Climate Websites and Webinars
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine – ongoing webinar series on climate: problems, impacts, mitigation
Climate Justice Universities Union – “a transboundary and transdisciplinary collective seeking to leverage the transformative potential of higher education institutions to accelerate a just transition and advance climate justice.”
Portail du collapsologie – An excellent gateway (based in France) to research on “collapsology,” i.e., the potential “polycrises” of social/economic/environmental collapse.
Post-Carbon Institute – “leading the transition to a more resilient, equitable, sustainable world.” Articles, podcasts, online courses. An affiliated organization, dedicated to the idea that humans must live in harmony with nature, is resilience.org.
Climate Central/ Climate Matters – user-friendly data visualizations, maps, and other resources particularly useful for students and non-specialists.
Climatetrace.org – greenhouse gas tracking
Jim Hansen has a new substack blog, “Climate Uncensored.” Or follow Jim Hansen’s website/periodic newsletter.
Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather’s substack blog is The Climate Brink – highly recommended.
Bill McKibben, The Crucial Years
Jennifer Donald, Planet: Critical
California’s Fifth Climate Assessment
Project Drawdown – climate solutions (list here)
Yale Program on Climate Change Communications – studies and provides resources for assessing public opinion, behavior, and messaging around climate change. Also a daily national radio program, Yale Climate Connections, and a weekly newsletter you can subscribe to.
Campus Climate Network (formerly Fossil Free Research) – primarily based in the US but with a UK arm, CCN students, faculty, and staff seek to highlight (and then disentangle universities from) fossil fuel corporate ties. They advocate moving beyond direct divestment to fossil fuel “dissociation” – no indirect investments, no banking with “dirty banks,” no fossil fuel-funded research, no fossil fuel execs/attorneys on university boards, no fossil fuel recruiting on campus.
Columbia University’s “State of the Planet”
Environmental scientist Andrew Gunther’s blog
Realclimate.org – here, climate scientists debate and weigh in on recent important discoveries and claims and studies. Excellent to get this from scientists themselves
Desmogblog.com – special focus on climate misinformation and the politics/money behind anti-climate activism
Ecowatch – a general-interest online environmental newspaper
The Guardian – left-leaning news magazine with special climate section
http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/ — summarizes peer-reviewed articles from the journal Nature Climate Change
George Mason University’s Program in Climate Change Communication
Climateoutreach.org – like the YPCCC, focuses on how to best communicate about climate issues
Skepticalscience.com – run by John Cook, a professor at George Mason’s Program in Climate Change Communication, debunks climate misinformation with peer-reviewed research. Weekly newsletter too.
https://pachamama.org/ –Amazon rainforest-centered, with free action-oriented online courses.
Mother Pelican Journal – open-access journal of sustainability and resilience
Resilience.org and the Post-Carbon Institute – “leading the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world.”
A compendium of climate resources compiled by Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse.
For social scientists, the Climate Social Science Network. CSSN offers a free monthly newsletter chock full of links to new research and calls for papers/collaboration. particularly useful: the CSSN’s accessible (2021) primer on climate obstruction.
Climate Newsletters – free from Canada’s The Globe and Mail (sample here), and under paywall from the Washington Post (“Climate 202” and “The Climate Coach,” and the New York Times (“Climate Forward”). For an excellent environmental newsletter centered on Santa Cruz County events and organizations, subscribe to Environteers.org.