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Climate Change

An Inconvenient Truth: Take Action
An Inconvenient Truth: Based on the film, this site provides information on actions individuals can take to become "carbon neutral."

Australian Greenhouse Office
Summary of Australian government response to climate change, including emission control, carbon trading, & efficiency standards.

Biogeophysical Dynamics Laboratory
Global climate model created by the Biogeochemical Dynamics Laboratory (BGDL), Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona

CCCma: Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis
University of Victoria center conducting research in coupled and atmospheric climate modeling, sea-ice modeling, climate variability and predictability, the carbon cycle, and a number of other areas.

Center for Climate Strategies
Group based in Harrisburg, PA which helps various clients and their stakeholders to create and manage climate change mitigation plans and policies and the related energy, economic, and environmental policies. Clients include the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and the New Mexico Environment Department.

Chicago Climate Exchange
Provides information and opportunities for businesses wishing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or trade credits with other businesses with low greenhouse gas emissions

Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability - Summary for Policy Makers [PDF, 152 KB]
Statement of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change regarding the sensitivity, adaptive capacity and vulnerability of natural and human systems to climate change.

Climate Change and Rangeland Management
Beyond Boxes and Arrows: A Workshop on Climate Change and Range Management (2006 Conference)

Climate Dynamics Research Projects
Describes research in climate dynamics at the University of Arizona

Climate Institute
Source for "objective, reliable information” about climate change. Includes links for the science of climate change sea level, extreme weather, ecosystems, air quality, ozone, human health, agriculture, green energy, state, local, and international actions, what citizens can do, and to other climate change-related groups. Each of these links also includes information about regional effects/impacts.

Climatic change and fire regimes
USGS site explaining the use of sedimentary charcoal data and tree ring and fire scar studies in understanding climate-fire relationships and change in the Sierra Nevada.

Cooperative Extension: Climate Change and Forests
Cooperative Extension publications on how climate change is affecting regional forests (enter "climate" under "title contains" category)

CPC's Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) page
An atmospheric and oceanic phenomenon that affects the northern Pacific Ocean and western North America. Describes detection, prediction, relation to El Niño and La Niña, and impacts, including effects on precipitation in the western U.S.

Dynamic Maps of Sea Level Rise
The University of Arizona's Environmental Studies Laboratory provides dynamic maps of projected sea level rise.

Environmental Protection Agency: Climate Change
Information on climate effects, emissions, impacts, and actions related to global warming. Also describes funding for programs to reduce greenhouse emissions available to individuals, community groups, small businesses, nonprofits, state and local governments and tribes.

GCRIO US Global Change Research Information Office
The US Global Change Research Information Office provides access to data and information on climate change research, adaptation/mitigation strategies and technologies, and global warming related educational resources.

Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS)
U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)-sponsored umbrella site with news, publications and datasets regarding all aspects of policies, agencies and research related to global climate change.

Global Climate Change Lectures - 2006
Podcasts from the University of Arizona's 2006 Global Climate Change lectures

Global Warming in the Southwest, Melanie Lenart
Information on global warming and the Southwest from CLIMAS research Dr. Melanie Lenart

IAI/University of Miami Summer Institute on Interdisciplinary Science in the Americas
NSF-funded program intended to foster a multi-disciplinary approach to modern scientific research on global change in the Americas, with the ultimate goal of bridging the gap between science and policy. Targets early-career natural and social scientists from the Americas.

Indices of Climate Change for the United States: An NCDC/AMS report
NOAA/National Climatic Data Center site presenting the aggregate of two indices of climate change, the Climate Extremes Index (CEI) and the U.S. Greenhouse Climate Response Index (GCRI), to quantify observed changes in climate within the contiguous United States.

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
An intergovernmental organization supported by 18 countries in the Americas. Research programs and funding initiatives encompass climate variability; comparative studies in ecosystems, biodiversity, land use and water resources; changes in the composition of atmosphere, oceans and fresh water; and integrated assessments of human dimensions and applications.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Group established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to assess the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change; its assessments are based mainly on published and peer reviewed scientific technical literature.

International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Collaboration between the NOAA Office of Global Programs; this research and training program offers summaries of global climate events and their impacts, seasonal climate outlooks and forecast evaluation, prediction modeling and other climate-related products.

Land Use History of North America
Broad-ranging USGS program dedicated to providing a historical context for understanding ongoing changes in land cover and land use; includes several regional and paleo studies.

Landscape and Fire Ecology Studies at Bandelier National Monument and the Jemez Mountains
Description of a project to reconstruct environmental histories of the Jemez and Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico.

NASA Global Change Master Directory
Descriptions of Earth science data sets and services relevant to global change research, encompassing agriculture, the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and oceans, snow and ice, geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, and human dimensions of global change.

National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
This arm of NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) supplies National Weather Service field offices, government agencies, emergency managers, private sector meteorologists, and meteorological organizations and societies throughout the world with a wide variety of national and international weather products; the starting point for nearly all weather and climate forecasts in the U.S.

National Phenology Network [PDF, 416 KB]
Seeks to collect data on the timing of seasonal cycles of plants and animals.

National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data, research, and news concerning the state of the cryosphere.

National Snow and Ice Data Center Photo Database
Photographic database with over 3,000 glacier photos.

NCAR: National Center for Atmospheric Research
Research and outreach on atmospheric and related science problems of the earth system, including climate change, changes in atmospheric composition, Earth-Sun interactions, weather formation and forecasting, and the impacts of these components on human societies.

NEDI National Environmental Data Index
One-stop access to government environmental data holdings and information descriptions from a variety of agencies, including USDA, Department of Interior, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and many others.

New Mexico Climate Change Advisory Group
The New Mexico Climate Change Advisory Group reviews and provides recommendations to the Governor's office regarding climate change policy

NOAA El Niño Page
Offers explanations of the El Niño phenomenon, complete listings of NOAA El Niño sites for forecasts, observations, research and education, as well as links to La Niña information.

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Information about the organization and structure of NOAA, research initiatives and results, current and historical weather and climate events and trends, and a wealth of links to NOAA entities.

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
Project descriptions, data, journal articles, and links to other sites related to the study of climate of the distant past (prior to human-measured records). Major subject areas include fire, tree rings, ice cores, pollen, boreholes, modeling, coral, and lake sediments.

Our Changing Planet
Annual description and plans of the U.S. Global Change Program explaining the state of the art in U.S. global climate change research and related issues.

Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security
Independent non-profit institute researching international security, environmental change, and sustainable development; collaborating with other organizations and individuals; and working on developing solutions with policymakers, activists and the general public. Several water and climate change projects and publications.

PACS PanAmerican Climate Studies
A component of the U.S. Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System (GOALS) program aimed at extending the scope and improving the skill of operational seasonal-to-interannual climate prediction over the Americas. Research projects on a variety of topics pertaining to understanding variations of the atmosphere-land-ocean system and their effects on the climate of the Americas.

Pew Center on Global Climate Change
A non-profit, non-partisan organization with information on solutions to global warming

Project on Modeling and Projecting Colorado Plateau Vegetation Changes
Abstract and citation information for "Regional Dynamic Vegetation Model for the Colorado Plateau: A Species- Specific Approach"

Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research, Inc.
Non-profit conducting tree ring research for use in fire history, paleoclimatology, and forest ecology and management; also has information about Annual North American Dendroecological Fieldweek opportunities.

SAHRA Sustainability of Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas
NSF Science and Technology Center housed at the University of Arizona is dedicated to scientific research, education, and public outreach aimed at helping communities in semi-arid regions manage their water resources in a sustainable manner.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Experimental Climate Prediction Center
Experimental global to regional predictions of the atmosphere, ocean, and land, at daily to interannual time scales, in collaboration with international partners.

Seattle Climate Action Plan
A global warming mitigation plan assembled by the city government, businesses, and non-profit organizations. The plan serves as a model for other U.S. cities to develop global warming mitigation actions

Southwest Hydrology: Climate Change Implications
Southwest Hydrology, published by the University of Arizona's SAHRA center, has released a special issue on the expected effects of climate change on water resources

Sustainable Albuquerque: Stop Global Warming
Describes Mayor Martin Chavez’s plans to maintain greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels and mitigate global warming in the city of Albuquerque.

U.S. Climate Change Technology Program
Highights areas where technological improvement can reduce carbon emissions and lists what is being done.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Change: What you can do
A website providing links to action steps to mitigate global warming. The site also includes detailed information on the type and sources of various greenhouse gases and a current U.S. greenhouse gas emission inventory

U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change
National assessment of the likely impacts of climate change on different regions of the U.S., based on each area's unique mix of climate, economic structure, demography and resources.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Site describes UN actions related to climate change including Kyoto Protocol and IPCC.

USGS - Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use on the Southwestern U.S.
Studies covering dust emissions in the Mojave Desert; flooding, erosion and sediment discharge; dust storm predictions; sand dune stability; and other issues in the southwestern U.S.

World Climate
Compilation of average temperature, rainfall and barometric pressure from decades (in some cases centuries) of climate records for tens of thousands of places around the world. Site notes that it is not suitable for professional research.

World Data Center for Paleoclimatology Drought Page
Reconstructions of drought-related variables such as the Palmer Drought Severity Index, precipitation, stream flow, and lake levels for high-resolution records at scales of centuries to millennia.

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