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Global Warming
Using Data, Charts, Models, Animations, Web Links and Videos to Learn About Climate Change
Tools for global problem solving — Global Collaborative
To be effective, such tools must be refined so that they can be shared and applied across borders and cultures. To be strategic, they should be versatile, that is, offer solutions to more than just one global problem. They should also be affordable, simple, and easy to use in many contexts.
Stinging Tentacles Offer Hint of Oceans’ Decline - NYTimes.com
From Spain to New York, to Australia, Japan and Hawaii, jellyfish are becoming more numerous and more widespread, and they are showing up in places where they have rarely been seen before, scientists say. The faceless marauders are stinging children blithely bathing on summer vacations, forcing beaches to close and clogging fishing nets.
But while jellyfish invasions are a nuisance to tourists and a hardship to fishermen, for scientists they are a source of more profound alarm, a signal of the declining health of the world’s oceans.
NOVA | scienceNOW | Fastest Glacier | PBS
A glacier moving way too fast reveals how unpredictable the effects of global warming can be.
Can Global Warming Cause Global Cooling?
Overarching and Enduring Understandings Addressed in Climate Change Unit:
Natural Cycles of Planetary Change
Change is Detection through Pattern recognition
Interlocking relationship between the Earth's Systems
Overarching Questions Addressed in Greenland Melting unit:
What are the results of global warming?
Can the triggers of the Little Ice Age happen again?
What are the methods that scientists use to study Earth processes?
What are the harbingers and fingerprints of global processes?
What are the drivers of climate?
How are glaciers and ocean currents related?
NASA - Fastest Glacier in Greenland Doubles Speed
Jakobshavn Glacier
"Major Discovery" From MIT Primed to Unleash Solar Revolution
Solar Revolution Project
"This is a major discovery with enormous implications for the future prosperity of humankind," said Barber, the Ernst Chain Professor of Biochemistry at Imperial College London. "The importance of their discovery cannot be overstated since it opens up the door for developing new technologies for energy production thus reducing our dependence for fossil fuels and addressing the global climate change problem."
Global Warming Washing Away Entire Communities
A funny thing happened just before a ceremony was to be held last week to commemorate a $3 million sea wall around the village of Kivalina way up on Alaska's Arctic coastline. The village, home to Inupiat natives for 4,000 years, is about to be washed into the sea, and the 1,800-foot wall is supposed to stop that.
Alaska
There's growing evidence that villages in the far North like Kivalina, Alaska, are being eaten up by the ocean due, at least in part, to global warming.
(Northwest Arctic Borough,The Anchorage Daily News/AP Photo)
But along came a modest storm, with winds of up to 40 miles per hour, and 160 feet of the wall washed out. The ceremony was canceled.
Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by thread' - British Antarctic Survey
New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday 10 July 2007.
Images taken by its Envisat remote-sensing satellite show that Wilkins Ice Shelf is “hanging by its last thread” to Charcot Island, one of the plate’s key anchors to the Antarctic peninsula, ESA said in a press release.
Google LatLong: Climate change in our world
Of the challenges surrounding global climate change, communicating its potential impact and increasing public awareness of the scientific research undertaken to monitor and model its effect on society are quite pressing.
Today we are pleased that the British Government is launching with Google Earth Outreach, and in collaboration with the Met Office Hadley Centre and the British Antarctic Survey, new layers in Google Earth that utilize geographical information to show how climate change will affect our planet and its people.
Ice sheet breaks loose off Canada - CNN.com
A chunk of ice spreading across 18 square kilometers (7 square miles) has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic, scientists said Tuesday.
He hasn't seen any ice in weeks. Plans to set up an ice camp in February had to be abandoned when usually dependable ice didn't form for the second year in a row.
"Nobody on the ship is surprised anymore," Stern said. "We've been trying to get the word out for the longest time now that things are happening fast and they're going to continue to happen fast."
Removal of Myanmar's mangrove forest defenses gave cyclone easy ride into exposed delta — Mangrove Action Project
mangrove
CBS | Late Show with David Letterman : Video
Dr. John P. Holdren
The President of the Woods Hole Research Center discusses global warming with Dave Letterman.
kidsgcci wiki / DOME Foundation ~ Leadership for STEM Education
DOME Foundation Mission: To broaden awareness of and to increase participation in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines by underrepresented populations to meet the needs of a globally competitive workforce.
Climate Program Office (CPO) Home Page - Page:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have established that "Environmental literacy" is integral to NOAA's mission. It has a central role in its strategic plan by recognizing that "all of NOAA's long-term goals ultimately depend on the public's capacity to understand and react to Earth system science and ecosystem conditions." NOAA's Climate Program Office Education and Outreach team are developing the climate part of NOAA's environmental literacy priority through a partnership with NOAA's Office of Education, outside agencies and organizations. The Climate program office is beginning the process of developing the climate literacy essential principles and fundamental concepts framework.
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