Global warming/Climate Change
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2001/ann/ann.html Climate Change - Latest Data. Global summary of the climate of 2001. 2001 temperatures are second only to 1998, a year influenced by the warming effects of El Nino. 2001's warming is part of a clear trend of increasing temperatures over the last 25 years with, unfortunately, no end in sight. Land temperatures were 0.74°C (1.33°F) above average (calculated over the period 1880-2000), while ocean temperatures were 0.43°C (0.77°F) higher. The northern hemisphere, at 0.60°C (1.08°F) above average, showed greater warming than the southern hemisphere; however at 0.43°C (0.77°F), the southern hemisphere anomaly was also significant. The overall mean was 0.52°C (0.94°F) higher than the long-term average.
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2001/ann/events.html Significant climate anomalies and events of 2001
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2001/ann/us-summary.html US Summary of the Climate of 2001
http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/ The Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory is part of NOAA. There are five research groups, which have been conducting measurements concerning the ozone hole, air quality, and the world's climate. They have observatories around the world and information related to global warming can be found here.
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html This site, prepared by the National Climatic Data Center, answers questions about tropospheric temperature trends, El Nino, the hydrological cycle, and insight into the data collecting processes involved in detection of global climate changes. In addition, there a number of links to other national and international websites posted. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/perspectives.html This website highlights paleoclimate research and shows how paleoclimate research relates to global warming and other issues regarding climate variability and change. It discusses and provides information about the study of past climates in hopes of achieving a better understanding of the Earth's present and future climate. The other half of the sight looks at the impact of paleoclimatic research on understanding drought patterns.
http://www.wmo.ch/index-en.html The UK and US data sets show similar results for 2001. In its analysis, the WMO focuses primarily on the time period from 1960 to present, predicting that 2001 will have been 0.42°C warmer than the average for this period. (Note that this period has a higher average than the 1880-2001 period.) The WMO notes that 9 of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 1990, and that 2001 will be the 23rd consecutive year with global temperatures above the 1961-1990 average.
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/impacts/index.html This is the EPA's website on global warming. This site contains a lot of information and focuses on Climate, Emissions, Impacts, and Actions. There are many links from this page to other EPA sites.
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/ This is a beautiful site made by the EPA on Global Warming. It is very easy to use and has a lot of information. The topic heading on this site includes climate, emissions, impacts and actions. The site even has good info on what you can do to help! The site also has some great sections divided up by social groups and how global warming effects that group. Some of these sections include coastal residents, industry, kids, meteorologists, public officials, and outdoor enthusiasts. This is a GREAT site!
http://www.globalwarming.org/ This website was created and maintained by the Cooler Heads Coalition which is a sub-group of the National Consumer Coalition. It was founded to dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis. There is information on global warming as well as lie and scandal. The site also contains information concerning current climate change policy proposals. It also offers bi-weekly news updates on politics, economics, and science as they apply to global warming.
http://www.globalwarming.org/news/index.htm Global Warming Information Page -an information page with all the latest press-releases and articles dealing with global warming topics including: the Bush administration's decisions, energy, gasoline, weather, and the Kyoto Conference.
http://www.globalwarming.org/sciup/sci12-27-01.htm This page summarizes an article from the Dec. 27, 2001 issue of science that says that the forests of the U.S., Europe, and Russia take up about 12% of the annual global emissions of Carbon. It claims that the forests of the U.S. take up 11% of our total outputs of Carbon. At the end there is a short reference to the fact that the boreal forests of Canada are losing Carbon overall.
http://www.globalwarming.org/sciup/sci2-8-01.html This page makes reference to two glaciers in Antarctica that have been studied and the conclusions reached were that climate change had little effect on the melting. The projected model for glacier melting relating to global warming is as follows. Increased atmospheric temperatures would decrease the albedo of glaciers and accumulation would be less. With a low reflectivity, the glacier would absorb more of the insolation it received and thus melt faster. Experiments conducted on the Pine Island glacier in western Antarctica have concluded that such a mechanism is working on that glacier.
http://www.climatehotmap.org/about.html This is the coolest global warming site ever! This site has an excellent map of the world that when you click on different places will tell you what effect global warming will have there. The site also has a section for educators, that gives a curriculum guide that can be used with their amazing map. This is not a good place to find information on historical climate information.
http://www.climatehotmap.org/camerica.html Global warming and mosquotoes again, this time with articles that detail the presence of the bugs in South America, and the lastest statistics on new habitat of mosquitoes due to global warming.
http://www.ucsusa.org/warming The Union Of Concerned Scientists is on a mission to provide scientifically sound solutions to the major problems of global environmental change. This union believes global warming is real and well under way. They provide solid facts to support their theory. These scientists give their advice on what we can all do to stop global warming. This website contains faq's, briefings, updates, guides, skeptic reports, presentations, analysis, recommendations, statements, and links. I like this union a lot and hope more people take the time to read what these concerned scientists are saying.
http://www.ucsusa.org/globalresources/index.html This Union of concerned Scientists website contains more information on the" early signs" of global warming. There are links between this page and the "early signs of global warming" page. Supplemental material can be found on this page such as classroom activities and a curriculum guide.
http://ucsusa.org/environment/owarming.html Union of Concerned Scientists, offers a wide variety of briefs, reports etc. on global warming, carbon sequestration, localized impacts of climate change.
http://www.ucsusa.org/environment/gw.research.html this is a site from Union of Concerned Scientists that talks about global warming science. There are many articles here. about Global warming!
http://www.ucsusa.org/warming/index.html This is a site created by the Union of Concerned Scientists, or UCS. The site includes an informational overview on evidence of global warming, regional and global climate change, effects on vegetation, possible government solutions, as well as many others. There is also information on many other environmental topics in addition to global warming, and membership information into the union.
http://www.ucsusa.org/environment/gw_glaciers.html This page discusses some of the possible effects that global warming would have on glaciers. It discusses the rate and percentage of loss of glaciers around the world, and especially in temperate to tropical latitudes. The loss of glacier cover is a product of many things including length, width, and surface area. However, average temperature plays a very large role in the rate of glacial melt and the rate of accumulation in the winter. Decreased glacier cover could lead to less water available to some areas, decreased slope stability, and thus a danger for those living near or under those slopes.
http://www.marshall.org/guide.htm George C. Marshall Institute Q & A page-deals with the most common questions asked about global warming and brief, easy-to-understand, and up-to-date answers.
http://www.pace.edu/lawschool/env/energy/globalwarming.html Global Warming Central a project of the Pace University School of Law Energy - Project -a grand website with all kinds of sources dealing with the current debates about global warming. All kinds of info from conferences going on, is updated very regularly.
http://www.co2science.org/center Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change website. The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change is a nonprofit organization specializing in research and educational developments to the rising CO2 contents of Earth's atmosphere. The site is update weekly with CO2 Science Magazine. The magazine contains an editorial and review of 5 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles. It also has archived reviews from past weeks. The site is a wealth of information on global climate change.
http://www.co2science.org/ CO2 Science Magazine-updated every Wednesday, this is a weekly review of scientific findings pertaining to carbon dioxide and global change. Includes: Temperature Record of the week, Biological consequences, climate-change in Antarctica, soils, and coral reefs.
http://www.co2science.org/subject/commentary/2002/v5n4com.htm "Another Global Warming Horror Story Bites the Dust", by Dr.Sherwood B. Idso and Dr. Keith E. Idso. (Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.) This article sums up a study conducted in the Arctic by Camill, et al. They challenged the theory that increasing global temperatures would melt the permafrost, which would release CO2 into the air and create a positive feedback chain of global warming. The results contradict this theory, indicating that the warming permafrost was actually acting as a sink because the vegetation more actively withdraws CO2 from the air.
http://www.arm.gov/docs/education/warming.html ARM Education Site: Global Warming -fun site, seperate sections for beginners, questioners, and experts. Lesson plans, "ask a scientist", related sites, even a quiz to test your knowledge.
http://www.gcrio.org/ipcc/qa/04.html "What human activities contribute to climate change ?" See graphs detailing relative heating and cooling effects of emissions of co2 and ch4 tec. Also release of toxins relative to geographical areas. With a link to the "how do we know that the atmospheric build up of greenhouse gases is due to human activity/" page. With even more info and data and more links to more pages. Thourough info is given on sources and effects of greenhouse gas emissions throughout the various pages and links. All provided by the United Nations Environment Programme World Meteorological Org.
http://www.gcrio.org Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO) Provides extensive links to web-based resources on global change. Serves as the information dissemination arm of the US Global Change Research Program. Contains numerous on-line publications related to global change dynamics.
http://www.cleanairworld.org/glossary.html This web site is a glossary about everything we've learned in the first half of the quarter. It deals with all aspects of global warming and gives words like stratosphere and then goes on to give a definition and it usually has a site you can go to and read more in depth about. This site was provided by the EPA for people who want to know just a little more.
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/glob-warm.html This is a site put up by Stanford, which talks about global warming in brief and has info in general along with student activities and research topics that you can go and look at on other sites. It is very good at heading you in the right direction and it also has a place for teachers to go and get homework ideas.
http://icp.giss.nasa.gov/research/methane/greenhouse.html This website is run by the Institute on Climate and Planets, a group that provides outreach and conducts research on the climate, collaborating with NASA, schools and colleges . Its immediate site has an introduction on global warming, information on the Vostok ice cores, diagrams and sections on nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, and methane. From the links, past newletters, and other global science organizations can be reached. Click on the methane link for research papers on the gas.
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS/IMAGES/MOVIES.html for all you movie junkies, out there this one will play movies of sea temp. ozone, global warming and a host of other things that will interest you, I hope. Since my computer had real player clobbered, they wont play, but a real interesting site, nontheless! This one just for fun!
http://www.ieer.org/ensec/no-5/globwarm.html The institute for energy and environmental research sponsors this site on global warming. This site includes statistics on global warming and reviews of the gases involved, including halocarbons. It describes in detail the chemical interactions of the gases in the atmosphere, their concentations, residence times and their sinks. Options for CO2 sequestration and global warming mitigation are discussed.
http://www.heartland.org/studies/ieguide.htm This site I found very interesting because it was the exact opposite science than we learned this quarter in class. The statements were based on bad science and tried to dispute and tear down widely held opinions of the scientific community. I believe it is necessary to see what kind of propaganda the other side is putting out.
http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate/climate.cfm This is a web site from the WWF (world wildlife foundation) that is set up to bring support for their campaign for climate change. The site talks about a worldwide increase in temperature since 1981. Six of the hottest years ever have come after 1990 and the hottest year in the last 120 was 1998. The site provides goals of mass reduction in greenhouse gases starting in 2001 as its main objective.
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20020203-90259646.htm This article is basically trying to justify President Bush's scraping on the Kyoto Treaty because there has not been sufficient data to prove or disprove global warming. The article tells how the man responsible for bringing global warming to light at NASA has now retracted his statements. All this really means is that he has been bullied into saying these things so Bush's economy can keep consuming and keep producing.
http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/fcons.asp The Natural Resources Defense Council put this out March 30, 2002 so this is the most recent info available and the site was very informative and displayed the facts in an easy to understand fashion. This website tells you what warning signs to look for and the possible consequences of global warming. This site breaks the problem down into sections because global warming effects ecosystems differently. Take a look at climate pattern changes, glacier and ice melt, sea level rise, health effects on humans, etc. Is global warming already effecting us, you decide.The article talks about how much the temperature could rise over the next century and what effects it will have on the people and land. This was a very straightforward type of article that tried to be unbiased in presenting its information.
http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/default.asp The National Resources Defense Council put together this website on global warming. This site tells which industries and countries are doing their part and which ones are slacking off. Also, there is information on how to inform your representatives of your concern for the environment. This website is a good watchdog to polluting industry.
http://www.api.org/globalclimate/ This article comes by way of the American Petroleum Institute and is the largest load of garbage I have ever read. The article starts off by saying how the oil companies have helped humanity to overcome that not so friendly foe mother nature and how no matter what you might have heard the pollution coming from these substances is not able to affect those unfriendly weather patterns. No matter what happens though we will have oil to keep us warm and keep us rolling. It amazes me how people will fall for this type of propaganda coming from the beast itself.
http://www.globalwarming.org/sciup/ This is a great site. It is called the global warming information page with lots of links listed here with timely articles. I will save this one for next quarter as well. http://unisci.com/stories/20014/1130015.htm This site, details one species that could really benefit from global warming, the green back trout detailed here in this article from Colorado State University.
http://www.futurenet.org/12Climatechange/gelbspan.html This is an article on global warming written by a Pulitzer prize winning author, that wrote "The Climate Crisis" this site details several types of effects of global warming from rising temperatures in various places, to the effects on insects, on food webs, in a general essay format.
http://www.greenpeace.org/~climate/polar/antarc_report/ant9.html Global warning strikes penguins! here is the report from King George Island in Antarctica.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1639000/1639284.stm Global warming and mosquitoes! This one is interesting. This is from the BBC and it details how birds and mosquitoes are adjusting to the trends. This article is short, but I like the pictures. Everything is out of wack.
http://www.sciam.com/2000/0800issue/0800epstein.html Global warming and mosquitoes. Malaria, and the affected getting diseases.
http://www.pewclimate.org/policy/response_bushpolicy.cfm New politics and policy! This one is for greenhouse gas intensity. Reporting of levels are encouraged by a new Bush Policy
http://www.carboncyclescience.gov/ This site appears to be under construction, but it will be a gathering of several scientists starting a new U.S.program of Carbon cycle, Attempting to work with Federal agencies, Community Planning, and International Coordination. It is the wave of the new policy that hopefully will be coming in the years to come.
http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS Reports on recent studies concerning global warming. Browse the AMS Journal and access full text peer reviewed articles on global climate change.
http://www.arcus.org Indexes vastg amount of information on all aspects of arctic research including climate change. Full text of "The Hydrologic Cycle and Its Role in Arctic and Global Climate Change," directories of arctic researchers.
http://www.lternet.edu Two thousand ecological datasets including the LTER (Long Term Environmental Research) Climate Database Project that provides long term metereological data from sites in the arctic, Antarctica, and North America.
http://www.nigec.ucdavis.edu National Institute for Global Environmental Change, U.C. Davis Home page for all regional research centers across the U.S. Publishes reports on climate change research available full text on line. Links to regional NIGEC research centers.
http://www.botany.net/IDB/subject/botpale.html Internet Directory for Botany, Paleobotany, Palynology and Pollen.This site contains a library of annotated links to pages concerning, palynology, paleobotany, and paleoclimate.
http://www.datasync.com/~farrar/www_vl_paleoclim.html The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography. This site contains groups of links to lots of great sites dedicated to paleoceanography and paleoclimatology.
http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/ice/lec11/lec11.htm This is a web page on paleoclimate reconstruction. This page has great basic information on the methods used by paleoclimatologists. Good introduction to palynology, oxygen isotopes, and the use of paleofaunas. Contains links to related pages.
http://webspinners.com/dlblanc/climate/index.shtml This site has general background information on climate change and mass extinction. The site's author gives links to pages with more specific information on the various aspects of the topic.
http://www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming This site is the Sierra Club's page on global warming. This site does not offer much information on the chemistry of global warming, but it suggests ways that you as a concerned inhabitant of the Earth can use alternate sources of energy like solar power or wind power. Also on this site are fuel alternatives and ways to cut pollution. This is a good site for people who might feel helpless in this overwhelming issue.
http://www.panda.org/climate The World Wildlife Fund Website is devoted to presenting information on climate change and the importance of ratifying the Kyoto Treaty. The website contains news articles on recent WWF press releases relating to climate change. In addition there are fact sheet pates and pages going into more depth on causes, impacts, and solutions to climate change. The WWF has one "cutting page" containing latest information on climate change and causes attributable to human activities.
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/onpi/webextra.nsf/web/climate?OpenDocument The National Academies takes a closer look at global warming. This website lets you start with the basics or just jump right in to the controversial findings and predictions. This site tackles questions like, are we changing the climate, and what are the consequences of global warming? Here you can search for evidence of global warming and answers/predictions on some of the big questions. If you still feel like learning more, check out the sites collection of related reports.
http://www.skepticism.net/faq/environment/global_warming I like this website because it provides an unusual perspective. The articles here are not just written by scientists and researchers, but common people with an opinion and an idea. This website contains a basic introduction to global warming, the scientific controversy, the political controversy, and many, many links. This site takes a powerful inside look at both sides of the big question facing our world today, is global warming really happening?
http://www.pirg.org/enviro/global_w PIRG is a state to state organization whose purpose is to educate and protect our environment. Anyone can join and help them on their crusade. One of their campaigns is to stop global warming. their website focuses on the impacts of global warming, who is to blame, and how we can take action to put a stop to this growing global problem.
http://www.nationalcenter.org/Kyoto.html The National Center For Public Policy Research This website is more political in context then most my other websites. Here you will find international treaty documents and briefings from past summit discussions. read through press releases and other selected global warming documents from recent meetings and conferences. there are some very interesting articles here. I highly recommend this site to anyone interested in the political side of the global warming debate.
http://www.pubs.acs.org/hotartcle/cenear/951127/pg1.html Chemical & Engineering News The author of this article is stating the facts he has come across in his research of atmospheric temperature change. the author agrees with most scientists that climatic observations are substantial enough evidence of global warming. Read what the author has to say about the science and the politics surrounding global warming.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=9617 This article talks about the effects that global warming will have on the African continent. It is one of many articles that demonstrate how the developing world has to deal with the effects of increased CO2 emissions even though they are not necessarily the ones producing it.
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/earth/air/global.htm This site is designed as an educational site for children, but it is loaded with very good information. This site is a good introduction to some of the basics about global warming.
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/sbeder/columns/probe19.html this is an interesting article about the response of the insurance industry to the threat of global warming. Because they insure many people against loss from storms etc. they are very concerned about the threat of global climate change.
http://www.igc.org/awea/wew/othersources/rachel466.html This is an interesting site that chronicles and lays out the connection between global climate change and the spread of infectious diseases. These sorts of results from global warming are very interesting and will become more pressing as the temperature continues to increase.
http://www.environmentsite.org/ This site has good general information on global warming. Just by visiting the site and clicking on a leaf you make a donation that goes to prevent global warming. They have sponsors that donate money for every click the site gets so you should visit it and do something simple to help!
http://www.enn.com/specialreports/climate Really nice graphs and "moving" pictures describing global warming. Not only does this site scientifically discuss what is happening . It also goes into the political side. Includes global meeting in Kyoto and what nations are involved.
http://www.2vivid.net/~ses/co2.html Awesome web site containing info by country, state and company regarding how much CO2 emissions they let off. U.S. was ranked #1 with the most CO2.
http://www.global-warming.net Has a ton of up-to-date, latest, global warming articles. Many of them are new scientifically proven effects to health, both human and nature.
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/1998/es202/l13.html This is the most comprehensive global warming site that I have seen. It has flow charts of the global warming process, gas concentrations and many models for what has and could happen. This also has a good link to the USGS about methane hydrates, which contain something like 3000 times the amount of methane in the atmosphere right now. These hydrates are found in polar ice, and in marine sediments.
http://globalwarming.enviroweb.org/exhibition.html This website is concerned with an exhibition that includes many hands on exhibits, models, interactive simulations, and other forms of media; that show the function, operation, and forecasts of greenhouse gases and global warming. According to the site, the exhibit was on display at the Smithsonian until Sept. 1997, but is now permanently on display at Columbia University's Biosphere 2 Center near Tuscon, Arizona.
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/system/templates/page/focus.cfm?focus=3 This website is operated by a group called Environmental Defense. The site contains information on many different environmental issues including global warming. On one part of the site, you can type in the data of your car, and find out on average, how much fuel/year your vehicle uses. Plus, it can calculate the number of pounds of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and hydrocarbons your vehicle emits per year. This can be found under the "tailpipe tally" section.
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/default.htm U.S. Global Change Research Program. This is a government website containing information about the composition of the atmosphere, changes in the ecosystem, the global carbon cycle, the global water cycle, climate change and variability, and human impact. The most fantastic feature of this website is "New postings" which contains several slide presentations, press releases, global warming and the environmental effects, including species concerns, and links to numerous amount of related sites and databases.
http://explorezone.com/news/globalwarm.htm Global Warming News Zone comes from an interesting site called explorezone.com. This site includes a plethora of articles from the 11th Symposium on Global Change, historical climate changes, to possible contributing factors of climate change. There are also discussions about recently published articles in the journal Nature, and reports from NASA and the UN to articles from the New Scientist magazine.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming What's Up With the Weather? This is a very well put together web site put together by PBS –Nova/Frontline. This site includes a history of climatic events, debate over global warming and links to those interviewed, models of the possible outcomes of melted polar ice sheets, and a look at US energy/fuel consumption and its contribution to atmospheric CO2 levels. The information given, sited by refereed journals, includes several graphs, charts, and images. There is also a list of books and links to related topics.
http://www.globalwarming.net/gwnew/gw12-overview.asp This is the Global Warming International Site. The main focus is on the recent international conference held in April of 2001. It has current updates and news as well as papers and other information from the conference.
http://www.globalchange.org/default.htm Global Change is an online review of climate change and ozone depletion published by the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security (Oakland, California), a non-profit, independent research center established in 1987. The site's homepage contains external links to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the Carbon Trader, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and Climate News. Pages within the website itself contain Global Climate Change Digest and Global Change Electronic Edition issues and archives. The most recent issue of Global Change is from May 2001 and contains a feature news story as well as stories related to law and policy issues, environmental impacts, economics, data and trends, climate and ozone science, editorials and commentary, and new reports (as well as other topics).
http://www.dar.csiro.au/cc/default.htm This page is part of the Australian government agency Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) website. The section related to global warming is titled "Atmospheric Research: Greenhouse Effect." An abundance of internal and external links are available, including a Summary for Policymakers of IPCC's "Climate Change 2001" Report, the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station, the Climate Modeling Program, and the Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks Program. CSIRO's "most recent climate change scenarios" are also made available in two online brochures. Additionally, this webpage contains internal links to information on climate change over the last 120 billion years, atmospheric temperatures, greenhouse gases, the role of volcanoes in climate change, and ways to model climate change.
http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/ This is the homepage of the Australian Greenhouse Office, which describes itself as "the world's first government agency dedicated to cutting greenhouse gas emissions." By clicking on the first internal link titled "Science and Emissions Monitoring," readers can view information on Australia's emissions and actions such as the National Carbon Accounting System and the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory. Also under the "Science and Emissions Monitoring" section, readers can link to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), the Kyoto Protocol, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
http://www.atmos.anl.gov/ACP/ This is the homepage of the Atmospheric Chemistry Program, part of the Global Change Research program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Pertinent information to global warming is found under the "ACP Projects" heading, which lists the years 1995, 1996, 1998 and 2001. For 2001, readers can uncover abstracts on projects involving VOCs and their reaction products, nighttime chemistry of nitrogen oxides, ozone and aerosols, sources and sinks for atmospheric chemicals, properties of aerosols, among many others listed. By returning to the site's homepage, there are many links to Accelerated data and projects.
http://www.mbari.org/ghgases/deep/release.htm MBARI, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, in Moss Landing, California, provides this website. The particular address chosen highlights experiments on the ocean sinks of fossil fuel carbon dioxide. Numerous pictures of a series of deep ocean experiments (3627 meters deep in Monterey Bay) are shown on this webpage. ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) and ships were both used in gathering the data and detailed photographs of the experiment progression are available.
http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/projects/projects-html/greenhouse.html This has directions for a do it at home student project re-creating the green house effect in 2 glass jars. It has links to other science projects for students.
http://www.nwf.org/climate/ccnengl.html Global Warming: A Serious Threat to New England's Wildlife: The national Wildlife Federations details the negative effects that excess amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases are effecting animal populations. It is relevant to areas outside of New England.
http://butterflywebsite.com/Articles/warming.htm "Butterfly Feels Effect of Warming" This is an article excerpted from the Los Angeles Times by Robert Lee Hotz. It is about the biological consequences of global warming on a delicate species of butterfly known as Edith's checker spot butterfly, which is being driven north through California to escape rising temperatures.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/706879.asp?pne=msn&cp1=1#BODY "Tepid Response to Bush Climate Plan", by Miguel Llanos and other MSNBC reporters. This website is a news article for MSN (posted on 15 Feb) that relates Bush's latest "climate plan". I thought this statement pretty much summed up not only the article, but the state of our times as well: "The Bush administration is taking creative accounting to a whole new level," said Clapp. "The president's proposals look like they will actually mean a 50 to 100 percent increase in pollution from power plants over what the Clean Air Act allows, and the White House is trying to dress the package up to look like a cut." There are also some excellent slide shows, flow diagrams, and a nice summation of climate concerns for different regions. Definitely worth checking out.
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/climate/climate.jsp?id=ns99991525 "Global warming changes mosquitoes' genetic "off" switch", by James Randerson, 06 Nov 01. This study addressed changes in migration/dormancy patterns of pitcher-plant mosquitoes due to the extended growing season. The results showed that in 1996, these mosquitoes became dormant an average of nine days later than in specimens collected in 1972. Genetic study showed that this change is actually a genetic one (similar responses to global warming have previously thought to have been only behavioral). Interesting when you try to consider the food web without mosquitos…
http://www.cmu.edu/cmri/bio_recap.html "Recapturing and Unused Resource" A nice page that discusses the option of using landfills to recover methane (for an energy source). Two huge benefits would come from this – more energy that we use and less that is heating the atmosphere. What I found interesting was that up to 90% of landfill material is actually biodegradable, and that landfills can provide an energy source for up to fifty years each.