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ARTICLES

• "Mathematics of Climate Change," (28 pages, 3.7 MB pdf) a report by Dana Mackenzie on the Symposium on Climate Change held at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, April 2007 .
• Nature Reports: Climate Change" "Maths and climate change: The melting Arctic," by Marianne Freiberger, PLUS Magazine, March 2008
• "The Question of Global Warming," a review by Freeman Dyson of two books, "A Question of Balance: Weighing the options on Global warming Policies" and "Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto", New York Review of Books, June 12, 2008, Vol. 55, No. 10)
• "Climate Change: A Research Opportunity for Mathematics?" by Pat Kenschaft, Notices of the AMS, June/July 2008, p. 695
• "Climate Math in San Diego," by Mary Lou Zeeman, Dynamical Systems Magazine, April 2008
• "Cloudy Crystal Balls," by Julie Rehmeyer, Science News, week of August 4, 2007, Vol. 172, No. 5
• "An Analysis of Radiative Equilibrium, Forcings, and Feedbacks" (21 pages 700K pdf), by Chris Colose, Environmental Studies, Hudson Valley Community College

WEBSITES OF INTEREST

• Mathematics of Climate Change workshop at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Bekeley CA, January 29, 2008
• Al Gore
• Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media
• "Antarctic Reach," a video of Ken Golden and Adam Gully on Antarctic expedition
• Media coverage of Ken Golden's research on sea ice
• Carbon footprint calculators:
  • What's my climate impact? on Yahoo! Green
  • The Office Footprint Calculator on The GreenOffice
  • Calculate Your Carbon Footprint and Reduce Your Impact on Green Progress
• "Climate and Periodic Functions: Science & Math Integration," a lesson plan by Yolanda Glenn for grades 9-12 mathematics and science on LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, AGENCIES, ETC.

• America's Climate Choices, including "Understanding and Responding to Climate Change" (28 pages, 3.3 MB pdf), The National Academies
• Climate Change Resource Reel, NASA's climate-related visualizations using remote-sensing data from satellites
• "Modeling Climate," National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• International Polar Year
• National Snow & Ice Data Center
• Global Change Master Directory: Discover Earth science and data services, Goddard Space Flight Center

MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES

• April 25-26, 2009. The AMS Spring Eastern Section Meeting at WPI, Worcester, MA. Includes a two-day special session, The Mathematics of Climate Change.
• May 4-8, 2009. MSRI Workshop on Economic Games and Mechanisms to Address Climate Change, Berkeley, CA.
• May 17-21, 2009. SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, UT. Climate modeling is one of the themes of this conference.

NEWS RELEASES

• "Arctic Climate Models Playing Key Role in Polar Bear Decision," University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 11, 2008
• "New Greenland Ice Sheet Data Will Impact Climate Change Models," University of Buffalo, February 12, 2008
• "Like it or not, uncertainty and climate change go hand-in-hand," University of Washington, October 25, 2007
• "Mathematics Of Ice To Aid Global Warming Forecasts," University of Utah, September 11, 2007