Do you want to learn more about climate change and global warming? Need to find some fun and reliable sources that will allow you to stay up-to-date on global warming? Do you want to calculate your carbon footprint? If so, we’ve put together a climate change resource guide to suit everyone’s interests.
Fun climate change websites!
1-minute personal carbon footprint calculator
Explore climate change on Google Earth
Top 50 things you can do to limit global warming
Global warming in photography and art
Teacher resources for climate change instruction
Interfaith Power and Light’s carbon footprint calculator for churches
Global climate change quotes for church usage
Websites with excellent climate change information
Climate change 101 from the Pew Foundation
Union of Concerned Scientists climate
Skeptical science (This website gets skeptical about global warming skepticism. Do the arguments of skeptics have any scientific basis and what does the peer reviewed literature say?)
Michigan Climate Change Advisory Board
Effects of climate change on world health
Science News for kids; includes climate change material
Films
Many of these films are available at your favorite local movie store, are downloadable online or available through Netflix
A Sea Change, a film about ocean acidification
ABC news documentary Earth 2100: Is this the final century of our civilization?
Sizzle: A global warming comedy
BlOGS
Blogs can be a great way to follow news on global climate change and discuss these topics with others or the blog host.
Environmental Defense Fund Climate Blog
New York Times Dot Earth blog by Andrew Revkin
Sustainability/Climate Change Blog
Civileats: Climate change and sustainable agriculture blog
World Climate Report; Longest running climate change blog
BOOKS
Book reviews can be great resources for finding books on the aspects of climate change that most interest you. Here are a few reputable book review sites:
Book Review.com (including author interviews)
Also, check out Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and Powells.com for additional reviews
Also try:
The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming (ages 9-12), Laurie David and Cambria Gordon
The End of Nature, Bill McKibben click for the NY Times book review
Storms of My Grandchildren, James Hansen, NASA climate scientist
This is a great, comprehensive list of global warming books categorized by reader age
