Climate Change Resources
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Climate Science Websites
Note: An extended list of climate-related blogs is provided on this page.
- AAAS - What we know - A concise summary of, well, what we know about human-caused climate change or as the tagline on their homepage states “Based on the evidence, about 97% of climate scientists agree that human-caused climate change is happening.”
- Climate change: evidence and causes - A very good introduction to climate change from the Royal Society. It includes video and answers to key questions.
- RealClimate.org - a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. It was set up with the aim of providing a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary.
- SkepticalScience.com - has detailed explanations of some of the most commonly discussed aspects of climate change (by the general public, not necessarily by scientists). The site has a lot of information sorted under “denier” memes such as “it's the sun”.
- NASA - Global Climate Change - the NASA website about global climate change, providing a depth and breadth of information for the general public.
- Global Change:- Climate - climate change pages from GlobalChange.gov, a website managed by a conglomerate of related government agencies in the USA.
- Climate Council (Australia) - The Climate Council was created after “thousands of Australians chipped in to Australia's biggest crowd-funding campaign”, raising more than $1m in a matter of days. The Climate Commission, which was abolished by the then incoming Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, was relaunched as the independent Climate Council. It provides information on climate change with a focus on how it affects Australia.
- Climate Science Rapid Response Team - a match-making service where 160 climate scientists are available, chosen on the basis of their professional competence, to connect with lawmakers and the media who are seeking expert advice relating to climate change.
- How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic: Responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming - GRIST series by Coby Beck - an oldie but still good.
- Climate change: A guide for the perplexed - article by Michael Le Page at New Scientist. Another oldie but goodie from 2007.
Data - temperature, sea ice and other climate data
Snapshots
- NOAA Climate Dashboard - A great site to refer people to who want to see the facts about climate change, or who claim they want to see empirical evidence. US-based.
- HotWhopper Charts - some charts that show global changes.
Temperature Data and Reports
Land and sea surface temperature
- Berkeley Earth (BEST)
- NOAA monthly global report - state of the climate reports
- NOAA USCRN comparisons with historical - National Temperature Index
- Bureau of Meteorology, Australia- climate and past weather
- Weather reports - observations from practically everywhere. Looks to be a private volunteer effort from www.ogimet.com
- KNMI Climate Explorer - for plotting and obtaining data from a wide variety of sources from the Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut
- Wood for Trees - plots data obtained from various sources (See the intro on the About page, the Examples page and Notes)
Air temperature - troposphere and stratosphere
- Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) - downloadable monthly data
- University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) - downloadable monthly data (v 6 beta)
- University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) - downloadable monthly data (all)
Sea surface temperature (SST)
- Sea surface temp monthly anomaly - chart from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
- SST Anomaly Charts - NOAA
- Animated sea surface temp and anomalies - 12 weeks - NOAA
- HadSST - from the Met Office Hadley Centre
- Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST) - v 3(b) from NOAA
- ERSST v4 Nino regions - from NOAA
- ERSST v5 data - from NOAA
- About ERSST v5 - from NOAA
- Commonly Asked Questions: Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature Version 5 ERSSTv5 - from NOAA
Pacific Decadal Oscillation
- NOAA (monthly - list)
- Japan Meteorological Agency (annual and monthly - list)
- Nate Mantua (monthly - table)
Earth null school
Sea Level
- CU Sea Level Research Group - satellite-derived sea level from the University of Colorado - Global
- PSMSL - Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level - from tide gauges around the world
- Tide Gauge Metadata and Observed Monthly Sea Levels and Statistics - Australia (Bureau of Meteorology)
- Australian Baseline Sea Level Monitoring Project - Australia (Bureau of Meteorology)
- Pacific Sea Level Monitoring Project, Pacific Islands - (Bureau of Meteorology)
Sea ice
This section needs tidying up and proper names added (full name with initials in brackets) plus short descriptions.
- Arctic Sea Ice blog from Neven
Sea ice charts
- State of the cryosphere - The Cryosphere Today from the Polar Research Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Excellent visuals and detail.
- Ice extent news - National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
- Ice extent arctic daily - chart - National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
- Ice extent arctic interactive chart - NSIDC
- Ice extent antarctic daily - chart - National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
- Arctic ROOS - chart - sea ice area and sea ice extent
- AMSR2 ice maps and charts - sea ice area/extent
- JAXA sea ice - chart
- PIOMAS forecast- animated
- Polar Science Centre Arctic sea ice volume description (PIOMAS)
Sea ice data
- NSIDC - sea ice index data - ftp download
Sea ice other, including historical
- Arctic webcams - North Pole and more from the North Pole Environmental Observatory
- Arctic Sea Ice 1953-2011 from Meier et al (2012)
- Sea ice boundaries August from 1751 - various years as jpg files from NOAA
El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
- Latest ENSO wrap-up - Australian Bureau of Meteorology, very detailed and comes out fortnightly
- ONI - Oceanic Nino Index (NOAA) - based on a threshold of +/- 0.5o C for the Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) [3 month running mean of ERSST.v4 SST anomalies in the Niño 3.4 region (5o N-5o S, 120o -170o W)], based on centered 30-year base periods updated every 5 years.
- NASA sea surface heights (ENSO)
- ERSST v4 Nino regions - sea surface temperature and temperature anomalies from NOAA
Carbon Dioxide - CO2
- CO2 Mauna Loa and Global, monthly - trends in atmospheric CO2 from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory
- CO2 reduction scoreboard - analysis of the current UN pledges, with a graphic showing the likely impact - from Climate Interactive, a not-for-profit organisation based in Washington DC.
Coral Reefs
- Coral Reef Watch - a website of NOAA that shows alerts for coral bleaching, and more.
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority - website, with page on climate change
- David Attenborough's Great Barrier Reef - companion and interactive website for his BBC-series. Contains lots of footage about hands-on research at stations like Heron Island.
Models - the climate kind
- The emergent patterns of climate models - Ted Talk with Gavin Schmidt
- Why trust climate models? It’s a matter of simple science - Ars Technica article by Scott K. Johnson
Climate Journals
This section is a long way from being complete. Please add to it :)
Science Press Releases
AGU Journals
- Earth's Future (open access)
AMS - American Meteorological Society Journals
Other Climate-related Journals
General Science Journals
Climate Change Blogs
This has it's own page - Climate Change Blogs