Climate+Change

= The Assignment: = Ms. Taylor - Graphing the Evidence for Climate Change

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Introduction:
=** rhsa Library Learning Commons Resources **= = Internet Resources =
 * Google Earth Timelapse: Climate Change
 * Smithsonian's Climate Change 101
 * **__Relevant Database Subscriptions__** - Go to 'Databases' on the Virtual Library home page
 * Canadian Points of View
 * Science Reference Centre
 * Global Issues in Context
 * Secondary Subjects - Infobase eBooks (Science Topics) - [|Climate Change]
 * [|Research Success @ Your Library] - Get the password bookmark from the library
 * Search Engines
 * [|100 Search Engines for Academic Research]
 * Websites
 * [|TED Talks about climate change]
 * [|Climate Insights 101]
 * [|Canada's Action on Climate Change]
 * [|Visualizing and Understanding the Science of Climate Change]
 * [|Nova: what's up with the weather?]
 * [|100 Top Climate Change Sites]
 * [|Toronto Climate Action Network]

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 * On-line Articles
 * Globe & Mail: [|'Now that climate change is beyond doubt, focus on solving it']
 * Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: [|'Global warming: how skepticism became denial']

**Print Resources**
 * Circulating Works - Climate Change Booklist

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Website wariness - beware the bogus blog!
An example of a very convincing website I came across that denies the adverse effects of climate change is www.climatechange101.ca. At first glance, it's professional-looking, user-friendly, attractive and modern, and answers everything you ever wanted to know about climate change. But as you browse the pages, a bias against climate change science is apparent. When you try to find out who owns the site no actual names are given (red flag!). After a few minutes of digging, I uncovered a website (desmogblog.com -there's also desmog.ca for Canadians) that revealed who is behind climatechange101.ca - a group called //Friends of Science// - an Alberta-based non-profit organization with ties to Canadian oil companies. Right away I realized there is a conflict of interest here and instinctively ran from this source screaming! One way of ensuring that your sources are reliable is to employ the CRAAP test to evaluate potential sources for your assignments (See handout).

One on-line resource for checking on the origins of internet information is [|PR Watch].

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