Resources and Links



Links to worthwhile websites and webpages:


Real Climate
A great source of science information for everyday people
http://www.realclimate.org/

Carbon Brief
Climate change news
https://www.carbonbrief.org/ 

Annual Technology Baseline
https://atb.nrel.gov/


Skeptical Science 
Explains climate change science & rebuts global warming misinformation
https://skepticalscience.com/

Where greenhouse gases come from -- Basics
U.S. Energy Information Administration
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.php?page=environment_where_ghg_come_from

Drawdown Project website
(100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming)

https://www.drawdown.org/

Book:

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

Global Calculator
(Calculate a plan to 2050)
http://tool.globalcalculator.org


IPCC Report on Global Warming, 1.5 deg., Chapter 2
Mitigation Pathways Compatible with 1.5°C in the Context of Sustainable Development
(PDF file)

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/SR15_Chapter2_Low_Res.pdf


IPCC Global Warming of 1.5°C
Special report on impacts

https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf


Offsets and RECs: What's the Difference?  -- EPA
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-03/documents/gpp_guide_recs_offsets.pdf

Paris Agreement tracking
https://climateactiontracker.org/



History
 
The Discovery of Global Warming
(Lots of interesting historical information)
https://history.aip.org/climate/index.htm


Data


Emissions Data

Our World In Data
CO₂ and other Greenhouse Gas Emissions
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions

Electric Vehicle Emissions
How much CO2 will you keep out of the atmosphere?
https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric_emissions.html 

Renewable Energy Data

International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
http://resourceirena.irena.org/gateway/dashboard/


Calculators
Rooftop solar
https://www.energysage.com/solar/calculator-results/

Annual Gasoline Cost
Compare your current annual car/truck fuel cost to a new or used vehicle
(Inputs: year, model, miles per year, gas price)
http://time.com/5306658/gas-prices-calculator/


Raw Data

NASA Temperature Data
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/DecadalTemp


RSS Satellite Temperature Records (updated monthly)
http://images.remss.com/msu/msu_time_series.html


Polling Data
Yale/George Mason
http://www.climatechangecommunication.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Politics-Global-Warming-April-2019b.pdf


Donating

Grid Alternatives
https://gridalternatives.org/support/membership



Blogs:

HotWhopper

Quark Soup by David Appell

And Then There's Physics








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