Resources
Climate Change has been discussed by scientists since the 1980's yet for the general public it has only been in the last few years that the term has slipped into common usage. The C3 team is assembling an A-Z of climate change terms and useful links to keep you in the loop.
Useful links:
- Garnaut Review (opens an external site) - Professor Ross Garnaut's report into climate change, commissioned by Commonwealth Government
- NSW Government links (opens an external site) - from NSW Department of Primary Industries
- Australian Antarctic Division (opens an external site) - an excellent source of information on all things Antarctic
- Australian Bureau of Meterology (opens an external site) - plenty of statistics on Australia's changing climate
- Australian Marine Conservation Society (opens an external site) - see the Australian Sustainable Seafood Guide
- Australian Institute of Marine Science (opens an external site) - Australia's tropical marine research agency
- Great Barrier Reef Foundation (opens an external site) -The Foundation directly links Reef science with business, government and philanthropy.
- Climate Change in Australia (opens an external site) - from Commonwealth Government Dept. of Climate Change and Water
- CSIRO Environment (opens an external site) - find out about National Research Flagships and much, much more
- CSIRO/BOM Climate Change Snapshot - released in March 2012 this report details observed changes in Australia's climate
- CSIRO Recharge-Discharge Estimation Suite - tools for groundwater managers to estimate recarge-discharge for areas where there is no data
- National Climate Change Adaptation Report Card - Marine Climate Change and Impacts & Adaptation
- Earth Hour (opens an external site) - find out about this global event that started in Sydney in 2007
- Fauna Net (opens an external site) - Australian Museum
- ABC Science Topics (opens an external site) - explore Environment and Nature topics with ABC Science unit.
- New Scientist Climate Change Portal (opens an external site) - from New Scientist Environment web
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (opens an external site) - portal to the important work of the IPCC
- Environmental Research Web (opens an external site) - news and opinion website covering environmental sciences
- Ecolimo (opens an external site) - this chauffered limousine service uses Toyota Prius and Lexus hybrids
- Sydney Institute of Marine Science (opens an external site) - based at Chowder Bay this joint venture marine research facility brings together cross-disciplinary research teams including a number of UTS marine scientists
- SOLAS (opens an external site) - The International SOLAS (Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study) Project is an international research initiative comprising of over 1500 scientists in 23 countries.
- Science Alert (opens an external site) - Australasian science news
- BBC Environment Blog (opens an external site) - BBC Earthwatch blog from environment correspondent Richard Black
- US Centre for Atmospheric Research (opens an external site) - the NCAR undertakes a range of research related to climate
