Second, I list some of the blog entries that seem to generate consistent interest or controversy but that have entered the archives and may be hard to find otherwise. I’ll keep the list as short as possible. If you see an entry worthy of including here, please let me know.
As described on the home page, most entries fall into one of two groups: travel-related stories or incidents, and reflections on the state of conservation, freshwater management, and/or climate adaptation work today.
Travel Stories
My Big Night Out and Up. From May 2008, a story about a strange evening in New Delhi that became an even stranger experience at the airport.
Adventures in Cabbing. An over-long and frustrating cab ride in Washington, DC.
Reflections on Climate Adaptation
Nine Challenges to Freshwater Management from Climate Change. The result of many discussions with colleagues.
Is E.O. Wilson Wrong? A response to an interview with Edward Wilson of Harvard about how conservation should proceed in light of climate change.
Two Easy Pieces. A couple of brief, policy-oriented overviews on freshwater climate adaptation. The former is by myself and a British colleague, and the latter is by Jamie Pittock, an Australian colleague.
Islands on the Edge. A short overview of some of the climate-related challenges that the Sundarbans of Bangladesh and India face.
Water Sites
African Woman in Conservation — a lovely blog by a colleague in east Africa, with a strong water-based conservation and development theme
Dartmouth Flood Observatory — a very interesting site that looks at where and when floods occur globally, including climate change impacts on flooding
WaterWired — a great site on many water-related issues. Also derived from Corvallis, Oregon.
Waterblogged — an extremely comprehensive site on a wide range of water issues
Oregon State — Several academic talks that involve water and climate change are available for streaming here
African Water — water and climate change in Africa (including a page on the effects of climate change on water resources generally)
Water in Australia — an NGO focused on Australian water issues
Columbia Water Center — a center at Columbia University in the U.S. focused on water policy and science, with good material on the developing world
WorldWater — the site of the Pacific Institute, an organization associated with Peter Gleick, perhaps the best-known advocate of sustainable water policy in our time
Weather & Climate
ClimateImpacts.org — an excellent site by a friend and colleague in the NGO world now but who knows intimately the good and bad of climate change mitigation and adaptation issues within the U.S. government
ClimateScienceWatch.org — a site put together by a climate scientist embroiled in a scandal similar to what engulfed NASA’s Jim Hansen
RealClimate — a site that provides a good overview of anthropogenic climate change and specifically includes rebuttals to a variety of arguments that climate skeptics have made
PewClimate — a nonpartisan group that has been involved for some time on climate change issues from a policy and public awareness/survey perspective and in commissioning reports on the best-available science on a variety of topics.
Wetlands & Climate Change
ASWM — this association keeps an excellent record of scientific, gray lit, and media sources on how wetlands are bing affected by climate change
Pacific Institute — a searchable database of articles on freshwater and climate change
Water & Climate
IPCC freshwater report — an excellent 2008 report, but also a big PDF download
Science-based Responses to Climate Change
ClimateChangeTriage — a nice mix of policy and science on a wide variety of climate-related topics
Oregon, the Pacific Northwest of the U.S., western North America, & Climate Change
— The current governor of Oregon recently compiled a site to show some of the realized and potential impacts on Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, as well as policy approaches to mitigation and climate adaptation at the regional, state, and local level.
— A new report on biological impacts from climate change for the Pacific Northwest has recently been posted. It looks very promising and useful.
— A great set of resources on climate change and western water, especially the Colorado River