The Education & Outreach Subcommittee of the Chatham County Advisory Committee on Climate Change develops and proposes recommendations for educating and informing County residents about climate change in ways to increase awareness of the causes, impacts, and solutions to a range of global and regional effects of global warming.

Such recommendations address key scientific aspects, economic impacts, strategies to reduce emissions (mitigation), and ways to prepare for, and adapt to, effects of climate change on people, the environment, institutions, and communities.

Information and Resources

The following are links to resources relating to climate change:

Rewiring America - We're here to help YOU go electric

Energy Funds For All - Helping you get access to energy funding

North Carolina Forest Service- woodland plan preparation

Effects of Climate Change in the Southeast- North Carolina Climate Office

Climate Opinion Maps- Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Public Health Indicators of Climate Change- Aaron Fleischauer, PhD, MSPH, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (presentation from Central Carolina Community College)

The Tipping point of Climate Change and Where We Stand - Johan Rockström - TED Talk 2024
 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
 
Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States
 
United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Change Site
 
NASA Climate Change Site
 
NASA Climate Change Facts: How Do We Know?
 
World Meteorological Organization - A United Nations Agency

Union of Concerned Scientists: How Do We Know Humans Are the Major Cause of Global Warming?
 
Climate Blog - Earth Right Now

Climate Central

The Climate Benefits of Healthy Forests - Yale Climate Connection, with audio

Environmental Defense Fund Climate 411
 
Tackling Climate Change - The Nature Conservancy
 
On-Line Climate Science Tool Kits - American Chemical Society

Real Climate - Climate science from climate scientists

Pacific Climate Change Portal

Citizens Climate Education 

Citizens Climate Lobby

Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change - The New York Times, updated 2021

Chatham County Climate Change Resource Site

This site is a blog style website that does not allow for any comments. It includes ongoing, updated embedded articles, scientific reports, quality videos, resources, etc. on climate change and related environmental matters.  Climate change entries.
Disclaimer: This is not an official resource of Chatham County or of the Climate Change Advisory Committee.

Climate Change Bibliography

Listed alphabetically by author's last name.

1. Climate Central, Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless
Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future

2. Seth B. Darling & Doug Sisterson, How to Change Minds About Our Changing Climate:
Let Science Do the Talking the Next Time Someone Tries to Tell You . . .

3. Kerry Emanuel, What We Know about Climate Change (MIT Press 2012)

4. Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac,  The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist’s Guide to the Climate Crisis (Vintage Books 2021)

5. David Gershon, Low Carbon Diet: A 30-Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds--Be Part of
the Global Warming Solution (Empowerment Institute 2006)

6. Albert Gore, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and
What We Can Do About It (Rodale, 2006)

7. Jeff Goodel, The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet (Little, Brown and Company 2023)

8. James Hansen, et. al., Assessing 'Dangerous Climate Change': Required Reduction of
Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature

9. James Hansen, Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate
Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity (Bloomsbury 2009)

10. Katharine Hayhoe, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (One Signal Publishers 2021)

11. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K Wilkinson, eds. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (One World 2021)

13. Michael E. Mann, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front
Lines (Columbia University Press 2012)

14. William Nordhaus, The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming

World (Yale University Press 2013)

15. Fred Pearce, With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate
Change (Beacon Press 2007)

16. Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (March 2023)

17. Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions (Penguin Press 2023)

18. Christopher White, The Melting World: A Journey Across America's Vanishing Glaciers
(St. Martin's Press 2013)