Climate Change Resources (outside the RC Community)
Websites explaining climate change
NASA: Climate Science, How Do We Know? This NASA website is an excellent resource for both basic and more detailed information that has many videos and graphics on different aspects of climate change.
Six Graphics that Explain Climate Change, by BBC News, does exactly what it says - nice succinct graphics show what’s happening, why it’s happening, and what can be done.
Climate Change 101 with Bill Nye the Science Guy is a 4-minute video that explains global warming and its effects.
Climate Science: What you Need to Know is a 6-minute video making the case for human-created climate change, explaining the science of how greenhouse gases create global warming and its effects seen in rising sea levels, ocean life, and more.
A Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature is one giant (humorous) graphic showing the increase in average global temperature from 20,000 BCE to the present day.
Global Cities at Risk from Sea-Level Rise has short videos that show what flooding would look like in different cities around the world if average temperatures increased 4 degrees Celsius versus 2 degrees.
The Oceans and Climate Change is a 6-minute video that explains the carbon cycle, especially the critical role of the ocean in regulating Earth’s carbon balance.
Solutions to Climate Change
Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot, a short video on the importance of Natural Climate Solutions.
How to Cut U.S. Emissions Faster? (New York Times, February 2019). This is an interactive graphic showing how policies that are already used by other governments could cut US greenhouse gas emissions drastically.
Bill McKibben on solutions (January 2019). This video (start at 10:25) talks about climate change as an opportunity to address equity. He discusses the Green New Deal; government policies to support renewable energy; how the work of activists is less about pushing for specific policies and more about changing ideas about what’s normal and reasonable; climate strikes; and that we are past the point of individual actions, it has to be about collective action.
Hope in a Changing Climate, John Lui, 2009, showing possibilities for restoration of degraded land
The Solutions Project, thesolutionsproject.org. This is a U.S.-based NGO that works for 100% clean energy by providing research, visuals, and grants.
Climate Change Solutions (April 2017) is an 8-minute video that discusses putting a price on carbon, making massive investments in renewable energy, and keeping fossil fuels in the ground.
Ten Solutions for Climate Change talks about a mix of individual actions and policies: alternatives to fossil fuels, infrastructure upgrades, shorter commutes, reducing consumption, energy efficiency, eating lower on the food chain, unplugging electrical devices, and more.
Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming. Based on the 2017 book Drawdown, this list of 100 policies, practices, and individual actions is divided into categories by electricity generation, food, women and girls, buildings and cities, land use, transportation, and materials.
Hopeful Articles about Climate Change
10 Reasons to Feel Hopeful About Climate Change in 2019, Sierra Club magazine, January 2019
Resources to Learn More about Climate Change
The Impacts of Climate Change at 1.5C, 2C and Beyond. This interactive graphic shows the effects of 1.5 degrees Celsius warming versus 2 degrees Celsius on different parts of the world as well as on specific areas such as oceans, ice, temperatures, rainfall, storms, flooding, crops, wildlife environments, GDP, and public health.
Climate Interactive is a website that provides online interactive tools to see the effects of climate change and policy solutions, as well as videos.
Carbon Brief--Carbon Countdown is a UK-based website with a daily briefing and collection of articles on climate science, climate policy, and energy policy. Lots of clear graphics and easy-to-follow explanations.