To Learn More. There are many great resources available to help you learn more. I have more extensive discussions of global warming both in Beyond UFOs (Chapter 6) and Math for Life (Chapter 7), and a child-level discussion in The Wizard Who Saved the World; I also did a post on the letter to your grandchildren idea. In addition, here are other resources that I particularly recommend:
- For a great general overview of the topic, watch Episode 12 of the new Cosmos series (with Neil deGrasse Tyson), available on Netflix and elsewhere.
- There are many great books on global warming, but a personal favorite, because it does such a great job of explaining the science and how we’ve learned it, is The Discovery of Global Warming by Spencer Weart, which is accompanied by a great web site.
- The National Academies of Sciences has produced a great video set (26 minutes total) that summarizes the evidence for global warming.
- NASA maintains this site focused on global climate change with outstanding summaries and regularly updated news.
- The outstanding Skeptical Science web site has this big picture overview of global warming and climate change.
- Skeptical Science also has an extensive list of “skeptic” claims with detailed explanations of why they are fallacious.
- The Climate Central web site has a compendium of almost everything you might want to know about global warming and all the latest news.
- The latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) represent the work of thousands of climate scientists from around the world. You can find them here.
- Other great sites with tons of information include Realclimate.org and the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions.