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The Climate Toolkit is a resource manual designed to help the reader navigate the complex and perplexing issue of climate change by providing tools and strategies to explore the underlying science. As such it contains a collection of activities that make use of readily available on-line resources developed by research groups and public agencies. These include web-based climate models, climate data archives, interactive atlases, policy papers, and “solution” catalogs. Unlike a standard textbook, it is designed to help readers do their own climate research and devise their own perspective rather than providing them with a script to assimilate and repeat.

The activities in the manual are divided into five sections that include weather and climate basics, present climate impacts, past climate change, future change and impacts, and strategies for climate mitigation and adaptation. These are followed by three appendices which contain information about the on-line tools used in the activities in this manual; a catalog of on-line and print resources produced by research groups, government agencies, and community groups involved in climate and sustainability work; and background on the history and key players in the international climate negotiation process.

Though originally aimed at undergraduate non-science majors, the manual has been broadened for a wider audience in non-academic settings like community groups, service organizations, workplace study groups, and faith communities.

Updates:

  • Two new investigations added (Investigation 1 is a replacement and Investigation 15 is new, taking advantage of an online data tool that was released with the very recent IPCC report).
  • The appendices have been updated to reflect events that have taken place since 2019, and new resources that have been released since then.

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DOI

10.15760/pdxopen-27

Publication Date

7-1-2020

Publisher

Portland State University Library

City

Portland

Subjects

Climatic changes -- Research, Global warming -- Research

Rights

Copyright © 2020 Frank Granshaw

Creative Commons License
This open educational resource is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License except where otherwise noted.

Notes

Originally published in July 2020. This edition has been revised and published in September 2021.

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/33289

Climate Toolkit: A Resource Manual for Science and Action - Version 2.0

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