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NASA Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
NASA’s site compiles and updates data on global temperature, atmospheric carbon dioxide, Arctic sea ice, ice sheet mass, and sea level.
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The Fourth National Climate Assessment: Volume II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States
The congressionally mandated 2018 report from the U.S. Global Change Research Program assesses the latest science on impacts of climate change on Americans in all regions and sectors.
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Kim Cobb’s Paleoclimate and Climate Change Lab
Kim Cobb’s lab site contains information about their mission to uncover the mechanisms of climate change to inform projections of the future, and their current research projects on corals, stalagmites, water isotopes, paleoclimate modeling, and reconstructions of past climate.
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