A BUNCH OF WEB-SITES
MISCELLANEOUS
World
Resources Institute
EPA
Acid Rain page
Environmental
News Network
Center
for Environmental Economic Development:
Information, certifications, etc.
SciDev.net
-
an online 'journal' on environmental and scientific issues in global
development
Yale Environment 360: compilation
of reports, essays, debates, etc. Quite current
ENDANGERED
SPECIES/EXTINCTION (there
are many more: search on particular species or areas)
Fish
and Wildlife Service endangered species page
HUMAN
POPULATION
Population
Reference Bureau
WWW
Virtual Library of Population and Development Studies
UN
Population Information
People
and Planet
Planned
Parenthood
United
Nations Population Fund
U.N.
World
Population Trends
page
GapMinder
(population, economics, food, etc. graphics and statistics)
CLIMATE
CHANGE
Sites
concerning Kyoto Protocol and Carbon-Neutrality
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change: THE authority (and recent winner Nobel Peace Prize)
United
Nations Environment Programme;
go here for information on international treaties on greenhouse
emission regulations and many other things.
A U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE) site on energy policies and stats:
Canadian
government
'green
lane' site
Lewis
and Clark College
in
Portland claims to be first educational institution to reach Kyoto
Compliance
"Students
demand university
action"
A
site for
carbon-neutral
travel arrangements
Another
Federal
Government Sites
NOAA:
National Climate Data Center: For
true weather geeks:
NOAA:
Global Climate Change site
EPA
climate change site
Satellite
imagery from USGS (not
particularly climate related, but cool)
NASA
global change data center
DOE
on CO2
sequestration
U.S.
Global change research program
Global
change master directory
US
Global change research information office
Miscellaneous
Publications, Organizations, Agencies (some with no assurances of
impartiality):
International
Institute for Sustainable Development
Images
of Antarctic Ice Shelves:
Break-up of sea ice from "National Snow and Ice Data
Center"
National
snow and ice data center
Effects
on Alaska/Bering Sea
Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change:
Nobel Peace Prize winner and widely regarded as the authoritative
scientific source. Lots of free, downloadable documents.
World
View of Global Warming
:
Images
Activist
and Advocacy Groups
World
Resources Institute:One
of many, many major environmental organizations, perhaps more
informative website than most
A
consortium
of
environmental organizations, on global warming
Die-off:
For
those who want to feel really pessimistic and cynical
Union
of Concerned Scientists
on
global warming: UCS is long-respected consortium of 'activist'
scientists: they deal with many topics.
Some
Science and More Technical Sites
Carbon
mitigation initiative
Range
changes of eastern trees
:
Forest Service study
Mauno
Loa observatory :
Where the carbon dioxide trends were first measured
National
Center for atmospheric research
British
government climate modeling:
One of several major 'general circulation models' for climate
prediction.
"Real
Climate"
Question
and answer from climate scientists -- good place to find responses to
'skeptics'
Fossil
Fuels
Rocky
Mt. Institute - Amory Lovins
National
Academies workshop
on
oil supply and oil: downloadable presentations
Hubbertpeak
-
one of many 'peak oil' sites
The
poster --
on the wall in hallway, but online here; information rich and great
design