HYDROSPHERE

  the ocean world
marine life
coastlines
the water cycle and water quality
freshwater ecosystems

GEOSPHERE

  inside the earth
plate tectonics
modeling the earth
earthquakes
volcanoes
avalanches
living at risk
planning for hazards

ATMOSPHERE





the earth system
paleoclimates
the global carbon cycle
modeling the climate
global warming
el niño & la niña
climate & biodiversity
climate & society

Course Content
Atmosphere: Global Warming

ILLUSTRATED LECTURES

ACE On-Line Young Person's Guide: Global Climate Change
Atmosphere, Climate, and Environment (ACE) Information Program, Atmospheric Resource Information Center, Manchester Metropolitan University

Climate Change and Impacts
Global Warming Presentations, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Global Warming and Climate Change
Granger Morgan and Tom Smuts, U.S. Global Change Research Information Office, Carnegie Mellon University

Hot as Hades = Global Warming?
The Why Files, University of Wisconsin -Madison

Introduction to Environmental Sciences: Ecosystem Ecology
Linda K. Blum, University of Virginia

Introduction to Global Change
Tim Killeen, University of Michigan

What We Know and What We Don't
Daniel L. Albritton, Aeronomy Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

IMAGE BANKS, VIDEOS, AND INTERACTIVE RESOURCES

Global Warming: A "Super-Interglacial" Alternative
Kent Kirkby, Paul Morin, et al., Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota

NewsOne Video
ABC News

What's Up With the Weather?
Nova/Frontline

EXERCISES AND LABS

Curriculum Guide for the Climate Impacts Map
Union of Concerned Scientists

Global-Change Labs: Greenhouse Gases and Global Warming (Exercise #4)
David Hodell and Ray G. Thomas, University of Florida

Global Warming Project
Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools, Northwestern University

Life in a Greenhouse: Planet Earth
Daniel Edelson and Douglas Gordon, Worldwatcher Project, Northwestern University

Long-Term Climate Change: Greenhouse Warming
David Barnes, Western Michigan University

RESEARCH & POLICY

Borehole Temperatures Confirm Global Warming
John Roach, Environmental News Network

Challenges of a Changing Earth: Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10-13 July 2001
Will Steffan et al., eds. (Springer-Verlag, 2003)

Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions
Committee on the Science of Climate Change, National Academy of Sciences

Climate of 2000 January in Historical Perspective
National Climatic Data Center, NOAA

Dossier: Climate Change
Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)

From Kyoto to Buenos Aires: Technology Transfer and Emissions Trading
Earth Institute and Italian Academy at Columbia University, and United Nations

Global Climate Change: Selective List of Online Resources
Pacific Institute (Oakland, California)

In Hot Water: A Snapshot of the Northwest's Changing Climate
Patrick Mazza, Earth Island Institute

Humanity Blamed for Ice Loss
BBC News

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Reports
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

International Research Institute for Climate Change Prediction
U.S. NOAA Office of Global Programs and Columbia University

January 1995 Events in the Northern Larsen Ice Shelf and Their Importance
Jason Wolfe et al., National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder

Why and How Do Scientists Study Climate Change in the Arctic?
Nick Bond et al., Arctic Theme Page, NOAA