Population, Consumption, and Climate

Professor Al Bartlett explains the connection between population growth, consumption and climate change.

Part of the series "Climate and Colorado's Future" produced by the Office of University Outreach at the University of Colorado Boulder and Landlocked Films.

http://vimeo.com/37077892

Colorado's Forests and the Pine Beetle Epidemic

Professor Jeff Mitton and researchers from the University of Colorado explain the connection between the unprecedented mountain pine beetles epidemic and climate change in Colorado.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX09bxMHlT8

Global Warming Effects Map

See the impacts of climate change on the planet!  Great interactive tool and map.

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-impacts-interactive.html?nav=FEATURES

Healthy Neighborhoods / Healthy Kids

Healthy Neighborhoods/Healthy Kids

The Healthy Neighborhoods/ Healthy Kids (HN/HK) Project is a service-learning/civic engagement and project-based learning framework for students designed by Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project in collaboration with Smart Growth Vermont.

http://www.sustainableschoolsproject.org/tools-resources/hnhk

Climate Hot Map

Explore the signs of global warming on this map or Google Earth. The evidence of climate change includes heat waves, sea-level rise, flooding, melting glaciers, earlier spring arrival, coral reef bleaching, and the spread of disease.

The greatest concentration of global warming indicators on the map is in North America and Europe because that is where most scientific investigation has been done to date. As scientists focus increasingly on fingerprints of global warming in other regions—from Russia to Antarctica and Oceania to South America—the evidence they find will be added to the map.

http://www.climatehotmap.org

Global Climate Animations

The surface energy balance is the resultant of radiative components such as incoming and outgoing short-wave and long-wave radiation, and also non-radiative components such as sensible heating, latent heating, and the change in energy storage in water or substrate on land. The following animations show radiative and non-radiative components which emphasize the latitudinal and seasonal variations of solar input and surface-atmosphere energy exchange.

http://geography.uoregon.edu/envchange/clim_animations/index.html

Extreme Ice

Follow photojournalist James Balog to some of the most remote and beautiful places on Earth as he documents the disappearance of an icy landscape that took thousands of years to form. An artist, scientist, explorer, and former mountain guide, Balog braves treacherous terrain to site his cameras in ideal locations to record the unfolding drama. Remarkable time-lapse footage reveals massive glaciers and ice sheets splitting apart, collapsing, and disappearing at a rate that has scientists alarmed. This NOVA-National Geographic Television special investigates the latest evidence of a radically warming planet.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/extreme-ice.html