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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change¹ (IPCC) -- the World Meteorological Organization² (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) formed this group to analyse the available scientific, technical, and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change³, the initial international treaty has a web site that covers climate change negotiations
RealClimate⁴ in their words, “is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists.” They “aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary.” The discussion “is restricted to scientific topics and will not get involved in any political or economic implications of the science.”
Skeptical Science⁵ in their own words, “gets skeptical about global warming skepticism” and asks, “Do their arguments have any scientific basis? What does the peer reviewed scientific literature say?”
From OneWorld.net:
- Climate Change Campaign/news⁶
- In Depth Climate Change coverage⁷
From Delhi-based Centre for Science and the Environment (CSE):
- Climate Change⁸ section provides a vast array of articles and analysis with viewpoints from the South.
- Equity Watch⁹; A Climate News Letter from the South. This section, is a sub-section of their climate change section, providing articles and perspectives from developing countries concerning equity and equal rights to the atmosphere.
CorpWatch has a Climate Justice Initiative¹⁰ section and looks at social, political and other issues surrounding issues of climate change and action.
This report describes, quite nicely, the world politics affecting decisive action on climate change.¹¹ Although written in a somewhat humorous manner, it is written as a lose analogy of the climate change crisis and global negotiations that have continued for ten years without cutting any greenhouse gases. It may seem just a tiny bit on the long side, but it is certainly worth reading.
Environment News Network¹² provides coverage on climate change issues.
Climate Change section from the United Nations' Environment Programme¹³.
The British science magazine, New Scientist¹⁴, has a good section¹⁵ devoted to Global Warming. They have also got a link to other online resources¹⁶ which may be of interest.
The Union of Concerned Scientists have a Section on Global Warming¹⁷. There are many resources available from their site.
NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council¹⁸) is a US, non-profit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. Many subject areas are covered here.
The Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment¹⁹ is a one-stop source of information, for younger and older users alike, on a range of atmopsheric issues, including air quality, acid rain, global warming and ozone depletion.
Renewable Energy Resources²⁰ web site. The Discussion and Educational Resource for Renewable, Sustainable Home Built Energy Production. A DIY Guide for building your own Solar, PV, Hydro, Biofuel (Biodiesel, Ethanol, Etc.) Steam, and other Renewable Energy Solutions. You will find many links here.
Climate Independent Media Center²¹ offers non-corporate grassroots coverage of the problems related to climate change and the political action that is needed to deal with them.
"Greenhouse Market Mania²²" from Corporate Europe Observatory is a critical report on the business interests affecting the UN climate talks.
Just a Lot of Hot Air?²³ is a report from PANOS looking at the various issues for developing and industrialized countries alike.
The Climate Change Campaign²⁴ site from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
The Guardian newspaper from UK, has a Special Report on Climate Change²⁵ with updated news coverage, background information, etc.
These articles from the Third World Network²⁶ provide a very critical look at the role of big business and of countries such as the United States:
- Polluter nations torpedo UN climate change treaty²⁷
- Climate change talks almost hijacked²⁸
- Global warming worse than feared²⁹
- The Kyoto loopholes³⁰
- Greenhouse market mania³¹
- Business as usual³²
- A changing climate for disease and death³³
- Contraction and convergence³⁴
- Peoples' defence of climate stability³⁵
- Battling on the fence line³⁶
Covering The Planet: Environmentalism In A Media World³⁷ from the MediaChannel.org looks at how environment issues are covered by the media (or not) around the world. This is a link to a large collection of media related articles.

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Created: Monday, July 20, 1998
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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October 27, 2009	Added a link to skepticalscience.com
March 18, 2007	Added a link to RealClimate.org. Remainder has not been changed (for now!) since May 15, 2002