Check out Global Warming.
You can explore the science and the consequences of global warming!
This is a fully interactive educational game you can use in your classroom. FOR TEACHERS: there is a teacher's guide that explains how the game's content aligns with standards. This game was created in Santa Barbara at a company called Planet Earth Science. Liner Tinka Sloss did the artwork.
Here are links to Educational Materials about climate and sea level. These are linked to national standards.
The Following are from Windows to the Universe at UCAR
This speech marks the beginning of a new era in US federal support in stopping climate change.
Matthew Yi at the San Francisco Chronicle (11/15/2008) writes about this new executive order. Something that will, no doubt, have impacts at the local level too.
Read the whole article here:
Governor tells staff to prepare for warming
Excerpt:
"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order Friday directing state agencies to study the effects of global warming and recommend how the state needs to adapt to such changes in land use planning and building new infrastructure.
Roger Harrabin,BBC News environment analyst (April 4, 2008) reports on the effects of a major 'la nina' in the Pacific Ocean. This part of a multi-year fluctuation, and it's cooling the planet this year. These types of short-term fluctuations have been built into the climate models, which are still predicting a longer-term warming trend. Still, it's good to be cool! (Unless you live in Wisconsin, which gets enough cool every winter).
Global warming 'dips this year'
Here is an excerpt:
Source: CNN March 29, 2008 By Marsha Walton
Ice shelf collapse: What does it mean?
Scientists look at how reducing ice cover affects the entire food chain.
Here is an Excerpt:
" According to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, in the past 50 years, the western Antarctic peninsula has undergone the biggest temperature increase on Earth: up .9 degree Fahrenheit, or .5 degree Celsius, in each of the past five decades. How the ice is disappearing »
Source UNEP: February 2008
Cartographer: Hugo Ahlenius, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Population, area and economy affected by a 1 m sea level rise (global and regional estimates, based on today's situation)
Citation:
Stefan Rahmstorf at Potsdam University (March 2007) discusses the IPCC sea level numbers:
You can read the whole analysis here:The IPCC sea level numbers
Excerpt below:
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What is included in these sea level numbers?
Let us have a look at how these numbers were derived. They are made up of four components: thermal expansion, glaciers and ice caps (those exclude the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets), ice sheet surface mass balance, and ice sheet dynamical imbalance.