We must strive to be responsible stewards of the environment, our communities, and our planet. All people, especially future generations, have the right to inherit and enjoy clean air, potable water, nutritious food, and a healthy natural environment. We must recognize and prepare for the reality of climate change.
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Learn More With These Resources:
Climate Change Explained:
- The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson
- The Climate Modeling Primer by Kendal McGuffie and Ann Henderson-Sellers
- The Discovery of Global Warming, Revised and Expanded by Spencer R. Weart
- www.realclimate.org (where climate scientists go to converse with each other)
- www.skepticalscience.org
- www.ipcc.ch (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) )
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report, 2014 Synthesis
- http://www.noaa.gov/climate.html (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
- http://climate.nasa.gov/ (National Aeronautics and Spece Administration)UW College of the Environment Climate Impacts Group
The Politics of Climate Change:
- The Benton County Democrats 2014 Platform – Section 7 Energy and the Environment expounds the position of the Benton County Democrats in regards to climate change. Climate change is also addressed in other sections of the document.
- Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
- Merchants of Doubt Film
- Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth’s Climate by Stephen H. Schneider
- The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines by Michael E. Mann
- Carbon Tax FAQs
Climate Change, Faith, and Morality:
- On Care for Our Common Home, Encyclical Letter of the Supreme Pontiff Francis
- Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions by Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley
Climate Change Impacts on Washington State:
- Climate Change in the Northwest: Implications for Our Landscapes, Waters, and Communities by Dalton, Mote, and Snover
- Part of the National Climate Assessment at: http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/downloads
- UW Climate Impacts Group
- WSU Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources
- WA Dept of Ecology
- Oregon Climate Research Institute
Climate Change and Agriculture:
Climate Change and National Security: