Climate Change Web Sites

Follow the links below to interesting web sites where you can learn more about Climate change.

Featured Climate Change Web Sites

• The Recovery Series from Environmental Defense

  The Recovery Series with Executive Director, Tim Gray, where we try to make sense of the COVID-19 crisis from an environmental perspective. Each week, we dig into the most pressing questions on current environmental issues.

  Here is the complete series

• The Energy Mix

  The Energy Mix is your guide to climate change and energy issues and solutions. Find the latest content on the impacts of climate change, the fossil industries that produce the emissions, renewable energy and energy efficiency alternatives, or climate solutions outside energy.

• NASA: Global Climate Change

  The National Aeroautics and Space Administration web site dedicated to reporting the facts on Climate Change.

• The Canadian Institute for Climate Choices

  Drawing on experience and expertise from across the country, the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices will accelerate that progress and help Canadian decision makers chart a course toward a clean, resilient and prosperous future for all Canadians.

• Sceptical Science

  Explaining climate change science & rebutting global warming misinformation

• Citizens Climate Lobby Canada

  A growing organization of local volunteer groups in Canada and the U.S. that are pressing for progressive climate legislation.

• The Climate Atlas of Canada

  The Climate Atlas of Canada combines climate science, mapping and storytelling to bring the global issue of climate change closer to home for Canadians. It is designed to inspire local, regional, and national action that will let us move from risk to resilience.

• How Data Science can Help Fight Climate Change

  Global warming is one of the most pressing and severe challenges confronting our planet. This urgent problem is primarily fueled by the rising levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide in the Earth's atmosphere.

  Data science is a powerful tool in the fight against global warming. It uses different methods, such as machine learning (where computers learn from data) and data visualization (turning data into pictures), to analyze the details and understand the most challenging components of climate change.

Interesting Climate Change Web Sites

• Gateway to the United Nations System Work on Climate Change

  The latest Climate Change news from the United Nations.

• European Climate Commissioner web site

  News of what Europeans are doing to combat Climate Change.

• Carbon Brief Web Site

  Carbon Brief is a UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy.

• Natural Resources Canada

  NRC has lots of useful information on the state of climate change in Canada including forecasts of coming changes and programs for how we are reacting to it.

• Kina Gdi-Gwendaagininaanig – To All Our Relatives“

  Add your message to a relative for delivery in the future telling them why you care about the climate crisis and what you will do to make a difference.

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  The U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has a section of their web site dedicated to tracking news and research related to climate change.

• The Daily Climate

  Daily updates from the world of climate change in five categories: Top Stories; Climate at your doorstep; Solutions; Causes; Politics.

• Sustainable Prosperity

  Sustainable Prosperity is a national green economy think tank / do tank from the University of Ottawa, harnessing leading-edge thinking to advance innovation in policy and markets, in the pursuit of a greener, more competitive Canadian econom

• The Canadian Clean Technology Coalition

  An innovative alliance of companies and stakeholders who are moving their products and know-how into the Canadian and global green technology marketplace.

• The Pembina Institute

  The Pembina Institute advances clean energy solutions through research, education, consulting and advocacy.

• The US Navy

  The US Navy maintains this web site detailing their preparations for climate change.

• Huffington Post Climate Change Section

  Frequently updated news stories about climate change.

• Care to make a difference

  Many interesting articles about Climate Change

• Climate Central

  An independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impact on the American public.

• Climate Change Explained for Children

  A web site developed by an Australian Grandfather a few years ago. He tries to explain the problem to children.

• European Climate Commissioner web site

  News of what Europeans are doing to combat Climate Change.

• Gateway to the United Nations System Work on Climate Change

  The latest Climate Change news from the United Nations.

• Health Canada

  Health Canada provides information about how a changing climate can affect human health.

• 350.org

  A global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis.

• How to Have a Useful Conversation About Climate Change in 11 Steps

  We lecture more than we listen and this gets in the way. A key question is this: How can we have productive conversations about climate change that result in people feeling more engaged, informed, and willing to do something different?

• The Climate Atlas of Canada

  The Climate Atlas of Canada combines climate science, mapping and storytelling to bring the global issue of climate change closer to home for Canadians. It is designed to inspire local, regional, and national action that will let us move from risk to resilience.

• Climate Emergency: A 26-Week Transition Program for Canada

  What could the government of Canada do if its Ministers, MPs and civil servants really understood the severity of the climate emergency, and the urgency of the need? This paper shows how we could target a 65% reduction in emissions by 2030 and 100% by 2040. It proposes 164 new policies and programs, financed by $59 billion a year in new investments, without raising taxes or increasing public sector borrowing. The new programs and policies are announced every Monday morning between January 6^th and the end of June. To learn what they are, read on.

• What Will it Take to Cool the Planet?

  A simulator from Climate Interactive, out of M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management allows you to change many variables to see what it would take to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions enough to get us off our current impossible track and onto the merely miserable heading of 1.5 to two degrees Celsius envisioned in the Paris climate accords.

  It will appeal to the geek in you and will show you that there is no magic bullet, no one thing that we can do that will achieve the desired result. It will show that we have to start using every tool in the toolbox and we need to start right now.

• The Recovery Series from Environmental Defense

  The Recovery Series with Executive Director, Tim Gray, where we try to make sense of the COVID-19 crisis from an environmental perspective. Each week, we dig into the most pressing questions on current environmental issues.

  Here is the complete series

• FutureLearn

  FutureLearn offers online Environment and Biology courses created by experts from leading universities and organizations. Here you can learn about how our need for energy and resources shaping the environmental challenges for tomorrow. Explore the natural world, and understand the causes and impact of climate change, with our online environment and biology courses.