DATA ON CARBON DIOXIDE LEVELS

1. Data from air bubbles in the Vostok (Antarctica) Ice Core provide us with a long-term perspective on the rise in carbon dioxide levels in the past 150 years. Note how the recent rise takes us far beyond anything recorded in the recent geologic past.
2. Data from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii provide us with direct measurement of carbon dioxide concentrations from the past 40 years.

TEMPERATURE GRAPHS, DATA, CARBON BUDGET

• A discussion of global temperature trends to the end of 1999 can be obtained HERE.
• Plots of global USA and Wausau temps can be downloaded HERE (right click and save Excel file)
• Plots and discussion of global and hemispheric temperatures to end of 1997 can be viewed HERE.
• Global Temperatures (Dr. P. Jones, U. East Anglia)
• Global Temperature Data
• A long-term (paleoclimatic) perspective on global warming from NOAA.
• Surface Temperature Changes and Biospheric Responses in the Northern Hemisphere during the Last 1,000 Years
• Variability in the Earth's climate system (American Geophysical Union)
• Climate Variability (NOAA)
• The Carbon Cycle explained
• The Mystery of the Missing Carbon (NASA)
• World Carbon Emissions Fall (Worldwatch Alert)
• CO2 emissions and concentration data
• Carbon Management Experiment
• US Global Change Research Program

• Searching for global warming's "fingerprint":
• NASA/GISS "Common Sense Temperature Index"
• Global surface temperature data
• Temperature anomaly values
• Global surface air data and data set explanation: NASA-GISS
• Surface Temperature Data from CRU (U. East Anglia)
• Obtain temperature data from sites around the world.
• Impacts on Stratospheric temperatures

LINKS OF FURTHER INTEREST ON THE TOPIC

MAJORITY SCIENTIFIC VIEWS:

• US Government:
• The White Proposal for climate change action
• US State Department Climate Change Page
• Kyoto Conference Fact Sheet
• Buenos Aires
• Emissions Trading
• US National Assessment of potential consequences
• Information from US and UN agencies:
• Climate change information kit (UN Env. Program)
• NOAA/NCDC Global Warming FAQ page.
• US EPA Global Warming Pages
• UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group Reports On-Line
• Fringe Science in the 104th Congress: the global warming hearings
• A primer on global warming
• Organizations and articles:
• Policy review and debate (from policy.com)
• Global warming and diseases
• News Stories:
• Technical fixes:
• New fix for carbon emissions
• Global warming solution hopes dampened
• Iron helps combat climate change
• Trees will not avert climate change
• Carbon cuts only buy time
• Fossil fuel revolution begins (ocean floor hydrates as source of methane)
• Climate surprises in a warmer world:
• Ocean drift could chill Europe
• Freezing future for Europe
• Climate disaster possible by 2100
• Warmer World Threatens Health
• Global warming can make sea level plunge
• Global warming and disease
• Review of climate change from the BBC, pre-Buenos Aires
• Bonn 1999 meeting report
• News on melting of Greenland ice cap (BBC)
• Islands disappear under rising seas.
• Nuking climate change.
• NY Times Global Warming Archive
• NY Times Global Warming Archive II
• Comprehensive links to global warming analysis and issues.
• The Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming (from WRI)
• The Global Warming Debate (GISS)
• Climate change: Does it matter? (American Geophysical Union)
• Is there a sun-climate connection in global warming? (American Geophysical Union)
• "The great climate flip-flop" (Temperature surprises in a warmer world)
• The consequences of global warming for NY City and other locations (EDF)
• Union of Concerned Scientists: Global Warming
• Global warming: facts vs. myths (EDF)
• Climate change: Some basics
• The climate time bomb (Greenpeace)
• Global Climate Change (PUCO)
• "Ozone Action" organization (a Washington lobby group on climate change)
• National Environmental Trust
• Climate change discussion from National Public Radio (a Real Audio file)

CONTRARIAN VIEWS:

• There are a number of industry and conservative groups that are organized against emissions limits:
• The Global Climate Information Project. Probably the premier source for contrarian science and strong economic and social arguments against committing to a policy of reduced "greenhouse gasses". Funded by a diverse group of manufacturers, unions and citizen's organizations.
• The World Climate Report. A publication claiming to represent diverse group of western and national interests.
• The Global Warming Information Center (National Center for Public Policy Research).
• Citizens for a Sound Economy (Including general anti-pollution regulation material).
• The Coalition for Vehicle Choice.
• Global Climate Coalition.
• Western Fuels Association
• American Petroleum Institute
• There are a number of more purely scientific sites on the contrarian side:
• The Science and Environmental Policy Project. Dr. Fred Singer's site. Singer is a long-time greenhouse and ozone skeptic.
• Richard Lindzen (A challenging article from a high-profile scientist on the contrarian side of the issue -- but note that the CATO Institute which puts this out is one of those liberal-economic/neo-libertarian "think-tanks".)
• There are a number of liberal-economic and neo-libertarian "think-tanks" that oppose the science and economics of global warming:
• The Heritage Institute (Right-wing think-tank; much more sophisticated effort than a year ago).
• The Competitive Enterprise Institute
• Avoiding Global Warming (A viewpoint from one of the Web's most prominent Cornucopians)
• The Economist, 1995 (A fairly balanced 1995 assessment from the British liberal-economic weekly)
• UN Climate Regulations (Alliance for America -- ravings from the paranoid right).
• A number of generally contrarian link sites are available:
• Still Waiting for the Greenhouse. A iconoclastic site coming out of Australia. Has some of the best links (including majority scientific links).
• The Global Warming Information Page. (I can't figure out who exactly is responsible for this one, but that's often part of the fun of these kinds of sites!).
• Science and Environmental Policy Project.
• Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.
• The Greening Earth Society

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