Climate Change Impacts in the United States – final report

Download report pdf                  Go to Report website

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New Chilean agriculture-climate observation centre to boost early warning for drought events

New Chilean agriculture-climate observation centre to boost early warning for drought events

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Impacts on Water Quality after Hurricane Sandy

Impacts on Water Quality after Hurricane Sandy

NOAA – Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center
Center Director: Dr. Reza Khanbilvardi
The City College of New York
June 12, 2013
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NASA Study Projects Warming-Driven Changes in Global Rainfall

NASA Study Projects Warming-Driven Changes in Global Rainfall

A NASA-led modeling study provides new evidence that global warming may increase the risk for extreme rainfall and drought.

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The White House Convenes Scientists to Discuss the World’s New Ocean

The White House Convenes Scientists to Discuss the World’s New Ocean

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How Climate Change is Destroying the Earth – Infographic by LEARNSTUFF.COM

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Art and Climate Change Education

Artistic Depiction Of Climate Change Freaks The Heck Out Of People On The Street

Fantastic way to drive home the reality of climate change.

Click Here to View the Upworthy Video

 

Is Global Warming Real?

I gave this homework assignment to my Agroclimatology class today.  Perhaps you would like to try it?

Homework Problem:  Do you believe that global warming is real?

Please read the articles and watch the YouTube video at the following links and provide me with a 1 page argument either for or against man-made global warming. (If you are not in my class, you don’t have to submit the 1 page argument, however, you may want to leave a comment below.)

Climate Change: ‘Hoax’ Or Crime Of The Century?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhendrickson/2012/09/16/climate-change-hoax-or-crime-of-the-century/

Most Used Climate Myths and what the science says….
http://www.skepticalscience.com/

TEDxTheEvergreenStateCollege – David Roberts – Climate Change is Simple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=A7ktYbVwr90

Coffee Harvest in Vietnam Set to Drop From Record on Weather

Coffee Harvest in Vietnam Set to Drop From Record on Weather

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Why 2013 will be a year of crisis

Why 2013 will be a year of crisis

  • David Frum: The drought in the U.S., Russia and Australia is driving up food prices
  • He says sharp rises in prices have long been tied to unrest among the world’s poor
  • High prices have been cited as a cause of last year’s upheaval in Egypt and Tunisia, he says
  • Frum: The winner of November election in U.S. will have to deal with the consequences