Climate science links

Sick of the shock-jocks and deniers being the source of your ‘information’ on climate change? Want to get your information on climate change first hand? Try these links…

GENERAL INTRO: http://www.skepticalscience.com/ – a good layman’s intro, especially if you start by clicking the  “NEWCOMERS START HERE” button. This site references and presents the work of others, sometimes in summary. If you want the raw data from the data collectors, then read on…

CLIMATE SCIENTISTS’ FORUM: http://www.realclimate.org/ – a forum run by a small group of climate scientists for hosting the work of many more scientists.

NASA: http://climate.nasa.gov/ – NASA’s complete climate data website; lots of links go from this one.

NASA TIME MOVIE: http://climate.nasa.gov/ClimateTimeMachine/climateTimeMachine.cfm – NASA’s movie of climate change over time

IPCC: http://ipccinfo.com/ – the often-criticised IPCC. Like all UN organisations, it is heavy with bureaucracy, but it is also heavy with the major climate scientists from around the world. Ignore it at your peril – its advice is always conservative.

CSIRO: http://www.csiro.au/science/Climate-Change.html – one of the best in the business, our very own CSIRO.

UNI OF NSW: http://research.unsw.edu.au/search?keys=climate#search-results – most of UNSW’s climate researchers, and links to their papers. There is a good weekend’s reading here, and that’s just skimming the abstracts!

UNI EAST ANGLIA: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/ – Uni of East Anglia Climate Research Unit. This is the mob who supposedly blew the lid on ‘cooking’ the climate change data, but as time has shown, merely wrote some inappropriately worded emails about people who were attacking them. Their research stands – read it and weep.

That’s a start – there are many many more, but if you follow the links in just these, you will be busy reading for a year or more. But don’t worry about ringing Alan Jones or Andrew Bolt – they will just cut you off. Talk to your family and friends instead – they are more influential in the end.

PS: If you are interested in why Australia’s ‘debate’ on climate change seems to have slipped backwards, you may find this article interesting – it explains how in the face of grave challenges, all that needs to be done to cause inaction is for doubt to be sown…