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Environment: Climate change
- Academic Info: Global Warming & Climate Change: Directory of Online Resources
- Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center: The primary global-change data and information analysis center of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
- Center for Clean Air Policy: Founded in 1985 by a bipartisan group of state governors, the Center for Clean Air Policy seeks to promote and implement innovative solutions to major environmental and energy problems which balance both environmental and economic interests.
- Center for International Climate and Environmental Research: CICERO was founded by the Norwegian government and aims to be an independent research center associated with the University of Oslo.
- Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and of Global Change: A non-profit public charity dedicated to discovering and disseminating scientific information pertaining to the effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment on climate and the biosphere.
- Climate Action Network: CAN is a global network of over 287 NGOs working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. Their website is not up-to-date though.
- ClimateArk: Dedicated to promoting public policy that addresses global climate change through reductions in carbon dioxide and other emissions, renewable energy, energy conservation and ending deforestation. Contains hunderds of links.
- Climate Change Page of Linkages: Provides neutral, informative reports on all major meetings of the UNFCCC since February 1995
- Climatechangedebate: Climate change and global warming science, government policy, energy technology, cost and benefits debated via an unmoderated,uncensored listserve, plus research aides.
- Climate Institute: U.S. nonprofit organization.
- Climateprediction.net experiment: Developed to allow a state-of-the-art climate prediction model to be run on home/ school/ work computers. By getting data from thousands of climate models, we will generate the world's largest climate prediction experiment.
- Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750-1850: CLIWOC was an European Union funded project (2001-2003)
- CO2E.com: Commercial site calling itself the “Global Hub for Carbon Commerce,” CO2E.com has an extensive FAQ of climate change which can be downloaded as a PDF file or viewed online via links to the questions. The novice can start here with comprehensible answers to questions such as “What is the Kyoto Protocol” and “What is the science behind climate change”.
- Discovery of Global Warming: A hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly) understand what people are doing to change the Earth's climate. This site supplements a much shorter book by Spencer Weart that tells the story as a single connected narrative.
- European Commission on Climate Change
- Global Climate and Energy Project: A long-term effort led by Stanford University. Its purpose is to unite scientific researchers and private industry from around the world in the search for commercially viable technologies that foster the development of a global energy system where greenhouse emissions are much lower than today.
- Global Warming: The Cooler Heads Coalition formed 1997 to dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis. Industry-funded.
- Global warming: early warning signs: From a group of U.S. environmental organizations, a world map and information on evidence and consequences of global warming.
- Global Warming Facts and Our Future: Online version of the exhibit at the Marain Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences. The focus of the Museum is on the science underpinning current public policy debates. The online exhibit lays out the argument for global warming in a straightforward but compelling way; it doesn't try to brush points of scientific dispute under the rug; it details how major models disagree on certain points, and what that means. Note in particular the page discussing human activities as the major cause of global warming. The presentation includes exercises where visitors can make policy choices, and see the balancing required between economic and environmental concerns.
- Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research: The primary objective of the Centre is to provide the United Kingdom with an up-to-date expert assessment of natural and anthropogenic changes in global and regional climate.
- International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme: IEAGHG provides an introduction to climate change as well as information on technical solutions. There are also copies of our reports and our regular newsletter (Greenhouse Issues), details of forthcoming conferences and links to other sites.
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness
- International research institute for climate prediction
- Marshall Institute Climate Change site: Gathers conservative-motivated arguments against the IPCC consensus.
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA) Paleoclimatology Program of the National Climatic Data Center: A central source for paleoclimatic data, research, and information collocated with the National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.
- Pew Center on Climate Change: Offers news and policy-related reports.
- Policy library on Climate change: Social, economic and foreign policy resource; large database of full text research papers; updated daily with the latest research, events, and jobs.
- Science & Environmental Policy Project: An association of scientists and engineers concerned about the use of sound science as the basis for environmental-policy decisions.
- United Nations Environment Network: Climate change: This portal is a central source for substantive work and information resources regarding climate change.
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Provides official documents about climate change
- United States Environmental Protection Agency: Global warming site
- U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
- Weathervane: Resources for the Future's Digital Forum on Global Climate Change. 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.