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Science & Technology Resources and Training

Science of Climate Change

  Beginner This training is intended for volunteers who are seeking a basic understanding of this topic.
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  Interactive Training content presented in a more interactive format with integrated images, audio, video and learner-centric activities.

This training addresses the sources and concentrations of greenhouse gases, as well as the basic scientific concepts behind climate change. It highlights the importance behind the scientific method and the peer review process, and addresses best practices in communicating this research with other community members.

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Trees and Forests as Natural Climate Solutions

  Intermediate This training is created for volunteers who already have a grasp of the basics and are looking to deepen their understanding on a more focused topic.
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  Traditional Training content presented in a tab format with more straightforward access to text, webinar, and audio recordings.

This training reviews the need for approaches to remove and sequester carbon from the atmosphere, the role trees and forests can play, and the other benefits that those solutions provide.

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Climate and Weather

  Intermediate This training is created for volunteers who already have a grasp of the basics and are looking to deepen their understanding on a more focused topic.
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  Traditional Training content presented in a tab format with more straightforward access to text, webinar, and audio recordings.

This training looks at how global warming increases the frequency and severity of weather events as well as how this complexity can be effectively communicated to the general public.

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Sixth IPCC Assessment Report

  Intermediate This training is created for volunteers who already have a grasp of the basics and are looking to deepen their understanding on a more focused topic.
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  Traditional Training content presented in a tab format with more straightforward access to text, webinar, and audio recordings.

This training reviews the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth assessment reports to examine why it was written, what it tells us that’s new, and how it informs CCL’s work.

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Weather Attribution Science

  Advanced This training topic is more advanced and intended to provide complex information and resources for volunteers looking for an in-depth explanation.
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  Traditional Training content presented in a tab format with more straightforward access to text, webinar, and audio recordings.

Attribution science is the process of quantifying the contribution of global warming to extreme weather and other events. This training discusses the background of attribution science, the process for connecting climate change with extreme weather events, and how we as CCL volunteers can effectively communicate its research and findings.

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Highlight Your Local Climate Impacts

  All Levels This training is suitable for everyone, from newer volunteers to those with more experience.
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  Traditional Training content presented in a tab format with more straightforward access to text, webinar, and audio recordings.

Our members of Congress, local media, municipal councils, friends and family are more open to hearing our message if we first find common ground on climate impacts that are local, timely and relevant.

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Climate Central Tools: Making It Real, Making It Local

  All Levels This training is suitable for everyone, from newer volunteers to those with more experience.
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  Traditional Training content presented in a tab format with more straightforward access to text, webinar, and audio recordings.

Join Karen Florini, Vice President for Programs at Climate Central, for a training that highlights the climate communication tools available to climate advocates from Climate Central, including Climate Matters, WeatherPower, Sea Level Rise, and Realtime Climate, all of which provide timely, personalized alerts on climate impacts & solutions – for every community in the U.S.

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Health Impacts of Climate Change & Burning Fossil Fuels

  Intermediate This training is created for volunteers who already have a grasp of the basics and are looking to deepen their understanding on a more focused topic.
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  Traditional Training content presented in a tab format with more straightforward access to text, webinar, and audio recordings.

Increasing levels of greenhouse gas concentrations in our atmosphere bring about human health consequences. The release of toxic pollutants is hardest on vulnerable populations such as children, the elderly, and those with asthma or cardiovascular disease.

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Sunny Day Flooding & Climate Advocacy

  Advanced This training topic is more advanced and intended to provide complex information and resources for volunteers looking for an in-depth explanation.
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  Traditional Training content presented in a tab format with more straightforward access to text, webinar, and audio recordings.

This applied training covers how to identify and leverage the sunny day flooding events that occur in your community to create local stories with impact about your community. This training will also focus on how to connect these local stories and use sunny day flooding in our advocacy for coastal chapters.

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