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Suggested Websites:

National Academy of Sciences :
National Academy of Sciences - Global Change
Sustainability at the National Academy of Sciences

State Government:
Energy Quest (State of California)
State of California - Global Climate Change & Global Warming Links

Federal Government:
US Climate Change Science Program
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
US EPA Climate Change Kids Site
US EPA Climate Change
NOAA Climate Prediction Center
NOAA Climate Program Office
NOAA Research - Weather and Climate Sites
NOAA Paleoclimatology
NASA's Earth Observatory
EIA Energy Kids Links

International:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Implications of Climate Change (IPCC)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Feeling the Heat
UNEP-GRID-Arendal Climate Change

Scientific Organizations:
AAAS Climate Change Newsroom
AAAS Power Up! On-Line Energy Game
The Discovery of Global Warming On-line Textbook

Academic:
Princeton University Carbon Mitigation Initiative
The Stabilization Triangle: A Concept & Game (Princeton University CMI)
NSF Dissertation Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research
Climate Discovery Teacher's Guide Carleton College - Teaching Climate Change

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) :
Teachers' Guide to High Quality Educational Materials on Climate Change and Global Warming (Carnegie Mellon)
A Beginner's Guide to Global Warming (Woods Hole Research Center)
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
UCS - The Great Green Web Game
UCS - Just the Facts
UCS - Climate Choices
Energy Hog
NRDC's Green Squad
The Keystone Center - Climate Status Investigations
The Nature Conservancy Climate Change Initiative
California Global Climate Change & Energy
National Energy Education Development Project
Renewable Energy Policy Project and Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology
Earth Day Network
Sloan Career Cornerstone Center (Careers in Science)
25 x '25
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies

Media:
New York Times Science - Global Warming
Time Magazine Special Report - Global Warming
ABC News - Hot Zone: Global Warming
New Scientist – Climate Change Special Report
PBS - NOW: Global Warming
PBS - NOVA Frontline: Global Warming
PBS - NOVA Frontline: Warnings From the Ice
PBS - Scientific American Frontiers: Hot Times in Alaska
PBS - NOVA Online Adventures: Tracking El Nino
PBS - NOVA: Sinking City of Venice
NPR - Science Friday
NPR - Science Friday Archives
NPR - Tech Nation
National Geographic - Global Warming
National Geographic Kids - Melting Away
Seed Magazine - Climate Change Cribsheet
AOL - Focus on Global Warming

Science Museums:
Exploratoriam - Science From the Poles/Climate Change
Exploratorium - Climate Change

Blogs:
Real Climate Blog

Suggested DVDs:

The Great Warming
An Inconvenient Truth
National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth
Discovery Channel - Global Warmin g: What You Need to Know with Tom Brokaw
Kilowatt Ours

Suggested Online Audio:
Earth and Sky
Yahoo! Climate Change: Audio
Radio Ecoshock Audio on Demand - Climate Change


Suggested Books:

The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge
Kirstin Dow and Thomas Downing

The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Tim Flannery

Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Elizabeth Kolbert

Climate Change: Turning Up the Heat
A. Barrie Pittock

The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
Eugene Linden

An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future

Richard B. Alley

Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains

Mark Bowen

The North Pole Was Here - Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World

Andrew C. Revkin

Climate Change and Biodiversity

Edited by Thomas E. Lovejoy and Lee Hannah

Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006-2007

The Editors of Science

Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America 's Energy Future

Jeff Goodell


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