Weather Outreach Climate Change
Lis Cohen's Climate Change Presentation materials:
All requests to reproduce or re-use author's contributions, in whole or in part, will be conditional upon the author's consent (e-mail: lis.cohen@yahoo.com).
Is Climate Change Real? Listen to Lis' radio interview on KCPW in Salt Lake City, UT (14 min).
Utah Future Climate and An Inconvenient Truth Critique (pdf)
An Inconvenient Truth Critique (Lis' Powerpoint Slides)
Weather and the Built Environment - COMET Module learning about impacts of climate and people, (need to create a log in)
Volcanic Eruptions and Climate Change (how do they connect?)
- Listen to the Nov. 8 KCPW interview about the recent discoveries in
Yellowstone and how eruptions of volcanoes impact weather and climate (17 min)
Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Climate Change Powerpoint (KSL Feb. 21, 2007)
What can you do to slow down climate change? (word document)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 report (pdf)
Find the Answers to: Frequently Asked Climate Questions - IPCC (pdf)Sun and Earth Relationships - How do ice ages begin? Are we in an ice age? (pdf) (powerpoint)
Climate Change Websites:
- US Global Change Research Program/US Climate Change Program
- The IPCC Report- Recent Official Statement on Climate Change
- Real Climate- Climate Science from Climate Scientists
- Climate Science Watch - non profit organization promoting integrity in the use of climate science in government
- Climate Change lessons for kids
- Climate Change Kids- EPA website
- Climate Change Education - NOAA Site
Recent Climate Articles:
- Antarctic ice shelf, disappearing and reappearing- 1/3/07
- Canadian ice sheet broken off -12/30/06
- Arctic Ice meltdown continues -9/13/06
- How do scientists know that humans contribute to global warming?
- The Truth about Global Warming- The Seattle Times
- Global Warming: Focus on Utah's ClimateClimate: Focus is on carbon dioxide
- How are CO2 and Temperature related?
- Oceans cool off in hottest years-Temperature drop puzzles climate researchers. Article by: Quirin Schiermeier
- Global Warming Surpasses Natural Cycle- NCAR
- Warmer Oceans, Wetter Air, Harder Rain - NCAR
- Scientists Disagree On Link Between Storms, Warming - WA Post
- Hurricanes: Tempests in a greenhouse - Physics Today
- NASA/NOAA Data Indicate Ozone Layer is Recovering
- Climate Science on Trial
- Wildfires and Global Warming
Climate Resources:
- Acid Rain:
- Carbon Dioxide Information -the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center provides access to a variety of information on trace gases.
- Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology An online magazine devoted to climate change.
- Climate Cycle diagram
- Carbon Dioxide Websites
- Earth Energy Balance Diagram - Jet Stream/NOAA
- El Nino and La Nina
- Frequently asked questions about El Nino and La Nina
- El Nino Theme Page from NOAA
- El Nino Impacts
- La Nina Impacts
- El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diagnostic Discussion
- Tropical Pacific Weekly Mean and Anomaly Sea Surface Temperatures
- Ice Ages
- Global Temperature Change from 1956-2005
- NASA Earth Radiation Budget (ERBE) project
- Natural Climate Variability (Short term pdf)
- National Climate Data Center
- National Weather Service Climate Data
- Ozone Hole Lab
- US Global Change Research Information Office
- World Hydrological Cycle Observing System
If you are interested in discussing climate change, visit the Climate Change Forum page.
