Climate Change
Climate Change
Climate Change Links
- All you ever wanted to know about Global Warming - Frequently Asked Questions Introduction to global warming, from New Scientist magazine. Includes theories about positive and negative feedbacks.
- Climate Change Belgium Official climate change web pages of the Belgian federal environment administration: publications, links, addresses, national and international official documents, legislation.
- Public Interest Research Group: Global Warming Global Warming FAQ sheet, email petition to the U.S. President, various reports and information to other resources.
- U.S. Global Change Research Program Provides the foundation for increasing the skill of predictions of seasonal-to-interannual climate fluctuations (which can bring excessively wet and dry periods) and long-term climate change.
- Climate Change and Sustainable Transport Challenge is the integration of climate policy objectives into other sectoral policy areas such as transport, energy and agriculture.
- World Wildlife Fund Study A recent study released by the World Wildlife Fund alleges that rising sea levels caused by man-made global warming may flood low-lying coastal cities like New York, Boston, Baltimore, and Miami.
- Climate Institute works to protect the balance between climate and life on earth by facilitating the dialogue among scientists, policy makers, business executives and citizens.
- Almanac of Policy Issues: Global Warming News, background information and links on global warming, climate change, and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
- World Climate Report A biweekly, online research review with breaking news on the science and politics of global climate change from Greening Earth Society.
- Climate Change Solutions Sucess stories, tools and resources on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- David Suzuki Foundation: Climate Change "News from Kyoto, Economists' Statement on Climate Change, Inaction on Global Warming... Finding Solutions."
- The Climate Action Network Opportunity to join with others to support a better understanding and action related to world climate problems
- Plant Trees to Reduce Global Warming Calculations of carbon dioxide emissions are offered for various modes of travel and energy use (1 tree per 1000 kilowatt-hours, for example).
- Global Warming An in-depth report on the scientific, social, economic, and political issues surrounding climate change.
- Global Warming International Center GWIC is an international body disseminating information on global warming science and policy, serving both governmental, non-governmental organizations, and industries in more than 120 countries. It sponsors unbiased research supporting the understanding of global warming and its mitigation.
- A Beginner's Guide to Global Warming Written by a scientist at The Woods Hole Research Center, these pages describe the scientific evidence, the culprits, the skeptics and the probable outcome of a world signicantly changed by human-induced climate change.
- The Environment Site visitors can "click the leaf" and sponsors will donate to an environmental trust which will secure greenhouse gas reductions.
- Global Warming: An Issue for Humanity Paper on the human consequences of global warming.
- BBC News: Global Climate Change An analysis of the science and other issues behind the climate change debate, from BBC News Online.
- Many scientists believe runaway greenhouse effect possible!! A Greenpeace poll (in 1992) shows that a worryingly high proportion of climate scientists believe it possible that continuing emissions of greenhouse gases can awaken synergistic feedbacks capable of generating a runaway greenhouse effect.
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change The IPCC assesses the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change.
- California Global Warming Campaign Useful and timely information about climate change and California.
- Environmental Protection Agency Global Warming Site Focuses on the science and impacts of global warming or climate change, and on actions by governments, corporations, and individuals that help address global warming issues. The site also features climate change related news, events, publications, reports, presentations, and links to other sites.
- Earth's Unruly Tenant An essay by Jane Lubchenco about climate change and public perceptions of environmental issues.
- The Great Climate Flip-flop Could Global Warming lead to Global Cooling? Warming could lead, paradoxically, to drastic cooling -- a catastrophe that could threaten the survival of civilization. Atlantic Monthly.
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC official site for UN Climate Secretariat: Kyoto protocol, COP4 in Buenos Aires, world emissions data...
- Sierra Club Global Warming and Energy Program Clearinghouse for information on global warming.
- Global Warming links An extensive list of links from the Junk Science Home Page.
- EPA's Global Warming Site Comprehensive information from the USA's Environmental Protection Agency.
- Datum-Line Examines coastal erosion, artificial reef, sea defence, coastal and inland flooding, rising sea levels, global warming, marine tyre structures and designs.
- Frensley Research Institute Mission is to educate people, through public media and lectures, as to the dangers of impending global limate change, as well as inform them as to how they can adapt to this global weather change inevitability.
- The Politics of Climate Change An online guide to the politics and science leading up to and following the signing of the Kyoto Protocol.
- Rappenecker's Global Warming Page Personal home page provides links to several articles expressing differing views about the potential for global warming.
- Climate Change Research at WRI WRI identifies opportunities to reduce the risk of global climate change in ways that drive sustainable economic development worldwide.
- Global Warming Climate scientists have linked the increased levels of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere to human activities, in particular the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas for heating and electricity; gasoline for transportation), deforestation, cattle ranching, and rice farming. From the Union of Concerned Scientists.
- FAQ About the Politics of Global Warming FAQ arising from the Kyoto Summit.
- Global warming Description as to how the meltdown of the ice shelves is taking place, the increase in global temperature, and extreme weather changes in recent times.
- Pew Center on Global Climate Change Advocates taking action to arrest climate change
- US Global Change Research Information Office Provides access to data and information on global environmental change research, adaptation/mitigation strategies and technologies, and global change related educational resources for users worldwide.
- Global Change Seeks to familiarize the public with the issues associated with climate change and ozone depletion.
- World Wildlife Fund - Global Warming and Climate Change Features information and breaking news on climate change, with a focus on resources and actions you can take to help stop global warming.
- Climate Change Debate Climate change and global warming science, government policy, energy technology, cost and benefits debated via an unmoderated, uncensored listserve, plus research aides.
- Destructive Storms Drive Insurance Losses Up - Will Taxpayers Have to Bail Out Insurance Industry? Scientists now believe that rising global temperatures may exacerbate extreme weather events, leading to increased damages in the decades ahead. [WorldWatch Institute]
- Humanity in the Hothouse Christian Science Monitor mini-site, including reports from Nov. 2000's Hague conference on climate change and links to other sources.
- National Climate Change Secretariat Created to inform Canadians about the process of developing a national implementation strategy on climate change.
- ACACIA - A Consortium for the Application of Climate Impact Assessments ACACIA uses the best available scientific tools and knowledge to answer the climate-related questions of sponsors from the industrial, business and policy communities.
- The Knowledge Sharing Project on Climate Sciences An open forum for questions and comments on climate change.
- WEATHERVANE: Resources for the Future's Digital Forum on Global Climate Policy An online forum designed to provide the news media, legislators, opinion leaders, and the interested public with analysis and commentary on U.S. and global policy initiatives related to climate change.
- Climate Ark Climate change news & information portal and archive dedicated to promoting policy that addresses Global Climate Change through reductions in carbon emissions, energy conservation, alternative energy sources and ending deforestation.
- Climate Trend Interactive plotting tool for historical global temperature data.
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