Resources about climate change

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Climate change primers

United States Department of Agriculture, Climate Change Resource Center, Climate Change Primer

University of Washington, Center for Science in the Earth System, Global Climate Change Primer

Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Climate Change 101: Overview

Web sites

A large number of web sites provide useful information about climate change.

Government sites

climate.gov
Portal that provides access to all the climate services of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Global Climate Change Indicators, NOAA, National Climatic Data Center
Page that presents "information from several independent measures of observed climate change."

Climate blogs

Climate Progress
Web site run by a prominent climate change skeptic.

Real Climate
Web site about climate science run by climate scientists.

Skeptical Science
Web site which "gets skeptical about global warming skepticism."

OneClimate
Mobilising people power on climate change & live interactive webcasting from key climate events.

Wikis

Climate Lab
Wiki addressing issues related to climate change, launched in March 2009.

Data on climate change and emissions

U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)

Carbon emissions past and projected (interactive graphic), Financial Times, November 10, 2009.

Climate policy in the U.S.

Hill Heat
Web site "focused entirely on covering global warming developments on Capitol Hill."

Climate change conferences

Aspen Environment Forum

Twitter resources

http://bit.ly/CcJ6Z http://bit.ly/cSZp8T http://bit.ly/dEtGi http://bit.ly/6hGoXJ http://bit.ly/bOkoEX

Selected inks from these tweets include:

Debates between proponents of climate change and skeptics

Plimer, Monbiot cross swords in climate debate, Lateline, Australian Broadcasting Corporation News, December 15, 2009.
Climate skeptic Ian Plimer, author of Heaven and Earth, and George Monbiot, of The Guardian, debate the validity of climate science.

George Monbiot, Showdown with Plimer, Monbiot.com, December 16, 2009.
Monbiot's post-debate musings on his December 15 exchange with Plimer (see video directly above), with a links to several of the scientific studies discussed.

Michon Scott, Short-term Cooling on a Warming Planet, ClimateWatch Magazine, NOAA, December 31, 2009.

Skeptical Science, Skeptic Arguments and What the Science Says (updated on an onging basis).
A table with nearly 100 arguments put forward by skeptics, each accompanied by a response. Includes many links to articles from scientific journals on the relevant subjects.

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