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Local climate-change references
Regional climate-change references
Forests and climate
National/Global climate-change references
Climate-action organizations
Science of climate change
The path to a sustainable human society
How to talk to one another about sustainable progress
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Local climate-change references
- Local impacts & resilience planning:
- Planning for Climate Change on the North Olympic Peninsula — 2014-15 project
- Ideas for local mitigation strategies and actions — OCA 2022
- Spatial trends in local climate resiliency planning – North Olympic Land Trust 2021
- Projected impacts on streams – UW Climate Impacts Group
- Projected sea-level rise in Clallam County – Ian Miller, WA Sea Grant
- Wildfire impacts of climate change – Bob Lynette, OCA member
- Water supply concerns (draft) – Ann Soule, OCA member
- Olympic National Forest & Park study of climate adaptation needs
- Study: Olympic glaciers doomed (2022)
- 2015 scientific paper
- Presentation by Bill Baccus, Olympic National Park 2019
- Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary climate change study
- Ocean acidification in the Pacific Northwest
- Peninsula Tribes:
- Local governments:
- Local 20/20 Climate Action Group, part of a grassroots Port Townsend group
- Local Planning for Climate Change from the United Nations
Regional climate-change references
- Climate Q&A from the League of Women Voters of WA
- Washington State Climate Policy Group: Excellent starting point for a layperson
- How WA State can transition to 100% renewable energy – Mark Jacobson et al.
- University of Washington Climate Impacts Group: Compendium of science, analysis, and news about climate change, focusing on WA state, including Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Washington State: Technical Summaries for Decision Makers and this summary of expected impacts. State of Knowledge: Climate Change in Puget Sound is a comprehensive synthesis report summarizing relevant research on the likely effects of climate change on the lands, water, and people of the Puget Sound region
- National Climate Assessment Regional Reports, including Chapter 21, Northwest
- Climate Change Effects & Adaptation Approaches in Marine & Coastal Ecosystems of the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative Region: Executive Summary
- Sightline Institute: researches best practices in public policy for a sustainable Northwest Good analyses of proposed coal ports, etc.
- Climate Change and Our Natural Resources, Northwest Indian Fisheries commission
- Municipal Research & Services Center of WA: information on climate science and policy, focused for local governments
- Seattle Times series on ocean acidification
Forests and Climate
- Forests FAQ from 350 Seattle
- Temperate evergreen forests are the best biome on earth for storing carbon
- Oldest trees grow faster and store more carbon as they age
- Letting our forests grow is the best thing we can do to protect the climate
- Science refutes timber industry claims that cutting trees helps the climate:
- The Backstory: How the timber industry green-washes bad science through the Univ. of Washington School of Forestry, leveraging our public money vs. our own public interest
- 200 scientists’ letter to Congress refutes industry claims re: climate protection via wood products, bio-energy, and fire treatments though thinning or salvage
- To protect climate, biodiversity, and water, we must radically curtail broad-scale harvesting for any purpose (incl. wood products, biomass, or pre- or post-fire thinning)
- Meta-analysis of 1,000,000+ datasets
- “Fire-prevention thinning” makes wildfires worse
- Extending industrial harvest rotations stores more carbon and yields more timber
- Best strategy: Longer rotations on private lands, reserves on public lands
- Proforestation would help our region adapt to a hotter climate by cooling the local air, conserving water supplies, and reducing wildfire risk.
- The Pacific NW Forest Climate Alliance works for sustainable & just forest management.
- OCA signs letter outlining the Nature Conservancy’s promotion of harmful logging
- The “Wild and Working Forests” plan of the Center for Sustainable Economy balances the ecological, social, and economic needs of communities.
- The Center for Responsible Forestry campaigns for conservation of older state forests.
- The Climate Forests campaign aims to protect older trees on federal lands.
- 200 scientists oppose the logging provisions in the federal infrastructure & BBB acts
National/Global climate-change references
- Animated history of fossil fuels in 300 seconds, narrated by Richard Heinberg
- 4th National Climate Assehttps://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/ssment, Vol. 1 – assessment of the climate science
- 4th National Climate Assessment, Vol. 2 – impacts, risks, and adaptation
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report
- Summary of IPCC’s 1.5°C Special Report and the 4th National Climate Assessment
- Carbon Brief – latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy
- Climate Solutions Simulator model from MIT–plot out your own climate solutions!
- National Climate Opinion Maps – broken down by state & county
Climate-action organizations
- 350.org. Founded by Bill McKibben, 350 represents the number of parts per million of carbon that the atmosphere can hold without a catastrophic degree of climate change; we are already well beyond 400. OCA is affiliated.
- Sunrise Movement: a movement of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and elect leaders who stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people.
- Climate Reality Project: Al Gore has tirelessly put together the pieces to explain the causes, effects, and prevention of climate change. Some OCA members have been trained by Al and can give his slide show to community groups.
- Climate Solutions is a Pacific Northwest-based organization accelerating clean-energy solutions to the climate crisis through research, partnerships, and advocacy.
- Citizens Climate Lobby is a national group advocating for bipartisan climate solutions.
- Sierra Club: Leader in the fight against fossil fuels and the move toward clean energy.
- RAVEN: Respecting Aboriginal Values and Environmental Needs. Canadian organization that embraces the ancestral laws of Indigenous Peoples and their equitable access to the justice system within a thriving natural habitat. Leader in the struggle against the Alberta Tar Sands and associated pipelines.
Science of climate change
- The “climate clock” keeps ticking
- This graph shows how quickly and radically we have to act
- Which countries have emitted the most CO2?
- The Climate Toolbox — A collection of web tools for visualizing past and projected climate and hydrology of the contiguous United States of America
- Climate science summarized by the National Academies of Science & Royal Society
- Summary of risks from the American Academy for the Advancement of Science
- Extreme weather risks, from Union of Concerned Scientists
- NASA: Global Climate Change, Vital Signs of the Planet
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report:
- Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis
- Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
- Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change
- Skeptical Science explains what peer-reviewed science has to say
- Direct info from a group of climate scientists: RealClimate.com
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to Climate Change, 2-page graphic by Ned Hammar of OCA
- Global warming explained in a 2-minute video (or try the 5-min. “long” version)
- Global warming explained in an 18-minute video by scientist Katharine Hayhoe
- Global weirding: Why do a couple of degrees matter? by Katharine Hayhoe
- Global warming explained in Q&A format
- Climate research 1-page summary
- Global temperatures since the last Ice Age, in one loooong cartoon strip
- What’s really warming the world?–series of graphs showing relative contributions
- How the fossil fuel industry manufactured doubt about climate change
- Public health impacts: article
- Mental Health and our Changing Climate – American Psychological Assn. 2017
The path to a sustainable human society
- Paul Hawken, Regeneration: Cascade of Solutions – beautiful storyboard guides you to make your own personal action checklist and share with others
- Deep Carbonization Pathways Project
- Model Laws for Deep Decarbonization
- National Academies of Sciences 2021 report on Accelerating the US Energy Transition
- House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis report 2020
- Climate Crisis Policy Digest – a compendium of policy ideas
- Equitable & Just National Climate Platform 2018
- Post-Carbon Institute: preparing communities for the rest of the 21st Century
- State Climate Policy dashboard
- Climate Justice Field Manual – a lively, practical guide to saving civilization
- Racial Justice is Climate Justice – 350 Seattle Video Library 2020
- Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE)
- Climate Resilience Tool Kit from NOAA
- Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives
- Sustainable World Sourcebook and Engagement Circles Convener Guide
- Reduce your – and our – carbon footprint
- Why All the Excitement about EVs? – slides from OCA member Tony Billera
- Climate change impacts and your home
- Teaching Resources on Climate and Energy
How to talk to one another about sustainable progress
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when the Stakes are High
- 100 memes to help in the climate crisis – Sarah Lazarovic
- The Aspiring Thinker’s Guide to Critical Thinking
- Having climate conversations – 350.org
- Preparing people for the resilience needed to deal with climate change
- ecoAmerica: How to build public support for climate solutions
- Science Insights — A Climate Basics Series – 10 articles — Nan Bray
- Science Insights — Biodiversity — Nan Bray
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