03/04/09

Some Climate Change Links For Pennsylvania Talk

Union of Concerned Scientists - http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/

Gov. Rendell’s Green Government Council - http://www.gggc.state.pa.us/gggc/site/default.asp

Pennsylvania DCNR report by the Carbon Management Advisory Group - http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/info/carbon/documents/final-report-050708.pdf

Pennsylvania DEP is leading a Climate Change Advisory Committee - http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/energy/cwp/view.asp?a=1532&q=539829

The Union of Concerned Scientists have prepared a detailed analysis of what going to happen to the northeast US - http://www.climatechoices.org/ne/resources_ne/nereport.html

And Climate Choices has prepared a detailed look at the potential effects on Pennsylvania - http://www.climatechoices.org/assets/documents/climatechoices/climate-change-in-pennsylvania_impacts-and-solutions.pdf

There is general agreement that the cost of taking on climate change/global warming is affordable, especially in view of the alternative - http://tbm.thebigmoney.com/articles/hey-wait-minute/2009/02/11/surprise-economists-agree

One of the best short books about climate change - Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, 2006

Excellent article about paleoclimatology and ice core analysis - Kendrick Taylor, Rapid climate change, American Scientist 87, 1999

Yearly reports on global temperature from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies - http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2008/

Dr. James Hansen discusses the role of changes in solar irradiance in determining the earth’s surface temperature - http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2009/20090113_Temperature.pdf

Carbon emissions - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Global_Carbon_Emission_by_Type_to_Y2004.png

Long term rise in temperature and sea level - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment Report (TAR) - http://www.ipcc.ch/graphics/gr-climate-changes-2001-syr.htm

Sea level rise for the mid-Atlantic states – EPA Climate Change Science Program - Coastal Sensitivity to Sea-Level Rise: A Focus on the Mid-Atlantic Region. 2009 - http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-1/final-report/default.htm

The National Snow and Ice Data Center keeps up with changes in Arctic sea ice - http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

Rapid changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet – Robert Bindschadler, Keeping a watchful eye on unstable Antarctic Ice, Yale Environment 360 - http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2115

Prepared by S. David Stoney, Jr., Ph.D.