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GSS Climate Change Student Book
Chapters
- What
is the Greenhouse Effect?
- What
is Global Warming?
- What
is the Controversy About?
- What's
So Special About CO2?
- How
Can We Measure Carbon Dioxide?
- Is
the Atmosphere Really Changing?
- What
are the Greenhouse Gases?
- What
are the Governments Doing about Climate Change?
- What
do you think about Global Climate Change?
American
Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS) Resources on Climate
Change.
American Geophysical Union (AG)
position statement
Human Impacts on Climate
Adopted by Council December 2003
Revised and Reaffirmed December 2007
American
Geophysical Union (AG) position statement
Human Impacts on Climate Adopted
by Council December 2003 Revised
and Reaffirmed December 2007 Excerpt:
The Earth's climate is now clearly
out of balance and is warming. Many
components of the climate system-including
the temperatures of the atmosphere,
land and ocean, the extent of sea
ice and mountain glaciers, the sea
level, the distribution of precipitation,
and the length of seasons-are now
changing at rates and in patterns
that are not natural and are best
explained by the increased atmospheric
abundances of greenhouse gases and
aerosols generated by human activity
during the 20th century. Global average
surface temperatures increased on
average by about 0.6¡C over
the period 1956-2006. As of 2006,
eleven of the previous twelve years
were warmer than any others since
1850. The observed rapid retreat
of Arctic sea ice is expected to
continue and lead to the disappearance
of summertime ice within this century.
Evidence from most oceans and all
continents except Antarctica shows
warming attributable to human activities.
Recent changes in many physical and
biological systems are linked with
this regional climate change....
"Americans
and Climate Change -- Closing the
Gap Between Science and Action" - an
interesting book that looks at
American attitudes around this
issue. It's a synthesis of insights
and recommendations from the 2005
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental
Studies Conference on Climate Change. © 2006
Free download.
Climate
Change Education.org
Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Climate
Change page.
Fight
Global Warming website -
has interactive calculator, "Calculate
Your Impact" that helps
you take a personal pollution
inventory and see how you can
help.
Go
Zero -Program of the Conservation
Fund - measure and offset your
carbon dioxide emissions by planting
trees.
IGLO
- International Action on Global
Warming - IGLO is a project of the
Association of Science-Technology
Centers (ASTC), with goals to raise
public awareness about the impact
of global warming, support the aims
and objectives of the International
Polar Year (IPY),
and the particular ways that the
Polar Regions profoundly influence
the Earth's climate, environments,
ecosystems, and human society.
Lots of interesting
material on the subject of Climate
Change may
be found on the website of STEPHEN
H. SCHNEIDER at Stanford University.
One
Cool Planet - listings of media
resources, curriculum guides, background
information on global warming.
From Science Communications Consultants.
Presidential
candidates stances on Climate Change.
The
Stop Global Warming Virtual March - is a non-political effort
bringing Americans together to declare
that global warming is here now and
it's time to act.
Union of
Concerned Scientists
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