Student
Recommended Websites for Climate Impact Research Prepared by Ms. Chang’s 9th
grade Earth Science Class (Yellow Section). Edited by student, Lisa H
Arctic:
For really good websites I suggest the Environmental Protection
Agency. www.epa.gov/
I did the Arctic for my essay but this site has so
much information on it, any essay
writer can get good info on it. Also, the Hadley Center is really
good when looking for data,
facts, and graphs.
www.met-office.gov.uk/index.html
When looking for
information on what is climate change and what are greenhouse gases, a really good website is The University
of Michigan. They have really good
pictures and it is fairly easy to understand.
www.umich.edu/~gs265/society/greenhouse.htm
Finally for anyone
who is researching the Arctic, using ProQuest and finding the Science News Article Printed
November 12, 2005 (Volume 168, Issue 20) is
a good idea. It has a lot of really good information.
I hope this helps
the students next year!
Meghan W.
(M.W.)
Arctic:
1)
http://www.ec.gc.ca/climate/overview_science-e.html
I liked this site a lot because of a
few reasons. One main reason I liked this site was because it was a good
overview of what climate change is as well as it divided the site up into many
different sub categories. It gave specific areas and examples of how the
climate was going to be affected there. It also had some diagrams to further
help explain their opinions. I chose this site because of their explanation on climate
change which was good, yet understandable.
2)
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg2/595.htm,
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg2/611.htm (these sites go together)
I chose this site because of its deep
analysis of the Arctic situation. It gave many precise details about the Arctic
and how it was affected and what would continue to happen if it continues to
thaw at the rate at which it is now. It was a long explanation, yet it was
fairly easy to understand and it gave me the base of a few points in my essay.
3)
http://www.bath.ac.uk/students-union/impact/impact-stable/frontend/DefaultArticle.php?id=142970
I chose this site because it gave an extremely
brief recap of the situation. Before reading detailed information about any
topic I like to get a general understanding of the concepts so that I don't get
lost when reading more complex websites. This website did a great job of
summing up the situation in few sentences.
4)
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/Impacts/Arctic.asp
I chose this site for a few reasons.
One when I saw this site my eye immediately jumped to the pictures of the sea
animal's habitats dying. This made me want to read on, hoping that there would
be an explanation in this site as to how we can help prevent these future
extinctions. When I read this site I thought that it was extremely helpful
because it took 3 main causes of the Arctic's thinning and explained them in good
depth; it made it easy for me to use those 3 points as main arguments in my
essay.
5)
http://malinj.typepad.com/aujaqsuittuq/arctic_climate_change/
I chose to use this site because of
the way it explained the situation of the Arctic. It went into great detail on
how we can slow the rate of thawing down if we really wanted to. I thought the explanation was easy to understand
and this site did a good job of noting the major points of this situation.
6)
http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~kd/KDwebpages/NHice.html
I chose this site because of the many graphics.
I consider myself to be a pretty visual learner and am always looking for
visuals to support the text that I am reading. This site provided me with many
visuals, clearing depicting how bad the Arctic is. By seeing these pictures it
made it completely obvious of how much the Arctic has and will continue to
shrink in the past and upcoming years.
7)
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=221398481&Fmt=4&clientId=6785&RQT=309&VName=PQD
,
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=927220341&Fmt=4&clientId=6785&RQT=309&VName=PQD,
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=808828841&Fmt=4&clientId=6785&RQT=309&VName=PQD
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=646112751&Fmt=3&clientId=6785&RQT=309&VName=PQD
I chose all of these ProQuest sites
because I knew all of these sites were primary sources. I wanted to get a
first-hand view of this issue by the scientists to see their opinions on this
matter. By getting news from online scientific books and magazines I could be
sure I was getting actual information and I could compare the thoughts of
different types of scientists from all different locations.
Rachel (R.S.)
Climate Change and Global Warming:
http://www.ecobridge.org/content/g_evd.htm
EcoBridge: Evidence of Global Warming
http://www.peopleandplanet.org/climatechange/briefing.impact.php
The Impact Of Climate Change
http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/GlobalWarming.asp
Last
Update: 12/29/05
Climate Change and Global Warming
Alyssa G. (A.G.)
Coral
reefs:
-http://www.reef.edu.au/OHG/res-pic/HG%20papers/Hoegh-Guldberg%201999.pdf
This
was a very trustworthy source that has great diagrams, other links, pictures, etc.
-www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/coral/about.html:
This
website had information for coral reefs and marine life in general and what humans can do to help it
This had very good pictures and
information on specifically coral reefs
Maddie R. (M.R.)
Extreme Weather:
http://www.ipcc.ch/
IPCC Third Assessment Report –
Climate Change 2001
Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Control
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/early-warning-signs-of-global-warming-heat-waves.html
Heat Waves and Unusually Warm
Weather
Union of Concerned Scientists
http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/fcons.asp
Consequences of Global Warming
Natural Defense Resource Council
(H.H.)
Extreme Weather (??):
Ms.
Chang,
Here are
the sites which I found most helpful.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/obsdata/globaltemperature.html
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=181
Greenland:
Chisholm, Suzanne and Michael
Parfit. “Greenland Melting? Satellite to Help Find Answer.” National
Geographic Today. 24 Oct. 2002. National Geographic. 2 January 2006.
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1024_021024_TVGreenland.html>
-This source provided more general
information on Greenland’s ice sheet,
including its rough size as
compared to that of Antarctica’s. It gave
evidence of how scientists know that the Greenland ice sheet is indeed melting, including an increase
in the speed of the ice sheet.
Hadley Center on Climate Research.
“Melting Greenland Ice Threatens Global Rise In Sea Level.” 7 April 2004. Hadley
Center on Climate Research. 22 December 2005. <http://www.metoffice.com/corporate/pressoffice/2004/pr20040407a.html>
-This
source gave specific information on Greenland’s ice sheet and how it will
affect sea level rise. It gave a brief summary that was very helpful to
understanding/seeing “the big picture”/”the main point”.
Lovgren,
Stefan. “Greenland Melt May Swamp LA, Other Cities, Study Says.” National
Geographic News. 8 April 2004. National Geographic. 2 January 2006.
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/0408_040408_greenlandicemelt.html>
-This
article gave information of which cities may be in danger if the sea level were
to rise. It briefly explained global warming and the increase in CO2 in the
atmosphere, and was extremely helpful and easy to read and understand.
Oppenheimer,
Michael. “Polar Ice Sheets, Melting, and Sea Level Change.” Princeton
University. 15 June 2004.
<http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2004/0615Oppenheimer.pdf>
-This PowerPoint gave a summary of polar melting and
how it will affect sea level rise.
It was quite helpful and for the most part simple and easy to understand—it was
a good review and captured the main points.
Pachauri,
R. K. “Address to the Ninth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change.” IPCC. 10 December 2003.
<http://ww.ipcc.ch/press/sp-10122003.htm>
-This
speech by the Chairman of the IPCC gives a detailed summary of climate change
and the increase in temperatures and its effects. However, much of the speech
is irrelevant and needs to be expanded more.
Perkins, Sid. “Glacial Change.” Science
News. 17 Dec. 2005. ProQuest. 5 January 2006.
<http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=954882851&sid=2&Fmt=4&clientId=6785&RQT=309&Vname=PQD>
-This source gave specific information of Greenland and
which portions of its ice sheet are melting.
This is a more informative than explanatory article.
“Sea
Level.” U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. 7 January 2000. Global
Warming – Climate. <http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/ClimateFutureClimateSeaLevel.html>
-This
article gave a graph of predicted sea level rise and numbers, as well as a
graph of the projected rise in sea level. It is for the most part easy to
understand; however, not much new information is given.
--Lisa H (L.H.)
Hurricanes:
National
Geographic. August 2005, "In Hot Water"
Because it gave information on recent
hurricanes of 2004, and talked about their
structure.
National
Geographic. September 2004. “Signs from Earth"
Huge global warming issue, looking at
every aspect such as effects on the geosphere,
biosphere, etc.
NOAA.
Hurricane Basics. 1999
Basic hurricane information.
National
Geographic News. "Global Warming May Alter Currents, Study Says"
Article explaining problems that may
occur due to global warming melting ice caps.
Fanni T. (F.T.)
Ocean Currents:
Here are
the websites I found most helpful during the writing of my climate change and
global warming/ water currents
paper...
http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_3_1.htm
http://earth.usc.edu/~stott/Catalina/Oceans.html
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdwebdid=841230931&Fmt=3&clientId=6785&RQT=309&VName=PQD
^ The one
above is an article that I found while searching ProQuest...so basically the
helpful website is ProQuest but the specific article is the link above.
Chelsea (C.M.)
Most Recommended:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
Search Engine of Choice:
ProQuest: