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Internet Resources

The Discovery of Global Warming

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Climate Change page

The Greenhouse Effect Simply Explained - an animation

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007

IRIS - seismic information and data

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - El Niño page

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - Global Warming page

Nova & Frontline on PBS. What's up with the weather? The Debate.
Interviews with leading proponents and skeptics of global warming's threat.

Real Climate - Climate science from climate scientists

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) - Climate Change page

U.S. Geological Survey - Science Topics

Course Reading List

Skinner & Murck (2011). The blue planet : An introduction to earth system science.
(3rd edition)

Academic journal articles

  Example of an academic journal article (click on the pdf to view)

Academic Search Premier
Abstracts & references for articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade & general publications, & references for The NY Times.

GEOBASE
Worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines.

GeoRef
Provides access to worldwide geological literature. Articles from more than 3,000 journals are indexed, as well as books, maps, conference papers, reports, dissertations, and theses.

ISI Web of Science
Provides access to citations from over 10,000 scientific journals worldwide.

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Journals

Earth
Earlier issues of previous title, Geotimes
Print issues: Earth, Geotimes

GSA Today
Print issues also available

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Print issues also available

Scientific American
Print issues also available

Plagiarism & the Honor System 

Plagiarism
A handout from the UNC Writing Center that defines plagiarism and explains how to avoid it.

UNC Honor System

Reference sources

Encyclopedia of global warming and climate change
An online encyclopedia covering a vast range of topics affecting global warming and climate change.

AccessScience
An online encyclopedia of science plus news, images, and study guides.

Today's Science
Science in the headlines, suggestions of research topics, and more.

News articles 

America's Newspapers
Full-text articles from U.S. newspapers.

LexisNexis Academic
Full-text access to general, regional and international news.

Google Scholar

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