LIBRARY
UE: SCI 210SC: Energy & Its Impact on Global Society: Climate Change
Science 210
Selected e-Books and e-Reports
- Confronting climate change byISBN: 0415576237Publication Date: 2011Combines sociology, environmental studies and politics
- Energy, the environment and climate change byISBN: 1848164157London : Imperial College Press, c2010.
- Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling : Perspectives and Applications byPublication Date: IGI Global. 2011Climatic changes--Environmental aspects
Climate Change and Energy Supply and Use by ISBN: 9781610915533Publication Date: 2014-03-06Developed to inform the 3rd National Climate Assessment, and a landmark study in terms of its breadth and depth of coverage and conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy, Climate Change and Energy Supply and Use examines the known effects and relationships of climate change variables on energy production and supply, including oil, gas, thermal electricity, and renewable energy.
Ethics and Climate Change by ISBN: 0889202338Publication Date: 1993-08-19Faced with the prospect of global warming, the anticipated rapid rise in global air temperatures due to the release of gases into the atmosphere, we have two choices of how to respond: adaptation or avoidance. With adaptation we keep burning fossil fuels, let global temperatures rise and make whatever changes this requires: move people from environmentally damaged areas, build sea walls, etc. With avoidance we stop warming from occurring, either by reducing our use of fossil fuels or by using technology such as carbon dioxide recovery after combustion to block the warming effect. Yet each strategy has its drawbacks...
Websites
- AccuWeather.com Climate ChangeSee the Position Statement and other data gathered
- California Climate Change Portal"Based on the inextricable link between energy and greenhouse gas emissions, research into climate change is vital."
- Earth Institute, Columbia Universityadvises national governments and the United Nations on issues related to sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals.
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeSpecial Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation
- International Institute for Sustainable DevelopmentIISD champions sustainable development around the world through innovation, partnerships, research and communications. [Based in Canada]
- International Programme on the State of the Oceandesigned to consider the cumulative impact of multiple stressors on the ocean, including warming, acidification, and overfishing.
- Kyoto Protocolsets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. (2012)
- National Academy of Sciences. Division on Earth & Life StudiesAdvancing the Science of Climate Change : Studies in Progress (2015)
- National Science FoundationReports, News, and more on a variety of topics, including climate change
- NOAA National Climatic Data Center: FAQs on Global WarmingMaps, charts, statistics that are updated monthly.
- Pew Center on Global Climate ChangeInformation and news, etc. updated frequently
- Project CLAMER (European Science Foundation)Climate Change & European Marine Ecosystem Research. Covers: climate change, lack of sustainable energy sources, economic and political instability, aging populations, poverty, hunger and migration. Updated regularly
- UN Framework Convention on Climate ChangeUN Climate Change website. updated August 2015
- UNHCR urges states to redefine response to climate-induced displacementNews Stories, 6 June 2011
- Union of Concerned ScientistsThis website is updated frequently
- United States Global Change Research ProgramNational Climate Assessment website, updated frequently
Print Books in the Library
- Requiem for a species: why we resist the truth about climate change byCall Number: QC903 .H2185 2010ISBN: 1849710813"Is there a way out?"
- The Flooded Earth: our future in a world without ice caps byCall Number: GB2401.7 .W37 2010ISBN: 0465009492"...human population change, carbon dioxide, global warming, the impact of rising sea levels on agriculture, continental ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica and how they formed and will melt." [Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc.]
- Anthropology and climate change: from encounters to actions byCall Number: QC981.8.C5 A63 2009ISBN: 1598743341"...anthropology's engagement with climate change...issues a call to action."
- The great warming: climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations byCall Number: QC981.8.G56 F34 2009ISBN: 159691601X"...we may yet be underestimating the power of climate change to disrupt our lives today-and our vulnerability to drought." Book jacket.
- Water supply byCall Number: TD355 .W385 2008ISBN: 0824210794"...explores the global water supply and related issues by gathering articles published over the past six years in popular magazines."
- The biology of polar regions byCall Number: QH541.5.P6 F64 2008ISBN: 0199298130"... a detailed comparison of the Arctic and Antarctic systems, with a particular emphasis on the effects of climate change." [Book jacket.]
Rising Sea Levels and Tampa Bay
- Rising Sea Levels: How Much of Tampa Bay Would Be Under Water?"This issue is critically important to the Tampa Bay region. Much of south Tampa, St. Petersburg and the Pinellas beaches would be flooded with just a few feet of sea level rise..."
World of Change : Polar Regions
The polar regions are experiencing rapid changes in climate. These changes are causing observable ecological impacts of various types and degrees of severity at all ecosystem levels, including society. Even larger changes and more significant impacts are anticipated.
- Arctic Monitoring and Assessment ProgrammeAMAP Oslo, Norway. "A Norwegian group studying the Arctic forecasts that within 30 or 40 years the entire Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in the summer. " [The NY Times, Oct 17, 2011]
- Climate InstitutePolar Ice Melting Spurs Interest in Climate Stabilization
- European Polar Board"...provides strategic science policy advice to the European Commission and international bodies."
- Exploration of Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments: Environmental and Scientific StewardshipNational Academies: Division on Earth and Life Studies. Polar Research, Ocean, Climate and Weather, etc.
- Polar Bears InternationalArctic research. Climate change. Environmental stewardship. Sea ice loss. Global warming. Sustainable living. Endangered species news.
- Polar Research Boardinternational consultation and cooperation in all aspects of arctic research.
- World of Change -- NASAdocuments how our planet’s land, oceans, atmosphere, and sun are changing over time.