Climate Resources Online

Some online resources with climate change content are outlined below. Many are blogs or include blogs. They vary in geographic scope from global to regional: many are US based, and some of the views expressed oppose the current climate change consensus. Resources are listed alphabetically and are drawn from the Feedspot online reader, which interacts with media outlets such as blogs, podcasts, magazines and news websites. URLs or web addresses for all the resources mentioned are listed in the References section.

List of Resources

 

Carbon Brief is UK-based and covers developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy. Topics covered include Carbon Offsets: their history and impacts, with a glossary and Q&A; China Policy: its growing solar power, continued use of coal, clean-energy exports and low-carbon transition in cities; and UN Climate Talks: a carbon-pricing system for international shipping, missed deadlines for 2035 climate pledges, COP 29 outcomes and Brazil’s new climate pledge.

The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) is based in the US, and “works to build broad, durable support for effective and ambitious climate policies, built on partnerships and equity”. Topics of papers in the online library include: the international greenhouse gas market; human health and global climate change; sustainable aviation fuel; and clean energy standards. Blog posts address the need to build hurricane resilience; aligning climate and trade policy; financing the clean energy transition; and cultivating tomorrow’s climate leaders. A series on Climate Basics includes the greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, and impacts of climate change.

Citizens' Climate Lobby seeks to create the political will for a liveable world through “the exercise of personal and political power.” Its volunteers are organized into local chapters across the US and internationally. Major topics include carbon pricing to reduce America’s carbon pollution; preserving American forests; building electrification & efficiency; and reform of the energy project permit process. The blog addressed issues such as connecting with Congress; defending clean energy programs; climate advocacy and protecting the Inflation Reduction Act.

Climate Change Dispatch (CCD) describes itself as a forum for the discussion of “human-made” global warming, with climate, environmental and science news. It aims to share “all the studies and papers that consistently contradict the theory of CO2-driven global warming” and challenges arguments based on consensus science, which it regards as based on authority rather than genuine science. Titles of recent articles include Contrary to NYT Claims, Corals Are Thriving And Far from Doomed; New Study: Modern Warming Found To Be Part Of Natural Climate Cycle; ExxonMobil Warns EU Climate Rules Could Crush American Companies, Botch Trade Deal; and High-Risk Properties, Not Climate Disasters, Are Fueling Higher Insurance Rates.

Climate Generation “ignites and sustains the ability of educators, youth, and communities to act on systems perpetuating the climate crisis.” Its base is in Minnesota, and its Resource Library offers graded teaching material. Blog post titles include Reflections as a Youth Worker; Cycling for the Planet; and What does the “Next Generation” Require of Us?

Climate Change Law from The Sabin Center at Columbia Law School presents blogposts under the headings Cross-cutting Issues, Energy, Environment & Land Use, International, and News & Events. Titles from each heading follow.

Cross-cutting Issues: Alternative Approaches to Environmental Reparation; Law-making initiatives of Small Island Developing States on Loss and Damage; and How Banks Can Lead the Transition Financing Climate Solutions. Energy: Decommissioning Offshore Oil & Gas Infrastructure; 100 Days of Trump 2.0; Legacy Liabilities for Oil and Gas Wells; and Speeding Up the Green Transition. Environment & Land Use: Removing Methane from the Atmosphere; Permitting CO2 Pipelines; and New York Home Buyers Deserve the Right to Know Their Flood Risk. International: Corporations, Climate, and the Court; Protecting Rights in the Anthropocene; and Chile’s Lithium Boom. News & Events: Is There Really a Fiduciary Duty to Destroy the Climate? Smart Surfaces Policy Tracker: A New Resource For Cities; and New Inflation Reduction Act Tracker Launched by the Sabin Center and EDF.

Climate Strategies is a not-for-profit organisation with offices in London and Utrecht. Its members are established researchers, and it implements projects in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders around the world. A selection of its blog post titles follows: Rethinking Nature-Based Solutions; Supporting Nature Restoration in London; What is the Just Transition Work Programme — and why does it matter? Russia at COP29: Imitating climate policy, emissions reductions and carbon credits; Advancing Justice in Climate Adaptation: Key Insights.

Climate Home News is “an independent English-language digital newsroom whose aim is to inform audiences and inspire action on the climate crisis and the global energy transition.” News items are grouped under the headings of Politics, Energy, Justice, Finance, Business, Science, Nature, and Carbon Markets, together with explainer sections.

Examples: Trump’s UN tirade against renewables, climate deals and environmentalists; The company tracking energy transition minerals back to the mines; “Public health emergency”: Report shows fossil fuel impacts on every stage of life; To meet Africa’s clean energy goals, investors urged to tolerate higher risk; Five ways to make aviation more sustainable right now; Planet’s health in rising danger, as ocean acidification crosses safety limit; EU’s record wildfire emissions highlight threat to forest carbon sinks; and EU Commission proposes allowing carbon offsets to help meet 2040 climate goal.

Climate Policy Initiative describes itself as “an analysis and advisory organization with deep expertise in finance and policy” seeking to help “governments, businesses, and financial institutions drive economic growth while addressing climate change.”

Blog articles are listed by Program (from Amazônia 2030 to Sustainable Finance Integrity), Region (from Africa to United States) and Topics (from Adaptation and Resilience to Wind). Some titles: Transforming India's Climate Finance through Sector-Specific Financial Institutions; The shifting landscape of climate coalitions: challenges, opportunities, and the role of data; Climate Finance Needs and Roadmaps; Net Zero Finance Tracker; The Path to Decarbonizing India's Steel and Cement Industry.

Climate Solutions is a clean energy economy nonprofit organisation based in the Northwest of the US. Online resources include articles on Climate Storytelling; The Inflation Reduction Act; All-electric Buildings; Power Outages; Extreme Weather; and Clean Transit.

Greenpeace “defends the natural world from destruction.” It is based in Amsterdam. The Issues explored in its online articles are Climate, Forests, Justice, Oceans, Plastics and Wildlife. Sample articles are headed Causes of Climate Change; Environmental Justice; Does Carbon Offsetting Really Work? Deforestation; Meat and Dairy; Loss and Damage; Sacrifice Zones; The UN Global Ocean Treaty; How can I use less plastic? and What is biodiversity and why is it important?

The International Monetary Fund has headquarters in Washington, D.C. and is “a global organization that works to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity for all of its 191 member countries.” Its blog topics include Climate Change, Climate Finance, Energy Transition, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainable Development Goals. Sample post titles are:  Why Women Risk Losing Out in Shift to Green Jobs; Benefits of Accelerating the Climate Transition Outweigh the Costs; How Replacing Coal With Renewable Energy Could Pay For Itself; How Europe Can Protect the Poor from Surging Energy Prices; Why Sustainable Food Systems are Needed in a post-COVID World; Beware of Strike-it-Rich Euphoria: the Curse of Potential Oil Wealth; and How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment.

Inside Climate News is based in New York and claims “Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet.” Topics are grouped under the headings Science, Politics, Justice & Health, Fossil Fuels, and Clean Energy. Sample titles are Dust Storms Surprise the Midwest and Raise Worries About Climate Risks; UN Sessions on Solar Geoengineering Trigger Unease; How Much Water and Energy do Data Centers Consume? Trump Takes His ‘Green Energy Scam’ Talk to the UN; The Steep Environmental Costs of China’s Massive Global Development; Is AI Throwing Climate Change Under the Bus? and Department of Energy Allocates $134 million for Fusion Funding.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Climate Portal promises “Straightforward answers to your questions about climate change.” MIT Climate Portal has three main sections: Climate 101, divided into What We Know, What Can Be Done, and Climate Primer; Explore, divided into Explainers, Ask MIT Climate, Podcast, and For Educators; and MIT action, divided into News, Events, and Resources. Article titles in the Primer section include The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Greenhouse Gases; Climate Change Attribution; Mitigation and Adaptation; Investing and Climate Change; Permafrost; Phytoplankton; Coastal Ecosystems and Climate Change; and Radiative Forcing.

RealClimate is a “commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists” and it seeks to provide “a one stop link for resources that people can use to get up to speed on the issue of climate change”. A selection of articles (many written some years ago) follows:  Climate sensitivity and aerosol forcings; Global Dimming and climate models; Arctic Sea Ice decline in the 21st Century; Butterflies, tornadoes and climate modelling; Short and simple arguments for why climate can be predicted; Runaway tipping points of no return; Water vapour: feedback or forcing?

Skeptical Science presents peer-reviewed science and explains the techniques of climate science denial, discourses of climate delay, and climate solutions denial. There are sections on climate myths, climate graphics, conspiracy theories, history of climate science, opposition to climate consensus and FAQs.

The Climate Reality Project Blog was founded by former US Vice President Al Gore “to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every sector of society.” It seeks “a swift, systemic, and just transition toward net zero emissions by the middle of this century, with major steps toward that goal by 2030.” Articles include: The Rise in Unnatural Disasters: Sea Level Rise; What is Desertification? Hot Water: The Danger of Warming Oceans; How to Kill Jobs and Raise Prices in One Big Beautiful Bill; New Permitting for Fossil Fuel Projects Aim to Redefine Reality; and How the Climate Crisis is Impacting Kenya.

The Daily Climate is “a publication of Environmental Health Sciences, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to driving science into public discussion and policy on environmental health issues, including climate change.” Environmental Health Sciences is based in Bozeman, Montana. Its newsletters address climate impacts, solutions, politics, drivers; essential news on human and environmental health; the world's growing plastic pollution problem; children's health; energy development and use; and the interplay of key environmental drivers. Many related articles are available individually.

The Global Climate and Health Alliance “unites and mobilises the health community worldwide and accelerates climate action to protect and improve health for all.” Online resources include articles on Advancing and Integrating Climate and Health Policies; Mitigating Methane from the Waste, Energy, and Food and Agriculture sectors; The health harms of fossil fuel dependence; The Limits of Livability, and Climate Change and Food Safety.

Yale Climate Connections is a news service that promotes understanding of the reality of climate change and what action to take. It is an initiative of Yale University and has a website, YouTube channel, and radio program. Titles of articles include: A new disturbance may punctuate the Atlantic’s peak-season calm; How disinformation hurts Americans; August 2025: Earth’s 3rd-hottest August on record; How much carbon can we safely store underground? Much less than previously thought; and Sea level report cards track uneven flood risk across U.S. regions.

Resource effectiveness

Most online publishers want to know who reads what they write, whether what they see interests them, and whether they take any action as a result. Publishers have different ways of estimating the effectiveness of their output, related to their aims and the target audience. Winning or being shortlisted for awards in journalism is one metric; success in producing changes in policy or legislation is another. Reader interest can be estimated by traffic and newsletter subscription, and success may be measured by mentions on other blogs, social media and news outlets. Feedback can be useful in general, and in cases such as requests to sign petitions or contact policymakers.

References

 

Carbon Brief                                                            

https://www.carbonbrief.org/

Center for Climate and Energy Solutions        

https://www.c2es.org/blog/

Citizens' Climate Lobby Climate Change Blog                        

https://citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/

Climate Change Dispatch                                    

https://climatechangedispatch.com/

Climate Generation Blog                                     

https://climategen.org/blog/

Climate Law            

https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/

Climate Strategies             

https://climatestrategies.org/blog/     

Climate Home News         

https://www.climatechangenews.com/

Climate Policy Initiative   

https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/resources/blog/

Climate Solutions  

https://www.climatesolutions.org/blog

Feedspot      

www.feedspot.com          

Greenpeace            

https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/

IMF Blogs     

https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs

Inside Climate News         

https://insideclimatenews.org/

MIT Climate Portal            

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit-climate

RealClimate             

https://www.realclimate.org/

Skeptical Science   

https://skepticalscience.com/

The Climate Reality Project

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog

The Daily Climate  

https://www.dailyclimate.org/

The Global Climate and Health Alliance          

https://climateandhealthalliance.org/

Yale Climate Connections            

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/

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