Global Climate Change Resources

Focus the Nation

On January 31, 2008, more than one thousand colleges, universities, high schools, middle schools, faith groups, civic organizations and businesses will join together to discuss the impact of global climate change. In an unprecedented educational initiative, millions of students and ordinary citizens will have an opportunity to engage in a conversation about global warming pollution while also finding out how to invest in clean energy solutions. For more informaiton, please visit www.focusthenation.org.

Chancellor's Seminar Series

On February 8th , the campus hosts Dr. George Mount for a lecture called "Climate Change: Fact or Fiction?" Attendees will have an opportunity to hear the latest scientific evidence on climate change. In addition, Dr. Mount will discuss what these conclusions mean for public policymakers. For more information and tickets to the event, please visit http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/css/

books

Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change ~ NA2541.R63 2005

Agriculture: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change ~ S600.7.C54 A38 2002

American Heat: Ethical Problems with the United States' Response to Global Warming ~ QC981.8.G56 H67 2000

Archaeology of Global Change ~ CC81.A73 2002

The Atlas of Climate Change ~ QC981.8.C5 D69 2006 held in reference

Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists are Fueling the Climate Crisis ~ QC981.8.C5 L45 2001*

The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era ~ QC981.8.F86 S54 2005

Forecast Earth: The Story of Climate Scientist Inez Fung ~ QC858.F86 S54 2005

Global Change and the Earth System ~ GE149.G526 2005

Global Environmental Change ~ GE149.M66 1996

The Global Warming Debate ~ QC981.8.G56 G5486 1996

Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming ~ QC981.8.G56 C48 1999b*

The Heat is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription ~ QC981.8.G56 G45 1998*

An Inconvenient Truth ~ QC981.8.G56 G67 2006

International Relations and Global Climate Change ~ QC981.8.C5 I58 2001

Kyoto Commitments ~ CQ981.8.C5 K96 2000

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate ~ QC981.R763 2005

Protecting the Ozone Layer ~ QC879.7 A53 2002

Reconstructing Climate Policy ~ QC 981.8.C5 S753 2003

Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment ~ GE149.S64 2004

The Revenge of the Gaia: Earth's Climate in Crisis and the Fate of Humanity ~ QH343.4.L696 2006

Science Magazine's State of the Planet ~ GF1.S35 2006/2007*

Speaking of Earth: Environmental Speeches that Moved the World ~ GE35.S64 2006*

Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change ~ QC981.8.C5 D38 2001*

Uncertain Future: Climate Change and Its Effect on Puget Sound ~ QC981.8.C5 U5 2005

You Can Prevent Global Warming (and Save Money!): 51 Easy Ways ~ TD171.7.L36 2003*

* Book held in the Environmental Information Cooperative (EIC) Collection at the WSU, Vancouver library. Find these and more books, videos, and technical reports on environmental issues in the EIC.

media

Global Warming: Drought and Desertification ~ GB611.G58 2004

Hot Times in Alaska ~ QC981.8.G56 H67 2000

web sites

Campus Climate Challenge ~ climatechallenge.org

Climate Ark ~ www.climateark.org

ClimateCorps ~ climatecorps.org

Climate Solutions: Practical Solutions to Global Warming ~ www.climatesolutions.org

Focus the Nation ~ www.focusthenation.org

Global Warming Art ~ www.globalwarmingart.com

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ~ www.ipcc.ch

It's Getting Hot in Here ~ www.itsgettinghotinhere.org

Pew Center on Climate Change ~ www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-basics/

Real Climate: Climate Science from Climate Scientists ~ www.realclimate.org

 

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