about: global warming 

 Environmental Resources:

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* Updated, 6/4/08 — (This page is updated from time to time with new links.)

This is a page of useful and informative links on the topic of Global Warming, including everything from Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth website and related organizations he has established that are concerned with climate protection; to links to other scientific orgnanization websites, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Assessment and Research Reports page; as well as organizations like the World Wildlife Foundation and the Nature Conservancy, detailing what they are doing to help fight global warming with their conservation efforts around the world.

If you are doing a research paper on the topic of Global Warming, there should be enough resources here to gain a thorough understanding of the problem, as well as some other interesting websites with articles to read, and videos to watch.

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Al Gore: #1: Oscar-Winner for Best Documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, Feb. 2007- (link to Al's blog with entry about movie and Oscar); #2: Nobel Peace Prize Winner for helping to make a difference and bringing countries together on the issue - Nov. 2007; and #3 An advocate who is doing more good now as greatest global warming supporter and best known environmentalist around the world.

Visit the Climate Crisis Flash website to read more about “An Inconvenient Truth” and climate change, at: www.climatecrisis.net.

Update October/November, 2007: By now everyone has heard that Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in bringing about a great awareness of the impacts of global warming and the climate crisis on the planet, to people around the world. Sharing his prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, you can view the video of his acceptance speech from the link below on YouTube, or visit his website to see it at: www.algore.com.

Read Al Gore's eloquent Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech at the link below: http://blog.algore.com/2007/12/nobel_prize_acceptance_speech.html

YouTube video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xVIK-xwp0c

• The Alliance for Climate Protection a non-profit created and headed by Al Gore whose
  mission is to “...persuade the American people — and people elsewhere in the world – of the importance and urgency of adopting and implementing effective and comprehensive solutions for the climate crisis.”
  

 

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Gobal warming–related resource LiNKS:

• NASA article and video explain how the sun has powered almost everything on Earth since life began, including its climate: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/solar_variability.html
  
  
• LIMA - Satellite Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica http://lima.nasa.gov/
  The first true-color, high-resolution satellite imagery of Antarctica, compiled by NASA for public viewing and visual exploration/understanding of the Antarctic continent.
  
  
• NOAA paleoclimatology site and
  • NOAA global warming site, FAQ page:
    (url: http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html)
    
    
• MIT news and research page concerning articles on alternative energy sources:
  • harnessing sun power
  • Shell Oil President discusses new fuels, energy security
  • energy technologies that mimic nature
    
    
• The Environmental Defense Fund - a leading national non-profit that links science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems. Provides scientific information on global warming and facts/statistics on energy consumption.
  
  
• The Woods Hole Research Center - a beginner's guide to understanding the issue of global warming
  
  
• Science Reference Services from The Library of Congress
  
  
• June 2, 2008/Newsweek Article: The Race for Survival — Enlisting endangered species in the fight against global warming is either a brilliant tactical maneuver or an arrogant abuse of law By Jerry Adler. Proving a connection between polar bears as endangered species, and global warming is harder than expected.

“...the law requires the government to protect the critical habitat of endangered species. Ergo, if global warming is threatening the polar bear's habitat, the government could be forced to crack down on greenhouse-gas emissions, a step that environmentalists consider vital to the survival even of species that live in houses and would never dream of biting the head off a walrus.”

• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2001 report and findings
  
  
• The IPCC's home page - “Climate Change 2007” - the IPCC's new assessment report on climate change coming out on November 17, 2007.
   
• The IPCC's Reports home page
  • Assessment Reports
    
    
• IPCC Report on the Physical Science Basis for Climate Change - see Summary for Policymakers PDF.
  
  
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  To read a thorough analysis of global warming, climate change, the effects of CO₂ emissions, and corresponding changes in the world's oceans, visit the Conservation Science Institute's website. One startling statistic: according to measurements taken from ice cores, today's rising CO₂ concentrations are 27% higher than they have been over the past 650,000 years.
  
  
• Conservation International on YouTube - preserving the rainforests: http://www.youtube.com/user/ConservationDotOrg
  
  
• Harrison Ford on Protecting an Acre - YouTube - May 2008
  
  
• Indiana Jones Tackles Tiger Concerns (at the National Zoo) - June 2008
  
  
• World Wildlife Foundation
  • Climate change and polar bears as endangered species
  • WWF on climate change
  • Rainforests and the Amazon
    
    
• The Nature Conservancy
  • Climate Change
  • Rainforests
  • Coral Reefs

• National Geographic videos on global warming
  
  
• Defenders of Wildlife
  
  
• OCEANA - an organization that works to protect the world's oceans.
  
  
• CARE 2 - the environmental organization that organized the movie-watching event. Site also has fun e-cards.
  
  
• Climate Change and Arctic Impacts



• Calculate your Carbon Footprint on the ClimateCrisis website, and find out how you can help reduce it by investing in alternative sources of energy in the corresponding link to the NativeEnergy website.
  


• MSNBC has lots of information on climate change and places like the Arctic. Visit their site for videos and photo galleries, as well as numerous news articles on the subject.
  
  
• Another opinion: http://www.wunderground.com/education/gore.asp#
  

NASA photo