The Rap Guide to Climate Chaos

By Baba Brinkman

• Fossil Fuel Ballers (feat. Aaron Nazrul)
• What's Beef (feat. Bill Nye)

The US Electric Grid (in real-time)

This is super-cool: U.S. Electric System Operating Data as an interactive map and charts, plus data download. I would appreciate a little tutorial on what is displayed.

Teaching Climate Change With Models And Games

Bush et al. (2016) provide a nice compilation of models and games one can use when teaching climate change.

• EdGCM
• MAGICC/SCENGEN (version 5.3.v2)
• Java Climate Model
• Tim Osborn: Climate models for teaching
• Portable University Model of the Atmosphere (PUMA)
• UCAR Interactives and Simulations
• C-ROADS Climate Change Policy Simulator
• Fate of the World - Online
• EcoChains: Arctic Crisis

The Food Access Research Atlas

The Food Access Research Atlas by the USDA is great for mapping and data access down to the census tract level. It takes a little to get used to the lingo, but that's just the nature of federal data.

Census Data Mapper

The Census Data Mapper is pretty simple and seems to only work at the county level, but it is a quick way to look at census data across the country, grab the data into a MS Excel spreadsheet, and export the map into a PDF.

Are Our Brains Wired to Ignore Climate Change?

STEM and GIS in Higher Education

Here we have the perfect combination: STEM and GIS in Higher Education and Esri is all in with a nice Story Map and an associated e-Book.