Union of Concerned Scientists: U.S. Scientists and Economists' Call for Swift and Deep Cuts in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
May 2008
The U.S. Scientists and Economists' Call for Swift and Deep Cuts in Greenhouse Gas Emissions is a call to our nation's leaders to require immediate, deep reductions in heat-trapping emissions that cause global warming. The statement is endorsed by more than 1,700 scientists and economists with expertise relevant to our understanding of the scientific and economic dimensions of climate change, its impacts, and solutions. This marks the first time leading U.S. scientists and economists have joined together to make such an appeal.
Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group: Final Report
April 2008
Executive Summary | Full Report
The Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group’s final report to the 2008 legislature includes 54 policy recommendations that would help Minnesota meet the 30 percent by 2025 global warming emissions reduction goal in law.
J. Drake Hamilton spoke at the Business Democrats
Luncheon in February 2007. Listen to the podcast (left click to play; right click to "save as" to
your hard drive).
Union of Concerned Scientists Report: Atmosphere of Pressure
February 2007
News
Release
Download the full report from the Union of Concerned Scientists website.
An investigative report by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and the Government Accountability Project (GAP) that has uncovered new evidence of widespread political interference in federal climate science.
Global Warming Event at the Minnesota Legislature - Full video of the historic informational session on global warming at the Minnesota Legislature, January 30, 2007.
U.S. PIRG Report: " Rising
to the Challenge: Six Steps to Cut Global Warming
Pollution in the United
States"
August 2006
Executive
Summary | News
Release
Download
the full report. (PDF, 262 KB)
"Fight Global Warming with Fresh
Food" -
Fresh Energy's flyer about the impact of food choices
on global warming, created for the Mill City Farmers
Market. Download
PDF.
J. Drake Hamilton on
Animal Wise Radio
J. Drake Hamilton
discusses the impact of global warming on animals as
well as what humans can do to decrease global
warming pollution.
Listen to the podcast (from the Animal Wise
Radio homepage, click on "Podcast Archives," then
choose "Animal Wise Radio 03/5/2006 Audio Archive")
Global Warming - the Signs and the Science
This 60-minute documentary
is about people across America living with the grave
consequences of a changing climate… and the
individuals, communities and scientists inventing
new approaches to safeguard our children's future.
Filmed across the US, Asia
and South America, this accessible, empowering
program brings the reality of climate change to life
and offers viewers ways to make a difference in
their own communities.
A Fresh Energy staff
member would be happy to show this special to a
large audience or classroom and talk to your group
about solutions to this worldwide problem.
Insurmountable
Risks: Can Nuclear Power Solve the Global
Warming Problem? A summary of Brice Smith's new
book.
"Forecast 2035 - Heat Storm"
In "Forecast 2035 - Heat
Storm," published in the August 2005 issue of
Mpls. St. Paul magazine, popular WCCO meteorologist
Paul Douglas brings imagination to the hard
science of global warming. He paints a vivid picture
of what Minnesota may be like in just 30 years if
global warming continues unchecked.
Read the article.
A three-minute visual
version of "Forecast 2035" aired on WCCO-TV Friday,
July 22.
Watch the video.
What's
HOT in Climate
Change
Congregations Caring for Creation -
Promoting the active care of creation as
integral to spiritual life and social
justice in Minnesota communities of faith
Climatewire - Climate change information
service
Future Minnesota Weather - J. Drake
Hamilton, ME3's science policy director, was
interviewed by WCCO television's Paul
Douglas. The piece focused on global warming
and its effects on Minnesota's climate and
economy. November 2004
This summer and
fall, major stories on global warming were
published in publications such as
Business Week and National Geographic.
Now there's a local voice to add to the
mounting concern about climate change. WCCO-TV
meteorologist Paul Douglas has written
Restless Skies, a book on weather
phenomena that includes a chapter about
global warming.
Click here for a summary or to buy a copy.
RealClimate.org - a new site designed to
provide a quick response to developing
climate-related stories as well as the
context sometimes missing in mainstream
commentary.
Russian decision on ratification – major
step towards entry into force of Kyoto
Protocol - UNFCCC Release, September 30,
2004
Governor Tim Pawlenty Takes Action to Reduce
Air Pollution - MN Governor Tim
Pawlenty's Office [Full
Text of Executive Order] - August 6,
2004
Excerpt from "Boiling Point", a new book by
Ross Gelbspan, highlights a clash of
interests over climate change - from
Grist Magazine, July 2004
Global Warming Science Update - by
Daniel A. Lashof, Natural Resources Defense
Council, June 4, 2004
Four distinguished University of Minnesota
professors discuss the impact of the climate
change in Minnesota - video/audio from
hearing before MN Senate Jobs, Energy &
Community Development Committee, February
25, 2004
Climate Collapse - The Pentagon's Weather
Nightmare - Fortune, February 2004
Al Gore Speaks on Global Warming and the
Environment [also in video format -
Real Media or
Windows Media] - January 15, 2004
In this speech sponsored by MoveOn, Al Gore
issued an indictment of the Bush
administration's inaction on global warming,
linking the issue to national security. He
shows that global warming is not a future
threat - it is happening now. And yet, the
President is choosing to help his coal- and
oil-company supporters rather than advance
modern technologies that can affordably
solve this critical problem.
Arctic Transect 2004
Follow explorer Will Steger and his
companions as they travel 3000 miles in the
arctic. His expedition will be dogsledding
the territory of Nunavut, documenting arctic
climate change, meeting Inuit elders and
students to explore traditional ecological
knowledge in the remote communities visited
along the trail while gathering scientific
data for NASA and Environment Canada.
Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region
- Union of Concerned Scientists, April 2003
This study by the region's top scientists
found that climate change in the Great Lakes
region would magnify the harmful side
effects of human activity on the region's
environment. Thankfully, there are prudent
steps we can take now to meet the challenge
of climate change. See also the section on
Impacts on Minnesota Communities and
Ecosystems and the
Global Warming Solutions for Minnesota
Interfaith Climate Change Network
Database of State and Local Net Greenhouse
Gas Emissions Reduction Programs - Pew
Center on Global Climate Change
Climate Change Educational Resources -
links especially useful to students and
teachers.
Carbon Market News
Climate Ark
Tiempo Climate Newswatch
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
-
Climate Change Headlines
Yahoo Full Coverage - Global Warming
Climate Change News Sources
Acclimations - U.S. Global Change Research Program
BBC News In-Depth Climate Change
Carbon Market News
Climate Ark
Climate-L
Mailing List Archives
CNN - Our
Changing Climate- a CNN special report on global warming
ENN's Climate Change Section
New York Times Section on - Climate
Tiempo Climate Newswatch
Climate Change Headlines - UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change
Washington Post's Global Warming
Yahoo Full Coverage - Global Warming
Selection of Climate Change Stories
Russian decision on ratification – major step towards entry into
force of Kyoto Protocol - UNFCCC Release, September 30, 2004
Excerpt from "Boiling Point", a new book by Ross Gelbspan,
highlights a clash of interests over climate change - from Grist
Magazine, July 2004
Carbon Cycle - National Geographic, February 2004
Reaping the Whirlwind - Extreme weather prompts unprecedented global
warming alert - Independent.co.uk, July 2003
Testimony of Eileen Claussen - President of the Pew Center on
Global Climate Change, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science and Transportation, January 8, 2003
Computer Model Suggests Future Crop Loss Due to Potential Increase
in Extreme Rain Events - NASA-Goddard Institute for Space
Studies (GISS), October 2002
Majorities Continue to Believe in Global Warming and Support Kyoto
Treaty - The Harris Poll, October 24, 2002
Russia gives
Kyoto kiss of life - BBC, September 3, 2002
Resolution
Endorsing Stringent Power Plant Clean Up - adopted by
the U.S. Conference of Mayors, June 2002 (see page 77)
Boreal - The Great Northern Forest - National Geographic, June
2002
Kyoto on the Web
Legislation and Government Information on Climate Change
Climate Stewardship Act of 2005
The Climate Stewardship Act of 2005 was
introduced on February 10 "to provide for a program of scientific
research on abrupt climate change, to accelerate the reduction of
greenhouse gas emissions in the United States by establishing a
market-driven system of greenhouse gas tradeable allowances, to
limit greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and reduce
dependence upon foreign oil, and ensure benefits to consumers from
the trading in such allowances."
Read the text of the Climate
Stewardship Act of 2005 (S
342,
HR 759).
For a short, readable description of the Climate Stewardship Act,
read "Climate
in crisis" in ME3's Fall 2004 newsletter or "Climate
change - the clock is ticking" in the Winter 2004 issue.
Bush Administration's Climate Change Initiative
U.S.
Climate Change Science Program - launched July 2003
President Bush's Global Climate Change Policy Book - February
2002
Pew Center Analysis of President Bush's Climate Change Plan -
February 2002
Federal Legislation 2003-2004
Coal Energy Research Development and Demonstration Act of 2003
(S.582) - introduced by Sen. Bunning, March 10, 2003
Clean Power Act of 2003 (S.366) - introduced by Sen. Jeffords,
February 12, 2003
Climate Stewardship Act of 2003 (S. 139)- introduced by Sen.
Leiberman, January 9, 2003
Analysis of Senate Amendment 2028, the Climate Stewardship Act of
2003 - Energy Information Administration (EIA), June 2004
The Climate Stewardship Act of 2003 (S.139) as introduced in January
2003, would establish a cap on emissions of greenhouse gases from
covered sources that would be implemented in two phases beginning in
2010 and 2016 respectively. More recently, in October 2003, Senators
McCain and Lieberman proposed an amended version of the bill
[SA.2028] that included the first phase of emissions reductions
beginning in 2010 but removed references to a second phase of
reductions beginning in 2016. On May 11, 2004, Senator Landrieu
asked EIA to evaluate SA.2028. This paper responds to that request,
relying on the modeling methodology, data sources, and assumptions
used to analyze the original bill.
UPDATE - The full Senate voted on this bill
on October 30, 2003. The bill did not pass and was sent back to
Committee for continued modification. [See
How your Senator Voted Here]
Statement of Senator Lieberman on the McCain-Lieberman Climate
Stewardship Act Amendment (S. 139) - October 29, 2003
Analysis of the Climate Stewardship Act - by Tellus
Institute for Natural Resources Defense Council, July 2003
Emissions Trading to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the
United States - The McCain-Lieberman Proposal - MIT Joint
Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, June 2003
(read
summary)
Highlights/Summary Section of the Analysis of S.139, the Climate
Stewardship Act of 2003 - EIA, June 2003
Acid Rain Control Act (H.R.203) - introduced by Rep. Sweeney,
1/7/2003
The Business
Roundtable
Global Climate Security Act of 2003 (S. 17) - introduced by Sen.
Daschle, January 7, 2003
Federal Legislative Hearings 2003-2004
Testimony from Hearing on Climate Change - Greenhouse Gas Reductions
and Trading System - before the U.S. Senate Committee on
Commerce, Science and Transportation, January 8, 2003
Other Goverment Information
Australian Greenhouse Office
Canada
Government's Climate Change Page
Database of State and
Local Net Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Programs - Pew
Center on Global Climate Change
DOE's Fossil
Energy's Carbon Sequestration section
Energy
Information Administration's Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases
Program
Environment
Canada's Climate Change section
Environmental Protection Agency's Global Warming section
Free
Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) Project - Brookhaven National
Laboratory
NASA's Global Change Master Directory
NASA's
Goddard Institute for Space Studies' Global Temperature Trends
Global Change Programs - USDA's Agricultural Research Service
National
Agroforestry Center - USDA
National Climatic
Data Center
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Section
National
Snow and Ice Data Center - tracks ice shelf movement and climate
issues at the poles. You can find information on the recent collapse
of the Rhode Island-sized ice shelf in Antarctica.
UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs' Climate Page
UK Emissions Trading Scheme - Department for Environment, Food &
Rural Affairs
United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
U.S. Department of State's Climate Change Section
U.S.
Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
U.S.
Climate Change Science Program
U.N. Conferences on Climate Change - Kyoto and Beyond
News on Ratifications of the Kyoto
Protocol
Climate Change Headlines - from the UN Framework Convention
on Climate Change
Russian decision on ratification – major step towards entry
into force of Kyoto Protocol - UNFCCC Release, September 30,
2004
Webcast of
European Union Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to Reduce
Greenhouse Gas Emissions - held at the United Nations. Mr.
Jaume Matas Palau, Minister of the Environment of Spain, and
Mrs. Margot Wallstrom, European Commissioner for the
Environment, discuss this unanimous ratification aimed at
tackling climate change, May 31, 2002 (real video)
New Guide
to the Climate Change Convention and Its Kyoto Protocol - by
UNFCCC, June 2002
Buenos Aires, Argentina - WORLD
CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE (COP10)
Bonn, Germany - 20th Sessions of the
Subsidiary Bodies
two-week meeting of the UN Climate
Change Convention's 190 member governments
Milan, Italy - WORLD CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE - 9th Session (COP9)
Bonn, Germany - 18th Sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies
two-week meeting of the UN Climate Change
Convention's 190 member governments
18th Sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change - Meeting in Bonn,
Germany, June 4-13, 2003
Earth Negotiations Bulletin coverage of the 18th Sessions of the
Subsidiary Bodies of the UNFCCC
National Communications from Parties included in Annex I to the
Convention - Compilation and Synthesis of Third National
Communications - UN, May 2003
This report, an official UN document, will be considered at a
two-week meeting of the UN Climate Change Convention's 190
member governments from June 4-13, 2003. Its projections, which
are based on data from 2000-2001, can help governments plan
their future climate change strategies. The report finds that
governments are adopting a more comprehensive set of policies
and measures than they did several years ago for addressing
their emissions. Examples include emissions trading, carbon
taxes and green certificate trading. The greatest number of
policies and measures are being applied to the energy sector.
New Dehli, India - WORLD CONFERENCE ON
CLIMATE - 8th Session (COP8)
Anticipating that the Kyoto Protocol will
come into effect in early 2003, the 185 member states of the UN
Climate Change Convention are meeting in New Delhi from 23 October
to 1 November to broaden the range of actions available to
governments and civil society for addressing climate change. The
Kyoto Protocol will enter into force 90 days after being ratified by
55 governments, including developed countries representing at least
55% of that group's 1990 carbon dioxide emissions. As of early
October, 95 Parties have ratified, including developed countries
accounting for 37.1% of CO2 emissions. The Russian Federation and
several other countries are expected to ratify in the near future,
pushing this percentage over the threshold.
Official Site of
the 8th Conference of the Parties (COP8) to the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change - New Dehli India from October 23 -
November 1, 2002
Earth
Negotiations Bulletin's Coverage of COP8
Updates
from COP8 from Climate Action Network
Summary of Key Outcomes at the 8th Session of the Conference of
Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - Pew
Center on Global Climate Change, November 2002
Marrakesh, Morocco - WORLD CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE - 7th Session
(COP7)
The United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is meeting in Morocco to
finalize the procedures and institutions needed to make the
Kyoto Protocol fully operational. They will do this by
negotiating a package of formal Conference decisions on the
basis of political principles agreed by ministers and senior
officials last July in Bonn. These decisions will also address
how to increase the flow of financial and technological support
to developing countries under the Climate Change Convention.
Official Site of the
Seventh Conference of the Parties (COP7) to the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change - Marrakesh, Morocco from October
29 - November 9, 2001
Earth
Negotiations Bulletin's Coverage of COP7
Bonn, Germany - WORLD CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE (COP6) - Part 2
The Hague, Netherlands - WORLD CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE (COP6)
Summary and
Analysis of the COP 6 Climate Change Conference at The Hague -
by the International Institute on Sustainable Development
Official
Site of the Sixth Conference of the Parties - COP 6 Site - held
13-24 November 2000
Earth Negotiations
Bulletin Daily Coverage of COP 6 - by IISD
COP 6
Documents
Bonn, Germany - WORLD CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE (COP5)
The United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) is holding the Fifth Conference of the
Parties (COP5) in Bonn, Germany from October 25th - November 5th,
1999. Below are the best links you can find for infomation on what
is happening in Buenos Aires.
Official
Site of the Fifth Conference of the Parties - COP 5 Site
COP 5 Media Room
Other Sites Covering COP 5 in Bonn
Earth
Negotiations Bulletin's COP 5 Page - nicely done by the
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Buenos Aires, Argentina - WORLD CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE (COP4)
The United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is holding the Fourth
Conference of the Parties (COP4) in Buenos Aires, Argentina from
November 2 -13, 1998. Below are the best links you can find for
infomation on what is happening in Buenos Aires.
Official
Site of the Fourth Conference of the Parties (COP4)- UNFCCC
Secretariat
COP4 Press
Releases and Media Kits
Other Sites Covering COP4 in Buenos
Aires
Summary of What
Happened at the Fourth Conference of the Parties to the Framework
Convention on Climate Change- by the International Institute for
Sustainable Development, November 16, 1998
Earth Negotiations
Bulletin's COP4 Site - nicely done
Kyoto, Japan - WORLD CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE (COP3)
The United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is holding the Third
Conference of the Parties (COP3) in Kyoto, Japan from December 1
-10, 1997.
Official
Site of the Third Conference of the Parties (COP3)- UNFCCC
Secretariat
Statement
of Vice President Gore on the United States' Signing of the Kyoto
Protocol - 1998
Earth Negotiations
Bulletin's Kyoto Coverage- part of the International Institute
for Sustainable DevelopmentKyoto
on the Web
Impacts of
the Kyoto Protocol on U.S. Energy Markets and Economic Activity
- Department of Energy, October 1998
The Kyoto Protocol's Impacts on U.S. Energy Markets and Economic
Activity - U.S. House Committee on Science Hearing, October 9,
1998
What Does
the Kyoto Protocol Mean for U.S. Energy Markets and the U.S. Economy-
Briefing Paper Prepared for the Committee on Science, U.S. House of
Representatives, October 1998
Geneva, Switzerland - WORLD CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE (COP2)
The United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is holding the Third
Conference of the Parties (COP3) in Geneva, Switzerland from
July 8-19, 1996.
COP 2 Documents
Berlin, Germany - WORLD CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE (COP1)
The United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held the First Conference
of the Parties (COP1) in Berlin, Germany from March 28 - April
7, 1995
COP 1 Documents
Reports and Speeches
Americans
and Climate Change: Closing the Gap Between Science and Action -
Daniel R. Abbasi, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
From the Yale website: "A gathering of
extraordinary Americans were asked why the robust and compelling
body of climate change science has not had a greater impact on
action. This report details their findings and recommendations."
Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region - Union of Concerned
Scientists, April 2003
This study by the region's top scientists found that climate change
in the Great Lakes region would magnify the harmful side effects of
human activity on the region's environment. Thankfully, there are
prudent steps we can take now to meet the challenge of climate
change. See also the section on
Impacts
on Minnesota Communities and Ecosystems and the
Global Warming Solutions for Minnesota
Nitrogen Oxide Emissions and Midwest Power Plants - Izaak Walton
League of America, 2003
Xcel Energy's Metropolitan Emissions Reduction Project
Xcel Energy announces carbon reduction plans - Xcel Energy,
April 13, 2004
Order Approving Xcel's Proposed Plan, Subject to Terms of the
Settlement Agreement - In the Matter of the Petition of Xcel
Energy to Recover Costs for Emissions Reduction Proposal, issued by
PUC, March 8, 2004
Order
Granting Deferred Accounting Treatment - issued by MN PUC,
October 23, 2003
Order
Requiring Technical Conference, Public Hearings, Negotiations and
Reports - issued by the MN PUC, July 15, 2003
Briefing Paper In the Matter of a Petition by Xcel Energy For
Approval of a Three-Plant Emissions Reduction Proposal and Rate
Rider to Recover Costs - by MN PUC Staff, March 27, 2003
MPCA Review of Xcel Energy’s Metropolitan Emission Reduction
Proposal - MN Pollution Control Agency, December 2002
Minnesota Emissions Reduction Proposal - Xcel Energy, May 3,
2002
This plan was submitted to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission
(MPUC), the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and others.
Minnesota News, Articles and Misc.
Governor Tim Pawlenty Takes Action to Reduce Air Pollution - MN
Governor Tim Pawlenty's Office [Full
Text of Executive Order] - August 6, 2004
US Mayors' Statement on Global Warming - issued by the
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, October
21, 2003
Presentations and Materials from Monitoring the Effects of Climate
Change in Minnesota Symposium - held May 2003
The purpose of the symposium was to review what is known and unknown
about future impacts of climate change in Minnesota; and to
recommend monitoring activities necessary to determine climate
change effects in the areas of water quality and quantity, species
biodiversity, and forests and forestry.
Plan now for climate change in Minnesota, scientists say -
Minnesota Public Radio, May 22, 2003
Feeling Minnesota, Looking Nebraska - How global warming will change
everything you know and love about the Land of 10,000 Lakes -
The Rake, April 2003
Global Warming and Climate Change in Minnesota - A Big Experiment
- Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance, February 2003
The Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance (OEA), Minnesota
Pollution Control Agency and Minnesota Department of Commerce, and
the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources have teamed up for the
first time to produce a global warming/climate change educational
piece appropriate for use by local government, businesses, citizen
groups, educational institutions, and others.
Duluth, Minnesota's Climate Change
Program
Duluth
MN's City for Climate Protection Campaign
Greenhouse Gas Inventory & Forecast Report With Recommendations for
the Development of Duluth's Local Action Plan - City of Duluth,
October 2001
Other
In Search of the Polar Thaw - special report by Minnesota Public
Radio, March 2001
Climate Change and Minnesota - U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Data
Climate Change Impacts on Minnesota- Environmental Protection
Agency, PDF Format
American
Forests Carbon Dioxide Calculator - see how much you contribute
to greenhouse gas emissions
Ecologists' Statement on the Consequences of Rapid Climatic Change
- letter to President Clinton, May 21, 1997, signed by Dr. Margaret
B. Davis, Regents' Professor of Ecology, University of Minnesota and
20 other scientists
Organizations - Global Warming
About.com's Climate Change section
ActGreen with Gwyneth Paltrow and Cameron Diaz - to urge Ford
Motor Company to build more fuel efficient cars.
Alliance for Climate Strategies
American Forests
Arctic Climate
Impact Assessment
The Arctic
Council
Ask Dr. Global Change - Questions and Answers on Climate Change
Australian Greenhouse Office
Bank of America's Environmental Commitments
Blue Green Alliance
Board on
Atmospheric Science and Climate - National Academy of Sciences
The Business
Roundtable
California
Air Resources Board's Climate Change Page
California Energy Commission section -
Global Climate Change and California
California Global Warming Campaign
Global Climate Change and California - by the California Energy
Commission
Canadian
Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network for Agriculture
CarbonCounter.org - designed to help people learn about,
measure, and reduce their personal impact on climate change
CarboEurope - a Europe-wide programme to determine carbon budget
CarbonCounter.org - Fight Climate Change
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre
Carbon
Disclosure Project
CAW's Climate Campaign Page
Center for Energy and Climate Solutions
Chicago Climate Exchange - greenhouse gas trading pilot project
ChooseClimate.org
Clean Air-Cool Planet
Clean Air
Task Force
Climate Action Network
Climate Ark - search only Climate and Energy Resources on the
Internet
Climate Change Action Fund
Climate Change Central
Climate Change Headlines - from the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change
Climate Change Knowledge
Network
The
Climate Group - UK
Climate
Institute
Climate Justice
Programme
Climate
Network Europe
Climate Neutral Network
Climateprediction.net
Climate Policy
Center
Climate Protection
Solutions - by The Pembina Institute
Climate Solutions
Climate Technology Initiative
CO2e.com
- The Global Hub for Carbon Commerce
CO2Sim
- greenhouse gas trading simulations
Coalition for
Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES)
Cool Companies - How to Boost Profits and Productivity by
Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Corporate Watch
David Suzuki Foundation
Defenders of Wildlife offers their
Position
Statements on Renewable Energy
Earth Island Institute
EcoEquity.org
Eco IQ's Air Pollution and Global Warming
Edison Electric Institute's Climate Change Section
The
Energy Guy's Climate Change Resources
Environmental Defense
Environmental Protection Agency's Global Warming section
Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG)
Environmental Justice
and Climate Change Initiative - has a youth climate justice
corps program
Environmental
Working Group
Environment
Canada's Climate Change section
Exxonsecrets.org - documenting Exxon-Mobil's funding of climate
change skeptics
Forest
Conservation Portal
Free
Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) Project - Brookhaven National
Laboratory
Friends of
the Earth
Future International
Action on Climate Change Network
German
Federal Environment Ministry has a
section on Climate Change
Global Climate
and Energy Project - Stanford University
Global
Warming International Center
Green House Network
GHG
Protocol Initiative - toward a common standard for business
reporting on greenhouse gas emissions
Greenpeace
GREENTIE- Greenhouse Gas Technology Information Exchange
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
High
Plains Regional Climate Center - University of Nebraska
Indigenous
Environmental Network's Global Climate Change Campaign
Interfaith Center on
Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
Interfaith Climate
Change Network
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
International
Council for Local Environmental Initiatives- International
Office
International
Institute for Applied Systems Analyses (IIASA's) Forestry Project
International Institute for Sustainable Development's (IISD's)
section on Climate Change
International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement
Inuit
Circumpolar Conference
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health's
Program on Health
Effects of Global Environmental Change
Joint
Implementation Network- The Netherlands
KyotoUSA -
Organization that urges U.S. cities and their residents to endorse
the Kyoto Protocol and take real action to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions.
NASA's Global Change Master Directory
National Climatic
Data Center
National Commission on
Energy Policy
National Council of Churches'
Eco-Justice
Working Group has a
listing of
Interfaith Global Climate Change Campaigns (listed by state)
National Environmental Trust
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Section
Natural Resources
Canada's Section on Climate Change
Natural
Resources Defense Council
New
England Climate Action Project
Northern Peatlands Soil Warming Project
Norway's Center for
International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO)
One Tonne
Challenge - Canadian government calls on each Canadian to cut
their annual emissions of greenhouse gases by one tonne, or about
20%.
OnlineTrends -
A compendium of data on global change
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Climate
Change section
Partnership for Climate Action
Pew
Center on Global Climate Change
Physicians for
Social Responsibility's section on Climate Change and Human Health
Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact Research
Princeton
University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative
Prototype Carbon Fund - World Bank Project
Resources
For the Future
Rising Tide
UK
Royal Institute of International Affairs' Sustainable Development
Programme - UK
SafeClimate.net
SaveOurEnvironment.org's Stop Climate Change page
Scripps Institute of
Oceanography
SHEBA - Surface Heat
Budget of the Arctic Ocean
Sierra Club
Sustainable
Energy and Economy Network
SustainUS
Tellus
Institute
Trexler
Climate + Energy Services, Inc. - Climate Change Mitigation
Services
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
UNEP's Climate Change Portal
Union of
Concerned Scientists
United Nation's Earth
Summit +5
United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
University
Corporation for Atmospheric Research
U.S.
Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs' Climate Page
USPIRG's Global
Warming Pages
We
Can Stop Global Warming
West Coast
Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership [WESTCARB]
Western
Regional Climate Center
Wisconsin Interfaith
Climate and Energy Campaign
Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute
Woods Hole Research Center
World
Health Organization's Program on Environmental Change and Health
World Resources
Institute's Climate Change and Energy
Worldwatch Institute
World Wide Fund for Nature's Climate Change Campaign
Wuppertal
Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
Reports - Global Warming
2005
Global Climate and Economic Development - Humphrey Institute,
June 2005
Kyoto and
Beyond - The People's Ratification of the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty
Jobs and the Climate Stewardship Act - How Curbing Global Warming Can
Increase Employment - NRDC, February 2005
Evidence and Implications of Dangerous Climate Change in the Arctic
- WWF International Arctic Programme, January 2005
Solar Water Heating as a Climate Protection Strategy - The Role for
Carbon Finance - Green Markets International, January 2005
Meeting the Climate Challenge - International Climate Change
Task Force, January 2005
United States Participation in Future Climate Agreements - An
Assessment - Center for International Climate and Environmental
Research, January 2005
Climate of 2004 Annual Review - National Climatic Data Center,
January 2005
2004
Global Climate Change and Wildlife in North America -
Wildlife Society, December 2004 [see also
Executive Summary]
Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2003 -
Energy Information Administration, December 2003
On the Integration of Carbon Capture and Storage into the
International Climate Regime - Hamburg Institute of
International Economics, November 2004
Presentations from hearing on Global Climate Change - US
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation,
November 16 2004
Air Issues Report to Stakeholders - Cinergy Corp., December
2004
World Conference on Climate's Tenth Session (COP 10) -
official site of the December 6-17, 2004 meeting in Buenos
Aires, Argentina
Induced Technological Change and Climate Policy - prepared
for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, October 2004
Ranking Power - Scorecards Electricity Companies - World
Wildlife Fund, November 2004 [see also
Q&A for the Report]
West Coast Governors' Global Warming Initiative Staff
Recommendations to the Governors - prepared by the Executive
Committee of the West Coast Governors' Global Warming
Initiative, November 2004
Presentations from briefing on "State and Local Governments are
Taking the Leadership on Addressing Climate Change" - The
Environmental and Energy Study Institute, September 28th, 2004
Polar Warming - PBS Newshour, November 8, 2004
Impacts of a Warming Arctic - Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
- Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, November 2004
Observed Impacts of Global Climate Change in the U.S. - Pew
Center on Global Climate Change, November 2004
Voluntary Compensation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions -
Wuppertal Institute, October 2004
Automaker Carbon Burdens in California - Environmental
Defense, September 2004
Up in Smoke - New Economics Foundation, October 2004
Carbon Down, Profits Up - The Climate Group, October 2004
An Overview of Alternative Fossil Price and Carbon Regulation
Scenarios - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, October
2004
Speech on Climate Change - by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair,
September 14, 2004
Stabilization Wedges - Solving the Climate Problem for the Next
50 Years with Current Technologies - by Princeton
University, in Science Magazine, August 13, 2004
Our Changing Climate - The U.S. Climate Change Science Program
for Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005 - Climate Change Science
Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, August
2004
Impacts of Europe's Changing Climate - European Environment
Agency, August 2004
Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2004
Aviation and Sustainability - Stockholm Environment
Institute (SEI), July 2004
Presentations from Cutting-Edge Biomass Technologies For
Mitigating Acute Climate Change - workshop hosted by
Environmental and Energy Study Institute and others, July 6,
2004
Eight in Ten Support McCain-Lieberman Climate Change Legislation
- Poll Results - Program on International Policy Attitudes,
June 2004
The Price of Power - Poverty, climate change, the coming energy
crisis and the renewable revolution - New Economics
Foundation, June 2004
Draft Staff Report that addresses maximum feasible and
cost-effective reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from motor
vehicles (for California Bill AB 1493) - CA Air Resources Board,
June 14, 2004
Global Warming Science Update - by Daniel A. Lashof, Natural
Resources Defense Council, June 4, 2004
Analysis of Senate Amendment 2028, the Climate Stewardship Act of
2003 - Energy Information Administration (EIA), June 2004
Ensuring a Better Day After Tomorrow - Archive of Worldwatch
Live Discussion, June 4, 2004
A Changing Climate for Insurance - Association of British
Insurers, June 2004
Electricity, Renewables, and Climate Change - Searching for a
Cost-Effective Policy - Resources for the Future, May 2004
Inside the Greenhouse - The Impacts of CO2 & Climate Change on Public
Health in the Inner City - Harvard Medical School, May 2004
Benchmarking Air Emissions of the 100 Largest Electric Generation
Owners in the U.S. 2002 - NRDC, CERES and PSEG, April 2004
A Blueprint For Action - Policy Options to Reduce Massachusetts'
Contribution to Global Warming - MassPIRG, April 2004
Economics of Sequestering Carbon in the U.S. Agricultural Sector
- Economic Research Service of US Department of Agriculture, March
2004
Natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in 2003 - many fatalities, comparitively moderate insured losses -Swiss Re,
March 2004
An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United
States National Security - By Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall,
October 2003 [released to media February 2004]
Implementing Climate and Global Change Research - A Review of the
Final U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan -
National Academies' Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate,
February 2004 [also see the
Summary]
Climate Change - Analysis of Two Studies of Estimated Costs of
Implementing the Kyoto Protocol - General Accounting Office,
January 2004
Evolution of climate change science, ExxonMobil and its emissions
- Friends of the Earth, January 2004
Extinction risk from climate change - published in the journal
Nature, study led by Chris Thomas, University of Leeds, U.K.,
January 2004
The
Discovery of Global Warming - a history of how scientists came
to (partly) understand what people are doing to change the Earth's
climate - created by Spencer Weart with support from the American
Institute of Physics
Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases 2002 - EIA, January 2004
[executive
summary]
Tutorial - Global Warming
Below we have gathered some of the best
basic information resources we can find on the specific issues
related to earth's changing climate.
Carbon Dioxide Calculators
-
American
Forests Carbon Dioxide Calculator - see how much you
contribute to greenhouse gas emissions
-
Personal CO2
Calculation from ICLEI
Other Information
Global Warming In-Depth - a nice site for everyone from the BBC
The
Discovery of Global Warming - a history of how scientists came
to (partly) understand what people are doing to change the Earth's
climate - created by Spencer Weart with support from the American
Institute of Physics
Global Warming - Frequently Asked Questions - National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, ongoing updates
Ask Dr. Global Change - Questions and Answers on Climate Change
Climate Change
Educational Resources - links especially useful to students and
teachers.
The Warming of the Earth - A beginner's guide to understanding the
issue of global warming - The Woods Hole Research Center
An Overview of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Issues -
prepared for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, August 2000
An Introduction to the Economics of Climate Change Policy -
prepared for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, July 2000
What
Does Climate Change Mean For Minnesota?
Climate
Change Information Kit - A collection of 30 fact sheets on
climate change from the United Nations Environmental Program
Scientific Facts on Climate Change and Global Warming -
GreenFacts, 2003
What Do Scientists and Academics Think
About Climate Change?
President Clinton's Proposal For U.S. Greenhouse Gas Reductions-
Resources for the Future, October 22, 1997
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