National

• U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit (NOAA): This website provides information about how to assess climate change vulnerabilities and risks, as well as plan actions to respond to impacts. The site also includes links to climate research, case studies, and training.
       
• U.S. Climate Change Indicators (EPA): This website provides links to studies and data about observed changes in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, as well as climate indicators such as ocean heat, acidity, and sea level.  
     
• Climate Data Online (NOAA): This website provides free access to NOAA’s archive of global historical weather and climate data in addition to station history information. These data include daily, monthly, seasonal, and yearly measurements of temperature, precipitation, wind, and degree days, as well as radar data and 30-year Climate Normals.
      
• Georgetown Climate Center (Georgetown Law): This nonpartisan organization seeks to advance effective climate and energy policies in the United States and serves as a resource to state and local communities that are working to cut carbon pollution and prepare for climate change.

• U.S. Adaptation Workbook (EPA): This workbook, Being Prepared for Climate Change, guides users to develop risk-based adaptation plans.

Regional & State

• Climate Impacts Group (University of Washington): This Seattle-based organization conducts pioneering research on climate variability, climate change, and climate impacts, and works with private and public entities, including TRPC and Thurston County. 
     
• The Pacific Northwest Climate Impacts Research Consortium (Oregon State University):   
  This Corvallis-based organization provides policymakers, resource managers, and researchers with the best available science covering the changing climate of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and western Montana.
     
• Washington State Integrated Climate Change Response Strategy (DOE): This Washington State Department of Ecology report lays out a framework that decision-makers can use to help protect Washington’s communities, natural resources and economy from the impacts of climate change.

Local

• Thurston County Environmental Monitoring Program (Thurston County): This County website provides access to local precipitation, groundwater, and streamflow data.
  
  
• Thurston County Energy Map & Carbon Wedge Analyses (TRPC consultants): This memorandum and associated presentation — prepared by the Stockholm Environment Institute and Clean Energy Transition for TRPC — chart potential pathways to achieving the regional emissions-reduction targets adopted as part of TRPC’s Sustainable Thurston project.
  
  
• Benefit-Cost Analysis of Selected Actions from the Thurston Climate Adaptation Plan (TRPC consultants): This report — prepared by Earth Economics for TRPC — factors in ecosystem services values to calculate benefit-cost ratios for a pair of actions in the Thurston Climate Adaptation Plan.
  
  
• Thurston County Environmental Health (Thurston County): This Thurston County Public Health & Social Services website provides information about septic systems, lakes, wells and other community assets that are affected by climate change. The site also links to a water quality monitoring database.

National

• U.S. Climate Atlas (NOAA): This website includes interactive maps that let users explore spatially minimum temperature, maximum temperature, and precipitation by year and month. The maps are based on the New Climate Division dataset, which uses daily observations of temperature and precipitation from over 10,000 stations in the United States.
           
• Digital Coast (NOAA): This website is focused on helping communities address coastal issues and has become one of the most-used resources in the coastal-management community.

State

• Washington Tracking Network Map (DOH): This interactive map, created by the Washington State Department of Health, enables users to view spatially environmental health data (air quality, drinking water, etc.) and social vulnerability to hazards (heat stress, wildfires, etc.) across the state.
      
• Washington State Coastal Atlas (DOE): This interactive map, created by the Washington State Department of Ecology using FEMA data, enables users to view spatially flood risks across the state.

Local
Thurston County Climate Indicator Maps [pdf] (TRPC): These maps, which use data from the U.W. Climate Impacts Group and other sources, show observed and projected changes in climate indicators (air temperature, stream temperature, snowpack, sea level, etc.) across Thurston County and the broader South Puget Sound region.

• Thurston County Hazards Assessment Map (TRPC): This interactive story map enables users to view the spatial extent of Thurston County hazard risks, including floods, landslides and wildfires. 
     
• Thurston County LID Map (TRPC): This interactive story map enables users to view the location and type of low-impact development (LID) projects that help reduce stormwater runoff associated with heavy precipitation.
       
• Thurston County Bicycle Map (TRPC): Interactive map enables users to view the location of bicycle trails that could provide alternative transportation routes, should storms or other hazards down trees and close roads.
  
  
• Olympia Sea-Level Rise Map (City of Olympia): Interactive map enables users to view the potential extent of flooding in downtown Olympia associated with increases in sea level (+1 feet to +5 feet) and heavy rains.

TRPC Maps

Annual Maximum Snow Water Equivalent Combined (PDF) April 1st Snow Depth (PDF) Average Summer Temperature (PDF) Average Winter Temperature (PDF) Extreme High Daytime Temperatures (PDF) Extreme Low Nighttime Temperatures (PDF) Growing Degree Days (PDF) Maximum 24-Hour Precipitation (PDF) Length of the Snow Season (PDF) Summer Runoff (PDF) Summer Water Deficit (PDF) Total Summer Precipitation (PDF) Total Winter Precipitation (PDF) Winter Runoff (PDF)

2040 Stream Temperatures (PDF) 2080 Stream Temperatures (PDF) Historical Stream Temperature Averages (PDF) Lower Budd Inlet & Capitol Lake Flood Map (PDF) Thurston County Shoreline Flood Map (PDF) Henderson Inlet Flood Map (PDF) Mud Bay Flood Map (PDF) Nisqually Reach Flood Map (PDF) Flood & Landslide Risks (PDF)

 

The Timberland Regional Library — which has 27 libraries, 2 cooperative library centers and 4 library kiosks in Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, and Thurston counties — has a wealth of books, periodicals, videos and other materials about climate change. These and other materials can be checked out at a TRL facility or online, www.trl.org. 

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Nonfiction Books (Adults)
		Climate of Hope By Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope The former mayor of New York City and the former Sierra Club executive director discuss how cities, businesses, and citizens can save the planet.
		How culture shapes the climate change debate By Hoffman, Andrew J      Synthesizing evidence from sociology, psychology, and political science, the writer lays bare the opposing cultural lenses through which science is interpreted.
		The Sixth Extinction: An unnatural history Kolbert, Elizabeth The author writes about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.
Nonfiction Books (Children)
		Climate Change: Discover How it Impacts Spaceship Earth Sneideman, Joshua In Climate Change: Discover How It Impacts Spaceship Earth, young readers examine real studies concerning planetary science, Arctic ice bubbles, and migratory patterns.
		It’s Getting Hot in Here: The Past, Present, and Future of Climate Change Heos, Bridget This hard-hitting look at climate change tackles the past, present, and future of global warming, examining the effects it's having across the world, the politics behind denial, and the ways in which we can all work to lessen the harsh effects of our warming world.
		Taking Action to Help the Environment Braun, Eric Profiles four environmentalists who are helping to save the world's wildlife, fighting for safe food, promoting clean energy, and battling against climate change.
Fiction Books (Adults)
		New York 2140 Robinson, Kim Stanley A new vision of the future from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora.
		The Terranauts Boyle, T.C. In the desert near Tillman, Arizona, forty miles from Tucson, a grand experiment involving the future of humanity is underway.
		Walkaway: A Novel Doctorow, Cory Much of the countryside is wrecked by climate change, and predators are with us always. Yet when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, more people join them.
DVDs
		Bill Nye's Global Meltdown Scientist Bill Nye examines the earth's warming temperatures through the prism of the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
		Seeds of time Agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler and farmers featured in the film embark on passionate and personal journeys that may save the one resource we cannot live without: our seeds.
		Years of living dangerously (complete series) This documentary series explores the human impact of climate change — from the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy to the upheaval caused by drought in the Middle East.

 

Free Online Courses

Lynda.com: Sustainability Strategies
Universal Class: Biology 101
Universal Class: Crisis Management
Universal Class: Ecology 101
Universal Class: Global Warming
Universal Class: Marine Biology 101
Universal Class: Meteorology Fundamentals
For more books, DVDs, and other resources on climate change, ask a librarian or visit http://bit.ly/2tV178T.