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Global
Warming Information Resources
Green House
Network has sorted through the tremendous number of sites
that cover global warming and climate change and has
compiled a short-list that we recommend for additional
information.
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ClimateArk.org is the premier Climate Change News &
Information portal and archive. Any and every piece of
global climate change information that has been released to
the public can be found here.
Based on Ross Gelbspan's book The Heat Is On: The Climate
Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription, this site gives a
comprehensive analysis of the misinformation campaign
conducted by the fossil fuel industry that has marginalized
the United State's role in addressing global climate change. More here...
Vital Climate Graphics UNEP/GRID-Arendal, in cooperation
with the IPCC secretariat, UNEP Nairobi and CICERO at the
University of Oslo, have prepared a set of 40 graphics
presenting the Greenhouse effect, climate change and
potential impacts.
The
National Climate Data Center has developed a website
mapping and charting climate changes in the United States.
It goes into specific detail on region state and city as
well.
The
Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment is a
one-stop source of information for all ages on a range of
atmospheric issues, including global warming.
The United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
is the international policy mechanism that developed and is
charged with implementing the Kyoto Protocol.
Worldwatch Institute is an environmental and social
justice think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., best
known for its annual, State of the World, and for its
magazine, World Watch. The website offers access to
extensive information on energy-related topics as well as to
articles, reports, and research papers on agriculture,
urbanization, transportation, water, biodiversity, and other
environmentally critical issues.
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Resources by Category
Activisim : Policy :
Journalism/News
: Science
Business & Climate :
Countersites
: Recommended Reading
 Global
Warming Activism
http:// www.climatenetwork.org/
- Climate Action Network
is made up of over thirty environment, development and
energy non-governmental organizations, the network works
to inform and affect U.S. and international policies.
http://www.greenpeace.org /~climate
- Because Greenpeace has
identified global climate change as one of the greatest
threats to the planet we are campaigning for governments
to face up to their responsibilities and urgently
address this problem.
http:// www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/
- The human race is
engaged in the largest experiment in history - an
experiment to see what will happen to our health and the
health of the planet when we make drastic changes in our
climate. This is not a controlled scientific inquiry. We
are gambling with our children's future on the results
of a massive change in the Earth's environment.
http:// www.worldwildlife.org/
- The World Wildlife Fund
aims to ensure that industrialized nations set in motion
a permanent downward trend in their domestic emissions
of carbon dioxide -- the leading global warming gas --
as a first step toward substantial reductions by 2010.
http://www.globalwarmingsolution.org/index.html
- National Global Warming
Coalition been a consistent, clear voice calling for a
REAL solution to the growing threat of global warming.
Today our coalition is made up of 27 member
organizations representing 320 groups from throughout
the United States, as well as many individual
supporters. All are united behind our demand that the
U.S. government embrace a real solution by adopting our
three policy goals - Ratify, Redirect, and Reduce.
http://www.kyotousa.org
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KyotoUSA is a grassroots effort to encourage
U.S. cities and their citizens to take
action to end global warming. KyotoUSA
believes that the time has come for a
concerted effort by citizens and their
institutions to address global warming. It
is our hope that our local efforts will
encourage similar organizing and advocacy
efforts by people, businesses, large and
small, schools and local governments
throughout the U.S. Thanks to the efforts of
ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability,
more than 150
US cities have already taken action to
reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Similar efforts by every city in the US will
begin to turn the tide. KyotoUSA is
working with the
City of Berkeley, California, and its
residents to officially endorse the Kyoto
Protocol. KyotoUSA intends to challenge all
U.S. cities, governmental and
non-governmental institutions, businesses,
and individuals to make similar endorsements
during 2005 and beyond.
http://www.informaction.org
- The Information for
Action website in Australia explains environmental
problems and offers solutions to fix them. It includes
an automated lobbying service allowing you to quickly
send e-mails, letters or faxes to politicians and
business leaders all over the world; a huge database
allowing you to search for the contact details of
thousands of politicians, businesses and environment
groups; an entertaining and educational quiz which tests
your knowledge of the environmental issues; a database
containing information on thousands of chemicals,
including their effects on the environment and humans;
videos and MP3s.
Global
Warming Policy --
Top of Page
www.crest.org
- REPP-CREST's goal is to
accelerate the use of renewable energy by providing
credible information, insightful analysis, and
innovative strategies amid changing energy markets and
mounting environmental needs. The combined REPP-CREST
organization boasts a strong platform for research,
publication, and dissemination of timely information
regarding sustainable energy. REPP-CREST's software and
Internet services provide access to a broad range of
topics: innovative public policy reports generated by
REPP-CREST, interactive media, renewable energy success
stories, and informative on-line discussion groups.
http://heatisonline.org/
- It is not news that
climate shapes history. What is news is that the heating
of our atmosphere has propelled our climate into a new
state of instability. This new era of climate change
could well be the most profound threat ever facing
humanity. The most predictable casualty of climate
change is stability -- in our political systems, our
economic organizations and our weather.
http://edf.org/
- Both domestically and
internationally, Environmental Defense works to
stabilize Earth's climate by reducing the emission of
greenhouse gases. Global and regional air quality is
another major area of action.
http://www.net.org/warming/
- The National
Environmental Trust says "It's time to go to work on
global warming."
http://www.ucsusa.org/
- At UCS, we're working to
inform decision-makers and the public about global
warming. We're raising awareness of the issue and
creating congressional support for ratification of the
Kyoto climate treaty. But we don't stop there...
http:// www.law.pace.edu/env/energy/globalwarming.html
- Global warming central.
The source for information on the global warming debate.
http:// www.climatesolutions.org/
- Working to stop global
warming at the earliest point possible by helping the
Pacific Northwest to become a world leader in practical
and profitable solutions.
http://www.iclei.org/co2/
- Cities for Climate
Protection is a campaign of the International Council
for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), which
encourages cities to reduce local emissions of carbon
dioxide, other greenhouse gases which contribute to
global warming (climate change), and related air
pollutants.
http://www.climate.org/
- The 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. In all
its efforts, the Institute strives to be a source of
objective, reliable information.
http://www.pewclimate.org/
- The Pew Center on Global
Climate Change: Advancing the debate through credible
analysis and cooperative approaches
http://www.psr.org/climate1.htm
- As physicians and health
professionals, we are concerned about the potentially
devastating and possibly irreversible effects of climate
change on human health and the environment.
http://www.rff.org/misc_docs/climate_program.htm
- Resources for the Future
Climate and Economics Program
http://www.weathervane.rff.org/
- A Digital Forum on
Global Climate Policy
www.pacinst.org/
Global
Warming Journalism/News --
Top of Page
http://www.publiceyestv.org/links.htm
- A fine assortment of
environmental media links.
http://www.tidepool.org/
- Somewhere between your
local newspaper and the national news mega-sites there's
Tidepool.org -- a savvy news filter for people who live
in the Northwest.
http://www.enn.com/
- Environmental News
Network - A leading news source on the environment
http://www.ens-newswire.com/
- Environment News Service
- A leading news source on the environment
http:// www.globalchange.org/
- A Review of Climate
Change and Ozone Depletion
http:// www.gristmagazine.com/
- Formerly part of the
Earth Day Network...A Beacon in the Smog, daily news
with the slogan "Doom and Gloom with a Sense of Humor"
http:// www.ems.org/climate/facts.html
- A nonprofit organization
dedicated to providing journalists with the most current
information on environmental issues
Global
Warming Science --
Top of Page
http://climatechangeeducation.org
Science Education Resource: Dedicated to promoting science
education on Global Warming and its solutions, with emphasis
on the work of science centers and museums across the US and
worldwide.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
- National Climatic Data
Center
http://globalchange.gov/
- U.S. Global Change
Research Program
http
://www.nacc.usgcrp.gov/
- U.S. NATIONAL
ASSESSMENT: The Potential Consequences of Climate
Variability and Change
http:
//gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/
- A comprehensive
directory about Earth science and global change data
http://www.ipcc.ch/
- Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change
http://www.gcrio.org/
- The US Global Change
Research Information Office (GCRIO) provides access to
data and information on global environmental change
research, adaptation/mitigation strategies and
technologies, and global change related educational
resources on behalf of the US Global Change Research
Program (USGCRP) and its participating Federal Agencies
and Organizations.
http://www.epa.gov/ globalwarming/
- U.S. Environmental
Protection Agencies Global Warming Information Site
http://www.noaa.gov/ climate.html
- NOAA manages global data
bases - for meteorology, oceanography, solidearth
geophysics, and solarterrestrial sciences. From these
sources, it develops and provides environmental data and
information products and services. NOAA gathers global
data about the oceans, Earth, air, space, and sun and
their interactions to describe and predict the state of
the physical environment.
http://www.med.harvard.edu/ chge/
- Harvard Medical School's
Center for Health and the Global Environment
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/new.htm
- The US Global Change
Research Program is updated 1-2 times each month and
provides an easy way to monitor important scientific
developments -- without having to dig around dozens of
different web sites.
http://www.realclimate.org/
Businesses
& Climate -- Top of
Page
http://www.climatetrust.org
- The Climate Trust is a
non-profit working towards a more stable climate. Their
sole mission is to promote climate change solutions by
providing high quality greenhouse gas offset projects
and advancing sound offset policy. The Climate
Trust provides greenhouse gas offsets to power plants,
regulators, businesses and entities of all sizes, and
individuals. The Climate Trust are key contributor to
state, regional, national, and international offset
policy discussions.
http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/
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Clean Air-Cool Planet creates
partnerships in the Northeast to implement solutions to
climate change and build constituencies for effective
climate policies and actions:
finding and promoting
solutions to global warming for corporations, campuses
and communities.
http://www.climateneutral.com/
- The Climate Neutral
Network is an alliance of companies and other
organizations committed to developing profitable
products and enterprises that minimally impact the
earth's climate.
http://www.GreenMountain.com/
http://www.interfaceinc.com/us/
http://www.stonyfield.com/
http://www.shaklee.com
http://www.pewclimate.org/belc/index.cfm
- The Pew Center's
Business Environmental Leadership Council is comprised
of a variety of businesses that are striving to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions.
http://www.xerox.com/
- Xerox has taken the
"cradle to grave" business model and turned it into a
"cradle to cradle" model. The energy savings of
remodeling products can reach 85%.
http://www.toyota.com
- Toyota has long been a
leader in reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and is
the only automobile company to publicly state that it
supports the Kyoto Protocol.
Global
Warming Countersites --
Top of Page
http:// www.westernfuels.org/news.htm
- Western Fuels
Association, Inc., operates on a not-for-profit basis to
provide coal for the generation of electricity by
consumer-owned utilities throughout the Great Plains,
Rocky Mountain, and Southwest states, and in Louisiana.
http:// www.greeningearthsociety.org/
- Promotes the optimistic
scientific view that CO2 is beneficial to humankind and
all of nature.
http://www.globalclimate.org/
- A voice for business in
the global warming debate.
http:// www.cato.org/hottopics/globalwarming.html
- The Cato Institute is a
nonpartisan public policy research foundation
headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Institute is named
for Cato's Letters, libertarian pamphlets that helped
lay the philosophical foundation for the American
Revolution.
Americans for Balanced Energy Choices
American
Petroleum Institute
Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Energy
Committee
for a Constructive Tomorrow
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Cooler Heads Coalition
Fossil
Fuels
Partners for Affordable Energy
The
Heritage Foundation
The Commonwealth Foundation
Recommended
Reading -- Top of Page
The Heat Is On: The Climate
Crisis, The Cover-Up, The Prescription, Ross Gelpspan
- The definitive source
for uncovering the misinformation campaign of the fossil
fuel lobby
- Ross's new book August
2004 "Boiling Point"
Cool
Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and
Productivity by Cutting Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, Joseph J.
Romm
- - Comprehensive proof
that businesses that reduce their greenhouse gas
emissions increase their bottom line
Beating the
Heat: Why and How We Must Combat Global Warming, John J.
Berger
- - How and why for
personal level changes to combat global warming
Greenhouse
Gas: The 200 Year Story of Global Warming.
- - A 200 year exploration
into the dynamics of the constantly evolving science
behind global warming
The
Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction About Jobs and the
Environment, Eban Goodstein
- - Contains a great
chapter on jobs and the Kyoto Protocol
Warming the
World Economic Models of Global Warming, William D.
Nordhaus, Joseph Boyer.
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