Helpful Resources
Check out some of our favorite places to get credible information on the science of climate change.
NOAA Climate.gov
Here you can find timely and authoritative information about climate. NOAA climage.gov promotes public understanding of climate science through videos, stories, and images. They provide common data products and services that are easy to use.
NASA Global Climate Change
The mission of NASA Global Climate Change is to provide the public with accurate and timely news and information about Earth’s changing climate, along with current data and visualizations.
FIFTH National Climate Assessment
The Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of climate change. The overview chapter presents major findings alongside highlights drawn from across NC5. The Physical Science Chapters assess how climate change affects physical Earth systems, with a focus on the United States, including observations and projections of climate change and discussion of how methods to understand changes in Earth systems have advanced since NCA4, which was released in November 2018. The National Topic Chapters summarize current and future risks related to climate change and what can be done to reduce those risks for a variety of societal and economic sectors of the United States. Regional Chapters provide detailed discussions of region-specific challenges, opportunities, and success stories for managing risks and impacts.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a United Nations organization that synthesizes current climate change science. It provides regular reports summarizing the state of climate change science, identifies levels of agreement among scientists, and determines where additional research is needed.
Skeptical Science
Getting skeptical about global warming skepticism, Skeptical Science is a non-profit science education organization that directly responds to climate change denial arguments using the peer reviewed literature.
Climate Feedback
Climate Feedback helps to sort fact from fiction in climate change media coverage. Experts are invited to verify the credibility of influential claims and media coverage.
Climate Central
Climate Central is an independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impacts.
Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief publishes well-researched informational articles about climate change science and policy. They also provide daily and weekly email summaries of climate stories in the news.
yale program on climate change commiunication
The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) conducts scientific studies on public opinion and behavior; inform the decision-making of governments, media, companies, and NGOs; and educate the public about climate change. Through surveys, experiments, qualitative methods, statistical models, maps and participatory GIS, the YPCCC studies at the global, national, and local scales.
george mason university center for climate change communication (4c)
Described as a “think and do tank”, George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, or Mason 4C, prioritizes research that identifies new opportunities to enhance public understanding of climate change and increases public engagement with climate solutions. Their communication initiatives train, mobilize, and elevate some of America’s most trusted voices in local news and medicine, as well as ordinary citizens who expect more from their elected officials.