- Basic Climate Science
- More Advanced
- Alternate Hypotheses
- Causes and Solutions
- Climate Models
- CO2 Science
Basic Climate Science
potholer54 “Climate Change — the scientific debate”
Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip from Leo Murray.
“The script, with extensive peer-reviewed references and additional information and links, is available at wakeupfreakout.org/“
Links
- The Manpollo Project: Wonderingmind42’s videos covering many aspects of climate change (also here)
- Climate change for kids Very good for basics and no one knows you looked here
- The Real Climate Collection including “For complete beginners:”
- Global Warming Union of Concerned Scientists
- On Wikipedia
- Global Warming Basics The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How Do We Know We ‘re Not Wrong PDF slide show
More Advanced
- Global Warming Student Guide
- Open Source Climate Science Education
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Climate Change The Royal Society
- The Real Climate Collection
- Global Climate Change at NASA
- Climate Change at EPA
- Climate Change 2001: Working Group I: The Scientific Basis The IPCC
- IPCC Synthesis Report IV
- The Science is Clear DeSmogBlog
- Ice: Poles, Glaciers, etc
- Sea Level
- History/Discovery of Global Warming
- Carbon Dioxide and Climate Scientific American July 1959
- 1958 Newsreel about global warming
- 1953 Popular Mechanics article about global warming
- Climate Data links
- Other sites for current weather and climate events
Links to many more links
- Many more links to the science H.E. Taylors collection
- Climate4you “information on meteorological and climatologically issues of general and specific interest”
- Open Source Climate Science Education
Alternate Hypotheses
potholer54 has released the next in his climate change series “Climate Change — the objections” to look at the most serious possible alternatives to anthropogenic climate change.
Causes and Solutions
At under four minutes this is high impact education that you can share in a lot of places. It is produced by meatthefacts.org and you should link to them if you are going to direct people.
Links
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Rather than looking at greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide as the problem, it is the production of infrared radiation by the Earth which is the problem to be solved. If one could release a compound en masse, either into the atmosphere, or deposited upon the surface of the Earth, which absorbs infrared radiation and re-emits it at visible wavelengths, then the radiation emitted by the Earth will pass unhindered through the greenhouse gases into space.
This requires a so-called ‘Anti-Stokes’ material: “When a phosphor or other luminescent material emits light, in general, it emits light according to Stokes’ Law, which provides that the wavelength of the fluorescent or emitted light is always greater than the wavelength of the exciting radiation…Anti-Stokes materials typically absorb infrared radiation in the range of about 700 to about 1300 nm, and emit in the visible spectrum.” A variety of Anti-Stokes phosphors, based on yttrium, exist for the conversion of infrared radiation into visible radiation.
Intriguingly, lanthanum hexaboride is already being used on a trial basis in office windows to absorb all but 5% of the incident infrared radiation…
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I thought you might be interested in this addition to your science stuff. I have been investigating the forest-carbon angles and I have discovered there is a whole spin industry working to perpetuate business-as-usual forestry when the science indicates another role for forests in mitigating climate change.
Here is a slide show clarifying many misconceptions about forests, logging, and carbon:
http://www.slideshare.net/dougoh/forest-carbon-climate-myths-presentation/
(For full effect click “full” in the lower right.)
Here is a more detailed foot-noted report on forests, carbon and climate change:
http://tinyurl.com/2n96m5
Thanks, and keep up the good work.