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Resource
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Description
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Type & URL
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Audience
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| Climate Change Tree and Bird Atlases |
The Climate Change Atlases can be used to examine the current distribution of tree and bird habitats in the eastern United States, and how these habitat distributions might change in response to different climate scenarios.
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Online Content
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Natural Resource Managers |
| Modifying climate change habitat models using tree species-specific assessments of model uncertainty and life history-factors |
Matthews, Stephen N.,Iverson, Louis R.; Prasad, Anantha M.; Peters, Matthew P.; Rodewald, Paul G. 2011. Forest Ecology and Management. 262: 1460-1472. |
Peer-reviewed Paper
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Natural Resource Managers |
| Lessons learned while integrating habitat, dispersal, disturbance, and life-history traits into species habitat models under climate change |
Iverson, Louis R., Prasad, Anantha M., Matthews Stephen N., Peters, Matthew P. 2011. Ecosystems. 14: 1005-1020. |
Peer-reviewed Paper
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Natural Resource Managers |
| Changes in potential habitat of 147 North American breeding bird species in response to redistribution of trees and climate following predicted climate change |
Matthews, Stephen N., Iverson Louis R., Prasad, Anantha M., Peters, Matthew P. 2011. Ecography. Early view publication, pp. 1-13. (2011) |
Peer-reviewed Paper
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Natural Resource Managers |
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
IPCC is the leading international body for the review and assessment of the most recent scientific, technical, and socio-economic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change. Key documents, thorough glossary and guidance on communicating levels of uncertainty. |
Online Content
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General |
| National Phenology Network |
The USA National Phenology Network brings together citizen scientists, government agencies, non-profit groups, educators and students of all ages to monitor the impacts of climate change on plants and animals in the United States. The network harnesses the power of people and the Internet to collect and share information, providing researchers with far more data than they could collect alone. |
Online Content
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General |
| Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Sciences |
Information for individuals and communities to understand Earth's climate, impacts of climate change, and approaches for adapting and mitigating change. Provides resources for educators and media, including the Climate Literacy Framework. Principles in the Essential Principles guide can serve as discussion starters or launching points for scientific inquiry. The guide can also serve educators who teach climate science as part of their science curricula. Development of the guide was sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Multiple science agencies, non-governmental organizations, and numerous individuals also contributed through extensive review and comment periods. |
Brochure
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General |
| Climate Literacy Handbook |
Available as part of the Encyclopedia of Earth (sponsored by the National Council for Science and the Environment). Provides detailed science background for each of the 7 climate literacy principles. |
Online Content
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General |
| US EPA Climate Change information |
Introduces US EPA climate change information resources for: Science; U.S. Climate Policy; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Health and Environmental Effects; What You Can Do |
Online Content
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General |
| RealClimate |
A commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. |
Online Content
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General |
| NOAA's Climate Services |
Data, products, research, and services regarding planning for climate change |
Online Content
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General |
| IAGLR: "The Great Lakes at a Crossroads: Preparing for Climate Change" |
Find out what is happening in the Great Lakes and how it can impact your daily life. Learn how climate change in the Great Lakes differs from other regions. |
Report
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General |
| EPA: Climate Change and Ohio |
Review of climate change impacts on Ohio's temperature, rainfall patterns, human health, water resources, agriculture, forests, and ecosystems. |
Online Content - Report
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General |
| Preparing for a Changing Climate: The potential consequences of climate variability and change |
This report summarizes the methods, findings, and recommendations from the Great Lakes Regional Assessment Team regarding the potential impacts of future climate change and variability in the Great Lakes region. It complements the national overview report that is being prepared by the National Assessment Synthesis Team (NAST) as part of the National Assessment of Climate Change. |
Report
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General |
| NOAA: Water Levels of the Great Lakes |
Current conditions and outlook for Great Lakes lake level changes |
Report
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General |
| Yale: "The Climate Crisis and the Adaptation Myth" |
Addresses climate adaptation misconceptions, and explores these issues by examining adaptations that have been made so far in the U.S. to the substantial climate changes that have already happened over the past half-century, as well as changes that are already inevitable because of greenhouse gas accumulations in the atmosphere up to this time. |
Report
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General |
| Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States |
Summarizes the science of climate change and the impacts of climate change on the US, and discusses climate-related impacts for societal and environmental sectors and regions. |
Report
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General |
| US Global Change Research Program |
This report predicts that Midwest wetlands will be reduced due to an increased duration between precipitation events in the summer, and also that plant habitats will shift to the north at a relatively fast pace. |
Online Content
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General |
| "Simulated 21st century changes in regional water balance of the Great Lakes Region and links to changes in global temperature and poleward moisture transport" |
Article investigates moisture transport from equator and towards poles due to climate change and how it might impact freshwater distribution in the Great Lakes region. |
Research Report
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General |
| Coastal Zone and Climate Change on the Great Lakes |
This report addreses climate change impacts and adaptation for coastal communities on each of the Great Lakes |
Report
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General |
| The Changing Northeast Climate: Our Choices, Our Legacy |
Describes the impacts of climate change on the Northeaast and how to combat climate change |
Report
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General |
| TNC Great Lakes resource |
Ensuring that the Great Lakes and its surrounding lands and waters are sustainable, healthy and resilient—providing benefits for nature and people—is the aim of the Conservancy’s Great Lakes Project. Come explore how the Conservancy and its partners are protecting and restoring this magnificent freshwater resource. |
Online Content
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General |
| Best Practice Approaches for Characterizing, Communicating, and Incorporating Scientific Uncertainty in Climate Decision Making |
The purpose of this SAP is to synthesize and communicate the current state of understanding
about the characteristics and implications of uncertainty related to climate change and variability
to an audience of policymakers, decision makers, and members of the media and general public
with an interest in developing a fundamental understanding of the issue. |
Report
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General |
| Nature: Climate Change |
Understanding the Earth's changing climate, and its consequences, is a scientific challenge of enormous importance to society. Nature Climate Change is a monthly journal dedicated to publishing the most significant and cutting-edge research on the impacts of global climate change and its implications for the economy, policy and the world at large. |
Online Journal
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General |
| Climate Change and Water Quality in the Great Lakes Basin |
White paper to address Great Lakes water quality issues associated with climate change, potential impacts of climate change on beneficial uses, how impacts may vary across the Great Lakes, and the implications for decision-making. |
Report
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General |
| Will U.S. Agriculture Really Benefit from Global Warming? Accounting for Irrigation in the Hedonic Approach |
An in-depth look at the effects of climate change on agriculture, focusing on previous models' inadequate consideration for irrigation. |
Research Report
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Agriculture |
| Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Animal Agriculture |
The current state of the science on measuring greenhouse gas emissions from animal housing and manure storage areas presented by the Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center (a community of University Extension professionals and other colleagues). This presentation was originally broadcast on May 15, 2009. |
Online Course
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Agriculture |
| Changing CO2 Promises Surprising Changes in Plant Communities |
USDA ARS News Service. High carbon dioxide (CO2) levels—an important contributor to global warming—have changed the botanical composition of the world’s grasslands, farms, and urban landscapes by increasing the growth, reproduction, or survival of some species more than others. The greatest changes may have already happened, so studies of past effects offer clues to future surprises. |
Online Content - Research Report
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Agriculture |
| Crops and Weeds: Global Climate Change's First Responders |
A team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant physiologists is studying how global climate change could affect food crop production--and prompt the evolution of even more resilient weeds. |
Online Content - Research Report
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Agriculture |
| Climate Change and Fruit Production: An exercise in downscaling |
Report evaluating the potential for day-to-day temperature extremes along the lakeshores is imperative to understanding the impacts of climate change on fruit production. The principal impacts of projected climate change are more likely to result from changes in the frequency of threshold events and extremes, such as the date of last spring freeze, the length of the growing season, and heat accumulation, than from changes in mean climatic states. |
Report
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Agriculture |
| Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts |
The Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) assesses and anticipates climate change impacts on Wisconsin natural resources, ecosystems and regions; evaluates potential effects on industry, agriculture, tourism and other human activities; and develops and recommends adaptation strategies that can be implemented by businesses, farmers, public health officials, municipalities, wildlife managers and other stakeholders. It connects university-based climate modelers with managers and experts in the field to assess impacts at focused and relevant measures of time and space. |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| NWF: Climate Change and Great Lakes Water Resources |
This report focuses on how climate change will impact water resources and policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change and to adapt to the unavoidable impacts on water resources. It also examines how the Great Lakes compact gives the region an opportunity to make these improvements in water resource policy and better protect the Great Lakes from the pressures of climate change. |
Report
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| Impact of Climate Change on the Great Lakes Ecosystem |
NOAA summary report aiming to to examine the current state of knowledge of the physical, chemical, and biological impacts of climate change in the Great Lakes’ coastal waters and connecting channels, which includes current scientific understanding, products, services, expertise, monitoring and observing systems, datasets, and forecast models; start a dialogue with Great Lakes stakeholders to identify key needs related to the impact of climate change on Great Lakes resources; document key challenges that climate change impacts pose in continuing effective management, restoration, and protection of the integrity of the Great Lakes Ecosystem and related resources of particular concern to stakeholders; identify and apply presently available scientific expertise, products and services, that support stakeholders in confronting the impacts of climate change in protecting, managing, or restoring Great Lakes resources. |
Summary Report
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| Warmer and Drier Climates that Make Terminal Great Lakes |
Modelling to demonstrate climate change effects on the Great Lakes, such that the result is terminal lakes (Erie would be the first to close) |
Research Report
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Communities: Vulnerabilities to climate change and response to adaptation strategies |
Addresses impacts and adaptation for coastal communities on each of the Great Lakes. |
Report
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Government |
| Strengthening the Scientific Understanding of Climate Change Impacts on Freshwater Resources of the United States |
Report to Congress that identifies actions to improve the Nation's capacity to detect changes in freshwater resources that are likely to result from a changing climate. Next steps for Federal agencies are provided. |
Report
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Government, Policymakers |
| "Endangerment" and "Cause or Contribute" Findings for Greenhouse Gases under the US Clean Air Act |
EPA announced two distinct findings: that greenhouse gases (GHGs) threaten the public health and welfare of the American people, and that GHG emissions from new motor vehicles and new motor vehicle engines contribute to that threat. |
Policy Resource
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Policymakers |
| A report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Summary for Policymakers |
The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report describes progress in understanding of the human and natural drivers of climate change, observed climate change, climate processes and attribution, and estimates of projected future climate change. |
Report
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Policymakers |
| Climate Change and Waterborne Disease Risk in the Great Lakes Region of the U.S. |
Potential impact of more extreme weather events in the Great Lakes region due to climate change on waterborne illnesses. |
Research Report
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Public Health |
| The Potential Health Impacts of Climate Variability and Change for the United States: Executive Summary of the Report of the Health Sector of the U.S. National Assessment |
Examination of the potential impacts of climate variability and chan on human health as part of a congressionally mandated study of cimate change in the United States. |
Research Report
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Public Health |
| Climate Change and Health in Ohio |
This document provides an overview of how climate change affects the health of Ohio residents. It has been reviewed by Harvard Medical School faculty who specialize in the health impacts of global environmental change and hold degrees in medicine and public health. |
Report
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Public Health |