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TIME SERIES
EXPLORATION
CLIMATE MONITORING
SITES
POWERS OF 10
ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM & SUN SAFETY
INTRODUCTION TO TREE RINGS
THE BRISTLECONE PINE PROJECT
CLIMATIC VARIABILITY & PAST GLOBAL CHANGES
GLOBAL WARMING & GLOBAL HAZARDS
STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION
ENERGY USE & REDUCING EMISSIONS
YOUR CAR & GLOBAL CHANGE
Car Mileage and Emissions-Related Sites
- GreenerCars.org
The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEE) Environmental
Guide to Cars and Trucks. ("Highlights of the Model Year" is
a good place to start )
- U.S. Department
of Energy's Fuel Economy Site -- includes info on the miles per gallon
and equivalent annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for all recent makes of
cars, along with a "Fuel Economy Rating"
Car Safety Sites
- National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) -- Includes
"crashworthiness" crash test ratings for vehicles and lots of
other useful information about car safety.
- Insurance Institute
for Highway Safety -- another good site for vehicle safety ratings and
crashworthiness information (The "Understanding Car Crashes, It's
Basic Physics" video came from this organization.)
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Speed
and Crashes -- short article on the role of speed and stopping distance in
car crashes; contains some representative test data in figures and tables
CLASS GLOBAL WARMING DEBATE
INTERESTING LINKS ABOUT SCIENCE
Here
They Are, Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments (New York
Times 9-24-02)
All about the concept of temperature: Hot
Enough for You? Scientists Ask, Fast Enough for You? (New York Times 7-8-03)
Lab
Coat Chic: The Arts Embrace Science (New York Times 1-28-03)
The Particle Adventure Home Page
by The Particle Data
Group of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory --
about the nature of matter and its smallest particles.
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GLOSSARIES & TERMS
GLOBAL
CHANGE MASTER DIRECTORY - A comprehensive directory about Earth science
and global change data. (The site is maintained by NASA in support of the U.S.
Global Change Research Program.)
Global
Change Acronyms & Abbreviations (U.S. Global Change
Research Information Office (GCRIO)
Global
Change Acronyms (Carbon Dioxide Information Center)
Climate Science Glossary (SkepticalScience.com)
NEW!
INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL CHANGE SCIENCE &
PERSPECTIVES
The
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
GLOBE -
International Hands-On Science and Education -
Be a part of a global scientific project! For this site,
students all over the world gather environmental data at or near their schools and then
send it to the GLOBE network via the Internet. Then scientists use the data in their
research, and the data is used to make images for daily display on the web.
The
Global Compact and Environment -- Principles of the United
Nations regarding the environment
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
/ NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL PUBLICATIONS
Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California,
Oregon, and Washington: Past, Present, and Future
(2012)
America's Climate Choices (2011)
Global Change and Extrem Hydrology: Testing Conventional
Wisdom (2011) This report assesses changes in the frequency and
severity of floods and droughts, abilities of communities to
understand and forecast these changes
Understanding
and Responding to Climate Change (2008) Highlights of National
Academies Reports [PDF}
Surface Temperature
Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years, (2006) The National
Academy of Sciences, National Research Council.
U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY SITES ON CLIMATE
CHANGE & THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
EPA's
Climate Change Site
NASA's Visible Earth Site - a
catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet.
USGS's Climate and Land Use
Change Site
World & U.S. Population Clock
- Second-by-second
estimate
of the growing population of the globe and the U.S.
Click on "World POP Clock Notes" to find out more about the estimate. (The
site is maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau.)
NOAA's "Operational Significant Event Imagery"
(OSEI)-- view your planetary home with new eyes; see also the Image
of the Day
Nighttime
Lights of the World - from NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGO's) &
GLOBAL CHANGE ISSUES
350.org -
350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a
movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis.
The organization focuses on the number 350--as in parts per million,
the level scientists have identified as the safe upper limit for CO2
in our atmosphere.
The Union of
Concerned Scientists Global Change sites:
On Global Warming
The Hockey Stick FAQ
The
Earth Charter Initiative -- a challenge to be involved in building a just,
sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century.
GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH & TEACHING AT UA:
Global Change research is carried out
in numerous units throughout the University of Arizona. The best place to identify the full
range of global change researchers on campus is the ISPE site:
Institute
of the Environemnt (IE)
IE is the UA's institute which fosters and facilitates
cross-campus, community, state, national, and worldwide
collaborations that help explain and resolve environmental
challenges and seize solution-driven opportunities created by such
challenges. IE also provides a portal to the
internationally-recognized expertise of more than 300 affiliated
faculty and research staff across campus and to programs, events,
and projects that transform environmental research into useful
knowledge for decision makers, consumers, and other stakeholders.
Visit the
ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY PORTAL
Looking for more courses on
environmental issues? Check out IE's
GREEN COURSE GUIDE!
Also learn about the
Climate
Assessment of the Southwest CLIMAS
project: which integrates science, policy, and community issues related to
climate variability in the Southwest.
The Laboratory of Tree-Ring
Research In 1937, the scientific study of tree-rings
in America was formalized by the creation of the Laboratory of
Tree-Ring Research (LTRR) here at the University of Arizona in
Tucson. The LTRR has become a world leader in the use of
tree rings to study global change.
Watch a series of excellent
podcasts of UA
scientists talking about
GLOBAL
CLIMATE CHANGE -- form the the UA College of Science
Community Lecture Series
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE NEWS
Link to
SCIENCE
DAILY.COM: Earth & Climate Site
Link to
CLIMATE CENTRAL.ORG
Google News
The New York Times
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