Climate Surfing – a selection of links
We tuned up the following list of links during our recent Climate Week 2013 event.
I’m posting it here in case it is useful to anyone else.
Concern about Climate Change
- * “How do we know the world is warming?” Excellent overview
- David Attenborough CBBC Good video suitable for children (2mins)
- Does it matter if we wait? Manchester Sustainable Consumption Institute Worthy but quite dry
- “Royal Society Holds Firm Amid Political Challenges to Science” – New York Times Science
- “GreedyLyingBastards“ – American site backing a new film of the same name. Lists what it calls The Bastards and The Heroes. One of the heroes is George Monbiot of the British Guardian newspaper. Quite right too.
Answering Denial
- * Skeptical Science.com Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and What the Science Really Says
- * “Who believes in Climate Change? …The Pentagon and every National Science Academy in the world for starters”.
- * Climate Change: Lines of Evidence videos US National Academies [National Academies of Sciences & Engineering, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council]
- Global Warming over the past 16 years Clear video about the Myth that global warming has stopped
- Updates to our decadal forecast – Met Office – refuting the notorious Daily Mail misrepresentation
- Information is beautiful The Global Warming Skeptics VS the Scientific Consensus – another chart of answers to queries deniers keep raising
- Science and Global Warming – that impressive pie chart
Ways forward
- CSE Centre for Sustainable Energy (Wales)
- Carbon capture and alternative technology – what can we do?’ We need a plan – Good talking video with an expert (6mins)
Saving energy
- How Low-Energy Vehicles Work Basic info
- “Using less energy lead to a happier life” A personal account from Japan after the earthquake:
Wind Power
- “What’s inside a Wind Turbine?” Beautifully illustrated and very detailed (9mins)
- Silent revolution Helical turbines
Tidal Power
- Sea Gen – Sea Generation Tidal Turbine (1min)
Solar Power
- A Shade Greener A short video by the BBC explaining the benefits of Free Solar Panels:
What can We do?
- * Reality Drop: Makes it easy to help ‘Spread Science about Climate Change, Global Warming’
Generally Speaking 