Friday, November 30, 2012

Climate Change in Kansas

Global warming and climate change are big topics today.  What follows are a list of information sites that pertain to Kansas and to the subject matter in general.  In the years to come this will be a much talked about topics.  We hope you find this information helpful to you, and be sure to use your local library to search further on this topic.

In Kansas:

Climate change in Kansas
http://kansas.sierraclub.org/Wind/KansasGlobalWarming.htm

Economic Impact of climate change in Kansas.
http://www.cier.umd.edu/climateadaptation/Kansas%20Economic%20Impacts%20of%20Climate%20Change.pdf

Saving energy and global warming in Salina.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/science/earth/19fossil.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

A list of scholarly article on climate change in Kansas, many of these can be downloaded as pdf files.

You can obtain others by going to your local library.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=climate+change+kansas&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=XOi0ULLaHanQ2AXqxoDICA&ved=0CDMQgQMwAA

Kansas and Climate Change by Feddema and Brunsell University of Kansas Dept. of Geography, no date

 Climate change hits home: the risks for Kansas:
http://www.climateandenergy.org/_FileLibrary/FileImage/ClimateStudyFinal.pdf   

 Lots of graphs and charts on current and future trends.
http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/conferen/kepc07/Feddema_KEPC.pdf

Here is a large list of general web site that give a wide variety of information on climate change and global warming.
 
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
http://www.c2es.org/

Climate Institute
http://www.climate.org/

U.S. Global Change Research Program
http://www.globalchange.gov/

World Meterological Organization
http://www.wmo.int/

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Climate Change Page
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/index.html

PBS NOVA Frontline – What’s Up with the Weather?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/

U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
http://www.ipcc.ch/

U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change
http://unfccc.int/2860.php

U.S. NOAA Climate Prediction Center
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/

NASA: Destination Earth
http://nasascience.nasa.gov/earth-science/

Climate Arc (Climate Change Activist Website)
http://www.climateark.org/

Climate Change Research Library (Worldwatch Institute)
http://www.worldwatch.org/topics/energy/climate/

CO2 Science Magazine
http://www.co2science.org/

World Wildlife Fund: Climate
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/aboutcc/

U.S. EPA Energy Star Program
http://www.energystar.gov/

U.S. Geological Survey
http://www.usgs.gov/

Union of Concerned Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/

Article author and contact: Tom Roth