Here are a few great resources on how Minnesota will be affected due to global warming. For up-to-date information on Minnesota, sign up for Fresh Energy’s monthly publication Powering Progress.

• The Confronting Climate Change in Minnesota (pdf) report by the Union of Concerned Scientists details expected impacts and possible solutions to global warming in Minnesota.
• The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency describes how Minnesota is already experiencing—and will continue to experience—impacts to ecosystems, natural resources, and infrastructure due to global warming.
• The Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States report by the U.S. Global Climate Change Research Program discusses the impacts of global warming in the United States and focuses on regional issues important to Minnesota, such as agriculture, forestry, and water.
• A scientist-reviewed study released by the Union of Concerned Scientists predicts that climate change-induced ozone increases in Minnesota could result in about 62,000 additional cases of serious respiratory illnesses in 2020, and cost the state almost $107 million dollars in health-related costs in 2020.
• Science Policy Director J. Drake Hamilton writes about the impact of global warming on human health in Minnesota Medicine, the journal of the Minnesota Medical Association.

Other Recommended Resources

• Climate Change and Health Vulnerabilities
  Science Policy Director J. Drake Hamilton writes about the impact of global warming on human health in Minnesota Medicine, the journal of the Minnesota Medical Association.
• Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
  For the first time in 10 years, a new report summarizing the science of climate change and its impacts on the United States today and in the future was released by the United States Global Change Research Program. Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States focuses on climate change impacts in different regions of the U.S. and on various aspects of society and the economy such as energy, water, agriculture, and health. The report is written in plain language with the goal of better informing public and private decision making at all levels.
• Global warming skeptics and what the science really says
  The goal of the very useful Skeptical Science website is to explain what peer-reviewed science has to say about global warming.

Reports

• American Association for the Advancement of Science – Eighteen scientific organizations state the consensus view of global warming (pdf)
• Audubon Society – Birds and Climate Change: Ecological Disruption in Motion (pdf)
• Environmental Protection Agency – Climate Change Indicators in the United States (pdf)
• Fresh Energy – Playing with Fire, Climate Change in Minnesota (published as Minnesotans for an Energy-Efficient Economy)
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – Fourth Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers (pdf)
• Minnesota Conservation Volunteer – The Crossroads of Climate Change 
• National Academy of Sciences – Call for International Action on Climate Change, Global Health
• National Academy of Sciences – Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia (2010)
• National Research Council – Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change
• National Research Council – Advancing the Science of Climate Change
• National Research Council – Climate Change Science: an analysis of some key questions (pdf)
• National Research Council – Limiting the Magnitude of Climate Change
• National Wildlife Federation – Waterfowler’s Guide to Global Warming (pdf)
• Pew Center – Climate Change 101: The Science and Impacts (pdf)
• Union of Concerned Scientists – Climate Change and Your Health: Rising Temperatures, Worsening Ozone Pollution
• Union of Concerned Scientists – Confronting Climate Change in Minnesota (pdf)
• Union of Concerned Scientists’ resources on Great Lakes communities and ecosystems at risk from global warming
• Union of Concerned Scientists – U.S. Scientists and Economists’ Call for Swift and Deep Cuts in Greenhouse Gas Emissions (2010) (pdf)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – 2009 Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks

Policy Solutions and Analyses

• Congressional Budget Office – Estimated costs to households of American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454)
• Fresh Energy – Cap and Trade: Business Opportunities (pdf)
• Lord Nicholas Stern Review on the economics of climate change
• Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group (MCCAG) – Final Report
• National Security and the Threat of Climate Change
• Pew Center – Climate Change 101: Technological Solutions (pdf)
• Political Economy Research Institute – Green Recovery (pdf)
• Potential Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Transportation
• Princeton University (Pacala, Socolow) – Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies
• United Nations Foundation and The Scientific Research Society – Confronting Climate Change
• U.S. Climate Action Partnership – A Call For Action (pdf)
• U.S. House of Representatives – Climate principles sign-on letter to Speaker Pelosi (pdf)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Economic Analyses of America’s Climate Security Act
• World Resources Institute – Charting the Midwest – An Inventory and Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in America’s Heartland (pdf)

Helpful websites for more information

• Climate Progress
• Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on Global Warming
• National Climate Data Center – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• Princeton University’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative
• RealClimate – Climate science from climate scientists
• Skeptical Science: Examining the science of global warming skeptics
• U.S. Climate Action Network
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Carbon Footprint calculator
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Global Warming
• U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)

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