This guide addresses a variety of climate change issues from microclimates to wider global concerns. It also includes a variety of data tools for the various subject areas.
Selected Resources
- Ethics and Global Climate Change By: Stephen M. Gardiner (Department of Philosophy and Program on Values in Society, University of Washington) & Lauren Hartzell-Nichols (Program on Values in Society and Program on Environment, University of Washington) © 2012 Nature Education
- How Your City, State, and Country Is Warming Since 1970 Major cities for state and countries since 1970.
- The Global Calculator (UK Government) Backed by the UK and with inputs from several research organisations, this calculator lets you play God with the world’s future. See what impact various technology, lifestyle and land use choices have on the warming trajectory of the plant, or toggle different scenarios for population growth. What would it take to limit warming to 1.5C? What if everyone says no to windfarms or takes lots of foreign holidays? Find out here.
- Climate Change Calculator (Financial Times) Use the COP21 Calculator to see how the varying levels of emissions by different regions could make or break emissions to a sustainable level, and to create your own scenario based on how you think mitigation efforts will pan out.
Organizations
- IPCC The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.
- WMO Statement on the State of the Global World Climate in 2018 World Meteorological Organization Statement on the State of the Global Climate, which was first issued in 1994. The 2019 edition treating data for 2018 marks sustained international efforts dedicated to reporting on, analysing and understanding the year-to-year variations and long-term trends of a changing climate.
