Global Climate Change

BASIC WEB RESOURCES

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is an international work program designed to meet the needs of decision makers and the public for scientific information concerning the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and options for responding to those changes.

The U.S. National Climate Data Center (NOAA):

The EPA global warming site

The US Global Change Research Program

Reliable information from professional climate scientists

PERSPECTIVES

The perspective of a charitable organization

The perspective of re-insurance companies 1

The perspective of re-insurance companies 2

The perspective of the Union of Concerned Scientists

The perspective of a leading climate scientist

A paleoclimatic perspective on global warming

U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Hearing on The Science of Global Warming, Wednesday, May 17, 2000

OTHER RESOURCES

A leading Climate Research group

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

IPCC Special Report on The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
An Assessment of Vulnerability

A World View of Global Warming: A Photography Exhibit

DATA SOURCES:

http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/trends.htm

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/Data/datasets.html