Research Guides: Climate and Atmospheric Sciences: Researching Climate Science

Fall 2024 -- Climate Literacy

Inside Climate News
Founded in 2007, Inside Climate News is the oldest and largest dedicated climate newsroom in the nation.
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"We are nonprofit and non-partisan and exist to publish essential reporting, investigation, and analysis about the biggest crisis facing our planet. We watchdog government, industry and advocates and hold them accountable for their policies and actions. We counter misinformation, hold polluters responsible, expose environmental injustice and scrutinize solutions. We have earned many of the most prestigious awards in journalism, including the Pulitzer Prize."
Video series -- Climate Solutions 101
Climate Solutions 101 is the world’s first major educational effort focused solely on solutions. Rather than rehashing well-known climate challenges, Project Drawdown centers game-changing climate action based on its own rigorous scientific research and analysis. This course, presented in video units and in-depth conversations, combines Project Drawdown’s trusted resources with the expertise of several inspiring voices from around the world.
Drawdown Solutions Library
Project Drawdown’s world-class network of scientists, researchers, and fellows has characterized a set of 93 technologies and practices that together can dramatically reduce concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Today, our focus is on developing and implementing specific strategies for deploying these solutions to achieve drawdown quickly, safely, and equitably. Learn more!

IPCC AR6 -- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Sixth Assessment Report

Comprehensive review of climate change. 2022-2023. Look at studies that the AR6 cites. It has a comprehensive bibliography at the end of each chapter.

How to cite: Part1. Part2. Part 3.

New -- 5th National Climate Assessment

Report -- Fifth National Climate Assessment

Some Top Climate Science Journals

Also see Science, Nature, and PNAS. They have many articles on climate science these days.

Government Agencies and Other Web

IPCC AR5
The AR5 is now dated. Refer to AR6 as soon as its components are released during 2021-2022.
Detailed summary of what the world's scientists know about climate change. From the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 2013-2014.
NOAA ClimateWatch
US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Climate Change Adaptation Resouce Center (ARC-X)
EPA's interactive resource to help local governments effectively deliver services to their communities as the climate changes
Climate.gov

Databases, for Finding Journal Articles

Also see suggested resources for Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geology, and Geography. And APPsearch.

Google Scholar
Use Google Scholar through the library to be automatically linked to the full text of articles we own.
Use Google Scholar through the library to be automatically linked to the full text of articles we own.

AppState's AppalAIR and other research

Appalachian Atmospheric Interdisciplinary Research
Intensive interdisciplinary research and teaching program for exploring atmospheric processes. This involves subjects such as air pollution formation and transport, the relationship of pollution and natural aerosol sources to a changing climate, and their impacts on regional ecosystems, weather, and climate.

2018 Special Report by the IPCC -- Global Warmng of 1.5 degrees Celsius

Report -- Global Warming of 1.5 °C

Climate and Atmospheric Sciences: Researching Climate Science

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