Important Climate Change Resources

The California Department of Fish and Game does not endorse any specific resources. These links are for informational purposes only. Resources listed below are not an exhaustive list but rather a sampling of existing information:

Climate Change Overview

• Climate Change Bibliography (PDF)
• Report: The Wildlife Society. Global Climate Change and Wildlife in North America  (PDF)
• Report for Congress: Congressional Research Service. Global Climate Change and Wildlife
• Summary Report: California Climate Change Center. Our Changing Climate: Assessing the Risks to California  
• Scientific Publication: Parmesan, Camille. Annual Review of Ecology and Evolution Supplement. 2006.37.637-669 “Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change” (PDF)
• Report: Natural Resource Defense Council. “Hotter and Dryer: The West’s Changed Landscape”
• Report: Bipartisan Policy Center. Sportsman scientific research on the effects of global warming on fish and wildlife
• Reports: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • IPCC “Climate Change 2007: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”. Summary for Policymakers.
  • IPCC 4th Assessment Report. Climate Change 2007: Summary for Policymakers. (5.6 MB PDF)
• Report: The Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Impacts of Climate Change: Four U.S. Case Studies
• Report:  The Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Coastal and Marine Ecosystems and Global Climate Change: Potential Effects on U.S. Resources
• Report:  The Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The Importance of Climate Change for Future Wildfire Scenarios in the Western United States (PDF)
• Report:  US Global Change Research Program. US National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change Sector: Coastal Areas and Marine Resources
• Florida's Wildlife: On the Frontline of Climate Change
• Presentation: Confronting Climate Change -- The Challenge of Adaptation (PDF)
  The Massachusetts experience, by Hector Galbraith, PhD

Web sites

• U.S. Climate Change Science Program
• Marine areas
• International
• NASA
• USGS Global Change Web page
• Climate Change overview from University at Buffalo, State University of New York
• Season's End: Global Warming's Threat to Hunting and Fishing
• Western Governor's Association
• US Global Change Research Program

California Climate Change Related Resources

• California Climate Change Portal
  • California Climate Change Documents including:
    • California Climate Change Center Biennial Reports
    • California Climate Policy
    • California Legislation & Executive Orders
    • California Energy Commission & PIER Research Reports
    • Other California State Agencies' Reports
    • Other Organizations' Reports About California
• California Water Plan
• California Energy Commission
  • Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in California (PDF)
  • Scenarios of Climate Change in California (PDF)
  • California Energy Commission Climate Change Activities
• EPA: Climate Change and California (PDF)
• California Department of Water Resources
• California Air Resources Board
  • Low Carbon Fuel Standard Program
• Our Changing Climate: Assessing the Risks to California: A Summary Report from the California Climate Change Center
• California Climate Action Registry
• California Academy of Sciences
• Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Global Warming’s Impact on California
  • Global Warming and California’s Water Supply (PDF)
  • Global Warming and California Wildfires (PDF)

Also see our Climate Change Partners page