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California Academy of Sciences. Global Warming.

Climate Arc. Climate Change Blog.

*Climate Blog (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, NASA).

Climate Change Action.

Climate Feedback.

Climate Progress. Top 10 Climate Change Blogs.

Earth Equity News.

Environmental Defense. Climate 411.

Forecast Earth (The Weather Channel).

Foreign Policy Association. Climate Change.

Green Room. Environmental Defense. -"A gathering place for our online community to discuss global warming and other pressing environmental issues. We encourage members of the community to discuss news and actions, exchange ideas, share their personal stories, suggest new campaign ideas, and reach out to find others to join our movement."

The Guardian: Climate Change.

It's Getting Hot in Here. Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement.

Nanoolar Blog.

Power Shift Blog. -- "From February 27th to March 2nd, 2009 thousands of young adults will converge on Washington, D.C. for Power Shift 2009, the second national youth summit to solve the climate crisis. At Power Shift 2009, young people from across the country will take a message of bold, comprehensive and immediate federal climate action to Washington, D.C.  We will leverage the momentum we have built through the Campus Climate Challenge, Power Shift 2007 and Power Vote to pressure our politicians to take bold, comprehensive action."

Prometheus -Climate Change Archives. U. of Colorado, Boulder.

*Real Climate. Climate Science from Climate Scientists.

warm planet: a climate change blog.

World Climate Report.

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SKEPTICS AND NAY-SAYERS

*CATO Institute. Global Warming books, articles, studies, etc.

Climate Debate Daily "is intended to deepen our understanding of disputes over climate change and the human contribution to it. The site links to scientific articles, news stories, economic studies, polemics, historical articles, PR releases, editorials, feature commentaries, and blog entries. The main column on the left includes arguments and evidence generally in support of the IPCC position on the reality of significant anthropogenic global warming. The right-hand column includes material skeptical of the IPCC position and the notion that anthropogenic global warming represents a genuine threat to humanity."

Climate Film Draws a Rebuke. By Andrew C. Revkin. Published July 22, 2008, New York Times. -- "A controversial British documentary called 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' unfairly portrays several scientists and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Britain’s television watchdog agency ruled on Monday. The agency, the Office of Communication, issued a report rebuking Channel 4 in Britain, which broadcast 'Swindle' last year. But the report said the film, while 'intemperate' in its characterizations of the dominant scientific view that humans are the main force in warming the planet, 'did not materially mislead the audience so as to cause harm or offense.'"

Climate panic only so much hot air. By Mona Charen. Published Sunday, October 21, 2007, Columbia Daily Tribune.

Emissions cap-and-trade plan is a government boondoggle. By George F. Will.  Published June 5, 2008, Columbia Daily Tribune. - "An unprecedentedly radical government grab for control of the U.S. economy will be debated when the Senate considers saving the planet by means of a cap-and-trade system to ration carbon emissions. The plan is co-authored - with John Warner - by Joe Lieberman, an ardent supporter of John McCain, who supports Lieberman’s legislation and recently spoke about 'the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring.' Speaking of endless troubles, 'cap-and-trade' comes cloaked in reassuring rhetoric about the government merely creating a market, but government actually would create a scarcity so government could sell what it has made scarce."

Evangelicals question man-made warming. Published May 24, 2008, Columbia Daily Tribune. Washington (Associate Press). -- "A coalition of conservative evangelical leaders wants to enlist 1 million Christians to sign a statement questioning whether human-caused global warming is a real threat and arguing that restrictive environmental policies harm poor people. The 'We Get It!' campaign is the latest development in an ongoing disagreement among evangelicals about climate change. 'Our stewardship of creation must be based on biblical principles and factual evidence,' the statement says. 'We face important environmental challenges, but must be cautious of claims that our planet is in peril from speculative dangers like man-made global warming.'"

'Feel good' vs. 'do good' on climate. By John Tierney. Published September 12, 2007.

George C. Marshall Institute. Climate Change. "Begun in 1989, the Institute's program involves a critical examination of the scientific basis for global climate change policy."

Greenhouse Bullcrap. Global Warming Climate Change is Rubbish.

Heartland Institute. Global Warming Facts.

Man’s climate role unproved. Group ignores science showing historical change. By S. Fred Singer. Published June 3, 2008, Columbia Daily Tribune. - "In June 2007, the Royal Society of London, the world’s oldest science academy... published a pamphlet titled '‘Climate Change Controversies: a simple guide.' It was designed to undermine the scientific case of climate skeptics. The Society presented what it called "misleading arguments" on global warming and then tried to shoot them down.... The Royal Society thus adopts the IPCC claim that current warming is almost certainly anthropogenic - human-caused - but presents no independent evidence to support such a claim.... In its pamphlet, the Royal Society purports to speak on behalf of a consensus of scientists. But no such consensus exists...."

Obama offers fairy-tale promises. By George F. Will. Published August 24, 2008, Columbia Daily Tribune. Washington -- "Barack Obama has made his economic thinking excruciatingly clear, so it also is clear that his running mate should be Rumpelstiltskin. He spun straw into gold, a skill Obama will need in order to fulfill its fairy-tale promises. Obama recently said he would ‘require that 10 percent of our energy comes from renewable sources by the end of my first term - more than double what we have now.’ Note the verb ‘require’ and the adjective ‘renewable.’ By 2012 he would ‘require’ the economy’s huge energy sector to - here things become comic - supply half as much energy from renewable sources as already is being supplied by just one potentially renewable source...."

*Still Waiting for Greenhouse, A Lukewarm View of Global Warming. This site was founded by the late Australian global-warming skeptic John Daly.

Warming hysteria an excuse to tax us. By Walter Williams. Published Friday, September 28, 2007. Columbia Daily Tribune - "Despite increasing evidence that man-made carbon dioxide is not a significant greenhouse gas and contributor to climate change, politicians and others who wish to control our lives must maintain that it is. According to the Detroit Free Press, Rep. John Dingell wants a 50-cents-a-gallon tax on gasoline.... Dingell also wants to eliminate the mortgage tax deduction on what he calls 'McMansions,' homes that are 3,000 square feet and larger. That’s because larger homes use more energy."

*World Climate Report. A list of sponsored links, analyzing new data and opinion on climate change, from the point of view of global-warming skeptics.

*Your voices are being heard. By Barry Hart, Rural Missouri, August 2008. -- "The problem with the weather, Mark Twain once said, is that everyone is talking about it but no one is doing anything about it. For some time I have been visiting with you in this monthly column about a perfect storm that is brewing as Congress considers climate change legislation. We call it a perfect storm because at the same time rates are on the rise due to increased demand and rising fuel costs, Congress is considering new measures that could do to electric rates what is already happening at the pumps.... This spring our attention has been on a climate change bill known as the Lieberman-Warner bill. That bill sought to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases essentially by punishing any industry that uses fossil fuels, and passing the high costs on to their consumers, which in our case is you. Debate on this bill came to a head in the U.S. Senate the first week in June. That bill died, based partly on the fact that electric cooperative members sent nearly 200,000 e-mails to voice their concern over the possibility that this bill, if passed, would have significantly increased electricity and other energy costs...."

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America's Future. How Well Do You Understand America's Energy? [Quiz] (we can solve the climate crisis)

Arctic Ice Rapid Melt. The Cryosphere: Polar Sea Ice. View the updated high resolution animation of this year's sea ice retreat (01/01/2007 - 09/23/2007). WARNING - This QuickTime animation is very large at 200Mb, but it illustrates nicely the temporal evolution of this year's sea ice. Animation.

An Atlas of Climate Change. By Lindsay Chura. U.S. News and World. Report, Environment. Posted July 25, 2008.

Atlas of Climate Change Effects in 150 Bird Species of the Eastern United States. United States, Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, General Technical, Report NE-318 , by Stephen N. Matthews, Raymond J. O’Connor, Louis R. Iverson, Anantha M. Prasad.

**Carbon’s New Math. By Bill McKibben (National Geographic. Also in October 2007 issue)

Exploratorium Science Museum. Global climate change research explorer.

Exploratorium Science Museum. Global effects.

**Global Climate Change, NASA’s Eyes on the Earth. Includes “Sea Level Viewer, Climate Time Machine, Global Warming Tube, Climate Blog, Eyes on the Earth,” and more….

Global Warming Myths and Facts (Environmental Defense)

NASA set to launch 'CO2 hunter'. By Jonathan Amos, BBC News, December 18, 2008. -- "The US space agency is set to launch a satellite that can map in detail where carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere. Nasa's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) will pinpoint the key locations on the Earth's surface where CO2 is being emitted and absorbed. CO2 from human activities is thought to be driving climate changes, but important facts about its movement through the atmosphere remain elusive."

National Geographic: What is Global Warming.

NCDC Climate Monitoring, Reports and Products. (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service ~ National Climatic Data Center). Includes State of the Planet, Global Extremes, Hurricanes/Tropical Storms, Tornadoes, Drought Monitoring, Snow Data, etc.

*Not-So-Permafrost: Big Thaw of Arctic Soil May Unleash Runaway Warming. New estimates show that frozen Arctic soil contains far more potential greenhouse gas than previously recognized--and could speed climate change as it melts. By David Biello, August 26, 2008, Scientific American. -- "'Drunken' trees listing wildly, cracked highways and sinkholes—all are visible signs of thawing Arctic permafrost. When this frozen soil warms, it releases carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases as microbes start to thrive on the organic material it contains—a potentially potent source of uncontrollable climate change. Now new research published in Nature Geoscience shows that such frozen Arctic soil holds nearly twice as much of the organic material that gives rise to planet-warming greenhouse gases as previously estimated."

The Science of Global Warming (Environmental Defense)

Some Basic Global Warming Facts (Environmental Defense)

A Target for U.S. Emissions Reductions. Global Warming 101 . (Union of Concerned Scientists). "Contents: 1. Setting a Reasonable Target - 2. Dividing Up the Work - 3. Defining the U.S. Share of Global Emissions Reductions - 4. Evaluating Existing Proposals - 5. The Way Forward...."

Transportation By The Numbers."Transportation facts underscore the need for reform." Posted: 18-Sep-2007; Updated: 19-Sep-2007 (Environmental Defense).

2030 IQ Challenge (Architecture 2030). An informative quiz on the effect buildings have on global climate change.

U.S. Climate at a Glance. (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service ~ National Climatic Data Center). -Temperatures shown as departures from 1971-2000 normal (some include all 20th Century data) for National, Regional, Statewide, and Cities. Regional and Statewide data include precipitation.

U.S. Climate Extremes Index . ( National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service ~ National Climatic Data Center). -"How has the climate changed over the past 50 or more years? In what ways and by how much?... One tool, first developed as a framework for quantifying observed changes in climate within the contiguous Unites States, is the U.S. Climate Extremes Index (CEI)."

*Want to stop global warming? Stop Coal. (Architecture 2030)

What Is Global Warming? (National Geographic)

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CARBON CALCULATORS

American Public Media. Consumer Consequences. An interactive game designed to illustrate the impact of our lifestyles on the Earth.

Calculate Your Carbon Savings. (publictransportation.org). "This calculator will help you estimate the potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions you can achieve by switching part or all of your travel to public transportation."

Climate Crisis. Take Action. Political will is a renewable resource.

Earth Day Footprint Calculator.

Ecological Footprint. Measuring our impact on the environment. (Victoria, Australia, Environment Protection Authority).

Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator. "The Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator is designed to enable public and private sector organizations and individuals to quickly and easily translate greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions from units that are typically used to report reductions (e.g., metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent) into terms that are easier to conceptualize (e.g., equivalent number of cars not driven for one year)." This can help develop a greenhouse gas reduction strategy and communicate reduction targets to the public or stakeholders.

IslandWood. Compute your ecological footprint.

LiveEarth (Earthlab) carbon footprint calculator.

SafeClimate Calculator. "The SafeClimate carbon footprint calculator allows you to determine carbon dioxide emissions from major sources: home energy consumption and transportation by car and plane. The basic instructions below are augmented by help on pop-up screens on the following pages."

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