Climate Change
These resources deal specifically with climate change, for additional climate and weather data, check out the related guides.U.S. Information | International Information | Nongovernmental Sources | Resources in the Catalog | Related Topics
U.S. Government Information
- Energy Information Administration
- Carbon Dioxide Emissions Data (Energy Information Administration)
- Environment Energy-related emissions data and environmental analysis
- Climate Change
This site from the Environmental Protection Agency provides links to a variety of resources on climate change. - Climate Prediction Center
This site features research reports, annual summaries, predictions, data. - Colorado Climate Center
This center provides access to data on local weather and rainfall. - Earth Observing System
Includes images and text documenting aspects of global climate change including land use, greenhouse effect, changes in the polar ice cap, ozone depletion, deforestation and other topics. Includes a glossary of terms and links to NASA Fact Sheets - Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Climate Change
"This document provides synopses of frequently used time series of global-change data" Includes graphs, data, discussion of trends, bibliographic citations and other information. From the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center - US Global Change Research Program
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) coordinates and integrates federal research on changes in the global environment and their implications for society.
International Organization Information
- Resources from Great Britain
- Climate Change
This is a page linking to resources from the Met Office on climate change, including a link to the Stern Review. - Climate Change This page links to a variety of resources from the British Government on causes, effects, and ways to combat climate change.
- Climate Change This page from Defra, discusses what the UK is doing to combat climate change.
- Global Issues on the UN Agenda: Climate Change
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Reports
This site lists the assessment reports, as well as technical reports and other documents in the work of this group. - Meetings
This site lets you read the documents of the meetings as well as other correspondence. - United Nations Environment Programme Including:
- United Nations Framework on Climate Change Includes emissions data, official documents, information on the treaty ratification status and actions taken to reduce emissions by individual countries, national statements on the treaty and other information.
- The Convention and the KYOTO Protocol
- World Meteorological Organization including:
- Climate Information and Prediction Services This group is focused on creating longer term forecasts for regions across the world.
- World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme (WCDMP) provides access to global and national climate data sets.
U.S. Information | International Information | Resources in the Catalog | Related Topics
Nongovernmental Sources
- Climate and Weather CD-ROMs
These CD-ROMs contain climatological data and are available on the computers in the Government Publications library. - Global Climate Change Exploratorium
This site provides basic information on climate change, focusing on five areas: atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, biosphere and global effects. - U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
This site gathers government research on climate change, you can view a library of full-text resources from 1990-present.
Resources in the Catalog
- The Library Catalog, Chinook
There are numerous secondary, federal, and international sources of information on climate change available in the collection.
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