Activists and NGOs Global Change Environment
Activists and NGOs Global Change Environment
Activists and NGOs
All sites produced by commentators and climate change activists - both skeptics and proponents.
Top: Science: Environment: Global Change: Activists and NGOs:
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- Full text of the Kyoto Protocol, along with news and statistics related to the global warming problem.
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- Provides information and co-ordination to help individuals reduce energy consumption, to form local groups to organise campaigning for mutual encouragement in achieving energy savings, and to keep up-to-date with climate change effects and research.
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- One man's analysis of the data, by Douglas Hoyt
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- On effects of increasing atmospheric CO2 levels on the biosphere, with emphasis on studies that suggest a beneficial impact from rising C02. Also educational materials describing how to conduct CO2 enrichment and depletion experiments on plants, and week
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- Focuses on non-linear (or rapid) climate change. Lots of links to reputable articles on the subject.
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- Site from Dr Singer expressing skepticism regarding many aspects of global warming.
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- Web version of the exhibit "Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast", which was developed jointly by the American Museum of Natural History and the Environmental Defense Fund and which toured the US in 1997.
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- Fact sheets and news items on global warming, its consequences, and measures to reduce its impacts.
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- An international network organization, coordinated from the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, supported initially by the SHELL Foundation. It is intended to support cohesive policy responses to climate change.
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- Argues that increasing carbon dioxide levels will be beneficial by resulting in increased food production. Calls for research on this topic.
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- Features information and breaking news on climate change, with a focus on resources and actions...
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- An alliance of Australian regional, state and national environmental, health, community development, and research groups focusing on the problem of climate change.
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- Argues that climate change proposals are based on inexact science and would be too expensive for Australia's industry.
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- A lukewarm view of global warming from Tasmania. By John L. Daly.
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- A global warming skeptic reviews the science of temperature records and other greenhouse issues, carbon sinks, icebergs, and urban heat islands.
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- API is critical of Kyoto Protocol and questions the evidence for global change
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- Run by scientists who are concerned about misinformation that appears on the Internet in relation to Global Warming (also called the Greenhouse Effect). In particular, it seeks to expose errors of fact on one particular site - Still Waiting for Greenhouse
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- With the rejection of the Kyoto Treaty the government of the USA has once again shown the world that environmental issues are not important to them. I will try to solve the mystery of why they do not care.
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- information and links, especially for activists
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- NWF works to protect wildlife from the impacts of climate change.
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- Uses reputable online resources to answer many of the commonly asked questions about climate change, including questions on whether the earth is getting warmer and whether the climate is changing.
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- NRDC advocates dramatic reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases in the U.S. and abroad as well as the adoption and implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. Includes fact sheets, reports, and links.
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- Public information from the Union of Concerned Scientists
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- Project to halt global warming by promoting international ratification of the Kyoto climate treaty.
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- A guide to global warming and an interactive map showing its effects. An invitation to pledge to reduce CO2 emissions and to encourage Congress to take action.
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- Global warming is going to be a big problem, say scientists. Planetforlife examines the science behind the predictions.
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- SafeClimate is a source of tools, news, and information for individuals and organizations to take action to combat global climate change. A project of the World Resources Institute.
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- Discussions of greenhouse warming, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Kyoto Protocol from a New Zealand perspective. (EDS is a New Zealand NGO.)
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- The website version of Ross Gelbspan's 1995 book on global warming science, politics and industry disinformation, is now a website that tracks and updates climate-related developments, including "Extreme Weather Profiles" from 1995-1999; campaig
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- A project of Environmental Defense, a US national campaign to ramp up the fight against global warming, the most critical environmental issue we face. Get the facts, help undo it, and spread the word.
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- A Critical look at human culture through time, in response to climate change, ecological and societal responses. Chronologies feature Warm/Cold Events and their societal and social consequences.
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- Greenpeace has identified global climate change as one of the greatest threats to the planet. Read reports on climate change, follow our campaigns against Arctic and frontier oil development
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- A mechanism to bring together representatives of different parties concerned with the climate problem: industry, technology, major energy users, insurance and finance sectors, environmental NGOs, and scientific experts investigating climate change and opt
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- An independent, bipartisan, non-profit organization. Seeks to develop and advocate politically realistic U.S. greenhouse gas emission reduction policies.
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- The David Suzuki Foundation is a science-based Canadian environmental organization, specializing in global warming, sustainable forestry, salmon farming and fisheries.
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- How global warming is impacting on the Pacific Islands. How Australia's stance on the Kyoto Protocol is affecting our relations with the neighbouring island states. Many useful links!
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- Proposes a theory that the earth exhibits 1000-year cycles of warming/cooling, powered by magma under the ocean floor and regulated primarily by the heat capacity of the Pacific Ocean.
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