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Website Resources

OUR SPEAKER Dr. Joshua Willis http://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Willis/ “Willis honored for publicity” (October 2008) http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/newsroom/features/200810-2.html

BY/WITH DR. JOSHUA WILLIS Jet Propulsion Laboratory podcasts (June 2008) “Tall Oceans and Global Warming” http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/podcast/ostm20080617.cfm

From National Public Radio (NPR) “The Mystery of Global Warming’s Missing Heat” http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025

From EarthSky: A Clear Voice for “Josh Willis on oceans and Earth’s energy balance” An interview with Dr. Josh Willis (~8 minutes) http://www.earthsky.org/clear-voices/52704/josh-willis-on-earths-energy-balance

INSTRUMENTS & MISSIONS ECCO: Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean Using data gathered from multiple sources, satellites and in situ measurements (as from Argo floats), this project aims to produce a three-dimensional global state of the ocean. http://science.jpl.nasa.gov/projects/ECCO/

Argo: A global array of 3,000 free-drifting floats that measure the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000m of the ocean. http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/

CLIMATE CHANGE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch/

NASA’s Global Climate Change website http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov

US News & World Report “An Atlas of Climate Change” (July 2008) http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/environment/2008/07/25/an-atlas-of-climate- change.html

JPL’s Climate Time Machine This series of visualizations show how some of the key indicators of climate change, such as

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Website Resources temperature, sea ice extent and carbon dioxide concentrations, have changed in Earth’s recent history. http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov/ClimateTimeMachine/climateTimeMachine.cfm

The Keeling Curve, and lessons to be drawn from it http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/program_history/keeling_curve_lessons.html

The National Academies: America’s Climate Choices http://dels.nas.edu/basc/climate-change/

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Ocean and Climate Change Institute http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455 Ocean Conveyor’s ‘Pump’ Switches Back On http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=54347 Rate of Ocean Circulation Directly Linked to in North Atlantic Region http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455&tid=282&cid=883

Climate Choices: Analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists of climate change consequences for California http://www.climatechoices.org/ca/index.html

United States Environmental Protection Agency http://epa.gov/climatechange/index.html and their site for kids http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html

California Climate Change Portal http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/

From BBC News - In pictures: How the world is changing Part of their “Planet under pressure” series. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/sci_nat_how_the_world_is_changing/ht ml/1.stm “Planet under pressure” homepage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2004/planet/default.stm

Climate Change Education A website with links to information on climate change at museums and universities (among other organizations). http://www.climatechangeeducation.org/

350: 24 October 2009 International Day of Climate Action http://www.350.org/

GLOBAL WARMING JPL’s Global Warming Tube: Videos and webcasts about global warming http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/index.cfm

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Website Resources

Union of Concerned Scientists: Global Warming 101 http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/global_warming_101/

NOAA: Global Warming “Frequently Asked Questions” http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html

Kids vs. Global Warming: Empowering youth to cool the Earth http://www.kids-vs-global-warming.com/Home.html

GlobalWarmingKids.net http://globalwarmingkids.net/

Earth Science Webcast Series: NASA Langley Research Center, in co-operation with NOAA and the Virginia Department of Education Region 2 Math/Science Coalition Upcoming webcasts include Tides, The Story of Ocean Heat Storage, and Global Warming, Causes and Consequences. http://dln.nasa.gov/dln/>http://dln.nasa.gov/dln/

Welcome to Global Warming Art: A collection of figures and images that accurately highlight and describe key issues necessary to understanding our world’s changing climate. http://www.globalwarmingart.com/

GLACIERS National Ice Core Laboratory http://nicl.usgs.gov/prewho.htm

From NOVA Extreme Ice: An acclaimed photographer teams up with scientists to document the runaway melting of arctic . Airs March 24 at 8pm. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/extremeice/

From National Geographic Extreme Ice Survey: Collects visual evidence of retreating glaciers in , Iceland, , the , British Columbia, the Alps, and on Mount Kilimanjaro. http://www.extremeicesurvey.org/

CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental ): National Snow and Ice Data Center Introduction to glaciers, how they form, what they can tell us about the planet, etc. http://nsidc.org/glaciers/ What types of glaciers are there? http://nsidc.org/glaciers/questions/types.html

USGS (US Geological Survey): Glaciers and Icecaps – Storehouses of freshwater http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthglacier.html

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Website Resources

World Wildlife Fund (WWF): Facts http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/climate_change/problems/impacts/glaciers/glacier _facts/index.cfm

HowStuffWorks: How Glaciers Work http://science.howstuffworks.com/glacier1.htm

Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/?age_id=4

GLACIERS IN A CHANGING CLIMATE JPL: Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Changing Climate” http://www-radar.jpl.nasa.gov/glacier/

United Nations Environment Programme: Global Glaciers Changes – Facts and Figures http://www.grid.unep.ch/glaciers/

NASA: A Multimedia History of Glacier Bay, Alaska http://glacier-bay.gsfc.nasa.gov/

National Geographic: “GeoSigns – The Big Thaw” (Sept 2004) http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/earth/earths-atmosphere/geo-signs-thaw.html

American Museum of Natural History: Science Bulletin Melting Glaciers: Clues to Climate Change Follow a team of glaciologists racing to core the world's largest tropical ice cap--before global warming melts it away. http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/earth/f/glaciers.20050331/

Washington Post: “Melting Glaciers Threaten Ganges” Slideshow about the cultural and religious significance of the Ganges, and what the retreat of its glaciers might mean. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/070607/GAL-07Jun07-77064/index.html

SEA LEVEL RISE Climate change and : Fact Sheet http://www.csiro.au/resources/SeaLevelRise.html

Current sea level rise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise

How much will sea level rise? http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/09/how-much-will-sea-level-rise/

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Website Resources An interactive map showing inundation levels for different parts of the world depending on the height of sea level rise. http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=43.3251,-101.6015&z=13&m=7

Sea Level Rise Reports from the EPA http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/GlobalWarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterPublicationsSeaLevelRis eIndex.html

Sea level rise maps and GIS data https://www.cresis.ku.edu/research/data/sea_level_rise/index.html

PALEOCLIMATOLOGY NOAA: Education & Outreach for http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/education.html

NOAA Ocean Explorer: Paleoclimate and Deep-Sea Corals http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05stepstones/background/paleoclimate/paleoclimate.html

How do we study “Global Warming?” http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/howdo.html

Paleoclimatology: How can we infer past climates? http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/proxies/paleoclimate.html

SCIENCE BLOGS: CLIMATE CHANGE & GLOBAL WARMING RealClimate: Climate science from climate scientists http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/start-here/ Their response to Michael Crichton’s book “State of Fear” in which the author argues against global warming: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/michael-crichtons-state- of-confusion/

A Few Things Ill Considered: How to talk to a climate skeptic http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2008/07/how_to_talk_to_a_sceptic.php

SkepticalScience: Examining the science of global warming skepticism http://www.skepticalscience.com/

Ocean Acidification blog: Sponsored by the European Project on http://oceanacidification.wordpress.com/

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: A blog focused on helping elementary teachers become more knowledgeable about the polar regions. http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/polar/

National Science Digital Library “Exemplary Resources for Middle School Math and Science” - A blog focused on helping middle school math and science teachers find the best online resources on the web. This is the link to

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Website Resources their climate change blog posting. http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/middle-school-math-science/category/climate-change/

SOCIO-ECONOMIC Shifting Baselines: Common sense for the oceans http://www.shiftingbaselines.org/index.php

NOVA: World in the Balance The threats facing human populations, national economies, and global climate http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/

From ScienceDaily “Historical Photographs Expose Decline in Florida’s Reef Fish, Study Finds” (March 2009) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217141813.htm

The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis: A global map of human impacts to marine ecosystems. http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/GlobalMarine

The Economist: “Thinning on top” (January 2009) An introduction to the fight among the six countries that border the Arctic Ocean to claim the ocean floor under the thinning Arctic ice. http://audiovideo.economist.com/?fr_chl=37b523f6e1fab620d03697edb18b1216db2961ca&rf=b m

MISCELLANEOUS EPA: Climate change kids site Information about the water and carbon cycles http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/version2.html

Carbon footprint calculator http://www.conservation.org/act/live_green/carboncalc/pages/default.aspx

Project BudBurst: A National Phenology Network Field Campaign for Citizen Scientists Dealing with the influence of climate on the recurrence of the annual phenomena of plant budding. http://www.windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/budburst/index.html

LESSON PLANS, CURRICULA, TEACHER’S GUIDES Climate and Currents Lessons (Keep scrolling down until you reach this section. It should be about halfway down the page) http://www.msc.ucla.edu/oceanglobe/investigations.htm

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Website Resources JOI – Joint Oceanographic Institutions (focus on earth sciences education, with a section on climate change) http://www.joilearning.org/classroom/default.html

PBS: Global Warming lesson plans http://www.pbs.org/now/classroom/globalwarming.html

OceanGLOBE: Powerpoints http://www.msc.ucla.edu/oceanglobe/slides.htm

Union of Concerned Scientists: Curriculum Guide for Climate Impacts Map “Global Warming: Early Warning Signs” and “Exploring Climate Change Impacts” http://www.climatehotmap.org/curriculum/index.html

American Museum of Natural History Climate and Climate Change Lesson Plans http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl.php?set=b&topic_id=4&subtopic_id=68

Dr. C’s Remarkable Ocean World – HAS BEEN COMPLETELY RE-DONE AND IS NOW CALLED “EXPLORE OCEAN WORLD” http://www.oceansonline.com/

National Environmental Education Week: April 12-18, 2009 This year's EE Week theme is Be Water Wise! http://www.eeweek.org/>http://www.eeweek.org/

BEWARE!!!!! Some websites purport to be based on peer-reviewed science. Please be careful. Do NOT immediately believe everything you read on the internet.

Sites that educate people on recognizing pseudo-science and bad science (and yes, there is a difference!): Pseudoscience: n. A theory, methodology or practice that is considered to be without scientific foundation; an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pseudoscience “The practitioners of (what scientists refer to as) pseudo-science generally know and even understand established scientific thought; they just reject it (for reasons which may have little to do with science itself).” http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html Bad science: “By way of contrast, purveyors of bad science are generally [people] who just don't know any better.” http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html

National Center for Science Education A site that defends the teaching of evolution in public schools. They also have background information on the “Intelligent Design” movement. http://www.natcenscied.org/default.asp

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Website Resources Bad Science A website dedicated to correcting the misinformation that teachers and parents teach to their students/children. It contains common misconceptions and their correct explanations. It links to a number of different sites, including “Bad Meteorology” and “Bad Astronomy.” http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html

Quackwatch A website dedicated to educating the public on how to avoid being taken in by pseudoscientific claims, quack cures and nonsense. Mainly focused on human health issues, there are some articles on science in general. http://www.quackwatch.com/

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSI) This is their Creation and Intelligent Design Watch section. It has some very interesting articles and links about the supposed “debate” between Evolution and Intelligent Design. http://csicop.org/intelligentdesignwatch/

From US News & World Report “Deceptive ‘Greenwashing’ Aims to Trick Ecotourists” (May 2008) http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/environment/2008/05/23/deceptive-greenwashing-aims- to-trick-ecotourists.html?PageNr=2

TED Talk: Michael Shermer, Skeptic Society founder “Why people believe strange things” (~13 min) http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_strange_things.html

SourceWatch Not necessarily a site on recognizing bad science, this website is a strictly refereed database where one can check out “the names behind the news.” Useful in checking out supposed “experts” on certain websites. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch

Integrity in Science A searchable database whereby you can check out if a scientist or university has ties to industry. http://www.cspinet.org/integrity/

Humor/satire, sites to be aware of (i.e. the information may seem legitimate, but it perhaps isn’t): Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster A humorous, satirical website. They claim to be a “real,” robust religion “with millions, if not thousands of devout worshippers.” http://www.venganza.org/

The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus A satirical site based on a fictional animal. It’s a good example of information that sounds valid, but that really isn’t. http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

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Website Resources Save the Mountain Walrus A satirical site based on a fictional animal. It’s a good example of information that sounds valid, but that really isn’t. http://web.archive.org/web/20020124024407/http://www.end.com/~jynx/walrus/

CO2 Science A site that disseminates reviews of books and scientific papers on carbon dioxide and global warming. There are also lesson plans on this site. http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/Index.jsp

JunkScience A site seemingly dedicated to debunking junk science claims, especially climate change. http://www.junkscience.com/ The founder of JunkScience, Steve Milloy’s SourceWatch entry: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_Milloy

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