WebResources
Skeptical Science (Getting Skeptical about Global Warming Skepticism)
This page, maintained by an interdisciplinary team of scientists, journalists, engineers, and conservationists, offers overviews of the scientific literature and evidence, as well as links to sources and studies, to address the “climate myths” propounded by climate change deniers. Arguments are presented at varying levels of scientific detail, from “basic” to “intermediate” and “advanced” depending on the need. A very useful teaching tool.
A research project to study and contribute to the global environmental justice movement. An incredibly useful resource. See in particular the Environmental Justice Atlas, which maps and documents environmental justice conflicts around the globe.
Environment & Society Portal Environmental Justice Resources
Extensive online environmental justice resources are available via the Environment & Society Portal.
National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Environmental Justice Page
This page offers a detailed history of the environmental justice movement. The webpages of the NRDC are very useful for other environmental issues as well.
Environmental Law Institute – People, Places, Planet Podcast
The pages of the Environmental Law Institute offer a variety of helpful resources, including the People Places Planet podcast series.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The reports, material and recommendations of the IPCC, the scientific body advising global policy makers and the U.N. on matters of climate change can be found here.
Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities and Social Sciences
This site is a growing resource for anyone interested in teaching climate change in the humanities and social sciences, offering resources and reading lists that can be integrated into a college course syllabus. The resources are intended to be useful for humanities and literature instructors who are interested in developing syllabi, or adding climate change/climate justice units to their courses, as well as for instructors in the sciences and social sciences who might want to include a discussion of literary texts in their classes.
The Teaching Resources page of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) offers a range of syllabi and assignments from Environmental Justice and Climate Change to Green Media and Tiny Ecology for free download.
Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities
Reading lists and resources for anybody interested to incorporate a climate-change unit using literature into their courses.
NAACP Environmental Justice Initiative
A pdf document put together by the NAACP’s Environmental/Climate Justice Initiative with a host of teaching resources and lesson plans.
The International Institute of Climate Action and Theory (ICAT)
ICATs pages provide extensive information and resources on policy-making to ensure climate justice and human rights in the face of climate change.
Climate Central Coastal Risk Screening Tool
Climate Central’s map of coastlines predicted to be flooded by 2050 according to revised data sets.
An efficient tool for tracking what the Trump Administration has done to deregulate our climate and environmental protections has been created by the Columbia Law School Sabin Center for Environmental Law of the Columbia University Earth Institute.