Climate Change

Theme:

Cases:

Local:  Letters to the Editor, Southeast Missourian  

http://www.semissourian.com/story.html$rec=40197  Letter to the editor re funding for a local power plant

Regional/National

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/petition.html  The Petition, a teaching case on global warming with teaching notes http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/petition_notes.html  

International

http://www.ess.co.at/GAIA/CASES/EGY/impact.htm  Impact of Climate Change on Egypt.

Resources on Climate Change:

http://www.meto.govt.uk/sec5/sec5pg1.html  Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Global warming gallery, GCOS Upper Air Network (GUAN), Global Climate Indicators, National Climate Indicators, Climate Data Sets Index,

http://www.cnie.org/nle/clim-2.html  Congressional research service paper on global climate change, including policies.

http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/english/forsch.html  , Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (summaries of the research topics of three scientific departments: Climate Modeling, Climate Process, and Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Dynamics.,

Nature Magazine: 09 November 2000 408 No. 6809: Article titled Acceleration of Global Warming Due to Carbon-cycle Feedbacks in a Coupled Climate Model -- also, under news is an article titled Pesticide Use Linked to Parkinson's Disease. This would be an excellent mag azine to search for other articles.,

Environmental News Network http://www.enn.com/indepth/climate/index.asp  Search this site -- Global Warming: There is a neat global warming IQ test on this site. There are several excellent articles like, The Facts About Global Warming, Global Warming. The History of an International Scientific Consensus. There is also an excellent general test of Your Environmental Knowledge.,

The Alliance to Save Energy http://www.ase.org , Estimates annual energy bill for average home - suggested upgrades to your house.,

http://sdgateway.net/topics/86.htm  Climate Change – resources from the sustainability web ring and sustainable development gateway.

Plug in Leaf Burning into Alta Vista (search engine) and it gives you several good sources including a form produced by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency that individuals must complete if they want to combust non-hazardous materials.,

NOAA Research - Atmospheric Research http://www.oar.noaa.gov/atmosphere  Climate Research - The Future of Planet Earth, and the Challenges We Face in the coming Millennium -

go to the home page first http://www.noaa.gov/  - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - this site is loaded with information including an article titled Climate Change and Human Impacts Are Damaging the World's Coral Reefs.,

An overview of the Community Climate System Model (a NCAR Project) can be found on http://www.cgd.ucar.edu:80/csm/overview/  - National Center for Atmospheric Research,

 Atmospheric Science 211 (it refers to many other sites) http://www.atmos.washington.edu/1997Q4/211/book_links.html  ,

 The Internet Companion to Global Environmental Change: An Atmospheric Perspective http://met.utah.edu/jhorel/companion/

Native Americas (Magazine Fall/Winter 1999) World Out of Balance: Native Prophecy Meets Scientific Prediction pages 8 through 24. Also Consensus Denied: Holy War Over Global Warming pages 26 through 33.,

Search "Scout Report" for Social Sciences http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/  articles on Global Climate Change - 14 Nov 2000 (Vol. 4, #6),

Go to the United States Environmental Protection Agency site http://www.epa.gov/docs/  - it is full of valuable information like Ozone Depletion: Myth vs. Measurement and Myth: Ozone Depletion Occurs Only In Antarctica. There is an excellent article on Residential Leaf Burning (an unhealthy solution to leaf disposal) under Common Sense Solutions to Environmental Problems.,

Go to the Greenpeace site http://www.greenpeace.org  and from there to the Climate Crisis Homepage and the Ozone Campaign Homepage.,Go to Earth Island Journal (Archives) and click on Vol. l5 #2, Summer 2000 and read Extreme Weather: Scientists New Warning and see Vol. 14, #4, Winter 9/2000, Global Warming Threatens the Northwest and NATO Bombing and the Environment.,

Go to the NASA homepage and find NASA Facts on line: Ozone: What Is It, and Why Do We Care About It?  http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ,

Go to the Environment Canada site  http://www.ec.gc.ca/science/splash.htm  - it is also full of valuable information - particularly through their publication titled Science and the Environment Bulletin.,