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The WB Climate Change Portal is intended to provide quick and readily accessible climate and climate-related data to policy makers and development practitioners. The site also includes a mapping visualization tool (webGIS) that displays key climate variables and climate-related data.

"The Global Atlas is the comprehensive information platform on the potential of renewable energy. It provides resource maps from leading technical institutes worldwide and tools for evaluating the technical potential of renewable energies. It can function as a catalyst for policy development and energy planning, and can support investors in entering renewable energy markets."

"The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, including the origins of bipedalism; the emergence of our genus Homo; the first use of stone tools" You can read final publication free online, and even request a download of the prepublication pdf (might be some typos in it)

Climate change

Barrow Area Information Database - mapping tools that come recommended by teachers who have used them in secondary and above classes.

modeling and data

The website blurb does not begin to do justice to the power and wealth of resources in this site. It was unveiled at Copenhage, late 2009. "The Climate 1-Stop provides a single location to share and access climate change tools, resources and information, with a primary focus on adaptation in developing countries.The Climate 1-Stop is a partnership of southern and northern organizations working at all levels, from grass roots to global. "

polar science

From the introduction: "This guide powerfully details many of the biases and barriers to scientific communication and information processing. It offers a tool-in combination with rigorous science, innovative engineering, and effective policy design-to help our societies take the pivotal actions needed to respond with urgency and accuracy to one of the greatest challenges ever faced by humanity: global-scale, human-induced environmental threats, of which the most complex and far reaching is climate change."

polar science curriculum resources

An online issue of Park Science Magazine, a publication of the U.S. National Parks Service. The Spring 2011 issue is dedicated to Climate Change and your Climate Stewards colleague Joe Witte is one of the authors of two of the articles: "Audience segmentation as a tool for communicating climate change: Understanding the differences and bridging the divides" and "NPS climate change talking points"