Global Climate Change Resources

BBC News Global Warming, http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1997/sci/tech//global_warming/

CNN Global Warming, http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1997/global.warming/

The Economist

National Geographic

New York Times Global Warming, http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/warming-index.html

Washington Post Global Warming, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/climate/climate.htm

II. Research and Policy Related Sites

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), http://www.ipcc.ch

The IPCC is the most authoritative scientific body providing up-to-date scientific, technical andsocioeconomic research in the field of global warming, or climate change. The recent Climate Change 1995: the IPCC Scientific Assessment Report is divided into three major sections: on the science of the climate system, impacts and response options, and economic and social dimensions of climate change. Each of the sections can be read or downloaded from this site, and the full copy can be ordered via this site.

If you are looking for straightforward, unbiased information on what is scientifically known about global warming, this is the place to start!

Official Site of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: http://www.unfccc.de/index.html

This is the new website of the UNFCCC Secretariat, newly installed in Bonn, Germany. The site is a virtual clearinghouse of climate change information! It includes the full text of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, a climate change information kit with information about the science and the impacts of climate change, as well as heat-trapping-gas emissions data and information on technology solutions. Also available are official documents and information on specific countries.

Framework Convention on Climate Change: http://www.unfccc.de/resource/conv/index.html

Climate Change Information Kit: http://www.unfccc.de/resource/iuckit/index.html

Official Documents: http://www.unfccc.de/resource/docs.html

Country Information: http://www.unfccc.de/resource/country/index.html

National Center for Atmospheric Research:, http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/ncar/

The National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR, was established in 1960 to serve as a focus for research on atmospheric and related science problems and is recognized for its scientific contributions to our understanding of the earth system, including climate change, changes in atmospheric composition, Earth-Sun interactions, weather formation and forecasting, and the impacts of all of these components on human societies.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate and Global Change Program : http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program: http://web.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html

NOAA Paleoclimatology helps the World share scientific data and information related to climate system variability and predictability. Their mission is to ensure the international paleoclimate research community meets the scientific goals of programs including IPCC, IGBP PAGES, WCRP CLIVAR, and NOAA's Climate and Global Change Program

The Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research: http://www.meto.gov.uk/sec5/sec5pg1.html

Located in the United Kingdom, the Hadley Centre's main objective is to provide an authoritative, up-to-date assessment of both natural and human-caused climate change. The Hadley Centre was opened in the spring of 1990. The Hadley Centre is jointly funded by the United Kingdom Department of the Environment and the United Kingdom Meteorological Office. The main aspects of the research program are:

1. To simulate the present climate and understand its natural variability
2. To understand the factors controlling climate change and to predict global and regional climate change up to the end of the 21st century.
3. To develop and use global climate models to support the above tasks.
4. To provide a focus for both national research programs relevant to climate change prediction and for interaction with international programs; to facilitate the incorporation of results from these programs into the prediction models.

The website has information on climate change experiments and scenarios, as well as the historical land and sea temperature records that provide evidence of the 20th century global warming trend.

A publication of the Center for Global Change, this journal provides information on the implications for public policy and private investment of scientific and economic research on global environmental change. This site has an extensive online list of other web resources.

The Center serves as a national resource for climate information. The Center has a statutory mission to describe the climate of the United States and to act as a record keeper of trends and anomalies of U.S. weather and climate. NCDC's climate data have been used in a variety of applications including agriculture, air quality, construction, education, energy, engineering, forestry, health, insurance, landscape design, livestock management, manufacturing, recreation and tourism, retailing, transportation, and water resources management among other areas.

An extensive primer covering atmospheric science, climate, and the issues surrounding global

warming. Produced by the Atmospheric Environment Service of Environment Canada.

Global Change Research in USGeological Survey is a component of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), complementing research and observations on oceanic, atmospheric, and biological processes in other Federal agencies. The USGS is an international source for ground-based and remotely sensed earth science data and information used by global change researchers and contributing to assessments of the potential effects of global change on society. USGS global change research examines terrestrial and marine processes and the natural history of global change, including the interactions between climate and the hydrologic system. Data sets are also available.

NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) is a comprehensive directory of descriptions of data sets of relevance to global change research. The GCMD database is a comprehensive and searchable resource which includes descriptions of data sets (DIFs) covering climate change, agriculture, the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere & oceans, geology, geography, and human dimensions of global change.

GISS is a NASA research institute primarily engaged in studies of global climate change.

Program areas at GISS may be roughly divided into global climate modeling, Earth observations (which includes the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program [ISCCP]), climate impacts, planetary atmospheres, paleoclimate, radiation, atmospheric chemistry, and astrophysics and other disciplines. A key objective of GISS research is prediction of atmospheric and climate changes in the 21^st century. The research combines analysis of comprehensive global datasets, derived mainly from spacecraft observations, with global models of atmospheric, land surface, and oceanic processes. The research approach includes study of past changes on Earth, such as paleoclimate changes, and study of other planetary atmospheres as an aid to prediction of future evolution of Earth on a planetary scale.

At their website, you can find out more about their work's results and even see the simulations of future global climate projected by GISS's sophisticated computer climate model -- the same Atmosphere-Ocean Model used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their landmark 1995 report on global climate trends.

At their website, you can find out more about their work's results and even see the simulations of future global climate projected by GISS's sophisticated computer climate model -- the same Atmosphere-Ocean Model used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their landmark 1995 report on global climate trends.

ANTI-TREATY

Science and Environment Policy Project, http://www.his.com/~sepp/

World Climate Report, http://www.greeningearthsociety.org/climate/index.htm

Western Fuels Association Global Warming, http://www.westernfuels.org/

PRO-TREATY

ECO Climate Action newsletter, http://www.igc.apc.org/climate/Eco.html

Friends of the Earth, http://www.foe.co.uk/climatechange/index.html

Sierra Club Global Warming, http://www.sierraclub.org/global-warming/home.html

World Wildlife Federation Global Warming, http:///www.panda.org/climate/

World Resources Institute Climate Protection Initiative, http://www.wri.org/wri/cpi/

Clinton Administration’s Program, http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/actions/national/administration/index.html

Climate Change Action Plan, http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/actions

Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency Page, http://www.eren.doe.gov/

House Science Committee Science Policy Study, http://www.house.gov/science/science_policy_study.htm

Federal Emergency Management Agency, http://www.fema.gov

Official Government Website, http://www.usia.gov/topical/global/environ/envcl.htm

Subcommittee on Natural Disaster Reduction, of the National Science and Technology Council,  http://www.usgs.gov/sndr/

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OSTP/html/OSTP_Home.html