This page contains a variety of resources for teaching about climate change.
Many of the links on this page are from a list compiled by Greg McNamara, executive officer of TESEP (Teacher Earth Science Education Programme) and included in a series of webinars produced in conjunction with ASTA during October 2013. To learn more about the work of TESEP and opportunities for online and face to face professional learning, click here.
This outline published by News.Corp in Australia gives a useful overview of climate change and responses to some of the most frequently asked questions.
Skeptical Science.
Scientific skepticism is healthy. Scientists should always challenge themselves to improve their understanding. Yet this isn't what happens with climate change denial. Skeptics vigorously criticise any evidence that supports man-made global warming and yet embrace any argument, op-ed, blog or study that purports to refute global warming. This website gets skeptical about global warming skepticism. Do their arguments have any scientific basis? What does the peer reviewed scientific literature say?
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Bureau of Meteorology - Australia
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/
Joint CSIRO-BoM website
http://www.climatechangeinaustralia.gov.au/
The Hadley Centre – UK
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/resources/hadleycentre
Climate Research Institute – UK
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/
US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Data Centre
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access
Royal Observatory – Belgium
http://sidc.oma.be
The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism
http://www.skepticalscience.com/The-Scientific-Guide-to-Global-Warming-Skepticism.html
US Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/index.html
Climate Council
http://www.climatecouncil.org.au/
Climate Commission
The Climate Commission is no longer in operation and the site has been taken down, but archived copies may be viewed at one of the following sites:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130827184747/http://climatecommission.gov.au/
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/136923/20130919-1415/climatecommission.gov.au/index.html
Global Warming Art
http://www.globalwarmingart.com/ (Original resource no longer available, this copy made available through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.)
World Climate
http://www.worldclimate.com/
Interactive Climate Explorer
http://climexp.knmi.nl/examp.html
Center for Climate and Energy solutions
http://www.c2es.org/publications/realities-vs-misconceptions-about-science-climate-change
US Geological Survey
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/climate.php
Teacher and student resources from coolaustralia.org
http://coolaustralia.org/
http://vimeo.com/channels/596202
There are other course pages on this site that may also be useful in teaching about climate change
These two courses were downloaded from a collection of free resources at moodleshare.org.
They are used here by permission under a Creative Commons License.
Understanding Climate change - Resources and links from the CSIRO