Climate Change

In the News . . .

• Fossil DNA Has Clues to Surviving Rapid Climate Change -- New Scientist (31 January 2012)
  
  
• Greenhouse Gases Higher Than Worst Case Scenario -- Associated Press (04 November 2011)
  
  
• Rivers of ice: Vanishing glaciers -- BBCNews (10 October 2011)
  
  
• 800,000 Years of Abrupt Climate Variability: Earth's Climate Is Capable of Very Rapid Transitions -- ScienceDaily (08 September 2011)
  
  
• Multiyear Drought in East Africa -- Discovery News (29 July 2011)
  
  
• Did Climate Change Cause Greenland's Ancient Viking Community to Collapse? -- ScienceDaily (20 June 2011)
  
  
• Ice Cores: Archives of Past Climate -- Guardian (10 June 2011)
  
  
• Egyptian mummies hold clues to ancient air pollution -- MSNBC (05 June 2011)
  
  
• Geologists Press for Recognition of Earth-Changing 'Human Epoch' -- Guardian (03 June 2011)
  
  
• Anthropocene: Have humans created a new geological age? -- BBC News (10 May 2011)
  
  
• Rising Seas Made China's Ancient Mariners -- ScienceNews (01 April 2011)
  
  
• Epic Megadrought Struck 16,000 Years Ago -- Live Science (25 February 2011)
  
  
• Mongol Invasion in 1200s Altered Carbon Dioxide Levels -- LiveScience (08 February 2011)
  
  
• Climatic Fluctuations in Last 2,500 Years Linked to Social Upheavals -- ScienceDaily (27 January 2011
  
  
• Humans Have Been Provoking Climate Change for Thousands of Years, Carbon History Shows -- ScienceDaily (24 January 2011)
  
  
• Did Climate Change Drive Prehistoric Culture Change? -- Science (06 December 2010)
  
  
• Archaeological Sites Threatened by Rising Seas: Scientists Issue Call to Action -- ScienceDaily (27 October 2010)
  
  
• Woolly Mammoth Hunters Helped Change Climate -- Reuters (15 July 2010)
  
  
• Will Humans Be Extinct Within 100 Years? -- Discovery News (23 June 2010)
  
  
• Human-Made Global Warming Started With Ancient Hunters -- ScienceDaily (01 July 2010)
  
  
• Did Mammoth Extinction Warm Earth? -- Science (01 July 2010)
  
  
• Sting in the Tail of Farming Revolution [an interview with Dr Spencer Wells, re Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization (NY: Random House, 2010) -- BBC News (07 June 2010)
  
  
• Mammoths Contributed to Global Warming with Methane Emissions -- Telegraph (2010-05-24)
  
  
• As Mammoths Died Out, Earth Chilled -- Discovery News (23 May 2010)
  
  
• Climate Change Wiped Out Woolly Mammoths, Saber-Toothed Cats -- Live Science (24 May 2010)
  
  
• Climate Change Wiped Out Mammoths -- MSNBC (24 May 2010)
  
  
• Ice Sheet Melt Identified as Trigger of 'Big Freeze' -- ScienceDaily (31 March 2010)
  
  
• Prehistoric Response to Global Warming Informs Human Planning Today -- ScienceDaily (10 March 2010)
  
  
• What Can Past Climate Change Reveal about Human Adaptation? -- Scientific American (05 March 2010)
  
  
• Climate Fluctuations 115,000 Years Ago: Were Short Warm Periods Typical for Transitions to Glacial Epochs? -- ScienceDaily (02 March 2010)
  
  
• Models of Sea Level Change During Ice-Age Cycles Challenged -- ScienceDaily (12 February 2010)

• 350.org
  
  
• California Center for Ecoliteracy
  
  
• The Canary Project
  
  
• Climate 1-Stop -- "single location to access proven climate change tools, resources and information"
  
  
• Climate Change -- American Museum of Natural History
  
  
• Climate Change -- The World Bank
  
  
• Climate Change: The Environment Network -- United Nations Environment Network
  
  
• Climate Change -- United Nations Global Issues
  
  
• Climate of the Past -- European Geosciences Union
  
  
• Climate of Uncertainty -- American RadioWorks
  
  
• The Cool Foods Campaign
  
  
• Digital Library for Earth Science Education
  
  
• Early Farmers 'Began Global Warming Process' -- Telegraph (17 August 2009)
  
  
• Envisioning Climate Change Using a Global Climate Model -- Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
  
  
• Fagan, Brian. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization. NY: Basic Books, 2004.
  
  
• Fertile Crescent 'Will Disappear This Century' -- New Scientist (27 July 2009)
  
  
• Food First -- Institute for Food and Development Policy
  
  
• Global Change -- International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
  
  
• Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy -- Sloan School of Management, MITOPENCOURSEWARE
  
  
• Global Footprint Network
  
  
• Global Warming -- Virtual Courseware for Earth and Environmental Sciences
  
  
• Kimbrell, Andrew, Ed. Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture. Sausalito, CA: Foundation for Deep Ecology, 2002.
  
  
• The Land Institute
  
  
• Long Debate Ended Over Cause, Demise Of Ice Ages? Research Into Earth's Wobble -- ScienceDaily (07 August 2009)
  
  
• The National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
  
  
• National Snow and Ice Data Center
  
  
• United Nations Environment Programme: Maps and Graphics
  
  
• ClimateBiz -- The National Environmental Education and Training Foundation (NEETF)
  
  
• National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
  
  
• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's National Geophysical Data Center
  
  
• Planet Earth -- WQED in Pittsburgh, and the National Academy of Sciences
  
  
• Princeton Food Conference 2006
  
  
  • Session III: Food, Ethics and the Environment -- Oceans, Climate and Animals
    
    
• Reports from a Warming Planet -- American RadioWorks, American Public Media
  
  
• Science from the Poles -- San Francisco Exploratorium
  
  
• Shiva, Vandana. Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2008.
  
  
• Global Warming -- Virtual Courseware
  
  
• The Water Cycle and Global Warming -- Baylor College of Medicine
  
  
• Wells, Spencer. Pandora's Seed. NY: Random House, 2010.
  
  • Seeds of destruction? -- Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ interview
    
    
• Women 'Bearing Brunt' of Climate Change -- CNN (18 November 2009)
  
  
• World Meteorological Organization