Climate Connections - Project Resources

Fun & Interactive Sites

Climate change game from the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/climate_challenge/

Earth Day Footprint Quiz - an interesting activity for kids to try on their global footprint
http://www.earthday.net/Footprintfaq

EPA Global Warming Kids Site: Focuses on science and impacts of global warming or climate change and on actions that help address global warming
http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html

General information about climate and weather
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/climate.htm

Climate Change Club Web site from the conservation corps of Newfoundland and Labrador
http://www.conservationcorps.nf.ca/ccc/index.html

Game from IBM and TryScience/NY Hall of Science
http://www.powerupthegame.org/

A site created by WGBH about green living and sustainability
http://www.meetthegreens.org/

An article about how making decisions that reduce your carbon footprint is a great way for kids to get involved in reducing the impacts of climate change
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/specials/articles/1,28285,1613313,00.html

Search terms: climate plus anything from the glossary of terms, plus carbon footprint, data, game, kids

Climate Change Skepticism

List of climate change skeptics
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Climate_change_skeptics

Article about a recent conference
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/01/what-if-you-held-a-conference-and-no-real-scientists-came/

A site encouraging debate and discussion about climate
http://www.demanddebate.com/

Search terms: climate plus skeptics, global warming, climate change

Scientists & Their Research

Byrd Polar Research Center - studies of various ice core drilling expeditions around the world
http://bprc.osu.edu/Icecore/front-page.html

Notes from the field – a polar scientist talks about a research mission he participated in
http://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/40/07/notes/

Julie Brigham-Grette (2008 FLL Game Challenge Consultant) shares information about her career and research
http://www.geo.umass.edu/faculty/jbg

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Polar Playground Ice Buoy: The Argos Buoy is shown on deformed seasonal sea ice in the Weddell Sea
http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/polar/toys.html

A great resource including the science around climate change, the impact, and solutions
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/

Links climate change to energy consumption
http://www.iisd.org/climate/

What is Causing the Dramatic Decline in Honeybee Populations in the U.S. & Elsewhere in Recent Years?
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_5485.cfm

Access to a wealth of Earth science data sets.
http://viz.globe.gov

Search terms: climate plus habitat, data, migration patterns, research, scientists

Climate Data, Governments, & Policy

Find climate data
http://www.worldclimate.com/
http://outflux.net/weather/noaa/
http://www.BestPlaces.net/climate/

Learn more about the concepts of latitude and longitude and find locations around the world
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/latitudelongitude.htm

Climate data from around the U.S.
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/ushcn/ushcn.html

Site from Environment Canada includes a report on the status of emissions and plans to curb them
http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=FD9B0E51-1

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the Nobel winning, international collaboration that has objectively studied and reported on all aspects of climate change.
http://www.ipcc.ch/

The NASA Earth Observatory includes data, images, experiments, missions, and much more.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

EPA’s Climate Change Page: This is a wide-ranging overview of climate change, from science to policy.
http://epa.gov/climatechange/index.html

Search terms: climate plus policy, data, government, collaboration