Climate Change Education

What is Climate Change?

Climate change is the long-term change of global or regional weather patterns, like temperature and rain, and its impacts on environments, like the ocean and forests.

What is global warming?

Global warming is the long-term rise in temperature of Earth’s climate system monitored since the pre-industrial period (between 1850-1900) due to human activities, largely fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth’s atmosphere.

For more in-depth information on the definitions of climate change and global warming, check out NASA Global Climate Change

Interact with climate change information, visualizations and tools.

• NASA Climate Kids
• University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Climate Change | Future Urban Climates tool (Click on the tool found on the webpage and select “Marysville”)
• University of Washington Climate Impacts Group – Tribal Climate Tool
• NOAA Sea Level Rise Viewer Tool

Links to Science!

Here are some science based websites we recommend you explore to learn more about climate change by the topics your interest:

• NASA Global Climate Change
• Visualizing the Quantities of Climate Change: Ice Sheet Loss in Greenland and Antartics | NASA
• USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program
• NOAA Climate

What is a Climate Model? How do Climate Models work?

• Climate Models | NOAA Climate
• Q&A: How do climate models work? | Carbon Brief
• Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Projections Right | NASA Global Climate Change

Contact

• Phil North

  Climate Adaptation Coordinator & Conservation Scientist

• Aaron Jones

  Treaty Rights Protection Specialist

• Steve Hinton

  Conversation Scientist