Current Topics: An Undergraduate Research Guide : Climate Change
News
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Newspaper Source PlusNewspaper Source Plus includes 1,520 full-text newspapers, providing more than 28 million full-text articles.
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Newspaper Research GuideThis guide describes sources for current and historical newspapers available in print, electronically, and on microfilm through the UW-Madison Libraries. These sources are categorized by pages: Current, Historical, Local/Madison, Wisconsin, US, Alternative/Ethnic, and International.
Organizations
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Carbon Migration InitativeThe Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI) is a 20-year partnership between Princeton University and BP with the goal of finding solutions to the carbon and climate problem.
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Climate Change and Wisconsin's Great LakesFrom the State of Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
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Kyoto ProtocolThe Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which commits its Parties by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets.
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Union of Concerned ScientistsOur scientists and engineers develop and implement innovative, practical solutions to some of our planet’s most pressing problems—from combating global warming and developing sustainable ways to feed, power, and transport ourselves, to fighting misinformation and reducing the threat of nuclear war.
About Climate Change
Rising global temperatures have been accompanied by changes in weather and climate. It is usually attributed to an enhanced greenhouse effect, tending to intensify with the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. This Research Guide includes sources relevant to the investigation for causes and effects on the environment of the atmospheric greenhouse effect and global climate change.
Try searching these terms using the resources linked on this page: climate change*, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gas*, global climate change, global warming, greenhouse gas mitigation, carbon dioxide mitigation, carbon sequestration, global temperature changes, paleoclimatology, deglaciation, fossil fuel* and climate change*
Wisconsin Water Library
Interested in learning more about how changes in the environment are impacting Wisconsin's fresh water sources? Check out the Wisconsin Water Library, which has over 30,000 volumes addressing the Great Lakes and Wisconsin's lakes and rivers. Don't miss this one-of-a-kind resrouce available to all University of Wisconsin students!
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Overview Resources - Background Information
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Credo ReferenceA collection of 100 reference tools that may be searched collectively or individually. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, statistical sources, biographical tools, thesauri, books of quotations, image collections, and more.
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Global Climate ChangeFrom NASA
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource CenterOpposing Viewpoints Resource Center (OVRC) provides viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles related to controversial social issues.
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State of the ClimateFact sheets & briefs from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Books
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by Author David Wallace-Wells urges readers to look broadly at the damage wrought to our environment by climate change, arguing that rising oceans only scratch the surface of potential catastrophes humanity will have to face. This book imagines the totality of changes climate catastrophe will bring to how we live and how we see ourselves and others.Call Number: GF75 .W36 2019ISBN: 0525576703Publication Date: 2019 -
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Longtime climate activist Naomi Klein contends that the tension between capitalism and the climate has reached an unsustainable inflection point. Without a complete reordering of the globe's political economy, the Earth will not survive. Carbon emissions, she argues, are the symptom of an economic system that puts profit over people.Call Number: HC79 E5 K56 2014ISBN: 1451697384Publication Date: 2014 -
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by This book examines the ecological implications of environmental degradation. Elizabeth Kolbert argues that we're living in the midst of a sixth mass extinction as ecosystems are thrown out of balance. Beyond the disappearance of beloved plants an animals, the sixth extinction, writes Kolbert, will harm humans in difficult to imagine ways, perhaps being humanity's most lasting legacy.Call Number: QE721.2 E97 K65 2014ISBN: 0805092994Publication Date: 2014 -
Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by In this globe-spanning book, activist Mary Robinson sees the unfolding of a world-wide grassroots movement for climate justice. Robinson prescribes that we draw strength from activists around the world fighting to build a more sustainable future.Call Number: GE220 .R63 2018ISBN: 1632869284Publication Date: 2018 -
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh wonders in this book how future generations will perceive our unwillingness to reckon with environmental catastrophe. He looks to stir readers into viewing political action as a collective struggle rather than as a matter of personal identity so that we might begin to imagine and fight for a better world.Call Number: PN56.C612 G48 2017ISBN: 022632303XPublication Date: 2016
Articles - Scholarly and Popular
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Academic SearchIncludes scholarly and popular articles on many topics.
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Environmental Sciences and Pollution ManagementIncludes articles on basic science areas of bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, waste management, and water resources.
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Meteorological & Geoastrophysical AbstractsIncludes articles on the fields of meteorology, climatology, physical oceanography, hydrology, glaciology, and atmospheric chemistry and physics
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Web of ScienceIncludes predominately scholarly articles on a wide range of scientific disciplines.
Statistics and Data
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Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES)An independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to advance strong policy and action to address our climate and energy challenges.
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National Climatic Data CenterNOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) provids public access to the largest archive of climatic and historical weather data.
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U.S. Global Change Research ProgramThe U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was established by Presidential Initiative in 1989 and mandated by Congress in the Global Change Research Act (GCRA) of 1990 to “assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change.”
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U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report: 1990-2014EPA develops an annual report called the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (Inventory). This report tracks total annual U.S. emissions and removals by source, economic sector, and greenhouse gas going back to 1990. EPA uses national energy data, data on national agricultural activities, and other national statistics to provide a comprehensive accounting of total greenhouse gas emissions for all man-made sources in the United States.