• 251569main_jpl-jason2-pod.MP3 (audio/mpeg Object)
  Jason 2 to map the height of the oceans now and over time. Beach erosion, fisheries, oil companies and other various industries are very interested in these data. Power plants use sea water for cooling, so care about its temperature.
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• A Guide to Carbon Capture and Storage: In-Depth Reports
  Scientific American did an in-depth study of CCS and has melded all their resources on the subject in one place.
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• Climate Change: Evidence
  presents many lines of reasoning to support the reality of global climate change; great images and graphics
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• Curriki - Lesson7: AmazingAlbedo
  Different materials absorb and reflect different amounts of energy. A dark rock will quickly absorb and not reflect much light energy where as ice will reflect a lot of light and not absorb very much. Man made materials versus natural materials have different absorptions and reflections as well. Ice is naturally reflective along with certain types of clouds. Rock and other dark materials absorb more energy than lighter materials. Rough materials absorb more energy than smooth materials. This lesson has students collect data on differing materials
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• Decision Making for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities
  Targeting administrative or legislative bodies for receiving scientific information that will inform decision making--meet early, meet often, and have a rapport
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• ENSI/SENSI Lesson: Nat.of Sci. FALSE ASSUMPTIONS
  Little deceptive problem stories are presented to the class, and students are challenged to solve each problem by asking only yes/no questions. The key is for students to recognize what the False Assumption is that makes the solution tricky, and that many common problems are difficult to solve because we tend to assume a particular paradigm. Things are not always what they seem! Science is a way to work around or through those false assumptions. PRINCIPAL CONCEPT Scientific knowledge is contingent and subject to modification. ASSOCIATED CONCEPTS Science contains an element of uncertainty. ASSESSABLE OBJECTIVES Students will.... 1. related insights from this activity to their personal lives. 2. be unable to solve thought problems because of false a
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• Eyes on the Earth
  Play the interactive game metropolis to find the 10 biggest cities in the world based on their carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere above them.
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• Greenopolis
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• Huge sea level rises are coming – unless we act now - environment - 25 July 2007 - New Scientist
  James Hansen heads NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. A physicist and astronomer by training, he began his career studying the clouds on Venus. Since the late 1970s he has been studying and modelling the human impact on Earth's climate, and has published more than 100 papers. He entered the public spotlight in the 1980s with his outspoken testimony to congressional committees on climate change. Last year he made headlines when he spoke out against attempts by the US administration to gag climate scientists.
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• IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  IPCC home of Assessment Reports 1-4 (latest 2007) on climate change/global warming
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• Losing Louisiana / Science News
  Residents of Louisiana, take note: If engineers don’t divert sediment-rich waters from the Mississippi River to help replenish a sinking river delta, about 10 percent of your state will slip beneath the waves by the end of this century. However, even if the engineers do try to abate the subsidence, the Mississippi doesn’t carry enough sediment to offset more than a small fraction of that loss, a new analysis suggests.
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• NASA - New Oceanography Mission Data Now Available
  Jason 2 satellite data shows increase of 3 mm/yr
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• NASA - Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2 Begins Mapping Oceans
  Less than a month after launch, the NASA-French space agency Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason 2 oceanography satellite has produced its first complete maps of global ocean surface topography, surface wave height and wind speed. The new data will help scientists monitor changes in global sea level and the distribution of heat in the ocean. This information is used to monitor climate change and ocean circulation, and to enable more accurate weather, ocean and climate forecasts. The data reveal patterns of sea level anomalies, which are used by scientists to calculate the speed and direction of ocean surface currents.
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• NASA Flies to Greenland to Extend Polar Science
  Imagine a piece of ice 1,000 miles long, 400 miles wide, and 2 miles thick in the center. That's the Greenland ice sheet. But that island-sized piece of ice is melting, so NASA researchers are flying to the Arctic this week to learn more about the nature of those changes.
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• New crops needed for new climate
  Global food security changing climate depends nutritional value yield staple food crops. Researchers at Monash University Victoria, Australia found an increase toxic compounds, decrease protein content decreased yield plants grown under high CO2 drought c
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• Ozone Hole Trims Polar Water’s CO2-absorbing Power / Science News
  The ozone hole over Antarctica does more than let a little extra ultraviolet light reach ground level: It boosts ocean acidification in the waters surrounding the icy continent and reduces the amount of carbon dioxide emissions those waters can absorb.
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• Remote Sensing Tutorial Page 16-1
  This Section surveys one general but vital idea and then addresses how the Earth Sciences community is responding to implementing the outgrowths of this idea. A new field seems to have emerged in the last 20 years. It goes by the imposing name: Earth System(s) Science. But, its ingredients have been around for a long time (some of the components make up the contents of Physical Geography textbooks). The basic notion is this: instead of treating such fields as meteorology, oceanography, botany, ecology, living creatures, aspects of geology, etc. as discrete, self-contained knowledge bases, recognize that they are all part of the same system that controls the Earth, and hence all pointed towards a central common theme, and then cross-link (integrate) the n...
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• ScienceDaily Stories about Ice Sheet Melting
  Global climate change and sea level rise due to melting of ice sheets around the globe. Includes video news storiesw
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• Scientific Value of Arctic Sea Ice Imagery Derived Products
  During the 1990s, a government program brought together environmental scientists and members of the intelligence community to consider how classified assets and data could be applied to further the understanding of environmental change. As part of the Medea program, collection of overhead classified imagery of sea ice at four sites around the Arctic basin was initiated in 1999, and two additional sites were added in 2005. Collection of images during the summer months at these six locations has continued until the present day. Several hundred unclassified images with a nominal resolution of 1 meter have been derived from the classified images collected at the 6 Arctic sites. To assist in the process of making the unclassified derived imagery more widely ...
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• Slide Show: What Does Carbon Capture and Storage Look Like?: Scientific American Slideshows
  CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE: The new boiler at the Schwarze Pumpe power plant in Spremberg, Germany, captures 95 percent of the carbon dioxide (CO2) from its coal burning—a small demonstration of one option for capturing carbon and compressing it for transportation by pipeline or truck to a place where it can be buried or used. This photo was taken in October 2007 and shows the general layout of the carbon capture and storage addition to the 1,600 megawatt power plant.
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