Links to Other Interesting Web Sites

 Links to Web Sites for Similar Classes Taught at Other Universities

  • Lee Kump and others at Penn State teach a class called "Gaia: An Introduction to the Earth System." (note that these are the same people who wrote the text we use for this class). This site has information that you may find interesting. They have also put together a series of interactive learning modules that are relevant to this class. Some are simple color graphs or charts while others are interactive models and short animated movies. To run these you will need to download them to your computer.
  • David Archer and Raymond Pierrehumbert at the University of Chicago teach a class called "Global Warming: Understanding the Forceast". The web site for this class has a wealth of information relevant to our class (see below), including a web-based c arbon cycle model similar to the Stella-based carbon cycle model we are using in our class.
  •  The Dept. of Geosciences at Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst offers a course entitiled "Gobal Environmental Change" that has links to many interesting sites.

 

 Other Interesting Web Sites

  •  CONSEQUENCES Magazine (an on-line journal produced and distributed without charge as a public service, to provide reliable assessments of practical concerns related to the national and international consequences of global environmental change) 
  •  Links to a whole host of other interesting sites and resources can also be found on the web site for the University of Chicago course discussed above.
  •  The first comprehensive scientific assessment of the potential consequences of global warming on the United States has been released by the US Global Change Research Program. Click here for more details about this report.
  • A PBS documentary (aired in spring 2000) called "What's Up With the Weather" examines the science and politics of global warming. This excellent show also has a superb web site with a tremendous amount of useful information on global warming.
  • The IPCC has now issued its Third Assessment Report (TAR) including the latest contributions of its 3 Working Groups. Of particular relevance to this course is the report of Working Group I (WGI). Summaries of these reports can be found at the IPCC web site.
  • Skip Stiles has put together a very interesting climate change time line that combines science and policy issues, with special notations on carbon sequestration by the oceans. Click here to view this time line.
 

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