Climate change & Environmental blogs

• John Quiggin (Commentary on Australian & World events from a social-democratic perspective)
• Jennifer Marohasy (Institute for Public Affairs, a noteable “skeptic” blogger)
• Andrew Bolt (Journalist, climate change skeptic)
• Simon Donner (Climate change and corals reef)
• Caspar Henderson (Science, Environment and climate change)
  
• The Natural Patriot (Dedicated to “cultivating and putting to work a new and universal ideal of patriotism”)
• MongaBay.com (A blog dedicated to “raising interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife”)
• Earth Portal (Comprehensive resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the environment)
• Scitizen (Bringing science closer to society)
  
• Plenty Magazine (The world in green)
  
• I’m a chordata, urochordata (Research blog of a marine ecologist studying ‘sea squirts’)
• Shifting Baselines (Ecology meets conservation)
• European Project on Ocean Acidification blog (The definitive blog on all ocean acidification news)
• The Reef Tank Blog (Community blog devoted to reef aquarists, marine life and ocean conservation)

Climate Change Resources

• Global warming @ National Geographic (Overview of climate change at National Geographic)
  
• Pew Centre on Global Climate Change (Science and climate change policy)
  
• Climate change: Menace or Myth? – New Scientist (Excellent critique of skeptical approaches)
  
• David Suzuki Foundation (Who are the skeptics and who funds them?)
  
• Bureau of Meterology timeseries graphs (Australian rainfall, temperature and more for the last century)
  
• Real Climate (Climate science from climate scientists)
• Australian Science Media Centre (AusSMC) (Independant non-profit organisation for journalists)
  

Coral Reef and Coral Bleaching Resources

• Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (What is coral bleaching?)
  
• NOAA Coral Bleaching Hotspots (When and where is bleaching occuring?)
  
• CRC Reef Current state of knowledge (Find out more about the 1998 global mass bleaching event)
  
• “Coral bleaching as record cold hits the reef” (News article on coldwater bleaching on the GBR)
  
• ReefCheck (Community based monitoring of coral reefs worldwide)
  
• ReefBase (Enourmous online repository of resources for coral reefs and GIS)
  
• Reefcheck International Declaration of Reef Rights (Show support for reefs by signing the online declaration)
  
• NOAA Coral health and monitoring program (Resources and FAQ of reef monitoring)
  
• NOAA Coral disease database (Online identification and resource for coral disease)
  

Ocean Acidification Resources

• Royal Society Policy Statement (The definitive outline of ocean acidification impacts)
  
• Conservation Science Institute (Ocean acidification backgrounder)
• European Project on Ocean Acidification, EPOCA (Understanding of the biological, ecological, biogeochemical, and societal implications of ocean acidification)

Other related links:

• Marine Photobank (Online repository for marine photographs)
  
• World view of global warming (Photographic documentation of climate change)
  
• Institute for Public affairs (IPA)
• IPA @ Centre for Media and Democracy

This is a growing list of topical links and is by no means exhaustive! Feel free to link to us at Climate Shifts, or fill in the form below to recommend a link to add here.

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