Research and Course Guides: Climate Change and Global Warming: Getting Started

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Introduction to Climate Change & Global Warming Research

Welcome to the Climate Change & Global Warming Subject Guide!

This guide is designed as a starting point for doing research using UST resources.

Use the tabs to navigate through the guide.

Finding Articles use library databases and resources to find background information and peer-reviewed research articles
Finding Books & eBooks browse UST's book collection
Websites & Online News professional organizations, news, and current events
Listen and Learn to podcasts and other audio content about global warming
Streaming Videos watch documentaries, news broadcasts, and more online
Action/Advocacy find information about climate change advocacy groups and their activities
Citing Sources learn how to give credit to your sources

Climate Change - Quick Links

Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Brings together business leaders, policy makers, scientists, and other experts to find no-nonsense solutions.
Encyclopedia of the Earth
An electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society, the encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work.
Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate Change, a complete visual guide
UST-OSF Stacks QC854 .E5258 2010

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Easy access to full-text science content including encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, web sites, pictures, illustrations, audio clips and video clips. Includes ability to limit by lexile reading levels.

Climate Change Indicators
An Environmental Protection Agency report on the indicators of climate change.

Minnesota Resources

MPCA Climate Change--Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Information about climate change in Minnesota, regulatory initiatives, programs and policies.
Great Lakes Communities and Ecosystems at Risk
Examines how climate is projected to change in Minnesota; how these changes may impact human health, agriculture, forests and wildlife, water supplies, property and infrastructure, aquatic ecosystems, as well as tourism and recreation; and how Minnesotans can help reduce these potential impacts by pursuing several solutions strategies.
Fresh Energy
A very large resource providing background and source materials on energy and environmental issues
Climate Change and Minnesota
A Minnesota Office of Energy Security site.
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy
Since 1974 the legal and scientific voice protecting and defending MN's environment.
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
".. to work with citizens to protect and manage the state's natural resources, to provide outdoor recreation opportunities, and to provide for commercial uses of natural resources in a way that creates a sustainable quality of life."

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Subjects: Aerospace Studies, Art History, Catholic Studies, Environmental, Geography, Geology, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Sustainability, Theology & Religion

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