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Change resulting from human-induced global
warming is one of the most controversial topics sweeping the world
today.
The fire was lit by the Third
Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and fanned by the media.
- Is global warming a figment of the imagination?
- If the world is getting warming is it warm enough to influence a
significant change in weather and climate?
- The theories advanced by the climate change proponents, are they
based on experiments in the laboratories or is there empirical
evidence of these changes?
Even if the answers are not here, hopefully the
information presented here can start the search for an explanation.
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The world's best known hurricane
forecaster Prof. Bill Gray disagrees with global warming theories.
"They
have very little background in how the hydrologic cycle works but
I've been studying the hydrologic cycle my entire career and my
views are not solicited at all."
He supports President George W.
Bush's position of withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol.
"If
you cut emissions then undoubtedly the standard of living of the
industrialized world will go down."
Read
the full interview
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Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change - technical papers and
working group information from the United Nations Environment
Program. |
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EPA
Global Warming Site - with information on climate,
emissions,
uncertainties
and EPA
reports. |
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Global
Climate Coalition - organization of trade
associations established in 1989 to coordinate business
participation in the international policy debate on the issue of
global climate change and global warming. |
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globalchange.gov
- federal multi-agency site for Global Change-related data,
policy, research, and news. |
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NOAA:
Greenhouse Warming - information from the National
Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. |
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Pew Center
on Global Climate Change - educates the public and
key policy makers about the causes and potential consequences of
climate change, and encourages the reduction of greenhouse gas
emissions. |
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U.S.
Department of State, Office of International Information Programs:
Climate Change - fact sheets, articles, and
statements regarding U.S. participation at the COP-6 conference. |
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U.S. Global
Change Research Information Office (GCRIO) - serves
as an information resource service for access to information and
data concerning the prevention, mitigation, and adaptation to the
effects of global change. |
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WWF
Climate Change Campaign - dedicated to raising
public concern about the need to cut emissions, pressing
policymakers to introduce effective measures, and forming
innovative partnerships with progressive businesses |
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Center for
the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change - uses
data such as world and U.S. temperatures, and plant growth data,
to produce position papers that find no correlation between
increased carbon dioxide emissions and global warming. |
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Climate
Justice on Corporate Watch - argues that global
companies play a role in local pollution and global warming, and
that social justice is central to any solution to climate change.
Site has news, background information, and more. From Corporate
Watch. |
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Greening
Earth Society - believes that humankind's
industrial evolution is good, and using fossil fuels to enable our
economic activity is as natural as breathing. Funded by the
Western Fuels Association. |
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Linkages:
Climate Conference - features photos, daily
reports, and outside resources relating to the UN Climate
Conference at The Hague, November 2000. |
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The
Collapsing Scientific Cornerstones of Global Warming Theory
- essay from the National Center for Policy Analysis, June
30, 1999. |
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Global
Warming: Understanding the Forecast - award-winning
exhibition on the greenhouse effect developed by EDF and the
American Museum of Natural History. |
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Climate
Action Network - global network of over
non-governmental organizations working to promote government and
individual action to limit human-induced climate change to
ecologically sustainable levels. |
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Weathervane
- online forum designed to provide commentary on U.S. and
global policy initiatives related to climate change. Published by
Resources for the Future. |
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Global
Warming: Focus on the Future - interactive
explanations of the phenomenon; from EnviroLink. |
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Greenpeace:
Climate Crisis - impact, solutions, politics, and
effects on Arctic and Antarctic. |
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Tiempo
Climate Cyberlibrary: Global Warming and the Third World -
articles and resources. |
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Are
People Really Causing Climate Change? - from
Sovereignty International. |
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Global
Change Electronic Edition - articles, information,
and links. |
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Online
Documents and Publications - from the U.S. Global
Change Research Information Office. |
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Spotlight
on: Climate Change - provides information on
climate change and policy. From the U.S. Department of State. |
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Climate
Change - a special feature from the Washington Post. |
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Global
Climate Change and Human Health - a position paper
of The American Council on Science and Health. Complete text
available for download. |
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National
Geographic: Riddles of a Changing Climate |
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Union
of Concerned Scientists: Global Warming - discussing
the causes, impacts, and future of global warming issues. |
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Who's
Threatened by Rising Sea Levels? - explores global
warming effect on Bangladesh. Includes RealAudio interview with
Bangladeshi environmentalist Farhad Mazri and other advocates. |
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Warnings
from the Ice - explore how Antarctica's ice has
preserved the past going back hundreds of thousands of years, and
then see how the world's coastlines would recede if some or all of
this ice were to melt. |
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Shrinking
Polar Bears - a look at how global warming,
shrinking the arctic ice cap, has drastically affected the chances
for survival of polar bears near Churchill, Manitoba. From CBC's
The National. |
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| The following links are few in
number but they open to hundreds of news stories, commentaries, opinion
pieces, editorials, arguments for and against global warming and climate
change. It will take more than one week to read everything here.
- International and local
news index
- Professor Bill
Gray disputes theory
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