Resources on Climate change
Here is a sampling of sites on climate change that we've found useful (not a comprehensive list).
The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) provides the foundation for increasing the skill of predictions of seasonal-to-interannual climate fluctuations (which can bring excessively wet and dry periods) and long-term climate change.
Pace Law School's Global Warming site provides "discourse on the legal structure around the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ("UNFCCC") and the Kyoto Protocol, looking specifically at what U.S. obligations are under the treaties, what actions the U.S. government has taken to meet these obligations, and how climate change related tasks are divided up among various U.S. government agencies and departments."
For photos illustrating the impacts of climate change--melting glaciers, changing coastlines, unstable weather, etc.--see the World View of Global Warming project website.
Climate Technology Initiative promotes the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by fostering international cooperation for accelerated development and diffusion of climate friendly technologies and practices for all activities and greenhouse gases.
Global Change, the environmental change website of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, provides access to the latest information from online news services, and new reports from government and non-governmental organizations and research institutes. It includes:
