SJSU CEGM 168: Global Climate Change
Try these links to review or learn more about the course's science topics.
(and not a single Wikipedia reference....)

Generalist/Introductory
The Exploratorium’s Global Climate Change site
http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/index.html

The EPA’s Climate Change site
http://epa.gov/climatechange/index.html

NAS Science Museum’s Global Warming pages
http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/index.jsp

Weather and Climate Basics (UCAR/NCAR)
http://eo.ucar.edu/basics/index.html

Understanding latitude and longitude
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/LongitudeIntro.html

Sea-level rise, past and current
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/gornitz_09/


Atmosphere/Radiation/Greenhouse effect
Global circulation of the atmosphere
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/7p.html

Layers of Earth’s atmosphere (WttU)
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/layers.html

Solar radiation, greenhouse gases, greenhouse effect
http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_3_1.htm

Radiation balance, greenhouse effect
http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/climatechange1/02_1.shtml

Clouds and radiation
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Clouds/clouds.html


The Sun/Seasons
The Sun
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/sun.html

The Reasons for the Seasons (garish graphics!)
http://www.astronomy.org/programs/seasons/index.html


Other Natural Forcings
Orbital variations
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Giants/Milankovitch/milankovitch_2.html
http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/causes08.jsp

Plate tectonics: This Dynamic Earth (USGS)
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html

Volcanoes and Climate
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/vc_web/overview/o_sc_volcano_climate.html

Ocean circulation
http://www.atmosphere.mpg.de/enid/1vc.html

MOC (thermohaline circulation)
http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan/thc_fact_sheet.html

Permafrost melting/methand
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070310/bob10.asp


Other stuff
Not technically mine, but worth checking out: A clear, concise description of cap-and-trade
http://www.ucsusa.org/publications/catalyst/page.jsp?itemID=27226959