Climate Change resources

• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) and Kyoto Protocol updates:
  • www.unep.ch/iucc.html United Nations Environmental Program
  • www.unfccc.de (FCCC
  • www.unfccc.org/ (FCCC)
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
  • IPCC reports.

U.S. agency programs:

• U.S. Global Change Research Group (USGCRP).
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (search on climate change).

Pennsylvania agencies and programs:

• www.dep.state.pa.us Department of Environmental Protection:
  • 12 Easy Ways to Save Energy Dollars at Home
    
  • Recycling in PA
• www.PennFuture.org
  • Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future or
  • 1-800-321-7775
  • Energy saving hints
• www.Theenergyco-op.com
  • Energy Cooperative Association of Pennsylvania
    (Electrical Supplier) Explains Renewable Energy

Other resources:

• A Beginners Guide to Global Warming
• Global Warming: It's Happening by Kevin E. Trenberth.
• Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases by Tamara S. Ledley, et al.
• The First Ice Age by Kristin Leutwyler (Sci. Am. web site).
• Adequacy of Climate Observing Systems, report of Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources (1999).
• ABB Group "Energy and Global Change" Web site. [Click on "Environment," then on "Energy an Global Change."].
• IEA Greenhouse Gas Research and Development Program.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Laboratory.
• U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science.
• U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy (sequestering of carbon dioxide).
• Statoil (sequestering of carbon dioxide).
• www.green-e.org Center for Resource Solutions
  
  1-888-63-GREEN
  Why Choose Green Electricity (3-pg folder)
  Top Green Power FAQ s (1 page)
  Information for teachers
  
• www.nrdc.org Natural Resources Defense Council Basics and consequences of Global Warming.
• www.greencar.org
• www.npr.org National Public Radio: Use search; find information on Kyoto Protocol.

Resources for Advocacy:

• Climate Action Network.
• Union of Concerned Scientists.

The National Environmental Trust, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Physicians for Social Responsibility has launched a national educational campaign to raise awareness of the problem of global warming and to give people a way to register their concerns with elected officials.

• Thomas R. Karl and Kevin E. Treberth, The Human Impact on Climate, Scientific American, Dec. 1999, pp. 100-105.
• Paul E. Hoffman and Daniel P. Schrag, Snowball Earth, Scientific American, Jan. 2000, pp. 68-75.
• Howard Herzog, Baldur Ellasson, and Olav Kaarstad, Capturing Greenhouse Gases, Scientific American, Feb. 2000, pp. 72-79.
• P.F. Hoffman,A.J. Kaufman, G.P. Halverson and D.P. Schrag, A Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth, Science, Vol. 281, pp. 1342-1346, Aug. 28, 1998.