Climate Change

• Global Climate Change (Link)
  At this Exploratorium Web site, you can explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the areas covered by ice and snow, and the living organisms in all these domains. You’ll also get a sense of how scientists study natural phenomena—how researchers gather evidence, test theories, and come to conclusions.
• Early Warning Signs (Link)
  A great site for understanding the climate changes that have already effected our world.
• Wikipedia: Global Warming (Link)
  A short summary of global warming with links to ouside resources.
• Hadley Center For Climate Prediction and Research (Link)
  This site describes the focus in the United Kingdom for the scientific issues associated with climate change.
• United Nations Environment Programme (Link)
  A collection of links on climate change
• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (Link)
  This site focuses on developing a broader user community for climate products and services, provides a focal point for climate activities within NOAA, leads NOAA climate education and outreach activities, and coordinates international climate activities.
• US Environmental Protection Agency Website on Global Warming (Link)
  This is a great site that will help answer basic questions such as "what do we know about global warming?"
• Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (Link)
  With over thirty laboratories and topic centres, we support policy on public health, environmental risks, external safety, and nutrition and food safety. This information is presented in the site!
• United States Department of State (Link)
  See how the US government approaches climate change.
• United States Department of Energy (Link)
  The Department of Energy's overarching mission is to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States; to promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission; and to ensure the environmental cleanup of the national nuclear weapons complex. The Department has four strategic goals toward achieving the mission.
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Link)
  The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis conducts inter-disciplinary scientific studies on environmental, economic, technological and social issues in the context of human dimensions of global change.
• Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (Link)
  CDIAC's data holdings include records of the concentrations of carbon dioxide and other radiatively active gases in the atmosphere; the role of the terrestrial biosphere and the oceans in the biogeochemical cycles of greenhouse gases; emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere; long-term climate trends; the effects of elevated carbon dioxide on vegetation; and the vulnerability of coastal areas to rising sea level.
• United States National Assessment (Link)
  The National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change is a landmark in the major ongoing effort to understand what climate change means for the United States.
• The United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) (Link)
  The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) supports research on the interactions of natural and human-induced changes in the global environment and their implications for society.
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Link)
  This section contains numerous resources -- for beginners or experts -- such as introductory and in-depth publications, the official UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol texts and a search engine to the UNFCCC library.
• Global Dimming Interactive (Link)
  In this slide show, follow a series of historic events and scientific milestones that built the case for global dimming.
• International Energy Agency, Greenhouse Gas Programme (Link)
  IEA GHG focuses its efforts on studying technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• CO2 Concentrations at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii (PDF)
  Whoa! CO2 data since 1960. Climate experts see a link between greenhouse gas concentrations and global temperatures because these gases are responsible for keeping Earth warm in the first place. Carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, and a few other compounds readily absorb infrared radiation coming from Earth's surface.
• Japan's National Institue for Environmental Studies (Link)
  National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) has been playing a major role in environmental research in Japan. Check out the databases of great information at this site!
• Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Link)
  Research at GISS emphasizes a broad study of global climate change.Read about recent publications, or check out the great maps and images.
• Climate Science: Weblog (Link)
  This is a collection of articles, and reactions to articles put together so that they all connect.
• NASA Scientists See New Signs of Global Warming (Link)
  A recent article from the NY Times on global warming.
• Skeptic warns of climate 'alarmism' (Link)
  Scientist expects carbon dioxide to warm globe, but sees uncertainties
• Soot climate forcing via snow and ice albedos (Link)
  Indirect soot forcing may have contributed to global warming of the past century, including the trend toward early springs in the Northern Hemisphere, thinning Arctic sea ice, and melting land ice and permafrost.