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From the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration:

"Weather tells us what to wear on a given day, while climate tells us what we should put in our closet."

Pierre-Louis, Kendra, "For a Climate Change Reporter, The Dreaded Question: 'Then Why is it so Cold?'" New York Times, 28 Sept. 2023.

Books

The Chemistry of Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Division on Earth and Life Studies; Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology; Committee on the Chemistry of Urban Wildfires
Publication Date: 2023
Climate Change and the Health of Nations by Anthony McMichael
Call Number: GF71 .M46 2017
Publication Date: 2017
Climatology Versus Pseudoscience: exposing the failed predictions of global warming skeptics by Dana Andrew Nuccitelli
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 N93 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Communicating Climate Change: A Guide for Educators
Publication Date: 2018
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken; Tom Steyer (Foreword by)
Call Number: TD171.75 .D73 2017
Publication Date: 2017
The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres; Tom Rivett-Carnac
Call Number: QC903 .F54 2020
Publication Date: 2020
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
Call Number: On order - August 2023
ISBN: 9781982178253
Publication Date: 2023
The Octopus in the Parking Garage by Rob Verchick
Call Number: on order
ISBN: 9780231203548
Publication Date: 2023
Vanishing Ice: Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Rising Seas by Vivien Gornitz
Publication Date: 2019

Videos

Climate Change: The Facts
After one of the hottest years on record, Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of climate change and potential solutions to this global threat. Interviews with some of the world’s leading climate scientists explore recent extreme weather conditions such as unprecedented storms and catastrophic wildfires. They also reveal what dangerous levels of climate change could mean for both human populations and the natural world in the future. A BBC Production. 2021. 60 minutes
The Climate Change Denial Industry: James Hoggan.
This episode of The Green Interview features James Hoggan, the author of Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming. He explains how oil and gas companies and their PR firms manufactured the false debate on climate change. Hoggan, who works in the public relations industry himself, explains how public relations techniques allow businesses to use psychology to shape public opinion. Hoggan discusses the climate change deniers, the use of industry-sponsored propaganda and how ethical business should be conducted. 2011. 60 minutes
Native American Communities and Climate Change
Native Americans from Maine to Washington state convened for a conference at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Their mission: to discuss the effects of climate change on tribal communities. NewsHour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan reports. Original broadcast date: July 19, 2012. 8 minutes
Altering the Sky to Reduce Climate Change.
Atmospheric scientists are looking for ways to lessen the effects of global warming. 2012. 120 minutes
Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline
Ade Adepitan heads to the frontline of the battle against climate change. 3 videos
Can we cool the planet?
As global temperatures rise, scientists are exploring solutions from planting trees to sucking carbon out of the air to geoengineering. But would they work? And what are the risks of engineering Earth's climate? 2020. 54 minutes

Articles & Websites

Global Warming of 1.5 °C. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report
National Ocean Service. NOAA.
Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States Opens as a PDF
Calculate your Carbon Footprint
The Nature Conservancy
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Working Together for the Environment and the Economy
Climate Action Portal
United Nations
NASA Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
Rising Seas: Are Cities Prepared for the Growing Threat?
CQ Researcher
Climate Change and Health: Is the Threat to Humans Growing?
CQ Researcher
Global Warming and Climate Change
Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Shifting Seasons Lead to Sour Year for Michigan Cherry Farmer
An early spring in 2012 followed by 19 frost events killed Michigan's cherry crop and impacted farmers' livelihoods. Climatologists say that these shifting seasons could mean more hard years ahead.

"Facts. Climate Change: How Do We Know?" NASA

This graph, based on the comparison of atmospheric samples contained in ice cores and more recent direct measurements, provides evidence that atmospheric CO₂ has increased since the Industrial Revolution. (Credit: Vostok ice core data/J.R. Petit et al.; NOAA Mauna Loa CO2 record.) Find out more about ice cores.

Ocean & Great Lakes Pollution

See also Water Quality & the Flint Water Crisis library research guide at https://esearch.sc4.edu/waterquality.

Dirty Water: One Man's Fight to Clean up One of the World's Most Polluted Bays by Bill Sharpsteen
Publication Date: 2010-01-05
State of the World's Oceans by Michelle Allsopp; Paul Johnston; Stefan E. Pambuccian; David Santillo
Call Number: ebook & print GC1018 .S74 2009
ISBN: 9781402091155
Publication Date: 2008-12-12
Marine Pollution: Sources, Fate and Effects of Pollutants in Coastal Ecosystems by Ricardo Beiras
Publication Date: 2018-07-25
Ocean Solutions, Earth Solutions by Dawn J. Wright (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015-07-10

Keywords:

"marine pollution"
"marine litter"
"marine ecology"
"marine ecosystem management"
"sewage disposal in the ocean"
ocean AND pollution

White Waves
Litter, wastewater, industrial products and chemicals – it is all ending up in the sea. There are some people that observe and feel the pollution day by day with their own body: surfers. Their love of nature and the water gives them the strength to go out, investigate and search for the source of the pollution. The team of White Waves traveled for two years along the beaches of Europe to meet those surfers and reveal widely unknown cases of pollution – from millions of small plastic wheels to pathogenic bacteria in the sea.
Release Date
2016
Producer
Inka Reichert
Duration
52 minutes
Plastic in the Ocean
Ahead of World Oceans Day, Eco Solutions explores the devastation that plastic has on our oceans and the people who are championing the clean-up.
Release Date
2017
Duration 11 minutes

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