About Sierra Warming
No longer is climate change a distant drama of shrinking polar ice caps. As year-round ice fades from the saw-toothed summits of the Sierra Nevada, it's clear an unwelcome reality is at our doorstep: Global warming is local warming.
Sierra Warming Videos
Alpine chipmunks signal climate change in Sierra Nevada.
Hal Klieforth returns to Lyell glacier to see the effects of climate change.
Debate over juniper woodlands in northeast California.
Links
- Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains
- Saving the Sierra
- Environment 360
- Western Regional Climate Center
- Western Mountain Initiative
- Our Changing Climate: Assessing the Risks to California
- Climate Change: A Challenge Looming for the Sierra Nevada
- Hotter and Drier: The West's Changed Climate
- Science Blogs: Environment
- The Grinnell Resurvey Project
Bee Environmental Projects
Sierra in Peril (pdf files)
Part 1 (25MB)
Part 2 (32MB)
Part 3 (16MB)
Part 4 (42MB)
Part 5 (16MB)
State of Denial
The Pineros
Managing Forests
A Darker Shade of Green
