Global Warming Art
Enough with the polar bears! Now there are choices for those looking to illustrate their climate change-related reports, websites, or blogs. Global Warming Art has collected a wide variety of free-use photos, graphics, and other maps to help those communicating important climate change issues. Galleries include sea level rise maps, past temperatures, projected change, and a variety of other images.
StormSmart Coasts
Although still in the building phases, the StormSmart Coasts website is worth a look. The site will eventually be a hub of information on coastal hazards such as flooding, storms, sea level rise, and climate change. Each state will have a network of customized resources—including categories such as Before the Storm, After the Storm, and Funding—as well as links to local and national forums. Massachusetts and Mississippi are now live.
Wildfire Map Mashup
This interactive wildfire map, created by Geo-Spatial Training Services, allows users to view information about live wildfires in North America, visualize historic data on the 2007 San Diego Witch Fire, view years worth of California heat maps and more. Links provide easy access to data feeds that supply map information.
The Blog@Homeland Security
Homeland Security is latest department to join the ranks of buttoned-up government blogs. Promising to give an “inside-out view of what we do every day,” the blog is a collection of press release-like posts and DHS-in-the-news updates. Aside from a useful daily listing of public events and some funny posts by belligerent visitors, there’s not much here that you couldn’t find on their press page.
U.S. Global Change Research Program
The U.S. Global Change Research Program website has a wealth of integrated climate change information from a number of U.S. agencies—all in a slick package that provides context and easy access (check out their climate information by region or sector). While you’re visiting, you can also get access to the full-text of the USGCRP’s just-released report on climate change in the United States and other publications.
National Weather Service’s Lightning Safety
Lightning Safety Awareness Week is June 21-27, so check out the bevy of safety tips at the National Weather Service site. There’s printable brochures, survivor stories, a lightning IQ quiz, teaching tools, photos, and lots more to help spread the word about how to avoid lightning strikes.