| US Global Change Research Information Office (global warming) - Provides access to data and information on climate change research, adaptation/mitigation strategies and technologies, and global warming related educational resources for users worldwide.
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| 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.
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| FAQ About the Politics of Global Warming - FAQ arising from the Kyoto Summit.
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| 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.
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| Pew Center on Global Climate Change - Advocates taking action to arrest climate change
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| Climate Institute - An NGO that aims to serve as a bridge between policymakers and scientists around the world and is dedicated to being the world's foremost authority on climate change information, science and responses. Site provides basic scientific information and links to more detailed information.
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| Global Warming links - An extensive list of links from the Junk Science Home Page.
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| Global Warming International Center (GWIC) - International body disseminating information on global warming science and policy, sponsoring research. Serving governmental, non-governmental organizations, and industries in more than 120 countries. Conducts the Global Warming International Conference and Expo and publishes a journal.
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| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - Established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to assess available scientific, technical, and socio-economic information in the field of climate change.
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| 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]
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Belgium Federal Department of the Environment - Climate Change - Climate change web pages of the Belgian federal environment administration. Site has general information on the greenhouse effect, policy and legislative information, and related links.
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| Climate Ark -- Climate Change Portal - Provides a comprehensive round-up of on-line news sources, as well as an archive and a targetted web-search engine.
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| Capacity for Climate Protection - Project focussing on climate protection and funding environmental NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe. Includes a profile, calendar of events, publications, and information on monitoring and mechanisms.
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| Bush's CO2 Emissions Flip-Flop - Cartoons about President Bush's reversal of stance on carbon dioxide emissions.
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| Climate Change Solutions - Success stories, tools and resources on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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| Almanac of Policy Issues: Global Warming - News, background information and links on global warming, climate change, and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
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| EPA's Global Warming Site - Comprehensive information from the USA's Environmental Protection Agency.
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| 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).
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| Climate Trend - Interactive plotting tool for historical global temperature data.
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| Climate Policy - An Elsevier journal which aims to address the broad spectrum of policy issues raised by the prospect of changes in the global climate. Includes articles, extracts, information on authors and bibliographies.
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| United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - Official site for UN Climate Secretariat: Kyoto protocol, COP4 in Buenos Aires, and world emissions data.
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| 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.
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| Global Warming - An in-depth report on the scientific, social, economic, and political issues surrounding climate change.
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| World Climate Report - Latest news on global climate change. Focus is on the effect of global warming on public and legislative policies.
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| Public Interest Research Group: Global Warming - Global Warming FAQ sheet, email petition to the U.S. President, various reports and information to other resources.
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| WRI: Climate Change Research - The World Resources Institute identifies opportunities to reduce the risk of global climate change in ways that drive sustainable economic development worldwide. This site provides extensive on-line resources.
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| Climate Change and Sustainable Transport - Challenge is the integration of climate policy objectives into other sectoral policy areas such as transport, energy and agriculture.
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| Datum-Line - Examines coastal erosion, artificial reef, sea defence, coastal and inland flooding, rising sea levels, global warming, marine tyre structures and designs.
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| California Global Warming Campaign - Useful and timely information about climate change and California.
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| Earth's Unruly Tenant - An essay by Jane Lubchenco about climate change and public perceptions of environmental issues.
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| A Consortium for the Application of Climate Impact Assessments (ACACIA) - Aims to increase knowledge of the science of climate change and variability. Includes data sets, details of current projects, events, and publications, and links to related web sites.
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| BBC News: Global Climate Change - An analysis of the science and other issues behind the climate change debate, from BBC News Online.
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| Climate Effects on Human Health - A white paper on the potential effects of future climate changes on forests and vegetation, agriculture, water resources, and human health.
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| Global Climate Observing System - An organization ensuring that observations and information needed to address climate-related issues are obtained and made available to all potential users. Contains a profile, structure, publications and calendar of events.
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| Green House Network - Non-profit organization focusing on building a grassroots movement to stop global warming pollution. Contains a profile, event calendar, information on speakers, and news archive.
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| International Human Dimensions - An international, interdisciplinary, non-governmental social science programme aimed at improving understanding of human responses to global change. Contains a profile, projects, news, publications and calendar of events.
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| Global Warming: An Issue for Humanity - Paper on the human consequences of global warming.
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| Weathervane - 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Earth's Magnetic Field And How It Reverses - White papers on the earth's magnetic field and global warming by Eugene D. Richards.
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| Massachusetts Climate Action Network - A network of local and statewide groups dedicated to halting the threat of global climate change. Contains a profile, legislations, information on local chapters, and calendar of events.
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| Proposals to Reforest the Earth - A series of white papers on deforestation and the need to reverse this destructive process, by Gabriel Penno Saraiva.
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| OneWorld: Climate Change Campaign - Includes news, archives and articles on this topic.
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| Rising Waters - Companion web site to the documentary "Rising Waters", which includes personal stories of Pacific Islanders and puts a human face on the international climate change debate. Includes archives, stories, white papers and information on filmmakers.
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| Stop Esso - A Greenpeace and Friends of Nature sponsored campaign against Esso. Includes an overview of the campaign, information on the company, archives, press releases, and papers on global warming.
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| Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change - Companion site to the book of the same name. Offers information on climate change, and tips for individuals, companies, municipilaties, governments and developing nations to counter this issue.
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| Tata Energy and Resources Institute: Climate Change - Features position papers and viewpoints on climate change in India, including analysis of opportunities for clean development and carbon emissions reduction projects and programs.
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| International Climate Change Partnership - Global coalition of companies and trade associations committed to constructive and responsible participation in the international policy process concerning global climate change. Includes objectives, a list of members, and literature.
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| Responding to Climate Change - Practical guide to support the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. Profiles the business community's response with services and resources for greenhouse gas mitigation.
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| FluorideAlert.org: Potent and Rare Greenhouse Gas Identified - Article on rising concentrations of a newly identified synthetic fluoride that traps heat more effectively than all other known greenhouse gases.
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| Earthshots: Satellite Images of Environmental Change - A global collection of Landsat images and text, designed to show environmental changes and to introduce remote sensing. Images and explanatory from every continent.
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| The California Climate Action Registry - Organization created by the State of California to encourage companies, government agencies and other organizations to voluntarily measure and report their Green House Gas emissions. Provides information about the program.
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| National Climate Change Secretariat - Created to inform Canadians about the process of developing a national implementation strategy on climate change. Provides information, news and resources.
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| Sierra Club Global Warming Campaign - Fact sheets and news items on global warming, its consequences, and measures to reduce its impacts.
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| The Politics of Climate Change - An online guide to the politics and science leading up to and following the signing of the Kyoto Protocol.
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| Fossil-of-the-Day.org - A daily award Presented to the "worst" countries at UN climate change conferences.
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| Climate Change: An Overview - A discussion of the certainties and uncertainties behind the science of climate change and the impact of greenhouse gasses.
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| Global Climate Change: Market-Based Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse Gases - A review of market based initiatives to combat global warming, including tradeable permits and carbon taxes.
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| 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.
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| Interfaith Climate Change Network - Describes ways individuals and congregations can act on the issues of climate change and energy use. Joint project of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA and the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life.
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| Civilization - Use It or Lose It - Audio conversation with William Calvin about rapid global climate changes. Includes related links.
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| US Global Change Research Program: Assessments - Contains major national and international studies on environmental and climatic issues.
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| The Climate Trust - Promotes climate change and global warming solutions by providing carbon dioxide offset projects and advancing offset policies.
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| CANA - Climate Action Network Australia - An alliance of Australian regional, state and national environmental, health, community development, and research groups focusing on the problem of climate change.
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| Global Warming - Discussing facts about global warming, basic steps to take to stop its progress, and links to other pages on climate change.
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| Hot Air - the Canadian Debate on Kyoto - Issues surrounding the Kyoto Accord and its effect on Canadian citizens.
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| Carnegie Council - Environmental Ethics - Providing resources on cross-cultural environmental policy, local communities and the environment, and transnational environmental activism.
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| BBC Science - Climate Change - Key points, articles, pros and cons, and resources regarding climate change.
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| Climate Action Network South Asia - A global network of over Non-Governmental Organizations working to promote government and individual action to limit human induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.
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| Global Warming - Cycles of global warming as revealed by history - Proposes a theory that the earth exhibits 1000-year cycles of warming/cooling, powered by magma under the ocean floor and regulated primarily by the heat capacity of the Pacific Ocean.
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| Climate Change Levy - Broad summary of the new carbon tax imposed on the citizens and business of the United Kingdom, with descriptions of the business and global impact.
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| Heating Efficiencies and Greenhouse - A tabled comparison between different ways of home heating, and their individual effects on greenhouse gases and environmental decline.
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| Asia Pacific Network on Climate Change - A clearing house for climate change issues sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment. Highlighting articles, conference schedules, and related resources.
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| Climate Change - An overview of climate change, theories and perspectives, and notable weather patterns.
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| Natcom India - Information about greenhouse gas emissions, inventory estimations, vulnerability assessments, and adapting to global climate changes from the Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India.
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| David Suzuki Foundation: Climate Change - The David Suzuki Foundation is a science-based Canadian environmental organization, specializing in global warming, sustainable forestry, salmon farming and fisheries.
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| Primer on the Kyoto Protocol - Article about this international agreement and how it will be used to combat global warming.
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| 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.
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