse gases that they produce when burned. Because of its continuing progress and potentially harmful implications, Global Warming has become one of the hottest (no pun intended) topics of discussion in the scientific community.

The ongoing debate about this topic is mostly covered in Environmental Science and Skeptical Challenges. Visual info is on the Maps and Transportation, also Datavisualization. See also Water, as well as Ocean (especially coral reef/acidification), Sea Level Rise, and Forests, as well as Fracking. Because the poles are changing first and fastest, new Arctic page. For solutions, see Energy Page. also Food as well as Bio-diversity.

Big Picture Overviews

Trump Wants to Eliminate NASA’s Climate Research Programs: These Pictures Show What a Loss That Would Be: Excellent update, overview with NASA images and graphs 3/18.

An Inconvenient Sequel Former Vice President Al Gore talked about his book in which he looks at the effects of climate change around the world. *** 10/17.

The Latest Scary Evidence That Humans Have Created a New Geological Era: Roads 11/17.

'Brilliant' Climate Change Cartoon Goes Viral After Elon Musk, John Green Share It on Twitter.

Excellent video overview of our current status: Human growth has strained the Earth's resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine "planetary boundaries" that can guide us in protecting our planet's many overlapping ecosystems. TEDtalk. ***

Climate Web is an amazing explorable site using dynamic graphical interface. **** 12/15

British journalist George Monbiot's “Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning" became a best seller in Europe and Canada but Monbiot could barely convince a publisher in the US to print it. (Audio interview) alt link. 11/15.***

Al Gore Rolling Stone update 6/14.

Climate Change Essentials another quite good 20 minute summary, takes on standard objections, slickly geek-y (i use the term with respect and affection) but clear and accessable. ***

The Hockey Stick graph explained includes video 6/13 ***

"Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben in Rolling Stone (see Activism) ***

Scientist Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, on the greatest single threat facing humanity. *** (video) 1/13.

The basic science of climate from national academy of science. *** (thanks Zach).

The Third Carbon Age: Don’t for a Second Imagine We’re Heading for an Era of Renewable Energy, a fine historical overview of fossil fuels by Michael T. Klare. 8/13.

TEDtalks on climate, including Overview TEDtalk by Michael Mann. 12/11 ***

130 years of climate change in 30 seconds video.

Why Climate Change Is Not an Environmental Issue (we could quibble about characterization of environmental movement, but overall point valid and thought-provoking). ***

Climate Change is Simple very good overview. ***

The basics, good overviews and intros to various green topics from Grist, such as Keystone XL pipeline, sea level rise and Geo-engineering, as well as ocean acidification (more on acidification and coral.

Altering jet stream will add to "global weirding" (short video).

News Sites

Inside Climate News

Popular Science coverage

Real Climate.org info from actual climate scientists.

Climate Science Watch tracks the debate.

Eco-Watch news

Climate Activism from Orion magazine.

Scientific American coverage of issue, including Copenhagen talks.

Pew Center has great info.

Environmental News Network has GW news, including a recent story about a CO2 burp that may have ended the last ice age.

Climate Watch is a blog that list a variety of media, including NPR's Climate Connections. Includes coverage of carbon, as well as fire and water issues. See also "fun" stats

The Climate Desk, a unique journalistic collaboration dedicated to exploring the impacts—human, environmental, economic, and political—of a changing climate. Climate Desk participants include Mother Jones, Slate, Wired, The Atlantic, PBS’s Need to Know, Grist, and the Center for Investigative Reporting.

Climate Central blog has great resources, including news, extreme weather by region Southwest stats and outlook on wildfires etc. And general info by state, e.g., California.

PBS Newshour's Coping with Climate Change.

Democracy Now coverage, includes extreme weather.

Huffington Post coverage

Headlines

The End of Ice book Audio interview 1/19 non-linear cascade effect.

Pentagon: Climate Change Is Real and a 'National Security Issue' 1/19.

Wild animals key to mediating landscape’s capacity to store carbon, researchers say: UCSC's Chris Wilmers coauthors new report saying carbon-cycle models must consider animals 12/18.

'Brutal news': global carbon emissions jump to all-time high in 2018: Rapid cuts needed to protect billions of people from rising emissions due to increase in use of cars and coal 12/18.

The 'great dying': rapid warming caused largest extinction event ever, report says: Up to 96% of all marine species and more than two-thirds of terrestrial species perished 252m years ago.

California’s Wildfire and Climate Change Warnings Are Still Too Conservative, Scientist Says: Another hot, dry year is fueling the state’s deadliest, most destructive wildfire. Scientists say wildfires here are consistently surpassing their projections. 11/18 See Fire and California.

Healing Ozone Layer Shows Why Environmental Treaties Matter After decades of thinning, Earth's ozone layer is slowing recovering, the United Nations (UN) said in a report released Monday, highlighting how international cooperation can help tackle major environmental issues 11/18

The Oceans Are Heating Up Faster Than Expected: The planet may be more sensitive to warming that previously thought, making climate goals more difficult to meet (original paper) 11/18.

Experts "grossly underestimate" the economic cost of global warming 6/18.

How a Game Can Move People From Climate Apathy to Action 11/18

6 Must-See Movies About Climate Change 6.18.

Great Barrier Reef at ‘Unprecedented’ Risk of Collapse After Major Bleaching Event 4/18 see Coral Reefs.

Slow Motion Ocean: Why Are North Atlantic Currents Weakening? chaotic climate and sea level rise 3/18. As predicted in Al Gore's classic Inconvenient Truth (see the 2018 update).

the most effective way to fight climate change is to make a better fridge 5/18 see Global Warming.

The Link Between Fossil Fuels, Single-Use Plastics and Climate Change 5/18.

Earth's Intact Forests Are Invaluable, and in Danger 3/18.

14 Notable Climate Influencers of 2017 includes Attenborough who told Greenpeace of the "heartbreaking" footage he recorded of mother birds feeding their babies plastic, an iconic moment for him that pushed him to speak up about plastic pollution in oceans.12/17 See Plastic and Eco-Heroes.

Polar Vortex,' 'Winter Storm Grayson' and 'Bombogenesis': What Do They Mean? 1/17 see Global Weirding

Bad news: Global emissions are on the rise again: A multi-year period of global economic growth and stable carbon emissions, heralded as a potential peak of humanity’s contribution to climate change, is over. Emissions are up again this year by an estimated 1 to 3 percent, now at the highest point in history, according to a new report 11/17.

Change Is Increasing Regional Conflict and Creating Millions of Refugees Across the Globe 12/17.

Climate Change Is Creating a Global Pest Problem That Will Spread Disease and Threaten Food Production The future could hold less coffee and more Zika. 11/17.

New Report Predicts Climate Change Could Cost U.S. $360 Billion Per Year 9/17

Global Food Crops Also Face Earth's Sixth Great Mass Extinction 9/17.

Nicaragua to Sign Paris Agreement, Leaving Trump Alone With Syria but...

14 States On Track to Meet Paris Targets video 9/17

Bay Area is First Major U.S. City to Sue Fossil Fuel Industry Over Costs of Climate Change 9/17.

The Sixth Extinction: Climate Change May Wipe Out a Third of World's Parasites, which might pave the way for new parasites to colonize humans and other animals with disastrous health outcomes. 9/17.

Beyond Organic: How Regenerative Farming Can Save Us From Global Catastrophe 6/17

World's First Commercial Carbon Sucking Machine Turns Greenhouse Gas Into Fertilizer 5/17.

How a Supermarket Sales Gimmick Has Become a Major Driver of Climate Change: As uneaten food rots in landfills, it releases a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. 4/17.

THE STAGGERING SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS OF FOOD WASTE: Fifty-two million tons of food are wasted by consumers and consumer-facing businesses annually — over 80 percent of all U.S. food waste. Currently, less than 10 percent of that food is recovered by reaching the 1 in 7 Americans without enough to eat. Food that goes to landfills breaks down in a heap without oxygen, producing methane, a gas with 86 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. These emissions are no small matter. Considered on a national scale, organic matter rotting in landfills accounts for 1/5 of methane emissions. In fact, if global food loss and waste were its own country, it would be the world’s third largest source of greenhouse gases. 12/16 see Solid Waste page.

NEW BOOK ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS MAKES THE PERSUASIVE CASE THAT WE’RE NOT DOOMED Drawdown, a new compendium of climate-stabilization tools and solutions edited by the versatile Paul Hawken, has an impressive subtitle: “The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming.” http://www.drawdown.org/ 4/17.

NASA Produces First 3D Animation of Global Carbon Emissions 12/16

Superstorm Sandy’s Surge Was Extreme, but It Could Become the New Normal: Climate change means Sandy-level flooding could could occur once every 23 years—as opposed to once every 400. 10/16.

First mammal lost.

Global ripple effects by Michael Mann 10/16.

Insects move with warming, including mosquitos that carry diseases dynamic map.

Earth Could Reach Critical Climate Threshold in a Decade, Scientists Warn

60 Countries Representing 48% of Emissions Have Officially Joined Paris Climate Agreement

Ocean Warming Is 'Greatest Hidden Challenge of Our Generation' 8/16

Learn a New Climate Change Phrase: 'Heat Dome' 6/16

Bionic Leaf Turns Sunlight Into Liquid Fuel 10 Times Faster Than Nature: the idea of what the Harvard team call “bionic leaf 2.0” is an attractive one. It could deliver liquid fuels in convenient form that would make no difference to the planet’s overall carbon budget. In effect, it could bypass the vegetation stage. 6/16.

We have a climate deal in Paris COP21! Activists take the streets despite ban after attacks to push for accountability and improvements. 12/15. Activist art see Art.

Agribiz puts out 25% of GHG, but Soil can take CO2 out of atmosphere.

Atlantic 5 rise: NASA researchers confirmed that the circulation of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is slowing down. In 2009 and 2010 that shifting had already been linked to a sudden and extreme five-inch sea level rise on the East Coast. 1/16.

Climate change is forcing people to migrate and the world doesn’t have a plan to handle it 10/15. Update 11/15.. Climate Change Poised to Push 100 Million Into ‘Extreme Poverty’ by 2030.

2 Billion People to Face Water Shortages as Snowpack Declines 11/15

Rapidly Warming Waters Have Thwarted Efforts to Save the Cod 10/15.

Check out some of the prettiest (and most depressing) climate change data out there.

UC Scientists Have Found a Link Between Amazon Wildfires and North Atlantic Hurricanes.

Shell Abandons Arctic Drilling Following ‘Disappointing’ Results whoohoo! 9/15.

China progress on climate see China.

New Study Says Climate Change Helped Spark Syrian Civil War (and thus ISIS) NYT. Right-wingers in Europe and more war in future 9/15.

Audubon Society: North American Birds Are Threatened by Climate Change 9/15.

Is Climate Change to Blame for Increased Number of Shark Attacks? 7/15.

75 Percent of Animal Species to be Wiped Out in ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’ **** says Stanford, UCB and Princeton study 6/15.

NASA WANTS TO GET RID OF THAT FLYING POLLUTION FACTORY YOU TOOK IN FLORIDA 6/15.

India Heatwave Kills 800+ and Literally Melts the Roads 5/15 then Pakistan 6/15. See India.

Climate Change Could Wipe Out 16 Percent of World's Species 5/15 see Wildlife.

New Study Says Climate Change Helped Spark Syrian Civil War (and thus ISIS?) NYT. Right-wingers in Europe 9/15.

New Heat-Resistant Beans Could Stave Off Hunger In A Warming World not a GMO.

discuss warming waters in this lovely short film (see also bunch of hungry sea lion pups) 3/15.

Alarming Consequences Of The California Drought You May Not Have Expected 3/15 (hint: iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee).

Shrinking range of pikas in California mountains linked to climate change. UCSC research 2/15.

Scientists Warn We're Ever-Closer To The Apocalypse 1/15.

New study refines McKibben's math, A third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 80% of current coal reserves globally should remain in the ground and not be used before 2050 if global warming is to stay below the 2°C target agreed by policy makers, according to new research.more 1/15.

Aviation Industry Set to Triple Its Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050 1/15.

Update 1/15 2014 Will Likely Be The Hottest Year on Record, Ocean Temps Spike. High sea temperatures contributed to exceptionally heavy rainfall and floods in many countries and extreme drought in others.

We Have A Deal: The U.S. And China Agree To Historic Emission Reduction Targets 11/14.

Earth Faces Sixth ‘Great Extinction’ with 41% of Amphibians Set to Go the Way of the Dodo 12/14. See Bio-Diversity.

Big action had 400K people in NYC, 4K in Oakland 9/21/14.video see Activism.

New IPCC report on global warming and Bill McKibben's take(350.org) 11/14.

Climate change could be disrupting the relationship between bees and plants, according the research from the University of East Anglia (UEA). 11/14.

Developing Countries Invest in Renewables Twice the Pace of Industrialized Nations

EU Pledge to 40% cut CO2.10/14.

"Smoking gun": For years scientists have had to (or felt obligated to) put a caveat in front of every statement that it's almost impossible to say climate change is responsible for any given storm. Now we can. 10/14.

Huge U.S. Methane ‘Hot Spot’ Detected From Space 10/14.

21 Numbers That Explain Why The Time To Address Climate Change Is Right Now, Or Maybe Yesterday 10/14.

Greenhouse Gas Levels In Atmosphere Surged To New High In 2013, World Meteorological Organization Reports, so More Than Half Of North American Birds In Trouble Thanks To Climate Change but Californians saved 17 billion gallons of water in July, enough to fill 26,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools, see also Yosemite burns 9/14. Big action 9/21.

How Climate Change Exacerbates the Spread of Disease, Including Ebola 9/14.

Disaster-Induced Displacement Grows Worldwide including currently sea level rise on island nations and in Panama 9/14.

Study Links Polar Vortex Chills To Melting Sea Ice 9/14.

10 Reasons to Be Hopeful that We Will Overcome Climate Change 8/14.

Methane Blow-Holes Sign of Runaway Climate Change? 8/14.

Ohio Water Ban Lifted; Toledo Mayor Says City's Water Is Safe after climate change and agricultural runoff combine in toxic algae bloom. 8/14. See Water.

2013 NOAA climate report, trend of new records continues. 7/14

New Frozen Methane study 7/14.(see also Fracking.

Foods system effect on climate 6/14.

Natural Disaster Costs Have Quadrupled In Past 3 Decades 6/14.

Dengue Surges In Latin America: As officials in Brazil frantically mount a last-minute campaign to combat the recent outbreak of dengue fever in the country before the beginning of the World Cup, new data has been released documenting the shocking resurgence of the disease. 5/14

“Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present,” says the latest National Climate Assessment, published by the White House. First specifics on regional effects. 5/14

The latest report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns of a world wracked by hunger, violence, and extinctions. But the IPCC also dedicates chapters to impacts that are underway and anticipated in individual regions and continents. For North America, the report states there is “high confidence” of links between climate change and rising temperatures, ravaging downpours, and declining water supplies. 4/14.

Climate Impacts Are Going to Hit the Developing World Hardest, IPCC Says. 'Those countries who have contributed least to the manifestation of this problem are in jeopardy of being the most vulnerable to it.' 3/14.

Geo-engineering technique may not work 3/14.

Climate change is going to cause 1.3 million extra burglaries before 2099 2/14

Climate Change Worse Than We Thought, Likely To Be 'Catastrophic Rather Than Simply Dangerous' while our models get better all the time, clouds have been a kind of wild card, but new research suggests reasons for concern. 12/13.

Wetlands are disappearing faster, just when we need them the most 12/13. see Sea Level Rise.

Thanks to climate change, the world is going to need a lot more firefighters see Fire.

Is global warming stoking an Arctic cold war?

Food Riots: The New Normal? Reduced land productivity, combined with elevated oil costs and population growth, threaten a systemic, global food crisis. Citing findings from a study by Paul and Anne Ehrlich, published by the Royal Society, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed identified the links among intensifying economic inequality, debt, climate change, and fossil fuel dependency to conclude that a global food crisis is now “undeniable.”

Department Of Energy Awards Grant To NuScale To Design Small Modular Nuclear Power Plants 12/13. see Nuclear page.

Hole In Ozone Layer Expected To Make Full Recovery By 2070: NASA because of international treaty that could be a model for global warming fight 12/13.

Climate Change's Biggest Threats Are Those We Aren't Ready For: Report.The paper focuses on those impacts due to climate change that can happen most quickly. Among these are the rapid decline in Arctic sea ice that scientists have seen in the last decade and increased extinction pressure on plants and animals caused by the rapidly warming climate. The paper did offer two bits of good news. One, scientists don't believe that climate change is likely to shut down the Atlantic jetstream, a possibility that had been discussed in some scientific research. They also don't believe that large, rapid emissions of methane from ice and Arctic soil will pose a serious threat in the short term, as had been considered previously. 12/13.

Methane: the 'Ticking Time Bomb' That Could Cause Such Rapid Global Warming We'd Be Unable to Prevent Extinction 11/13.

Futuristic phytoplankton farm could restore equilibrium in oceans 11/13. see Green Design.

All-time record 393 ppm details on new IPCC report leaking out, predicts food scarcity and and surprising news on toxins. 11/13.

Update on Thousands Flee As Super Typhoon Rages Toward Philippines global warming a factor (audio discussion), 200 mph winds, more to come. 11/13.

The US states of California, Oregon, Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia have signed a pact to reduce carbon dioxide emission.

A Closer Look at Climate Panel’s Findings on Global Warming Impacts 11/13.

Arctic Temperatures Reach Highest Levels In 44,000 Years, Study Finds 10/13.

Transition Towns is a worldwide movement originally to cope with climate change and peak oil, but have become more than that.

The Immediate Climate Threat Isn't Rising Sea Levels, It's Water Scarcity 10/13.

Kiribati climate refugees fighting to stay in New Zealand 10/13. see Sea Level Rise.

15 Things You Should Know About the Major New Report on Climate Science 9/13.

Is this the beginning of the end for coal? 9/13.

5 Things You Should Know About Colorado's '1,000 Year Flood' (with Jaw-Dropping Photos) 9/13.

Climate Change Report From UN Introduces Purple Color To Depict Worsening Climate Risks 9/13.

Records For Arctic Ice Melt, Greenhouse Gas Emissions In 2012 As World Continues To Warm: Report 8/13.

Global warming could cause 50 percent increase in violent conflict 8/13.

Is Climate Change Driving the Southwest Toward a Dust Bowl? 7/13.

Our Coming Food Crisis By GARY PAUL NABHAN nyt.

Biochar, a substance that a small but growing number of scientists and private companies believe could enable extraction of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a meaningful scale.

U.S. and China continue to play nice on climate 7/13.

You can look forward to more energy blackouts in a climate-changed world 7/13.

Hurricanes And Climate Change: Storms Likely To Get Stronger And More Frequent:A new study by Kerry Emanuel, a prominent hurricane researcher at MIT, found that contrary to previous findings, tropical cyclones are likely to become both stronger and more frequent in the years to come, especially in the western North Pacific, where storms can devastate the heavily populated coastlines of Asian nations. 7/13

Tar balls from wildfires worsening global warming see Fire.

Change Study From World Meteorological Organization Reveals Unprecedented Extremes Since 2001 7/13

Record heat expected end on June, and Miami, American Atlantis.

“Solid Rain” keeps plants hydrated even in droughts 7/13

China warns it will execute serious polluters 6/13 also starts carbon trading See Global Warming.

Cassava was supposed to help us survive climate change, and now it’s dying 6/13.

Arctic (global warming twice as fast at poles)Arctic Methane Leak Research Looks For Signs Of Accelerating Climate Change 10/12.video on ice measurement. good summary of why Artic matters video. US schizophrenic policy, new report 5/13. Greenland ice breakup (images). Ocean Acidification Threatens Arctic Ecosystem, Study Shows 5/13.

Organic farming sucks (up carbon) 6/13.

Wildfire season is 2 months longer, more destructive now than in the 1970s due to global warming.

The Farm Bill is a climate bill. 5/13

10 Best US Cities to ride out global warming and 10 worst 5/13.

Agenda 21 explained in comic book form.

First "Global weirding" now "weather whiplash" 4/13. Tornadoes. Natural Disasters Displaced Twice As Many In 2012 As In 2011 5/13

Goodland and Anhang found that most of what we need to do to mitigate the climate crisis can be achieved “by replacing just one quarter of today’s least eco-friendly food products” — read: animal products — “with better alternatives. 5/13

First "Global weirding" now "weather whiplash" 4/13.

Vineyards Could Shrink 73 Percent by 2050. That means the wine industry is going to start using more water. Some wineries may move to new areas, such as Montana and British Columbia."Those are areas that can be important for grizzlies and moose and wolves and a whole range of wildlife," Hannah said. Central China, home to the giant panda, also could become suitable for vineyards, according to the study. Setting up wildlife corridors now is one way to protect wildlife as wineries put down new roots, said co-author Rebecca Shaw of the Environmental Defense Fund. See Wildlife page.

The Most Influential Climate Science Paper Today Remains Unknown to Most People

Storm Surge Risk Amplified By Climate Change, Study Finds 3/15.

Heat increases insect damage to trees (not just bark beetles). 4/13. See Forests

Extreme weather and GMO crops devastate monarch butterfly migration.

U.S. to help Pacific islands cope with climate change More on Third World effect.

Military Officer: Climate Change Biggest Threat to Security.

Obama to require climate assessments for big projects like highways and pipelines

Superheated American City Dealing with 110 Degrees for 33 Days -- Phoenix Confronts Apocalyptic Climate Change. Phoenix in the Climate Crosshairs: We Are Long Past Coal Mine Canaries. 3/13.

Somalia Famine Partially Blamed On Climate Change In New Study 3/13. See also Africa.

1.3 degree cooling over 5000 years cancelled by one century of warming, unprecedented rate. Data pushed way earlier than before. 3/13

Permafrost Melting Rate Could Be Faster And Worse Than We Thought, New Study Finds

Positive Feedback Accelerates- Rice Agriculture Can Worsen Global Warming. (So much for CO2 is good for you denial argument).

New Climate Bill in Congress 2/13.

US Marshall islands threatened by sea level rise so is US water supply.

Scientist Seeks Connection Between Fire and Ice in Greenland 2/13.

The Energy and Resources Institute's 13th annual Delhi Sustainable Development Summit goal is to tackle resource efficiency challenges. Around the world, leaders pointed to the ways a changing climate was already affecting their nations...TERI Director-General R.K. Pachauri referenced studies that have illustrated the correlation between emissions and material consumption. 1/13

Climate Story Of The Year: Extreme Weather From Superstorms To Drought Emerges As Political, Scientific Gamechanger. 12/12.

14 "Carbon Bomb" Projects Will Increase Global Emissions. Greenpeace lists 14 planned fossil-fuel energy projects that, if allowed to proceed, will together increase global carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent, making it even harder to stay within the targeted maximum global temperature increase of 2 degrees Celsius set by the International Energy Agency. China and Australia are at the top of the list of countries housing these projects. 1/13

Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds (audio). Climate change is having impact even more and faster than predicted, will lead to political instability. Military is concerned eg here. We overshot earth capacity a while back.

Ringed, Bearded Seals Listed Under Endangered Species Act Due Partially To Climate Change Concerns 1/13

Coal Consumption Booms Amid Rising Climate Concerns: IEA Coal Report 2012 12/12. China almost equals the rest of the world combined, 300 new electricity plants in the works. 1/13.

UN Climate talks in Doha extend Kyoto, but only cover 15% of GHG, see Featured Stories also here.

Wolverines Threatened By Climate Change, Officials Propose Endangered Species Act Protection turns out (turns out the honey badger WILL give a bleep).

1990 IPCC Report Successfully Predicted Warming, New Study Shows 12/12.

U.S. Wildfires: Burn Area Expected To Double By 2050 12/12.

Greenhouse gas levels higher than ever and still climbing.

More bad news about glaciers — and therefore sea levels 11/12 UPDATE biggest calving ever recorded (video) 12/12. Graphs (and misuse).

The world plans to build 1,200 new coal plants 11/12

Climate change will be ‘devastating’ to world’s poor, World Bank says 11/12.

Effects on wine industry.

A sluggish start for California carbon auctions? 11/12

Global Warming ignored in election.

US doing better than Europe

Potential for war and related 11/12.

Rising Ocean Temperatures Threaten Ocean Food Chain 10/12.

An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Global Warming Impacts: How We Know Inaction Is the Gravest Threat Humanity Faces/ 10/12.

Seminal Study Finds ‘Climate-Change Footprint’ In North America, ‘Continent With The Largest Increases in Disasters’ 10/12 see also Frankenstorm

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rise With GDP But Slower To Fall During Recession, Study Finds 10/12.

Climate Change To Shrink Fish By 2050 As Oceans Warm 10/12.

Global Warming's Terrifying New Math: Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is by Bill McKibben 7/12.

Explaining the ’100 million to die from climate change’ claim 9/12.

US Megadrought 9/12.

California Temperature forecasts.

GOP 2012 sees climate as punch line, Obama rebuts, but could do more 9/12

California starts cap and trade; alternative: Carbon tax demystified

Oxfam environmental justice report 9/12.

The Arctic Ice Crisis Greenland’s glaciers are melting far faster than scientists expected (so much for HimalayaGate etc) 8/12 9/12 update. video on ice measurement.

Climate Change, Extreme Weather Link Becoming More Apparent7.12

GDP Cannot Capture the Economics of Climate Change; an alternative measure 7.12

The earth’s water cycle is speeding up twice as fast as climate models predicted, which means more droughts and more floods. 4/12

"Weather Weirding": The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that March's "meteorological madness" with record-setting highs was due mostly to freakishly random factors, with only a small assist from human-induced climate change. IPS calls this "extreme weather" the new normal, and there may be more crazy weather in our future. The changes are causing some scientists to look to the ice. More

A paper now out in Nature shows how increased CO2 in the atmosphere led to a series of sudden and extreme global warming events that occurred between about 55.5 and 52 million years ago. 4/12.

Microsoft founder Myhrvold and climate scientist Caldeira have shown in pretty stark terms that, if we’re not willing to substantially reduce population growth or economic growth, we’re going to need an absolutely gargantuan amount of zero-carbon energy, without delay. Link 3/12.

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Articles/Reports

Paul Hawken's new book: Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (2017) He is a brilliant and eloquent systems thinker.

Tens of Thousands of Species at Risk if Warming Exceeds 1.5°C 5/18.

Your Food Has a Climate Footprint: Here’s What You Can Do About It produced by the University of California in partnership with Slug Sanjayan 12/17.

An Inconvenient Sequel Former Vice President Al Gore talked about his book in which he looks at the effects of climate change around the world. *** 10/17.

What Would Happen If Several of the World's Biggest Food Crops Failed at the Same Time? Climate change is expected to generate heat waves and drought that could cause crop losses in most of the world's breadbaskets. 6/17. see Food.

Interactive Chart Explores World's Top 10 Greenhouse Gas-Emitting Countries 4/17.

Citizen scientists are helping to glean sea-ice and weather data from logbooks of old whaling vessels to gain a better understanding of Arctic climate change. 2/16.

Can climate change cause wars? 1/16

Want to fight climate change? Here are the 7 critical life changes you should make

Citbank (America’s third-largest bank), recently published a report looking at the economic costs and benefits of a low-carbon future. ..because of savings due to reduced fuel costs and increased energy efficiency, the Action scenario is actually a bit cheaper than the Inaction scenario. 9/15

75 Percent of Animal Species to be Wiped Out in ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’ says Stanford, UCB and Princeton study 6/15.

New IPCC report on global warming and Bill McKibben's take(350.org) 11/14.

National Academy of Sciences Says Geoengineering Is Not the Answer to Climate Change 2/15.

The Methane Monster Roars 1/15.

Agriculture can take carbon out of the atmosphere vs adding to GHG. Related, Terra Preta has amazing properties.

2013 NOAA climate report, trend of new warming records continues. 7/14

Climate change and women 8/14. See Women.

“Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present,” says the latest National Climate Assessment, published by the White House. First specifics on regional effects.

The latest report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns of a world wracked by hunger, violence, and extinctions. But the IPCC also dedicates chapters to impacts that are underway and anticipated in individual regions and continents. For North America, the report states there is “high confidence” of links between climate change and rising temperatures, ravaging downpours, and declining water supplies. 4/14.

Carbon War Room funds large scale projects to fight climate change.

Water Wars are Coming 6/14.

Climate Change Refugee Claim Rejected By New Zealand Judge 11/13.

Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt 11/13.

Naomi Klein: Why Science Is Telling All of Us to Revolt and Change Our Lives Before We Destroy the Planet. 11/13.

Urban Heat Island Effect (text and audio). 10/13.

Climate and Algal Blooms audio 10/13.

Scientists at the University of Hawaii have figured out a way to pinpoint when weather extremes at a given location will move outside the range of anything we’ve known in modern times. 10/13.

How Climate Change May Affect West Nile Spread 9/13.

Facing climate reality, cities look for ways to adapt 6/13 includes sea level rise.

Center for American Progress reports on migration.

Carbon Tax Demystified by Grist. Carbon tax vs C&T.

Climate change and resource scarcity (including food and water) will lead to war (again). 4/13

Arctic (global warming twice as fast at poles)Arctic Methane Leak Research Looks For Signs Of Accelerating Climate Change 10/12.video on ice measurement. good summary of why Artic matters video. US schizophrenic policy, new report 5/13. Greenland ice breakup (images).

Temperature-Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Link Observed In New Study 3/13

"Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben in Rolling Stone (see Activism) ***

China announces plan for a carbon tax 2/13.

The 32 most alarming charts from the government’s climate change report 1/13.

Ridesharing in cars.

Third National Assessment (summary) has chapters on what will happen with water, forests, native ppl etc.

World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, says we must spend $700 billion annually to wean ourselves off fossil fuels that have been linked to a rise in extreme weather-related disasters in recent yearsDavos world economic forum plan 1/13.

Wild Weather(audio): 2011 has been marked by extreme weather. In the U.S. alone, a record dozen disasters caused more than $1 billion in damage. This, and the release last month of a special UN report on extreme weather, was the backdrop for a Climate One panel on December 13 featuring three leading climate scientists.

Carbon Markets

Should We Move Creatures Threatened by Climate Change? 1/12

Farmers adapt to AGW report and (slideshow) 1/12

New geo-engineering scheme 9/11. Geoengineering: Testing the Waters By NAOMI KLEIN.

Loss of Arctic ice isn't just a threat to polar bears. Climate scientist James Hanson has just published a science brief on the NASA website about why those ice sheets are so important (besides providing an habitat for polar bears) and why we need to keep funding research that uses satellites to monitor the state of the world's ice sheets. 7/11. video summary

National security implications 3/11

Climate models reliable. 1/11

Roman Empire may have been taken out by climate change, as have many other civilization by eco-collapse of various kinds (See Diamond's Collapse).

Overview of California Plan to deal with GW from Need to Know (PBS).

Profile of EPA chief Lisa Jackson, including climate change actions.

Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman on why dealing with Global Warming will be good economically 4/10

A new report, "America’s Hottest Species", highlights a variety of American wildlife that are currently threatened by climate change from a small bird to a coral reef to the world’s largest marine turtle. "Global warming is like a bulldozer shoving species, already on the brink of extinction, perilously closer to the edge of existence," said Leda Huta, executive director of the Endangered Species Coalition which produced the report. "Polar bears, lynx, salmon, coral and many other endangered species are already feeling the heat." More. New study finds some corals do better than others.

Low lying island nations such as those in Melanesia, for example Vanuatu will be hit first and hardest, but in general it will be developing countries that will have the hardest time coping. This in large part was what was at stake in the recent Copenhagen summit. See here for more on effects on food and migration. UPDATE 9/12.

More on early effects on islands by Julia Whitty at MoJo (see related).

How to Green Your House.

More actions you can take.

20 by 2020, California's plan to cut energy and water waste.

Black carbon may be the proverbial low hanging fruit in the fight against AGW, since a large source is charcoal cookstoves in developing countries (which ties with diahrea as the number one killer of kids under 5). Amy Smith (TEDtalk video and demo) at MIT and Engineers Without Borders among others are working on the problem (see also terra preta).

== Specific Issues/Effects == (See also Ocean (especially coral reef/acidification), Sea Level Rise, and Forests)

Doug Engelbart is my hero, because along with Buckminster Fuller, he asked himself "how can I use my life for maximum utility to the world?" His answer was to create a high performance computer system that would boost cooperation and our collective IQ to cope with wickedly complex problems like global warming. In 1968, he did what is still called in awe The Mother of All Demos. The computer mouse, grabbed by Steve Jobs, is a tiny almost accidental bit of his whole system. Tools for Thought chapter.

Migration

South Pacific Climate Refugee Goes to Court. Climate Change Refugee Claim Rejected By New Zealand Judge 11/13.

The Island President(synopsis) is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable. He was forced out in a coup. (trailer).

Center for American Progress reports on migration.

Low lying island nations such as those in Melanesia, for example Vanuatu will be hit first and hardest, but in general it will be developing countries that will have the hardest time coping. This in large part was what was at stake in the recent Copenhagen summit. See here for more on effects on food and migration. UPDATE 9/12.

New study shows migration due to AGW will be problematic. 2/12.

War/Conflict

New Study Says Climate Change Helped Spark Syrian Civil War (and thus ISIS?) NYT UPdate 3/15.

Drought Helped Spark Syria’s Civil War — Is it One of Many Climate Wars to Come?. ThinkProgress take see also Center for Climate and Security.

Online course (video): Jim Lee teaches in the School of International Service at American University and his courses combine cutting edge issues with new technologies. Trade, environment, and conflict are the bases for thought, built with web-programming and video production skills. He has recently focused on issues of geographic indications and climate change and conflict.

Conflict in Africa because of water scarcity.

A new study has found that that often war is associated with global climate change. According to the report, there are links between the climate phenomenon El Niño and outbreaks of violence in countries from southern Sudan to Indonesia and Peru. The scientists find that El Niño, which brings hot and dry conditions to tropical nations, doubles the risk of civil war in up to 90 countries, and may help account for a fifth of conflicts worldwide during the past 50 years. We speak with the report’s lead author, Solomon Hsiang, a postdoctoral researcher at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. 8/11

"Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence" By Christian Parenti. 2011.

Extreme weather and civil war in Somalia: Does drought fuel conflict through livestock price shocks?

Geo-Engineering

Is geoengineering a bad idea? 3/15. Spy agencies fund climate research in hunt for weather weapon, scientist fears.

National Academy of Sciences Says Geoengineering Is Not the Answer to Climate Change 2/15.

Geo-engineering Grist overview.

Geo-engineering technique may not work (iron fertilization of ocean) 3/14.

Al Gore opposes 1/14.

How to Cool the Planet on geo-engineering, interview with author (text) . video (60 min); Video overview from Hack the Planet excerpt and audio interview NPR.org 5/10. Geoengineering: Testing the Waters By Naomi Klein.

Geo-Engineering: Environmental scientist David Keith talks about a cheap, effective, shocking solution to climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere, to deflect sunlight and heat? As an emergency measure to slow a melting ice cap, it could work. Keith discusses why it's a good idea, why it's a terrible one -- and who, despite the cost, might be tempted to use it. extensive LongNow talk, video. Debate: David Keith and Clive Hamilton debate the idea of scientifically manipulating the environment to address the threat of global warming. David Keith, author of "A Case for Climate Engineering," supports the idea, while Clive Hamilton, author of "Earthmasters," argues against it. The authors spoke at Columbia University.segment 12.13. Cool the Planet see books.

Other Resources

EDF coverage includes solutions and legislation.

Climate Justice bibliography by Tracy Perkins UCSC Sociology

See also California Page for local impacts. To take action, see MIT's Climate CoLab.

Carbon Tracker

List of CO2 emissionsby country. In a new study, University of Michigan researchers accounted for both climate and GDP when looking at total emissions from each country. 7.12

Excellent video overview of our current status: Human growth has strained the Earth's resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine "planetary boundaries" that can guide us in protecting our planet's many overlapping ecosystems. TEDtalk. ***

Online course (video): Jim Lee teaches in the School of International Service at American University and his courses combine cutting edge issues with new technologies. Trade, environment, and conflict are the bases for thought, built with web-programming and video production skills. He has recently focused on issues of geographic indications and climate change and conflict.

National Academies of Science

UCSC research on GW. UC Lizard research shows early effects. 5/10. More links(audio) on Sinervo's work.

Early Warning Signs from all over the world from Slate and NPR Living on Earth. See also Bangladesh article. Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting provides a view from Bangladesh, a nation already reeling from the impact of climate change.12/09

The MIT Climate Collaboratorium allows you to come up with plans, or vote on existing ones.

Scientists and other experts rattle off options for averting climate catastrophe 02 Jan 2009 London's Independent newspaper asked climate scientists to answer a simple question: should humanity "prepare a 'Plan B' to curb the worst effects of global warming?" Well, ask 40 eggheads a question, and you'll get a very diverse set of responses. Geo-engineering is the answer! No, focus on carbon sequestration. Wrong again, it's all about adapting to the new climate reality! Check out all the responses here.

Meanwhile, the mysterious Edge Foundation released its annual question for 2009, asking smart folks of all disciplines to name what new idea or technology will "change everything." Responses range all over, but there are a few climate-related responses, including British novelist Ian McEwan's prediction that solar technology will really take off and Stanford climatologist Stephen H. Schneider's guess that rapid melting of Greenland's ice sheets will wake up the world to the need to take concerted action on curbing C02 emissions. Read the full list of responses at Edge.org

NASA's Goddard Center, global temperature data 1/10.

New sea level rise reporthas interactive maps and Sea Level Rise data.

2010 Nature article on sea level rise higher than IPCC.

Floating buildings to deal with sea level rise.

New numbers on carbon sinks worrying. 7/10

Study shows that worries about economy affect environmental thinking. 7/10

Permafrost melt releases methane (GHG). audio 8/10 Update 1/12

The coming Mega-Drought pdf 10/10

New Stanford study of effect on food production.

New study shows migration due to AGW will be problematic. 2/12

The so-called Himalayagate scandal is just another example of trying to discredit climate change based on small errors and outright distortion. Now it turns out the mountains are losing ice quickly. 3/12

Interactive Websites/Maps and Charts

Trump Wants to Eliminate NASA’s Climate Research Programs: These Pictures Show What a Loss That Would Be: Excellent update, overview with NASA images and graphs 3/18.

Interactive Chart Explores World's Top 10 Greenhouse Gas-Emitting Countries 4/17.

NASA Produces First 3D Animation of Global Carbon Emissions 12/16

Climate Web is an amazing explorable site using dynamic graphical interface. **** 12/15

The Best Visualization of Climate Change isn't a Graph—It's a Death Spiral 5/16. See DataViz.

Check out some of the prettiest (and most depressing) climate change data out there. 10/15.

NASA carbon map.

Climate Interactive is offering a climate leader training, which involves a free system thinking course models, simulations and other tools*** 2/15 See Systems Thinking.

Wildfires Realtime map 10/15. see Fire.

Climate Hope City: The Guardian unveils the ideal green city in Minecraft 6/15. see VR Gaming.

Here's How Many Ridiculously Hot Days Your City Will Have in the Future 6/15.

1st NASA CO2 map 12/14.

World’s largest climate modelling experiment: Climateprediction.net is a distributed computing, climate modelling project.We run climate models on people’s home computers to help answer questions about how climate change is affecting our world, now and in the future. Sign up now and help us predict the climate.

Infographic on which poor countries will be affected most by climate change, and which rich countries have stepped up 10/14.

Interactive Map Shows How Hot Your City Will Be in 2100 7/14.

World Map of emissions (per capita?) 1/14.

New Google climate map initiative with the Obama Administration 3/14.

Comprehensive overview infographic.

Check the climate forecast in your county new USGS tool.

Biggest COs emissions countries 11/13.

Climate change simulation 10/13.

National Geographic has a good, but disturbing, interactive map showing what 216 feet of sea level rise will do to coastlines around the world.

U.S. Wildfire Interactive Shows Rising Temperatures, Less Snowfall Are Leading To More Fires infographic 7/13.

Google Earth GIFs, 'Timelapse' Project, Show Startling Impact Of Humans On The Planet, including ice loss 5/13.

Great infographic sums it all up 3/13

Pretty definitive graph on record temps. 7/13.

The 32 most alarming charts from the government’s climate change report 1/13.

New NASA heat maps show wildfire pattern 7.12 U.S. Wildfires: Burn Area Expected To Double By 2050 12/12. NASA model of aerosol/particles in atmosphere.

Interactive maps on temperature increase

New Climate Normal maps 7/11

Heat Wave Shattering Records 3/12

New map shows 4 of 5 Americans affected by climate disasters 2/12

Interactive Global Warming maps from Union of Concerned Scientists.

Cal-Adapt was built specifically to address projections about climate change in California, designed by Google, in collaboration with the California Energy Commission, the U.S. Geological Survey, several California universities and others.

Google Earth guided tour of global warming impacts.

World Health Organization map of 150K of people who are killed annually by climate change. Link to study pdf

CAKE map of projects adapting to climate change. CAKE is a joint project of Island Press (Slug!) and EcoAdapt. It is aimed at building a shared knowledge base for managing natural systems in the face of rapid climate change.

New Interactive maps and images 4/10.

World map of Co2 emissions (now and projected)

World Map of emissions targets

Timeline of legislation/treaties

Calculate your carbon footprint.

New sea level rise report 3/12 has interactive maps see also Rising Ocean Levels interactive maps.

Monitor CO2 and other greenhouse gases

CA maps including CO2 map

CA water map (reservoir levels)

Books

NEW BOOK ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS MAKES THE PERSUASIVE CASE THAT WE’RE NOT DOOMED Drawdown, a new compendium of climate-stabilization tools and solutions edited by the versatile Paul Hawken, has an impressive subtitle: “The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming.” http://www.drawdown.org/ 4/17.

Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org. (see Eco-heroes) Oil and Honey:the Education of a Unlikely Activist excerpt on bees.

Naomi Klein’s new book, This Changes Everything(an excellent 2016 video documentary), excerpt, reviewed by Sandra Steingraber. Colbert interview; extensive interview(2 parts) 9/14.

Tim Flannery (author of several books on climate and species loss)Atmosphere of Hope (interview 2016); article/review of Stung! on jellyfish blooms.

What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice by Wen Stephenson features eco-warrior Tim DeChristopher. LOE.org interview 11/28/15.

Brian Fagan, author, The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present and Future of Rising Sea Levels. Daily Show.

Andrew Guzman, Professor, UC Berkeley Law School Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change, an 2/13 interview (audio).

The Big Thaw: Travels in the Melting North (eBook)

Michael Lemonick's Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas, and the Weather of the Future (audio interview and excerpt). 2012.

But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics can save the World by Gernot Wagner EDF holds that how smart economic policies can do much more than so many of the “green” behavioral modifications, lifestyle changes, that are so often championed by environmentalists. audio interview.

Nnimmo Bassey is and activist and poet, the executive director of Environmental Rights Action (ERA), Nigeria and elected chair of Friends of the Earth International. He is one of Time Magazine's Heroes of the Planet 2009 and co-winner of the 2010 Right Livelihood Award (the Alternative Nobel Prize). His books include To Cook a Continent (excerpt), Oilwatching in South America and Genetically Modified Organisms: the African Challenge. video interview. (See also Africa Page).

Jim Hansen at NASA risked his career by refusing to be muzzled on climate change by the Bush Administration. He has a new book, Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity, reviewed here. He has also recently come to the defense of Tim DeChristopher above. New TEDtalk video 3/12. Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity by James Hansen of NASA.

The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World by Paul Gilding.

New books on climate change from Island Press: Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warmingby Anthony D. Barnosky. Climate Savvy: Adapting Conservation and Resource Management to a Changing World Climate Savvyby Lara J. Hansen and Jennifer R. Hoffman. Climate and Conservation: Landscape and Seascape Science, Planning, and Action Climate and Conservation, Edited by Jodi A. Hilty, Charles C. Chester, and Molly S. Cross.

Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth Excerpt by Mark Hertsgaard. Radio interview 3/11. Here's an hour-long talk. Mark spoke here at College 8 for a number of years when his Earth Odyssey was required reading.

The Global Warming Reader, edited by Bill McKibben, pulls together seminal texts of the climate change debate with the goal of creating a complete picture. Selections range from a 19th-century treatise to images from Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, and include a few unexpected gems like Senate floor statements from climate change denier James Inhofe (R-Okla.).

In Christine Shearer's new book Kivalina: A Climate Change Story, global warming moves off the pages of science and into the lives of everyday people.

"Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence" By Christian Parenti. 2011

Climatopolis is an economic approach for thinking about climate-change adaptation.

With Speed and Violence: why scientists fear tipping points in climate change by Fred Pearce. UCSC owns. 2007

Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century By Burton Richter (recommended in 81C course). Short video and [20 min video interview 2010)

How to Cool the Planet on geo-engineering, interview with author (text) . video (60 min); Video overview from Hack the Planet excerpt and audio interview NPR.org 5/10. Geoengineering: Testing the Waters By NAOMI KLEIN.

Finding higher ground : adaptation in the age of warming / Amy Seidl UCSC S&E Stacks QH546 .S453 2011.

A World Without Ice, a book by Henry Pollack who was a winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change. Google talk video 2009

The Carbon Age by Eric Roston, Duke Univ.

Island Press reader on global warming (free download).

James Lovelock is creator of the Gaia Hypothesis (the earth as self-regulaing superorganism) [1] is author of The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning, video of talk. 9/10 [2]. radio interview (also includes Stewart Brand on climate change and nuclear energy).

Local Author Chuck Tremper's Book on Global Warming

Hot, Flat, and Crowded. Thomas L. Freidman, author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, and The World Is Flat, explains how America can lead the green revolution in the 21st century (audio and video too).

2006 Overview and review of several books (NY Review of Books) by Jim Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Here is a followup discussion with the author. 60 Minutes interview (video).

The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we Can Still Save Humanity (2006) is a book by James Lovelock.

Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning by George Monbiot
review Recommended by College 8 instructor Neil Schaeffer: "...excellent and easily readable material on global warming mitigation..." (that is, taking steps to prevent). ***

The Heat is On by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ross Gelbspan see on skeptic scams Newer book is Boiling Point; here's an excerpt. Here's a video of the author at the World Affairs Council, moderated by Hertsgaard (Sponsored by Global Exchange, founded by a slug, and others).

Bill McKibben The End of Nature

Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition, by Alastair McIntosh.

Wildfires will be an effect of global warming. See Scorched Earth.

Global land grab, mostly by China, for food security.

David Robinson Simon, Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much – and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter - See more at: link

Video

An Inconvenient Sequel Former Vice President Al Gore talked about his book in which he looks at the effects of climate change around the world. *** 10/17.

Bill McKibben talk 6/12. **** Lauded by Time Magazine as the planet's best green journalist, McKibben, founder of 350.org movement, is the author of dozens of books about the environment brings deep insight into the human dimensions of climate change. 60 min. PowerShift 2011. Bill McKibben vs. Epstein, Debate on Fossil Fuels 11/12.

The Top Five Climate Videos of 2017 12/17.

Scientist Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, on the greatest single threat facing humanity. *** (video) 1/13.

The basic science of climate from national academy of science. *** (thanks Zach).

Eco-Adventure Series ‘Angry Planet’ Comes Face-to-Face With Our Rapidly Changing Planet wildfires, Australia 4/14

‘Vanishing World’ Explores the Realities of Climate Refugees: Marianne Hougen-Moraga from Denmark explores in her short film Vanishing World—part of the Action4Climate video competition—how people from the remote Alaskan village of Newtok are directly affected by climate change. Their village is literally sinking and now they are starting to build America’s first climate-change refugee camp. 9/14.

Must-See Video: Arctic Emergency, Scientists Speak 8/14.

TEDtalks on climate, including Overview TEDtalk by Michael Mann. 12/11 ***

130 years of climate change in 30 seconds video.

Ocean Acidification 12 min.

Arctic Methane: Why The Sea Ice Matters. Weather girl goes rogue.

Why Climate Change Is Not an Environmental Issue (we could quibble about characterization of environmental movement, but overall point valid and thought-provoking). ***

Climate Change is Simple very good overview. ***

Cap and Trade explained EDF

The Island President(synopsis) is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable. He was forced out in a coup. (trailer).

Environmental Debt: By focusing on developing the economy for decades, politicians and business leaders have done little to account for the environmental costs of growing industry. Now, economies worldwide are struggling to cover the increasing expenses of pollution and health care – But who is going to pay?

Food and Climate change 2008 panel discussion. CA 2012 Heat and Harvest(video), (audio panel discussion) ***

TEDtalk on how to prepare 10/12.

Computer Models

Gavin Schmidt on models TEDtalk 2014 transcript.

climate modeling expert Guillermo Auad explains the various kinds of models that researchers use to understand and forecast climate scenarios and how this science has impacts well outside of the research community.

Tipping point (amplifying feedback) is one of the scariest aspect of climate change, including what happens if the frozen methane in the deep ocean melts. Methane Hydrates: Natural Hazard or Natural Resource?

Three new PBS shows on energy and climate: EARTH: The Operators' Manual, Energy Quest USA and Powering the Planet. 4/12.

North Carolina and Virginia are sinking and dealing with sea level rise (with varying degrees of denial). 12/12.

How sea level rise will affect CA and NY 4/12

Susan Solomon, a scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, gives the keynote address at the meeting of the Materials Research Society. Solomon discusses the evidence of changes in the Earth's climate and the causes of those changes. 2008.

Eyewitness to climate change alt link. Will Steger is an explorer and science communicator who has won the National Geographic Society's John Oliver La Gorce Medal.

Melting Sea Ice (faster than predicted) 10/11

Pine beetle infestation could be part of feedback loop to accelerate climate change. Also explains carbon sinks 12/11

In Carbon Nation, "director Peter Byck covers an impressively wide range of ground within his film's compact running time as he introduces us to a stirring cross-section of pioneers, researchers and innovators committed to helping the world reduce its carbon footprint."

Hot Politics FRONTLINE and the Center for Investigative Reporting go behind the scenes to explore how bi-partisan political and economic forces prevented the U.S. government from confronting what may be one of the most serious problems facing humanity today. 2007. Heat 2008 on energy and Global Warming.

Conflict in Africa because of water scarcity.

Hot Cities series by the BBC.

The Skeptical Environmentalist and The Sierra Club: Lomborg and Carl Pope Tackle Climate Change Commonwealth Club debate10/10.

Capitalism in an Era of Climate Change Commonwealth Club panel discussion 4/11.

Generation Hot If the US is to have any chance to break the stalemate, young people must get involved and force their voice to be heard, said a panel of activists, including Hertsgaard, convened by Climate One on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 in San Francisco. Commonwealth Club.

Wetlands play a key role in preserving biodiversity and have valuable carbon storage capacities. Turkey is home to 135 of these areas, but recent years have seen many of these wetlands degraded as a result of non-sustainable use. Drainage of wetlands for land reclamation and extraction of groundwater to irrigate agricultural land have had an extremely negative impact. Global 3000 12/10

Saul Griffith talk : Climate Change Recalculated '09. Griffith is a MacArthur Genius grant recipient, a pioneer in high altitude wind generation. This is a LongNow talk. Grist says this talk will rock your world. Both a big picture overview, and a personal scale account. **** Must see.

James Brew discusses how small changes to your house can make huge changes in our environment. TEDx video 12/10

Jared Diamond speaks about his book Collapse video

Rob Dunbar hunts for data on our climate from 12,000 years ago, finding clues inside ancient seabeds and corals and inside ice sheets. His work is vital in setting baselines for fixing our current climate -- and in tracking the rise of deadly ocean acidification. TEDtalk.

Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate. TEDtalk video 7/10. video on ice measurement.

Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the [Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.TEDtalk 9/10 update audio)

The Carbon Hunters (PBS Frontline documentary) is part of the Carbon Watch series. What is a carbon credit? And why are so many people so interested in buying and selling something that didn't even exist five years ago? It's a question Schapiro has been traveling the globe to investigate. Link

Climate One is a speaker series sponsored by the Commonwealth Club. For example, Carbon - Cap and Charade? Would capping and trading carbon pollution create a prosperous clean energy economy? Or would it be a boondoggle for Wall Street and scammers in developing countries? While touted as a market-based way to put a price on carbon, cap and trade is increasingly questioned by environmentalists and regulators. Yet the state of California and many companies have a lot invested in a cap and trade system. Will it die a slow death? Should it? Panelists weighing in on these issues include Michael Shellenberger of The Breakthrough Institute; Kristin Eberhard, legal director for Western Energy and Climate, NRDC; and Larry Goulder, chair of the Department of Economics at Stanford University. KQED Public Radio -- Thu, Apr 29, 2010 watch online

PBS NewsHour talks to a Nobel Prize winner about his perspective on the links between climate change and biodiversity. DR. ERIC CHIVIAN, Center for Health and the Global Environment Director, Harvard Medical School: "There are natural extinctions way before humans showed up. But it is clear that the extinction rate now is 100 to 1,000 and even more times what it was before..." 12/09

Next Wave(2009) 8 min The Carteret islanders struggle to relocate as some of the world's first climate change refugees. The Next Wave presents the human face of climate change and a people faced with the loss of a land in which their identity is rooted. It is a portrait of a community and a critical moment in history.

A World Without Ice link Dr. Henry N. Pollack, author of A World Without Ice, explains why our cold natural wonders are disappearing while humans are prospering. 10/09

Living Climate Change has a Video Challenge which invited participants to show us their vision of a future shaped by climate change, as we move along the path toward reduced carbon emissions. More green videos

Eyewitness to Global Warming The fourth person ever to reach both poles, Will Steger is known by many titles - educator, activist, photographer, and former Explorer-in-Residence for National Geographic. He presents a visual account of the global warming induced changes that he's witnessed firsthand in Arctic regions over four decades of polar exploration. (#15420) 5/4/2009 57 minutes.

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting provides a view from Bangladesh, a nation already reeling from the impact of climate change.12/09

Tonga is another low-lying nation already coping with climate change. video 3/10

Inuit culture threatened by sea level rise (text and audio) 9/10

PBS Now program "On Thin Ice" includes Extreme Ice Survey. 4/09

The Burning Season. "Dorjee Sun, a young entrepreneur, believes there's money to be made from saving rainforests in Indonesia and making a real impact on climate change. Armed with a laptop and a backpack, he sets out across the globe to find investors in his scheme. Meanwhile another burning season gets underway. A small-scale farmer wrestles with the dilemma of clearing his land. In Borneo, a wildlife carer battles overcrowding and despair as more orangutans are rescued from the fires.."

California at the Tipping Point KQED 4/9

UCTV has a wide range of videos on global warming and its effects.

Cities Meet Nature: Responding to a Changing ClimateThe effects of a changing climate cut a broad swathe across the landscape, as sea levels rise, rainfall patterns change, and storm events intensify. Climate-change challenges have provided impetus for rethinking urban landscapes, structures, and infrastructure and their relationship to surrounding lands and waters. (#18189) 3/1/2010 58 minutes

Human Rights in the Age of Environmental Devastation and Climate Chaos First Aired: 3/16/2009 55 minutes Chief of the Cardiology Division of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Richmond, California Jeffrey Ritterman explores the consequences of climate change and environmental destruction on our health. (UCTV Program #15577)

13th Tipping Point ForaTV 2007. Julia Whitty of Mother Jones 2006 on fate of the oceans.

Geo-Engineering: Environmental scientist David Keith talks about a cheap, effective, shocking solution to climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere, to deflect sunlight and heat? As an emergency measure to slow a melting ice cap, it could work. Keith discusses why it's a good idea, why it's a terrible one -- and who, despite the cost, might be tempted to use it. video. Debate: David Keith and Clive Hamilton debate the idea of scientifically manipulating the environment to address the threat of global warming. David Keith, author of "A Case for Climate Engineering," supports the idea, while Clive Hamilton, author of "Earthmasters," argues against it. The authors spoke at Columbia University.segment 12.13. Cool the Planet see books.

Climate has enormous impacts on the marine life off California, influencing its major fisheries and the abundance of krill, seabirds and mammals. Join Tony Koslow as he shows how a 60-year ocean observation program, the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (or CalCOFI) is unraveling the impacts of the El Niño/La Niña cycle and human-induced climate. UCTV First Aired: 3/15/2010 52 minutes.

UCTV talk on carbon capture/sequestration. UC's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist Julio Friedmann discuss carbon capture and storage. 10/6/2008 49 minutes.

Atmospheric Particulates: Global and Regional Challenges. As climate change increases the likelihood of wildfires in California, megacities in developing countries burn more fossil fuels and coastal cities striving to meet air quality standards deal with rising amounts of particulate emissions from ships, what does the future hold for the air we breathe? Three prominent atmospheric chemistry experts at UC San Diego discuss their latest research on atmospheric aerosols and explain how these microscopic particles in the atmosphere affect our health, environment and global climate change. (#14856) 9/29/2008 56 minutes.

Global Warming leads to ocean acidification. The ocean absorbs almost half of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activities, changing its chemistry in ways that may have significant effects on marine ecosystems. Join Scripps marine chemist Andrew Dickson as he explains what we know --- and what we don't --- about this emerging problem. (#15754)UCTV talk video. 3/30/2009. 56 minutes. CBS on acidification

Redwoods and climate change is a UC project. 6/11 see Forests.

UCTV: In this 2011 Second Annual Keeling Lecture from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, Lonnie G. Thompson, distinguished professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University and recipient of both the National Medal of Science and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, provides insight into the convincing evidence of climate change provided by glaciers and polar ice-caps, and the implications that inaction in the face of this rapid change will have on societies on a global scale. Link.

Climate Change and the Forests of the West (Keeling Lecture) 2010.

11th Hour excerpt

The Great Warming Link

Inconvenient Truth DVD4065

Al Gore's followup to Inconvenient Truth TEDtalks. 11/12 interview.

Strange Days on Planet Earth 2005 McHenry Library DVD2812 240 min. Online

Who Killed the Electric Car? DVD4064

Audio

The End of Ice book Audio interview 1/19 non-linear cascade effect.

British journalist George Monbiot's “Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning" became a best seller in Europe and Canada but Monbiot could barely convince a publisher in the US to print it. (Audio interview) alt link. 11/15.***

Heat Island Effect affects global warming. 3/13.

Adaptation Superstorm Sandy drew some of its strength from warmer waters, exacerbated by climate change. Elliott Sclar, director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at the Earth Institute at Columbia University tells host Steve Curwood how to design urban areas to be more resilient in a warming world. (7:05) (text).

Wild Weather: 2011 has been marked by extreme weather. In the U.S. alone, a record dozen disasters caused more than $1 billion in damage. This, and the release last month of a special UN report on extreme weather, was the backdrop for a Climate One panel on December 13 featuring three leading climate scientists.

RISE: Sounding the Waters Series: Climate Change and Coastal Communities. Sea level rise, includes Bay Area.

Oceans Rising. Sea levels may rise twice as much by the end of this century than was previously predicted. That's according to an announcement last week by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Also last week, the Oakland-based Pacific Institute released a study finding that hundreds of thousands of people and billions of dollars of California infrastructure and property will be at risk if ocean levels rise 55 inches. What should we do to prepare? Mon, March 16, 2009

Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth Excerpt by Mark Hertsgaard. Radio interview 3/11. Here's an hour-long talk. Mark spoke here at College 8 for a number of years when his Earth Odyssey was required reading. 3/11

A new study has found that that often war is associated with global climate change. According to the report, there are links between the climate phenomenon El Niño and outbreaks of violence in countries from southern Sudan to Indonesia and Peru. The scientists find that El Niño, which brings hot and dry conditions to tropical nations, doubles the risk of civil war in up to 90 countries, and may help account for a fifth of conflicts worldwide during the past 50 years. We speak with the report’s lead author, Solomon Hsiang, a postdoctoral researcher at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. 8/11

L. Hunter Lovins, President and Founder, Natural Capitalism Solutions; Author, Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change. The time when businesses could operate without regard for their environmental impact is long past. Many companies now calculate their carbon footprint, minimize their packaging, switch to efficient energy sources wherever possible, and some even purchase carbon offsets. The U.S. is no longer in a race to the bottom with Asian manufacturing giants, but a race to sustainability and efficiency. Innovative companies are looking beyond the costs of climate change and toward business strategies that capitalize on new opportunities, innovate and spur economic growth. Time Magazine Hero of the Planet Lovins argues that moving aggressively to solve global warming, peak oil and weaknesses in our energy infrastructure will give us a stronger economy and higher quality of life. Get the inside scoop on sustainable approaches and what corporations of the present and future will need to do to remain competitive. 4/12/11 Link.

Anna Lappe Author, Diet for a Hot Planet 5/18/11 Founding Principal, Small Planet Institute; Author, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It. With as much as one-third of total greenhouse emissions related to food production, the cost of our eating habits on the environment has never been more apparent. Lappe highlights the hidden cost of America’s culinary culture and outlines seven principles for a climate-friendly diet.recorded Audio.

New ice island breaks off (audio) 8/10

Geo-engineering discussion 5/12 see also Video overview from Hack the Planet book excerpt and audio interview NPR.org 5/10.

Methane

Ray Anderson: Carbon Footprint Zero link (free Realplayer download required)

California - Carbon = A Cleaner World? GOVERNOR ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER. Recorded Sep 24 2009 Link (free Realplayer download required)

Hopenhagen: Public Support for a Deal in Copenhagen ADAM WERBACH, SETH FARBMAN, JON KROSNICK, GREG DALTON. Recorded Sep 15 2009. Link(free Realplayer download required)

Farmers in Burkina Fosa are fighting global warming (audio with Mark Hertsgaard).

Dying Trees, Shifting Seasons and Climate Change. Forum discusses two climate change-related studies released this week. First, if your favorite flower is blooming earlier than usual, a new UC Berkeley study may help explain why. Seasons are now arriving two days earlier. Meanwhile, trees in old-growth forests in the Western U.S. are dying at double the usual rate, and researchers say climate change may be to blame. Fri, January 23, 2009

Images

Google unveils Street View imagery from Antarctica, including South Pole Telescope, Shackleton sites. 7.12

NASA visualization of temperature change since 1880. 1/12

James Balog's Extreme Ice Survey. Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the [Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.TEDtalk 9/10 update audio). PBS Nova segment

Pictures of sea level rise etc.

Local Resources

UCSC Research

FossilFree UC: UC Santa Cruz became an active campaign in 2012. Since then we passed a resolution through the student senate and had the Board of Trustees agree to write a letter in support of the campaign to urge the Reagents to divest. Currently, the Fossil Free Campaign at UC Santa Cruz is working to build support among stakeholders within the student body, faculty, and alumni organizations. We aim to collaborate with other campaigns and our community to keep the pressure on to divest from a future of dirty energy. If you want to get involved, or just learn more, feel free to contact aphinney@ucsc.edu.

Wild animals key to mediating landscape’s capacity to store carbon, researchers say: UCSC's Chris Wilmers coauthors new report saying carbon-cycle models must consider animals 12/18.

Adelia Barber (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) hiked the Continental Divide, worked on a conservation project in Tanzania, and studied environmental science as an undergraduate at Brown University in Rhode Island. Because she's also a self-described math geek, Barber decided to explore a relatively new area of plant ecology that uses computer models to understand plant populations. At UCSC, she found a terrific advisor: Daniel Doak, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. And she found the perfect species to study: bristlecone pines, the oldest living things on the planet. Ultimately, the research could lead to predictions about how global warming might affect the trees in the future.

Calil, a Ph.D. candidate in the Ocean Sciences, and the Nature Conservancy have published a study that provides a method for the state to reduce the risk of flooding, save coastal buildings and structures, and preserve habitat in the face of extreme weather. 7/15.

Elliott Campbell's (ENVS) research focuses on climate change; he uses global models to develop sustainable solutions for food, energy, and water management.

Sue Carter, a professor of physics, is developing cheaper and more efficient solar cells. She was awarded five new grants this year totaling more than $1 million to fund her research. As the first recipient of the Faculty Climate Action Champion Award, physics professor Sue Carter will establish a campus sustainability lab to support student-led research and training. 10/15.

Andrew Fisher, professor of Earth and planetary sciences and his team study the amount of heat flowing toward the base of the West Antarctic ice sheet from geothermal sources deep within the Earthwhich could provide important data for researchers trying to predict the fate of the ice sheet, which has experienced rapid melting over the past decade. See Arctic.

Patrick Chaung studies pollution in the atmosphere, which may help refine global warming models.

Maxwell Boykoff has worked in North America, Central America, South Asia and Europe. He was a Peace Corps volunteer when Hurricane Mitch hit Honduras, where he continued to work for a week before being evacuated by helicopter. This sparked his research in climate change policy at UCSC,the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Colorado-Boulder Environmental Change Institute (ECI) as well as the Oxford University Centre for the Environment. He co-authored an important study on how press misrepresented climate change.

Brent Constantz developed technology to make "green" cement that could help slow global warming and ocean acidification based on a revolutionary product for healing broken bones inspired by the research on coral reefs he had conducted as a UCSC graduate student.

Winifred F. Frick (B.A. ENVS Porter '98), in a study published in the August 6 issue of Science, writes that a disease is spreading quickly across the northeastern U.S. and Canada and now affects seven bat species. NPR.org interview Update: NSF grant with A.M. Kilpatrick who has tracked effect of global warming on West Nile virus. Update 5/12.

Gemma Givens will attend the United Nations international conference on climate change as a "backpack journalist, will also represent the Indigenous Environmental Network as part of their Native Youth Delegation. Youth Grabbing the Wheel: Young Leaders Speak Up on Driving Down Carbon Commonwealth Club talk 5/4/10.

Undergraduate ENVS students Laurel Hunt and Galen Licht saw the effects of climate change during a research expedition to the Peruvian Andes. Jeff Bury.

A new book by UC Santa Cruz geologist Gary Griggs offers a fascinating guide to the beaches and coast of California, published by UC Press, Introduction to California's Beaches and Coast. He helped create a guidebook for local government agencies to help them make the difficult the decisions ahead regarding sea level rise. More.

Marm Kilpatrick (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) researches climate change impact on West Nile Virus. 7/10 update.

A Fierce Green Fire by Slug filmmaker Mark Kitchell is in production. It is a history of US environmentalism.

Osprey Orielle Lake, College 8, is a lifelong advocate of environmental justice and societal transformation, Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus, on the governing Board of Praxis Peace Institute and an advisor to the International Eco-Cities Standards initiative. Osprey has traveled to five continents studying ancient and modern cultures while making presentations at international conferences and universities. She is the Founder/Artist of the International Cheemah Monument Project, creating 18 foot bronze sculpture monuments for locations around the world.

Adam Millard-Ball, UCSC assistant professor of environmental studies, co-authored a study that predicts oil demand to peak around 2035. He also studies climate and carbon trading.

Climate Justice bibliography by Tracy Perkins UCSC Sociology.

Global Warming research is being done by Christina Ravelo, a professor of ocean sciences and James Zachos, professor of Earth and planetary sciences. Christina Ravelo, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is coauthor of a study that indicates that the sensitivity of Earth's temperature to increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is greater than has been expected on the basis of climate models that only include rapid responses. Update: Ravelo led a nine-week expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) to the Bering Sea last summer. Deep sediment cores retrieved from the Bering Sea floor indicate that the region was ice-free all year and biological productivity was high during the last major warm period in Earth's climate history. "Evidence from the Pliocene Warm Period is relevant to studies of current climate change because it was the last time in our Earth's history when global temperatures were higher than today," Ravelo said. More 12/10. Update 6/12.

Barry Sinervo and students are creating games to teach about lizard behavior. Recent research shows early effects of global warming 5/10. More links(audio) on Sinervo's work. He also co-wrote a paper showing how rock-scissors-paper dynamic works in biology.

Lisa C. Sloan, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Director of the Climate Change and Impacts Laboratory, has a new paper on effect of irrigation cooling, and a map of Santa Cruz sea level rise.

Mark Snyder researches climate change. Radio interview 09.

Shrinking range of pikas in California mountains linked to climate change. UCSC research by John Stewart 2/15.

Kathy Sullivan (alumna and astronaut): The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has appointed UCSC alumna Kathryn Sullivan to serve as administrator for NOAA. 3/14.

Slawek Tulaczyk investigates effects of global warming on ice sheets in Anarctica. Tulaczyk and Andrew Fisher, both professors of Earth and planetary sciences, will drill through a half-mile of ice to penetrate subglacial Lake Whillans and study hidden processes that govern the dynamics of the West Antarctic ice sheet. Link. 9/12 update on frozen methane, which could set up global warming feedback loop. 1/15 update: Scientists drill through half mile of Antarctic ice for data on ice sheet stability UC Santa Cruz glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk is a chief scientist of the WISSARD project, which has just reached another milestone.

UCSC Fullbright scholars study global warming, agroecology, and biodiversity.

UC Research

Shaye Wolf, Staff Biologist, at the Center for Biological Diversity, works with the Center’s Climate Law Institute. She graduated with a bachelor’s in biology from Yale University and received a doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology and a master’s in ocean sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she examined the effects of ocean climate change on seabird populations. During her graduate studies, Shaye worked with the biodiversity protection groups in México and California; before that she was a wildlife biologist on projects with seabirds, songbirds, raptors, and spiders.

Jonathan Zehr, professor of ocean sciences and his team has found an unusual microorganism in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems. This may have implication for global warming.

California (See also California Page)

Climate Watch is a blog that list a variety of media, including NPR's Climate Connections. Includes coverage of carbon, as well as fire and water issues. See also "fun" stats.

Climate Central blog has great resources, including extreme weather by region Southwest stats and outlook on wildfires etc. And general info by state, e.g., California.

California Temperature forecasts 9/12.

Shrinking glaciers

CA maps including CO2 map

CA water map (reservoir levels)

California at the Tipping Point KQED 4/9

UCTV has a wide range of videos on global warming and its effects.

Climate has enormous impacts on the marine life off California, influencing its major fisheries and the abundance of krill, seabirds and mammals. Join Tony Koslow as he shows how a 60-year ocean observation program, the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (or CalCOFI) is unraveling the impacts of the El Niño/La Niña cycle and human-induced climate. UCTV First Aired: 3/15/2010 52 minutes.

California - Carbon = A Cleaner World? GOVERNOR ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER. Recorded Sep 24 2009 Link (free Realplayer download required).

Santa Cruz

Climate Action City of Santa Cruz.

SC sea level rise map by UCSC Climate Change Research lab.