Related Resources

Global Warming

Looking for more information on global warming and climate change? Here are some links to get you started!

• Climate One is a forum (and a podcast) covers energy, the economy and the environment
• Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project provides training for solving the climate crisis.
• The Drawdown project analyzes and ranks solutions to reverse global warming.
• Katherine Hayhoe is an inspiring climate scientist blogging and speaking regularly on climate change
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.
• NASA provides science and compelling imagery about climate change and global warming.
• The Skeptical Science site explains climate change science and rebuts global warming misinformation.
• The U.S. National Climate Assessment has a useful frequently asked questions section
• This site from Bloomberg shows correlational evidence that the recent warming trend is due to human emissions, not natural causes. Of course, correlation is not causation, but it’s clearly not caused by natural phenomena.
• A publication from 2019.11.05 in BioScience declares that more than 11,000 scientists agree that Earth is facing a climate emergency and lists some needed actions. A BBC article summarizes.
• Emissions Gap Report, 2019, from the UN.

Data science

• A nice recent article on KDnuggets: How to Learn Data Science if You’re Broke
• A Crash Course in Data Science, by Coursera
• Neural Networks and Deep Learning, a free online book by Michael Nielson
• My Image Classification Series