GLOBAL WARMING
Other Environmental Links
CORE 220 Kyoto Analysis Assignment Links
Beginner's guide to UN Climate Convention
(UNEP, includes other pages, including country info)
more details about the UN
Common Questions about Climate Change
new more links for global warming http://www.biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/78/reviews/insitu
glossary: http://www.globalchange.org/glossall/gloindex.htm
Our Changing Planet: The FY 1998 U.S.
Global Change Research Program
The Coming Climate ( from
Scientific American)
Global Climate Systems ,
Chapter 2 from State of the World rambling virtual textbook by Barry Costa-Pierce, with
great links
Answers from
the Ice Edge Greenpeace report compares the Western Science view with traditional
knowledge of Eskimoes.
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
How to identify anti-environmental propaganda: http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/clear/players/players.html
search for the sponsors of anti-environmentalists: http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/clear/clear.html
Links and other Frequently Asked
Questions from NASA's Global Change Master Directory
For even more, check the other eco-freak links
TECHNICAL INFO and details
Kyoto and UN (UNFCCC) details
Data for
countries and regions Covers Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the
Baltic States, North America, Asia-Pacific, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine.
MORE DATA FOR COUNTRIES AND REGIONS:
"Environmental and Climate" Programme -EU
German Advisory Council on Global
Change with long Kyoto report
http://www.populationaction.org/news/1098climatepr.htm
global warming & population connections
the latest 2/25/95 update on population connections requires Acrobat reader: http://www.ucsusa.org/resources/pop.climate.pdf
International Human Dimensions Programme
on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)
Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions (HEED)
of Global Change
Sustainable Development Gateway
(searchable)
EnviroPhantom - The Environmental Information Crawler
for Central and Eastern Europe (searchable)
Sustainable development foundation
World Resources Institute electronic publications
archives
US Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO)
provides access to data
89005: Global Climate Change (Report for
US Congress)
Kyoto Protocol summary for US Congress
Congressional Concern About 'Back Door'
Implementation of the 1997 U.N. Kyoto Protocol
Impacts of the Kyoto Protocol on
US Energy Markets and Economic Activity
Atmospheric chemistry Introduction
with links to technical data.
Methane as a Greenhouse Gas
Anti-Kyoto Petition Project (with other astroturf info)
Global Climate Commission (Industry Lobby, the
"bad guys")
How to identify anti-environmental propaganda: http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/clear/players/players.html
Geophysicists’ policy statements: http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/prrl9903.html
Links to William H. Calvin, "The
Great Climate Flip-flop," THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, January 1998
US Global Change Research Program
(Report to Congress)
"Weathervane" :
more essays and articles about global climate change policy and Kyoto
Anti-environmental myths http://members.aol.com/jimn469897/myths.htm
responsible
response to anti-environmentalist arguments:
http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?s2=opinion&f=990902/68661.html
SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS, THE LATEST STUFF on Global Warming
"The bottom line of this convergence could be a sea change
in the global warming debate. Until now, the MSU data have been the principal refuge for
those who deny the reality of global warming. We believe that warming trends of both the
surface and troposphere are now sufficiently clear that the issue should no longer be
whether global warming is occurring, but what is the rate of warming, what is its
practical significance, and what should be done about it."----See Science article by Hansen
et al. Instructions TO
access electronic version
Northern
Hemisphere Temperatures During the Past Millennium: Inferences,
Uncertainties, and Limitations
Interpreting
proxies (= estimates of past
temperatures (based on tree rings, etc.))
Details on the data of past CO2 and temperatures: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/paleodata.html
"Climate and Health" (enhanced) www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/285/5426/347
1998 data summaries:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/research/1998/perspectives.html
graph of a century of global temperatures = http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/research/1998/ann/j-dtriad_pg.gif
map of 1998 anomalies = http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/research/1998/ann/1998anagtp_pg.gif
new: Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the US 1990-1998 http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/plugs/plgg98.html
Global and Hemispheric
Temperature Anomalies: Data and graphs from 1856 to 1998, description of the
methods.
Hadleys Centre's new
climate model, November 1998.
satellite images of plankton blooms,
chlorophyll concentrations, and lots more
Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations: air samples collected at Mauna Loa Observatory,
Hawaii between
1958 and 1997. http://cdiac.esd.orndl.gov/ndps/ndp001.html
Carbon Sequestration: http://www.fe.doe.gov/sequestration/
RELEVANT RESEARCH NEWS STORIES
Professional-level technical articles TO access electronic version of Science magazine
Anthropogenic Influence on the Autocorrelation Structure of Hemispheric-Mean
Temperatures (access in library)
By T. M. L. Wigley, R. L. Smith, B. D. Santer: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/282/5394/1676
Papers from an
NAS Colloquium on Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change
the paper which "fixes" the inconsistent satellite data ----See Science article by Hansen
et al.
Bibliography on plant responses to global warming
(Microsoft Word doc)
UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change).
The Convention's "ultimate objective" is to stabilize greenhouse gas
concentrations in the atmosphere at a level -- and with enough time -- to prevent
"dangerous anthropogenic interference with the atmosphere." The Kyoto
Protocol = the treaty, the rules designed to control the increases in greenhouse gas
concentrations.
A summary of the UNFCCC agencies and
conventions: http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/climate/fcccintro.html
The Kyoto Protocol: http://www.unfccc.de/fccc/docs/protintr.html
Kyoto Protocol summary
for US Congress: http://www.cnie.org/nle/clim-3.html
Kyoto Details
Flexibility Mechanisms (emissions trading, etc.) for getting "around" the
rules of the Kyoto Protocol: http://www.weathervane.rff.org/trading_post/index.htm
Emissions trading update for Congress, fall 1999 http://www.cnie.org/nle/clim-21.html
Does the World Bank "ruin" the Kyoto Protocol? http://www.seen.org/reports.html
Impacts of
the Kyoto Protocol on US Energy Markets and Economic Activity
COP4: International Conference on
Climate Change UNFCCC (Nov. 2-13, 1998, in Buenos Aires): http://www.cop4.org/
Comprehensive Summary
of COP-4 Decisions and Resolutions Released by UNFCCC says, ".... two-year plan
establishes deadlines for finalizing the outstanding details of the Kyoto Protocol so that
the agreement will be fully operational when it enters into force sometime after the year
2000. The plan also addresses work on compliance issues and on policies and measures,
boosts work on transferring climate-friendly technologies to developing countries, and
pays special consideration to the needs and concerns of countries affected by global
warming and by the economic implications of response measures."
COP5: The next step for
planning implementation of the Kyoto Protocol: http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/climate/cop5/
updates on meetings
updates on info
United Nations Environment Programme
new http://www.ieta.org/
The International Emissions Trading Association (NGO)
"Sources of conflicts in climate policy within the EU: An economic
analysis" [.pdf]
http://www.cicero.uio.no/~ftp/publications/Reports/r1999-03.pdf
"A simple model for scenario studies of changes in global climate: Version
1.0" [.pdf]
http://www.cicero.uio.no/~ftp/publications/Workingpapers/wp1999-02.pdf
EMISSIONS ALTERNATIVES:
EPA's Renewable Energy site
Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC)
Canadian Association for Renewable Energies (CARE)
Renewable Energy Policy Project (REPP)
Bioenergy Information Network
Guided Tour on Wind Energy
American Wind Energy Association
Wind Powered
Brewery
EPA's Alternative
Transportation info
Electric Vehicle Association
Bicycle Federation of America
Internet Resource Center
Automobile Fuel Economy listings
**ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION****
EPA's Transportation Air Quality (TRAQ) Center http://www.epa.gov/oms/transp.htm
Intelligent Transportation Systems http://www.its.dot.gov/
Innovative Transportation Technologies http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/
RUF (Rapid Urban Flexible) Dual Mode Transport
System http://www.ruf.dk/
The Monorail Society http://www.monorails.org/
Renewable Energy
- EPA Energy Conservation, Alternative Fuels, Alternative Energy
Strategies, Green Buildings http://www.epa.gov/greenkit/q5_energ.htm
Ask an Energy Expert http://www.eren.doe.gov/menus/energyex.html
Sandia National Laboratories-The Renewable Energy
Office http://www.sandia.gov/Renewable_Energy/
Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST) http://info.lboro.ac.uk/departments/el/research/crest/index.html
A Global Overview of Renewable Energy Sources AGORES http://www.agores.org/
Interstate Renewable Energy Council http://www.irecusa.org/
fuel cells http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/10/technology/10HOWW.html
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Kyoto Public Policy Analysis |
KYOTO IMPLEMENTATION BACKGROUND INFORMATION
http://iisd1.iisd.ca/didigest/sep98/sep98.3.htm
"Financing ...Kyoto...." (short summary)
http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/climate/ba/mechanisms.html
Flexibility Mechanisms.
http://www.weathervane.rff.org/features/feature048.html.
"A primer" on flexibility, etc.
http://www.cnie.org/nle/clim-7/ebgcctop.html
Briefing Book by the Congressional Research Service, a branch of the Library of
Congress providing nonpartisan research reports to members of the House and Senate.
http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/climate/fcccintro.html
"BRIEF INTRO TO UNFCCC" with quick links to the exact details.
http://www.cicero.uio.no/Publications/Reports/r1999-04_summ.html
voluntary agreements
GLOSSARIES for terms like clean development mechanism, flexibility
mechanism, annex, emissions trading, joint implementation.
http://iisd1.iisd.ca/didigest/glossary.htm#top
http://www.weathervane.rff.org/glossary/index.html
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OFFICIAL COUNTRY INFORMATION
http://www.unfccc.de/ Then click on
"country" and then on your country. Some links may be dead ends, but if you
persist, you should be able to find enough information to write a book. The main problems
are
[1] for some countries the bulk of the information is not in English, and
[2] you need a lot of patience to figure out which "clicks" are productive, and
which are just outlines with the details never added.
[Possible problems #3: you don't have a clue what any of this is about because you haven't
read enough about the Kyoto protocol and its implementation. So read the above
IMPLEMENTATION links first.]
Also try the "advanced search" feature, which will give more
information than you could ever need for this project.
An idea: e-mail addresses for actual human beings involved are often
listed. It wouldn't hurt to email a person, tell them you are a student, and ask for their
personal opinions on their/your country's role in implementing the Kyoto protocols. |
OTHER RECOMMENDED COUNTRY INFORMATION.
Enter your country in the Search box on any/all of these:
http://iisd1.iisd.ca/ International Institute of
Sustainable Development
http://www.wri.org/wri/search.htmlWorld
Resources Institute.
http://www.ji.org/ United States Initiative on Joint
Implementation
http://www-esd.worldbank.org/cc/ World Bank
OTHER Country Sources
http://www.gtz.de/ GTZ is a development cooperation
between Germany and 142 countries. Click on "ENGLISH" and then "PARTNER
Countries" and then your country.
http://www.gcrio.org/cgi-bin/showcase?/CSP/webpage.html.
The U.S. Country Studies Program provides financial and technical assistance to developing
and transition countries. only 55 countries.
http://www.ciesin.org/ Center for International Earth
Science Information Network's World Data Center A for Human Interactions in the
Environment. [too much information, but you can find out where to get whatever you want to
know]
OTHER INFORMATION at links above this box.
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