CLIMATE CHANGE: SCIENCE AND SOLUTIONS
RESOURCES AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION

AAAS Gloabal Climate- Change Resources.  Links include information on the science and impact of global warming, news, events, publications, and other resources.

Carbon Capture and Storage: Summary for Policy-Makers and Technical Summary, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Eds. Bert Metz, Ogunlade Davidson, Heleen de Coninck, Manuela Loos, Leo Meyer. 2007.

Consultative Group on Climate Innovation- A Proposesed Complementary Technology Track for the Post-2012 Period , Lewis Milford, Clean Energy Group, November 2007 presentation (resources Plenary Roundtable- A Post-Kyoto Framework for Climate Technology Innovation)

Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability--Summary for Policymakers.   Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. April 13, 2007. http://www.ipcc.ch

Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change--Summary for Policymakers. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. May 4, 2007. http://www.ipcc.ch

Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis--Summary for Policymakers,Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. February 5, 2007. http://www.ipcc.ch

Climate Change Fact Sheet: Recent Polling on Public Perceptions of Climate Change, April 2006-2007.Environment and Energy Studies Institute. May 4, 2007.

The Effects of Climate Change: Storm Damage in Europe on the Rise . Pamela Heck, David Bresch, Serge Trober. Swiss Re. 2006.

European Commission Briefing Presentation- Legislative proposals related to emissions trading, renewable energy and carbon capture and storage (CCS), held 23 January 2008.  Updated version of PowerPoint required.

Framing the Long-Term In Situ Liability Issue for Geologic Carbon Storage in the United States. M.A. de Figueiredo, D.M. Reiner, and H.J. Herzog. Mitigation and Dapatation Strategies for Global Change -10.647-657.

Global Farm Animal Production and Global Warming: Impacting and Mitigating Climate Change. Gowri Koneswaran and Danielle Nierenberg.ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES.  Online January 31, 2008.

Global Warming and the Caribbean: Caribbean Endemic Bird Fesitval 2007: Birds in a Changing Climate. L. Sorenson, Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB). 2007. www.scscb.org

Keeping It Cool: Kids, Parents and the Global Environment Research Study. Nickelodeon- Inside Kids understanding the world of kids newsletter.  March 2008 Volume 8 Number 1.  To gain an understanding of kids’ and parents’ current awareness, attitudes and behaviors on energy conservation and “global warming,” Nickelodeon, in conjunction with the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, commissioned Cogent Research to conduct Keeping It Cool: Kids, Parents and the Global Environment research study.

National Security and the Threat of Climate Change.The CNA Corporation. 2007.

National Wildlife Federation: Higher Education in a Warming World.  As Congress considers legislation to reduce the nation*s greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by mid-century, colleges and universities hold an important key.  This new report, developed by NWF*s Campus program and principally authored by David Eagan with NWF's Julian Keniry and Justin Schott and with support from our Praween Dayananda, Kristy Jones and Lisa Madry finds that campuses nationwide have launched climate-driven projects that are taking a significant bite out of carbon emissions while saving money.  Higher Education in a Warming World: The Business Case for Climate Leadership on Campus demonstrates how some 100 schools are leading in innovative responses to the threats of global warming.

Nuclear Power and Climate Change. Ernest J. Moniz, Professor of Physics and Director of Energy Studies, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. PEW/NCEP 10-50 Workshop, March 25-26, 2004.

Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States: A Report of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources National Science and Technology Council May 2008

Senator Boxer Charts Road Ahead on Global Warming. U.S. Senate- Environment and Public Works. April 18, 2007.

Solving the Climate Problem: Technologies Available to Curb CO2 Emissions . Robert Socolow, Roberta Hotinski, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Stephen Pacala. Environment. December, 2004. Vol. 46, no. 10, pp 8-19.

Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies . S. Pacala, et al.  Science, 305, 968 (2004).

Stabilizing and then Reducing U.S. Energy Consumption: Legal and Policy Tools for Efficiency and Conservation. John C. Dernbach and the Widener University Law School Seminar on Energy Efficiency. Environmental Law Reporter. January, 2007.

“Tackling Climate Change in the U.S.: Potential Carbon Emissions Reductions from Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by 2030”.  The report is the summary of nine special technical presentations at the SOLAR 2006 Conference. The 180 page report clearly demonstrates the potential of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to reduce our projected carbon emissions to 60 to 80 percent below projections by 2030.  The report was released in January of this year.   The nine research papers included in the report cover three special energy efficiency presentations: overall energy efficiency, buildings, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and six renewable energy technologies: concentrating solar power, photovoltaics, wind power, biomass, biofuels and geothermal energy.  This work has been presented at AAAS and other venues to broad acceptance and great interest. We suggest that any serious discussion of the solutions to climate change needs to include the emissions reductions available from energy efficiency and renewables as credibly demonstrated in this body of work. 

Understanding and Responding to Climate Change: Highlights of National Academies Reports.  2008 Edition.  Download PDF.

UNESCO - Vocations Patrimoine-  Project focuses on UNESCO World Heritage sites management and proposes, for the natural sites, practical actions to deal with climate change impacts.
UNESCO - Vocations Patrimoine is committed to raise awareness and response to climate change problems, and their World Heritage sites management project provide some illustrations on some exceptional sites.  Their website offers several videos and news information on their current efforts.

U.S. Climate Action Report -- 2006. Fourth National Communication of the United States of America Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (U.S. Department of State)

World View of Global Warming . Photographic documentation of climate change and educational site.