Physical Impacts of Climate Change Resource list

Books Tim Flannery “The Weather Makers: Our Changing Climate and what it means for Life on Earth” Robert Henson “The Rough Guide to Climate Change” Kirstin Dow “The Atlas of Climate Change”

CDs Ross Harrison “Beyond the Brink” David Attenborough “The Truth about Climate Change” IISD Publications Centre “Inuit Observations on Climate Change”

Websites http://climate.nasa.gov/effects/ this section of NASAs website focuses on global and regional physical impacts of climate change http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-guide/science/uk/obs-projections-impacts shows impacts and provides information on the effects of climate change in the UK http://practicalaction.org/blog/programmes/climate_change/climate-change-diaries-sudan/ http://practicalaction.org/blog/programmes/climate_change/climate-change-diaries-kenya/ http://practicalaction.org/blog/programmes/climate_change/climate-change-diaries-zimbabwe/ use accounts from people in Zimbabwe, Kenya and the Sudan to work out some of the physical impacts of climate change http://wildgoose.ac/ a useful source of a range of resources including a range of types and sizes of world maps for the suggested activities, global warming photo packs http://wwf.panda.org WWF have a “toolkit” which examine the impacts of climate change on coasts and specifically marine turtles and their habitats in the Caribbean http://www.greenfacts.org/en/climate-change-ar4/l-3/4-observed-impacts.htm provides a summary of some of the physical impacts of climate change http://www.grist.org/article/2010-11-15-measuring-fast-melting-arctic-sea-ice a long article and discussion about the occurrence of ice melt as a result of climate change. Discusses some of the potential feedbacks at work. A good resource around which to base a discussion on the reliability of scientific data, the reasons why not all scientists are in agreement as well as the importance of not allowing such debates to be an excuse not to act to adapt to of mitigate from the effects of climate change. http://www.mccip.org.uk/annual-report-card/2013.aspx the Marine Climates Impact Programme has useful information on climate change impacts and the UK marine environment http://www.unep-wcmc.org/impacts-of-ocean-acidification-on-marine-biodiversity_154.html The United Nations Environment Programme has useful information on the effects of climate change on the oceans and biodiversity http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/climate/cli_effects.html from the US National Earth Science Teachers’ Association - provides an overview of the physical impacts of climate change